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The duties of the board and corporate social responsibility (CSR)
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posted on 2013-01-01, 00:00 authored by Beate Sjafjell, L Anker-SorensenThe company is one of the most ingenious inventions of humanity.3 The
company is an all-important vehicle for allocating and efficiently employing
capital in our societies, providing goods, services, jobs – and revenue. In
short, the company is a vehicle for economic efficiency. We may ask, though,
must economic efficiency equal environmental degradation, loss of
biodiversity and dangerous climate change? The answer is that it must not and should not, and in the long run, environmental degradation may just as
well be economic inefficiency.
company is an all-important vehicle for allocating and efficiently employing
capital in our societies, providing goods, services, jobs – and revenue. In
short, the company is a vehicle for economic efficiency. We may ask, though,
must economic efficiency equal environmental degradation, loss of
biodiversity and dangerous climate change? The answer is that it must not and should not, and in the long run, environmental degradation may just as
well be economic inefficiency.
