The research project “A Social Licence for Business” has submitted a response to the “Greening the post-Covid recovery” UK parliamentary Inquiry. The project team supports the Environmental Audit Committee’s work…Read More >
Lessons for the Social Licence
The contributions to this blog series give fascinating perspectives on what a social licence for business should look like in practice. This concluding piece draws some lessons from the contributions….Read More >
The Reading Ethical Recruitment Charter’s Genesis: Inspire – Educate – Collaborate
There is an old French adage stating that rules and regulations have been created to be by-passed. In this context, “by-passed” means interpreted and/or adapted in the light of the…Read More >
Protecting Future Generations – What Should Business Do?
Chances are that we only realise and comprehend the full extent of what we have destroyed for everyone, when all the Truffula Trees are gone. In the famous children’s book…Read More >
Responsible Business Behaviour – Trees for Reading
Ethical Reading is a social enterprise with a vision that society can be positively transformed by individuals and organisations of all sorts – private, public, third sector with deeply rooted…Read More >
Responsible Tax and the Interdependence of Business and Society
Responsible tax is an outcome of being a responsible business and so is intertwined with how the business operates rather than being a separate “specialist” endeavour. Responsible business, and responsible…Read More >
Announcing our new Blog Series
Emma Borg’s research project “Social licence for business” at the University of Reading will publish a series of blogs on responsible business behaviour next week, starting Monday 23rd November. What…Read More >
Project Team Provides Evidence for the “Tax After Coronavirus” UK Parliamentary Inquiry
The research project “A Social Licence for Business” has submitted a response to the “Tax After Coronavirus” UK Parliamentary Inquiry. The project team supports the Parliamentary Committee’s work to re-examine…Read More >
Project Team Provides Response for Planned EU Sustainable Corporate Governance Initiative
The research project “A Social Licence for Business” has submitted a response to the EU Inception Impact Assessment for the Sustainable Corporate Governance Initiative of the European Commission. The Initiative…Read More >
Consultation Document “A Social Licence for Business” Online!
We have a new project document! Our consultation document, “A Social Licence for Business”, explains why we need to reshape the relationship between business and society after COVID-19. In addition,…Read More >
