Ethical Fund Publications

Ethical Fund Publications

In the 21st Century, the corporate responsibility landscape is emblematised by the concourse of the social activist movement, the global environmental movement, and regulatory compliance - denoted by the popularised triple bottom line credo ‘people, planet, profit’.

Contemporary global ethics runs parallel to principles of global governance and contemplates the intersecting precepts of both moral ethics and applied ethics. Corporate responsibility has thus evolved in response to externalities of international business and commerce which obtained its apogee with the rise of the global economy during the last century; an era epitomised by the rapid growth of power of the modern corporation, industrial manufacturing, and management science.

In this sense, global ethics may be interpreted as the negotiation space for the competing demands of global industrial-scale technological leverage and concomitant risk-benefit trade-offs. It is a realm intermediated by specialised global standards agencies such as the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the International Standards Organisation (ISO), and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).

As such, global ethical conduct has been reformulated and re-enculturated in terms of methodological ‘Sustainable Value’, meaning the modern disciplines of measuring and managing sustained value creation toward ultimate end goals of the ‘ethical value chain’.

• New Ethical Fund (ETF) publications:

• The Ethical Value Chain

• Matrix Form Triangulation Method of the Ethical Frame

Related: SRI Resources