Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship

The Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship is a non-profit research center that is affiliated with the Carroll School of Management. It is also a membership organization that offers research, tools, conferences, networking, and executive education programs pertaining to issues of corporate citizenship / corporate social responsibility to over 300 corporate members world-wide. Much of their research is freely available to the public, and can be downloaded from their [http://bcccc.net/ website] . The Institute for Responsible Investment [ [http://bcccc.net/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=1191 Center for Corporate Citizenship ] ] also operates under the umbrella of the Center for Corporate Citizenship, and offers its own set of research materials.

The Center is recognized as a thought-leader and resource on CSR topics by a variety of organizations world-wide, including the United States Chamber of Commerce’s Business Civic Leadership Center, [ [http://www.uschamber.com/bclc/resources/newsletter/2003/0305fulltext.htm Business Civic Leadership Center - May 2003 - The Corporate Citizen ] ] Net Impact, Future 500, [ [http://www.future500.org/articles/18/ Stakeholder Engagement: A Three-Phase Methodology (Part II) ] ] Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), [ [http://www.bsr.org/CSRResources/IssueBriefDetail.cfm?DocumentID=49809 BSR | Insight ] ] Pact, [http://www.pactworld.org/initiatives/cce/publications.htm] and AccountAbility. [ [http://www.accountability21.net/default.aspx?id=124 Accountability - Promoting accountability and sustainable development ] ] It is a participant organization in the United Nations Global Compact, [ [http://www.unglobalcompact.org/ParticipantsAndStakeholders/academic_participation.html Academic institutions in the Global Compact ] ] is a founding member of the Global Leadership Network, [ [https://www.globalleadershipnetwork.org/home.php Global Leadership Network ] ] and is working in collaboration with nine international organizations on a Global Education Leadership Network, which aims to advance worldwide understanding of the role of business in society through research and education.

The Center for Corporate Citizenship’s activities have been reported on by such reputable news sources as the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and the Boston Business Journal, [ [http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2007/06/04/newscolumn2.html Leadership, focus two keys to nonprofit partnerships - Boston Business Journal: ] ] as well as by smaller online journals, such as CSRwire, [ [http://www.csrwire.com/search?action=searchResultsForCompany&id=7745&searchScope=1 CSRwire.com - Search Results ] ] Ethical Performance, [ [http://www.ethicalperformance.com/index.php Ethical Performance | corporate social responsibility | socially responsible investment | csr | sri | news ] ] and SocialFunds. [http://www.socialfunds.com/news/release.cgi?sfArticleId=7650] The Center also helped develop and launch Business Ethics magazine, which, according to KLD (an independent research firm) "has gained national recognition as an indicator of best practices in the area of corporate social responsibility and has become the basis for numerous academic articles on governance and ethics of US companies." [ [http://www.kld.com/research/socrates/businessethics100/ KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. - Socially Responsible Investing and Research ] ]

Recent Publications

[http://www.bcccc.net/index.cfm?fuseaction=document.filterDocumentList&sortby=PublishDate&StartRow=1&topicOnly=&topicRadio=&topic=&subTopic=&docTitle=&docAuthor=&publishState=&docDescription=&docPublishYear=getAllYears&presentationSite=&FilterDocumentType=56&FilterKeyword= Research Reports]

Profile of the Profession 2006: Community Involvement in Transition
Salary Information-2006
Adding it Up 2004: The Corporate Giving Standard
Expanding the Boundaries of Corporate Volunteerism
The State of Corporate Citizenship in the U.S.: Business Perspectives in 2005

[http://www.bcccc.net/index.cfm?fuseaction=document.filterdocumentList&type=Monograph/White%20Paper Monographs / White Papers]

Step Up: A Call for Business Leadership in Society
Stages of Corporate Citizenship: A Developmental Framework
Does society want business leadership? An overview of attitudes and thinking
The Value Proposition for Corporate Citizenship
Designing a New Social Vision
Going Global: How to Identify and Manage Societal Expectations in Supply Chains

About the Director

Bradley Googins has served as The Center's Executive Director since 1997. Since becoming Executive Director, he has undertaken a major restructuring of The Center to better serve its corporate membership while pushing the corporate citizenship agenda forward in Fortune 1000 companies. Dr. Googins is focusing on developing a global educational network on corporate citizenship. He frequently speaks around the world on issues of corporate citizenship, including a recent engagement in Latin America on behalf of the State Department. He is also one of the key organizers of the Transatlantic Summit on Corporate Citizenship in Great Britain, and a member of the Steering Committee of the MacArthur Foundation project on Human Development and Healthy Organizations. [ [http://www.bcccc.net/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=562&parentID=490 Center for Corporate Citizenship - Staff ] ]

See also

*Accountability
*Corporate Social Responsibility
*Voluntary compliance:*United Nations Global Compact
*Business ethics
*Corporate benefit
*Corporate governance
*Ethical consumerism
*Inclusive business

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