{"id":140,"date":"2006-04-09T22:04:59","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T02:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2006\/04\/09\/csr-is-a-con-job\/"},"modified":"2006-04-09T22:04:59","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T02:04:59","slug":"csr-is-a-con-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2006\/04\/09\/csr-is-a-con-job\/","title":{"rendered":"CSR is a Con Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a188'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">from <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Australian<\/span><\/span><br \/>Corporate social responsibility is a con job. If we needed reminding<br \/>about this absurd craze sweeping the business world, it came a few<br \/>weeks ago when AWB boss Andrew Lindberg resigned. His company had paid<br \/>$290 million in illegal kickbacks to Saddam Hussein&#8217;s tyrannical<br \/>regime in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, while those illegal bribes were being siphoned off to Iraq under<br \/>the UN oil for food program, Lindberg was being hailed by newspapers<br \/>hawking the latest Corporate Responsibility Index as one of the<br \/>leaders of corporate social responsibility in Australia. Why? Because<br \/>talk about corporate social responsibility fell off Lindberg&#8217;s lips as<br \/>easily as Australian wheat rolled into Iraq, lubricated by AWB bribes.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The AustralianCorporate social responsibility is a con job. If we needed remindingabout this absurd craze sweeping the business world, it came a fewweeks ago when AWB boss Andrew Lindberg resigned. His company had paid$290 million in illegal kickbacks to Saddam Hussein&#8217;s tyrannicalregime in Iraq. Yet, while those illegal bribes were being siphoned off to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[782],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multinational-corporate-responsibility"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}