Understanding Global Issues

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Good Business: Profits & social responsibility

As economic growth has continued across the world, disturbing evidence of environmental and social stress has accumulated. It is now widely recognised that a switch to more eco-friendly and socially responsible systems is urgently needed. The UN, the OECD and the EU, backed by some governments and numerous NGOs, are all urging business to embrace 'sustainable development' and corporate social responsibility'. Will business save the planet, or continue to destroy it?

Published: December 2001 ISBN: 0850487439

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