By Kevin Jones and Stan Abrams
We all saw this coming. Since last year, there have been countless articles and commentaries about China's new employment law, so by now employers should have already implemented new labor regimes without further incident and employees should be quite satisfied. Right? Read More >

By ChinaCSR.com Editors
Healthcare companies are often thought of as intrinsically socially responsible because their missions are to foster healthy lifestyles. And many companies outside the realm of hospitals and medicine also focus on health initiatives as part of their own corporate citizen stances. But from whatever sector an executive approaches corporate social responsibility within the healthcare industry, a good working relationship with non-governmental organizations and government agencies is essential. Read More >

By Bill Valentino
The concept of corporate social responsibility has gained a great deal of importance in recent years as companies begin to grapple with a whole set of fundamental questions about governance and the role of corporations in the world. Companies are gradually beginning to understand the extent to which public sector involvement and close governmental relations are increasingly driving responsiveness to expectations in the area of CSR. Read More >

By ChinaCSR.com Editors
Shoppers in China unite! March 15 is World Consumer Rights Day, and the China Consumers' Association treats March 15 with special significance: consumer complaint hotlines have "3-15″ as their prefix and billboards around China are emblazoned year-round with san yao wu. Read More >

By Bill Valentino
The United Nations Global Compact emphasizes a link between corporate social responsibility and communications by declaring that "Effective two-way communications is essential to CSR success." CSR is not just a buzzword anymore. Communications are rapidly taking on a critical role in the evolution of CSR by informing and creating awareness of its role in connecting business and society. Read More >

By ChinaCSR.com Editors
The Year of the Rat — in Western society a rat can connote unruly or dishonest business behavior, but in China the rat is seen as a catalyst for prosperity and a symbol of leadership. So with the Year of the Rat upon us, now is a good time to see how the attributes of the rat can best be applied to businesses in China. Read More >

By Bill Valentino
Supply chain management is a key business process focused on identifying and streamlining the ways to reduce costs, grow revenues and manage assets. It is a business process that begins with needs and ends with monitoring and evaluating the suppliers and relationships who meet those needs. It is a two-way network, a system of organizations, people, activities, information and resources involved in moving a product or service from a supplier to a customer. Read More >

By Bill Valentino
As the corporate sector increasingly faces the challenges of sustainability, it needs leaders who have the capacity to incorporate strategies for both sustainability and profitability into to their businesses to achieve value maximization in a more holistic way. Read More >

By Victoria Z. Moy
Imagine your corporation has a growing presence in China but to the average Chinese citizen, you are barely on the radar. Read More >

By Alessandra Tisot
The 17th National Congress gives Chinese leaders a unique opportunity to find ways to make financial services more accessible to the rural poor. That was the goal of one set of proposals already unveiled this year. Such a push is to be applauded, since limited rural access to financial services is a major barrier preventing the weakest from finding opportunities to take part in the mainland's impressive development. Read More >

By Geoffrey (Kok Heng) See
China's biggest telecommunications firm, China Mobile, issued its first corporate social responsibility report this year. CSR is a relatively new concept in China, and with few organized groups of stakeholders demanding accountability, this comes as a surprise. What explains this change? Read More >

By Bill Valentino
Innovative, entrepreneurial and creative thinking are becoming the new core competencies in a MBA toolkit that increasingly connect the skills of leadership and the world of business practice with corporate growth and sustainable business. This underscores the idea that a company's greatest asset may be its creative capital. Read More >