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Business Ethics: ESG & Sustainability Rankings

URL: http://researchguides.library.yorku.ca/businessethics

CSR Videos

Many of these videos feature CSR practices or business ethics issues documented in the context of specific companies.

Films on Demand Streaming videos on business topics, some 90 titles on business ethics,and some 30 titles on social, ethical and legal issues (marketing) and over 90 titles listed on social, ethical and legal issues (management).

 

Key Databases/Online Guides

BRYT (Business Research for York Toolkit)

Many large publicly-traded and privately-held companies produce corporate social responsibility reports.

Locate CSR Reports and Learn How to Read Them(PDF)

Find third party research reports on Canadian and American publicly-traded companies through Sustainalytics.

Take our guided tour of Sustainalytics and learn how to find CSR research in 2 minutes! (link opens Sustainalytics with the guide on the left-hand side)

Company CSR Reports

Sustainability Disclosure Database (Global Reporting Initiative) The Search area provides users access to all types of sustainability reports.The Benchmark tool allows users to compare the levels of disclosure among reports that use GRI’s Framework, facilitated by filter options for Region and Sector.

Corporate Register.com is a useful web site for searching sustainability/CSR corporate reports and provides a searchable database of reports for over 10,000 companies globally. Sign up required.

Using Articles to Find Info on Corporate CSR Practices

When looking for information about CSR practices of companies articles can often be a very useful source of information, e.g. articles in trade magazines, the popular press, company press releases or newspapers.

Explore our finding business articles guide below to get links to useful databases you can use to find articles, as well as tips on searching them:

Finding Business Articles