Mar
14
Clean Capitalism Report 2010
Posted by: Christina Sylka | March 14, 2011 | Comments Off on Clean Capitalism Report 2010
The Clean Capitalism Report 2010 is now available for UBC researchers interested in Canadian corporate social responsibility to explore in both online and print form. This important 150 page report on environmental, social and governance practices of Canada’s largest companies is based on the results of a quantitative research project conducted by Corporate Knights and the Delphi Group for the Globe and Mail’s […]
Mar
23
March: Catalog of Nonprofit Literature
Posted by: Christina Sylka | March 23, 2010 | Comments Off on March: Catalog of Nonprofit Literature
The Foundation Center, a U.S. nonprofit service organization, has developed the Catalog of Nonprofit Literature, a searchable database of the literature of philanthropy. Updated daily, this bibliography of works in the field of philanthropy contains citations to materials collected by the Center’s five libraries as well as selected literature from other sources. It covers the foundation […]
Aug
28
New Books
Posted by: Christina Sylka | August 28, 2009 | Comments Off on New Books
Looking beyond profit : small shareholders and the values imperative. Author Peggy Chiu argues that financial risk and return are not the only factors affecting the investment behaviour of small shareholders. She lays a theoretical and empirical framework which asserts that personal values strongly influence the decisions about the types of investments these shareholders make and in […]