Spring 2007

Corporate therapy Illuminating the shadow

One way to respond to corporations harming the environment through their single-minded pursuit of profit is to view them through the same lens we would use to evaluate the destructive behaviour of an individual.

Corporate

Helene Smit

Psychoanalysis - Pathology or Arrested Development Disorder?

Joel Bakan suggests that although the individuals working within a corporation may be well-adjusted (particularly outside the office), the corporation as an entity exhibits psychopathic behaviour traits.

Psychoanalysis

Diane Salters

"Eskom is a psychopath"

Although Eskom is a state owned utility company, it acts very much like a public limited company.

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Richard Worthington

Psychopathy in the South African mining industry

South Africa’s mining corporations are built on the legacy of companies such as Cecil John Rhodes’ British South Africa Company.

Psychopathy

David van Wyk

Sniffing out the bad apples

The King II Report on Corporate Governance defines ‘transparency’ – one of the key characteristics of corporate governance – as the ease with which an outsider is able to make a meaningful analysis of a company’s action, its economic fundamentals and the non-financial aspects pertinent to the business.

Sniffing

The corpse awards

For Worst Corporate Practice on Environmental and Human RightsThe Corpse Awards are administered by the environmental activist organisation groundWork and the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and handed out by a master of ceremonies dressed up as the Grim Reaper at an annual event in Durban.

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Monica Graaf

Are there corporate psychopaths in South Africa?

There is not an industrial company out there anywhere in the world – not mine, not yours – that is sustainable.

Are

Joel Bakan.

SA's most sustainable companies

Some might argue that there is no such thing as a ‘sustainable corporation’.

Tion

Jonathon Hanks

Creating VALUE through sustainability reporting

Two years ago The Economist reported on the launch of the results of SustainAbility’s latest benchmark of corporate sustainability reporting with a headline suggesting that nonfi nancial reporting is “too serious to be left to amateurs” TWO YEARS LATER, AND AFTER A RAFT OF HIGH PROFILE corporate announcements on corporate sustainability, our 2006 analysis – Tomorrow’s Value: The Global Reporters 2006 Survey of Corporate Sustainability Reporting – concludes that sustainability reporting has turned another important corner.

Creating

Matt Loose

CSR is dead. Long live CSR!

It’s time to kill off Corporate Social Responsibility.

CSR

Richard Calland

The corporation: A Golem running amok

“ Like golems – human creations that take on a life of their own – corporations are running amok.

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Christopher Guy Neville