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The CCCDebates are a series of publications from CCCD which are in effect an invitation: an invitation to discuss the role(s) of businesses in society. Please share your opinion on this topics in our blog.

  1. CCCDebate 07: The End of Employee Volunteering: A Necessary Step to Substantive Employee Engagement in the Community
    Bea Boccalandro, 2010

    Employee volunteering is believed by many civic sector leaders to have the potential to dramatically strengthen our communities, mitigate humanity’s most stubborn problems and elevate civilization to new heights. Not just any employee volunteering will accomplish this feat, however. Only... [mehr]

  2. CCCDebate 05: A Helping Hand or a Hijacking? How Nonprofits Can Respond to Ever-Increasing Corporate Involvement in the Community
    Bea Boccalandro, 2010

    Bea Boccalandro describes how businesses have the resources for promoting social good, however, the relationship between nonprofit managers and businesses continues to be difficult. The article examines the role nonprofit managers can play in order to become accustomed to a corporate presence in... [mehr]

  3. CCCDebate 04: A new social contract - Frameworks for Corporate Citizenship
    Serge Embacher
    Roland Roth
    , 2010

    If only everything were so simple: government enacts and legislates the law, civil society provides for the community's well-being and solidarity and businesses take care of commercial transactions. The question is why should businesses contribute to society? Because the division of social... [mehr]

  4. CCCDebate 03: Pragmatic Visionaries - Difference Makers as Social Entrepreneurs
    Sandra Waddock, 2009

    Today there is a growing infrastructure around corporate responsibility that pressures companies to become more accountable, responsible, transparent and sustainable. Seeds were planted by a group of individuals, called difference makers. These individuals took multiple small steps toward system... [mehr]

  5. CCCDebate 02: Corporate Responsibility and the Media
    David Grayson, 2009

    This paper discusses how Corporate Responsibility is covered in the media and the media’s own corporate responsibilities, covering both traditional and new media. Whilst some have criticised limited or negative coverage of CR in the media as reflecting media hostility or ignorance about... [mehr]

  6. CCCDebate 01: Moving to Next Generation Corporate Citizenship
    Philip H. Mirvis,
    Bradley K. Googins
    , 2009

    In the first edition of the CCCDebate Brad Googins and Phil Mirvis depict the development of Corporate Citizenship as a stage model, which progressed beyond legal compliance and checkbook philanthropy. “Next generation” Corporate Citizens make the link between business success and the... [mehr]

  7. CCCDiscussion 05: "Beyond Compliance: Strategic Planning for Impact - on the Why and How of Evaluation and Measurement"
    CCCD, 2007

    In this interview, Steve Rochlin, former Research Director of the Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, talks about the importance of strategic planning for Corporate Citizenship. He argues that one has to built a business case for CSR and shows what kinds of indicators companies have... [mehr]

  8. CCCDiscussion 04: "Transnational Trendsetters – Communicative Rationality and Ethics as Success Factors in Corporate Citizenship"
    Frank W. Heuberger, 2007

    The pioneers of corporate citizenship cannot be adequately described by subjecting them to the logic of the market or the overriding importance of the “Business Case”. Their values and ethical maxims set them apart from their competitors’ and PR and sponsoring experts’... [mehr]