Welcome to Development in Practice

Volume 15, Numbers 3&4

• Editorial
  • Editorial 15(3&4)
    Eade, Deborah
• Guest Editorial
  • Guest Editorial
    Sayer, John
• Articles
  • Is foreign direct investment good for the poor? A review and stocktake
    Sumner, Andrew
  • Public resistance to privatisation in water and energy
    Hall, David; Lobina Emanuele; de la Motte, Robin
  • Public service privatisation and crisis in Argentina
    Rodríguez-Boetsch, Leopoldo
  • Public-private partnership (PPP) and water-supply provision in urban Africa: the experience of Congo-Brazzaville
    Tati, Gabriel
  • How can the poor benefit from private investment in agricultural research? A case study from Bolivia
    Marr, Ana; Chancellor, Tim
  • An institutional approach to service-provision partnerships in South Asia
    Taylor, Kevin
  • Private sector development in a transition economy: the case of Vietnam
    Schaumburg-Müller, Henrik
  • In whose name? The accountability of corporate social responsibility
    Bendell, Jem
  • Corporate responsibility and the movement of business
    Utting, Peter
  • Corporate accountability to the poor? Assessing the effectiveness of community-based strategies
    Garvey, Niamh; Newell, Peter
  • Corporate responsibility or core competence?
    Hayes, Barbara; Walker, Bridget
  • Business economic impacts: the new frontier for Corporate Accountability
    Campbell, Helen
  • Corporate social responsibility: a challenge for the donor community
    Frame, Bob
  • Corporate citizenship: creating social capacity in developing countries
    Goddard, Trevor
  • Size matters: the need for human-scale economic institutions for development
    Oram, Julian; Doane Deborah
  • A critique of design methodologies appropriate to private sector activity in development
    Coward, Tim; Fathers, James
  • Enhancing competitiveness and securing equitable development: can small, micro, and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) do the trick?
    Jeppesen, Soeren
  • Facilitated inter-firm collaboration in Ghana: the case of Danida's Private Sector Development Projects
    Kuada, John; Sørensen, Olav Jull
  • Private funding of microcredit schemes: much ado about nothing?
    Gutiérrez Nieto, Begoña
  • Post-conflict pro-poor private sector development: the case of Timor-Leste
    Kusago, Takayoshi
  • Java furniture makers: globalisation winners or losers?
    Loebis, Lienda; Schmitz, Hubert
  • The World Bank's land of kiosks: Community Driven Development in Timor-Leste
    Moxham, Ben
  • Managing ethical standards: when rhetoric meets reality
    Dhanarajan, Sumi
  • What difference can they make? Assessing the social impact of corporate codes of practice
    Nelson, Valerie; Martin, Adrienne; Ewert, Joachim
  • Leveraging change in the working conditions of UK homeworkers
    Williams, Peter
  • Reaching the marginalised? Gender value chains and ethical trade in African horticulture
    Tallontire, Anne; Dolan, Catherine; Smith, Sally; Barrientos, Stephanie
  • Corporate responsibility and the US-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA): are they compatible?
    Quinteros, Carolina
  • Does fair trade make a difference? The case of small coffee producers in Nicaragua
    Utting-Chamorro, Karla
  • Partnering for sustainability: business-NGO alliances in the coffee industry
    Linton April
• Book Reviews

Corporate responsibility or core competence?

Hayes, Barbara; Walker, Bridget

Although the concept that corporations are responsible not only to their shareholders but also for the social and environmental impacts of their activities has now entered the mainstream, pressure is still required to ensure that companies honour their public commitments. This article describes the work of the Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility in harnessing the power of individual shareholders and ethical investors in order to hold companies to account, with particular reference to the activities of Shell in Nigeria and the Republic of Ireland. It is argued that companies do not exist to carry out community development, and so should be judged not on these grounds, but rather on the impact of how they conduct their core business.

Keywords: Globalisation; Rights; Governance and public policy; Labour and livelihoods

   

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