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The discussions in this book range across a wide number of areas including management schools, specific companies, countries, industries, codes of conduct, communities and government. What emerges is ... a recognition that just as people and individuals and institutions are very diverse, so too are the journeys to change the future. ...the most important feature of the journeys described here is that ... to change the world requires considerably more imagination and creativity than we are seeing from the sorts of codes and standards which are increasingly taken up by many right now. * <i>The Corporate Citizen</i> 4.1 (2004) * This book addresses themes related to the idea of trust...one strength is that there is a refreshing focus on examples of corporate social responsibility from countries that is unusual to hear from (including Ghana, Lebanon and India). Another strength is the weaving of quite different perspectives on trust from a variety of perspectives. * <i>Social and Environmental Accounting Journal</i> Vol. 25 Issue 1 *

The discussions in this book range across a wide number of areas including management schools, specific companies, countries, industries, codes of conduct, communities and government. What emerges is ... a recognition that just as people and individuals and institutions are very diverse, so too are the journeys to change the future. ...the most important feature of the journeys described here is that ... to change the world requires considerably more imagination and creativity than we are seeing from the sorts of codes and standards which are increasingly taken up by many right now. The Corporate Citizen 4.1 (2004) This book addresses themes related to the idea of trust...one strength is that there is a refreshing focus on examples of corporate social responsibility from countries that is unusual to hear from (including Ghana, Lebanon and India). Another strength is the weaving of quite different perspectives on trust from a variety of perspectives. Social and Environmental Accounting Journal Vol. 25 Issue 1

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Malcolm McIntosh I am a writer and teacher on corporate responsibility and sustainability and a Visiting Professor at the universities of Bath and Nottingham (UK) and Waikato (NZ). I also teach at the universities of Stellenbosch (SA) and Bristol (UK). In 2003 I was appointed a Special Advisor to the UN Global Compact. I am Founding Editor of The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Editor of Visions of Ethical Business 1998-2002 (FT Management/PricewaterhouseCoopers) and author and co-author of many books and articles on corporate citizenship. My latest book is Raising a Ladder to the Moon: The Complexities of Corporate Responsibility (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). I am currently working on a new book, Learning To Talk: The Early Years of the UN Global Compact (Greenleaf Publishing, 2004) with Sandra Waddock and Georg Kell with a Foreword by Kofi Annan. I am most interested in the possibility of a new metalanguage which reaches across professional and intellectual divides. This requires the development of cultures of humility and conviviality. David F. Murphy I am Director of the New Academy of Business, an independent business school that provide entrepreneurs, managers and organisational leaders with the insights and capacities necessary to respond progressively to the emerging challenges of sustainability and organisational responsibility. Since I joined the organisation in 1998, I have developed the New Academy's international network of partners working together on various education and research initiatives on global corporate responsibility. This work has included a two-year international action research project on business-community relations with United Nations Volunteers (UNV) in seven countries. Other recent projects include good governance in development co-operation with the European Commission, corporate responsibility practices in South Asia with TERI-Europe, and a feasibility study on the social marketing of job quality in micro and small enterprises with the International Labour Organisation. From 1993-97, I undertook research at the University of Bristol on the implementation of corporate social responsibility policies and completed my PhD on business-NGO relations and sustainable development. Prior to my arrival in the UK in 1993, I co-ordinated various community development programmes for the Canadian NGO CUSO in West Africa and Canada, where I also managed volunteer programmes for a Canadian AIDS organisation. I am the co-author of In the Company of Partners: Business, Environmental Groups and Sustainable Development Post-Rio (The Policy Press, 1997) and am currently a member of the Amnesty International (UK) Business Group on Human Rights. Rupesh Shah I am an action researcher at the New Academy of Business, UK. My PhD in sustainable development and action research was from the University of Bath. My interest is in an action learning process that can develop locally grounded forms of organisational practice that avoid the techno-management-oriented attempts to 'solve' the 'problem' of sustainability. I am engaged in an ongoing inquiry to understand my personal acting and responsibility in a broad system movement for change.

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