Can corporate responsibility be profitable?
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About the video: ‘Can corporate responsibility be profitable?’
Frank Dixon argues that corporations operating in a responsible and sustainable way perform better. He talks about a new model for investment in sustainable businesses called Total Corporate Responsibility (TCR). He describes how the political and economic systems within which firms operate are often problematic themselves and closes by explaining how the TCR model goes one step further than Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Total views: 4,285
Filmed: London, UK on 20 May 2004
Credits: Interviewer - Marcus Morrell Camera and Editor - Marcus Morrell
Copyright © 2004 Big Picture TV
About Frank Dixon
Frank Dixon is currently working as sustainability advisor.
He’s founder of Global System Change, and former Managing Director of Research & Development at Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, the largest corporate sustainability research company in the world.
He developed a new sustainability approach focused on system change, called Total Corporate Responsibility.
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