Keeping Good Companies articles from March 2006

Keeping Good Companies archives from March 2006

The thrall of shareholder value: implications for CSR and directors' duties.(corporate social responsibility )
March 1, 2006... It is a human tendency to universalise the present moment, to assume things were always thus. Business and investment culture is not immune from this tendency. The present moment is distinctive for its sharp focus upon shareholder interests...

A climate for change: a trustee's guide to understanding and addressing climate risk.
March 1, 2006... Climate change has become an important global, economic, social and political issue. It was identified as one of the key themes to be addressed during the United Kingdom's presidency of the G8 and European Union in 2005. Climate change is...

Corporate social responsibility--a management culture.
March 1, 2006... Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is often criticised for being 'all management spin'. To correct this, a company needs to embed CSR in its management culture, in terms of: * its business decision-making and business planning...

CAMAC's discussion paper on corporate social responsibility: is it time for change?(Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee)
March 1, 2006... Legislators are increasingly turning their minds to the social responsibility of corporations and the possibility of widening the duties of directors. This results, in large part, from the release, in September 2004, of the Jackson Report (1)...

A practical guide to due diligence.(management styles)
March 1, 2006... Buyer beware is one of the most enduring of business credos. But in the modern business world, just what does it involve? How can you make sure you have covered all bases and assessed all known risk? The answer is to make the most of your due...

Satisfying employee and shareholder demands in an era of union shareholder activism.
March 1, 2006... Labour activism in the corporate sphere has been a feature of corporate governance for a number of decades in the United States of America. In the last few years, Australian trade unions have followed the lead of their US counterparts by...

Mandatory energy efficiency assessments: compliance headache or leading indicator for company performance: (ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: Professional Updates).
March 1, 2006... The Federal Government's most recent legislative response to climate change, the Energy Efficiency Opportunities Bill 2005 (the Bill), which is currently before Parliament, is designed to push industrial energy users to reduce greenhouse gas...

Writing with style: the power of plain English.(writers guidance)
March 1, 2006... Fear is the key A wonderful cartoon appeared in the New Yorker magazine some years ago. It shows a man holding in one hand a sheaf of paper, and in the other a gun. He's standing in the aisle of a bus or plane, facing a group of...

Corporate governance enters a new era: looks beyond regulation, toward strategic enterprise oversight.
March 1, 2006... The governance and accounting scandals that ensnared Enron, Worldcom, Adelphia, and Tyco, among other companies, led to the most sweeping US federal regulation (via the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002) to be visited on corporate America since the...