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Corporate Social Responsibility (IVOR nr. 77) 2010/2.10.5
2.10.5 Avoiding detailed legislation
Mr. T.E. Lambooy, datum 17-11-2010
- Datum
17-11-2010
- Auteur
Mr. T.E. Lambooy
- JCDI
JCDI:ADS368275:1
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Ondernemingsrecht (V)
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' Commissarissen hebben geen mvo-achtergrond', [Supervisory boards lack a CSR background], in VBDO - Bericht, 1, 2004, p. 6; Ernst & Young, 'Maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen: Het omzetten van verantwoordelijkheden in daden', [Corporate Social Responsibility: responsibility put into practice], (Kluwer: Deventer 2002), pp. 4 et seq.
' Corporate Shareholder Engagement: Een onderzoek naar het gesprek over corporate governance en duurzaamheid tussen Nederlandse bedrijven en hun investeerders', [Corporate Shareholder Engagement: A survey of the dialogue on corporate governance and sustainability between Dutch corporations and their investors], Nijenrode University, The Netherlands, February 2004. The Dutch Association of Investors for Sustainable Development also plays an active role as a shareholder and interest group in the communication with large companies.
Large companies have expressed a preference for changing corporate conduct through self-regulation. Both changing corporate conduct and self-regulation have received a great deal of attention:
CSR and corporate governance take a prominent place on the agenda and are sometimes assigned to an individual member of the board of directors as a separate task;1
Companies have established codes of conduct and have included these in annual accounts or on their websites;
Duties of (compliance) officials have been extended to include the monitoring of compliance with codes of conduct and the provisions of the Tabaksblat
Code;
Annual reports contain information on both corporate governance and CSR and sustainability reports are published;
Companies confer with institutional investors on CSR and corporate governance.2