Selected Quotations by CSR Practitioners
Business
“CSR is not a cosmetic; it must be rooted in our values. It must make a difference to the way wedo our business.”
-- Phil Watts, Group Managing Director Royal Dutch/Shell Group
“Corporate citizenship is our global commitment, Our knowledge and our solutions create abetter world.”
-- Siemens AG, HQ in Germany
“AT&T understands the need for a global alliance of business, society and the environment. Inthe 21
st
century, the world won’t tolerate business that don’t take partnership seriously, but it will eventually reward companies that do.”
-- C. Michael Armstrong, Chairman & CEO, AT&T
Civil Society
“Social responsibility is neither a fad nor an optional extra. The interest in it is reflective of adeeper change in the relationship between companies and their stakeholders, including consumers. Faith in the benefits of profits to consumers has halved since the Seventies, as aviable basics of a relationship, that faith has been replaced by a desire to see companies acting as active and responsible citizens. Healthy business requires a healthy community, and should be contributing to its creation and maintenance.”
-- Steward Lewis, Measuring Corporate Reputation, 1999
“Global corporate social responsibility entails managing effectively the company’s actual and potential environmental and social impact on the communities in which the firm operates and on society as a whole.”
-- David Grayson, President of Business in the Community in Great Britain
“The principles for global corporate responsibility call on companies to base their corporate policies on a vision of themselves as one of many stakeholders in the global community and toset high standards of conduct in relation to their employees, the environment, and thecommunities in which they operate.”
-- Reverend David Schilling, Director of Global Corporate AccountabilityPrograms for the New York based Center of Corporate Responsibility.
International Organizations
“ Companies are realizing that it is in their business interest to ‘ do the right thing’ everywherethey operate. Global firms are keenly aware that their long-term investment goals can only beachieved within a stable, healthy and free of social and financial environment. But companiesalone cannot solve the challenges associated with social responsibility. They must work incooperation with governments, civil society groups, development institutions, and citizens.”
World Bank
“ Corporations have a social responsibility and moral duty to use the power of markets to makeglobalization a positive force for all”
United Nations
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