From corporate governance to corporate responsibility: the changing boardroom agenda.

From: Ivey Business Journal Online | Date: March 1, 2003| Author: Sparkes, Russell | Copyright information

For a time, good corporate governance and socially responsible investment (SRI) had little to do with each other. The growing activism of institutional shareholders, however, has made SRI--along with what this author calls the economics of reputation, and the recognition that CSR must be encouraged--one of the drivers behind the widespread willingness to assume greater corporate social responsibility.

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