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Australian corporate social responsibility reports are little better than window dressing

  • Written by Stephanie Schleimer, Senior Lecturer in Strategy, Griffith University
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Despite increasing visibility of corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives over the last decade, real change in corporate behaviour has tended to be modest.

This is clear from the sections in financial...

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