Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

This thoughtful article from The Conversation Canada discusses the critical thinking required when looking at company rankings: "Rather than blindly trusting rankings, understand the information provided by each list. While rankings are designed to offer compressed information, unfortunately, we still need to do our own research to evaluate companies." (April 2021)

Claims to be the world's largest online directory of corporate responsibility (CR) reports, past and present. Most content is available for free if you register.

This site's aim is to identify truly 'green' firms. You can perform an advanced search (filtering by industry, association, area of excellence, and more) for businesses which have passed the "B Lab"'s certification process in terms of meeting social and environmental performance standards.

This free database allows you to search for all types of sustainability reports and relevant information related to the reporting organizations. You can search for a specific organization, or apply a number of filters and sort options to help refine your search results. The Benchmark tool allows you to compare the levels of disclosure among reports that use GRI’s Framework, facilitated by filter options for Region and Sector.

A search in the news tab brings up press releases from companies regarding their CSR activities. Also releases Reports.

A tool to analyze corporate social responsibility reporting from the largest U.S. and international companies, measuring the scope and quality of the information provided by a company in its CSR reporting. It does not represent an assessment or ranking of a company's actual performance or activities in the area of corporate social responsibility.

Global, historical data files on the corporate governance practices of the 4300 largest global companies from 2009-2018. Basic Excel files are included: raw scores, weighted scores, and data weights. There is also a definition overview file included. There is no interpretation of the data; it is available for your own analysis.

The site for this 'magazine for clean capitalism' has several interesting reports and links, including to their latest articles and their Global 100 - the 100 most sustainable corporations in the world.

Content on this site includes current and past articles from Ethisphere Magazine, as well as various reports, rankings, and new items. Also included is the Institute's listing of the World's Most Ethical Companies.

A suite of benchmarks designed to measure the performance of companies with superior ratings for Environmental, Social and Governance Practices. Over 4,600 companies worldwide are rated in over 225 key indicators of ESG performance.

A report from the Hudson Institute Center for Global Prosperity.