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KLD DATASET IN WRDS

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KLD DATASET IN WRDS: For Research in Sustainability, Employee Relations, Environment, Nuclear Power, Etc.

The KLD dataset in WRDS gives users the ability to research and analyze the social, environmental and sustainability markers of the top 400 corporations in the US. These markers cover Community, Corporate Governance, Diversity, Employee Relations, Environment, Human Rights, Product, and include negatives such as Alcohol, Firearms, Gambling, Military, Nuclear Power, and Tobacco.

Access site: http://ezlibproxy1.ntu.edu.sg/login?url=http://wrds-web.wharton.upenn.edu/wrds/connect

Access: NTU staff and students only

Number of users : Unlimited

Need help?: Click on Variable Descriptions and Manuals and Overviews at the top of the page.

For further information, please contact me at balbindar@ntu.edu.sg.

Engaging stakeholders in corporate environmental governance

Sustainability: Issues, Reporting & Finance

Backer, L. (2007).  Engaging stakeholders in corporate environmental governance.  Business & Society Review, 112(1).  Accessed October 18, 2010, from EBSCOhost database.

Abstract: “The article examines how has Shell responded to institutional pressures relating to corporate environmental governance and what does such corporate response imply for the conceptual understanding of the politics of secondary stakeholder influence. Theories of organizational decision making will be discussed. An analysis on how Shell has changed its corporate environmental decision making in response to the growing institutional pressures relating to corporate environmental governance is presented.”

Nestle’s own goal

Sustainability: Issues, Reporting & Finance

McNamee, D. (2003).  Nestle’s own goal.  Lancet, 361(9351).  Accessed October 18, 2010, from Ebscohost database.

Abstract: “Reports that Nestlé is demanding from Ethiopia the return of money the company feels it is owed. Discussion of Nestlé’s purchase of a German company which the government of Ethiopia had nationalized; View that the demand is a public relations blunder on the part of the company; How Nestlé says it will invest the proceeds received in programs to help Ethiopia including safe water programs and antidiarreheal medicines; How the furor resulted from an Oxfam press release.”

The Kasky-Nike threat to corporate social reporting

Sustainability: Issues, Reporting & Finance

Hess, D., and Dunfee, T. W. (2007).  The Kasky-Nike threat to corporate social reporting.  Business Ethics Quarterly, 17(1).  Accessed October 18, 2010, from EBSCOhost database.

Abstract: “In the recent case of Nike v. Kasky both sides argued that their standard for distinguishing commercial speech from political speech would create the better policy for ensuring accurate and complete disclosure of social information by corporations. Using insights from information economics, we argue that neither standard will achieve the policy goal of optimal truthful disclosure. Instead, we argue that the appropriate standard is one of optimal truthful disclosure balancing the value of speech against the costs of misinformation. Specifically, we argue that an SEC-sanctioned safe harbor available under a closely supervised system for social reporting will bring about optimal truthful disclosure. The scheme is intended to enhance stakeholder confidence in corporate social and political commentary, while at the same time encouraging corporations to provide accurate information in a fair playing field of public debate.”