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The Guardian’s recent article titled, ‘Revealed: Spice Girls T-shirts made in factory paying staff 35p an hour’, once again reminds us that modern slavery is ingrained in global supply chains. This time, it is celebrities who are the centre of controversy, despite the otherwise socially responsible claim that £11.60 raised…
For more than a decade, I have been researching whether Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) actually advances corporate social transparency and accountability as expected. Presently I take a deeper look at CSR.
One can observe that a few decades ago CSR was considered as a self-regulatory mechanism ensuring that corporations voluntarily…
Professor M. Azizul Islam, recently gave a seminar on limitations to traditional (financial) accounting in a socio-ecological context, to a group of social scientists and ecologists at James Hutton Institute. In his latest blog he discusses the limitations to traditional accounting in a socio-ecological context.
Traditional accounting disregards ecological…
International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), the World’s premier Accounting body has just published Professor M. Azizul Islam’s work on Accountants’ role to tackle Modern Slavery.
Human rights issues are gaining greater prominence alongside economic concerns for contemporary organizations, due largely to increasing public pressure and stakeholder expectations. A range of…
