{"id":30915,"date":"2009-12-01T11:55:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T10:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/blog\/?p=30915"},"modified":"2009-12-01T11:55:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T10:55:30","slug":"the-sharp-end-of-csr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/the-sharp-end-of-csr\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sharp End of CSR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pqRight\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"mobile phone explosion\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mobile-phone-explosion-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"mobile phone explosion\" width=\"379\" height=\"284\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 379px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 379\/284;\" \/><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s not beyond the realms of imagination to say that on 10th March 1876, in a small electrics shop in Boston, Massachusetts, one of the bloodiest conflicts in African history received a significant boost.<\/p>\n<p>On that day, Alexander Graham Bell said \u201cMr Watson, come here. I want to see you.\u201d\u00a0 In the next room Thomas Watson heard these words through the magic of the telephone.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 100 years later, on June 30th 1960, The Republic of Congo gained independence from Belgium and a long tussle over its mineral wealth began.\u00a0 This has been especially intense in the past decade, with over 3 million people lost as a result.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What links the two events are four elements: tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold.\u00a0 These are found in rich deposits in the east of the country where the fighting is at its most intense.\u00a0 They\u2019re also key elements in mobile phone handsets.<\/p>\n<p>There is no co-incidence here.\u00a0 Congolese rebels are encamped on the deposits precisely because they can sell them for money and arms.<\/p>\n<p>Corporate mobile phones are, quite literally, fuelling a war.<\/p>\n<h3>The Difficulties of International CSR<\/h3>\n<p>CSR has taken many twists and turns through the last decade or so, passing through environment, health and safety, child labour and a host of other concerns on the way.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, everyone\u2019s deeply worried about climate change, and rightly so.<\/p>\n<p>A piecemeal approach has evolved to tackle these issues.\u00a0 It relies on all companies applying comparable standards within their own individual domain, engendering a sense of confidence that those standards are being maintained across the board.<\/p>\n<p>This is progress insofar as it goes and it works very well when all the companies involved are operating under the same legislative umbrella.<\/p>\n<p>However in a multinational context it doesn\u2019t work: legislation, morals and ethics will (and should) always be different.\u00a0 And so will standards.<\/p>\n<h3>Big Failures Across Industry<\/h3>\n<div class=\"pqRight\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Shifting-A-Responsibility.jpg\" alt=\"Shifting A Responsibility\" width=\"240\" height=\"227\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 240px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 240\/227;\" \/><em>&#8220;Shifting A Responsibility&#8221; <br \/>\n from &#8220;Squibs of California, Or, Every-day Life Illustrated&#8221; <br \/>\n by Palmer Cox, pub.1874<\/em><\/div>\n<p>For example, many of the world\u2019s IT and telecoms colossi are signatories to the<a title=\"EICC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eicc.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition<\/a> (EICC) and have adopted its <a title=\"EICC Code of Conduct\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eicc.info\/EICC%20CODE.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Code of Conduct<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet because most of the actual manufacturing is subcontracted to factories on the other side of the world, standards are notoriously difficult to enforce and auditing can be fairly easily fixed.<\/p>\n<p>A staggering <a title=\"EICC 2008 Annual Report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bsr.org\/consulting\/working-groups\/resources\/EICC_2008_Annual_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">90% of EICC signatories say working hours in their supply chain are a problem<\/a>.\u00a0 One factory was found to be operating <a title=\"NLC Factory Investigation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nlcnet.org\/article.php?id=613\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two 12-hour shifts seven days a week<\/a>, with each shift including two half hour breaks.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a 77 hour working week.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just the electronics industry which is plagued by such revelations.\u00a0 In the fashion industry there are persistent issues with child labour and in Holland a new <a title=\"Using fashion to fight child labour\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rnw.nl\/english\/article\/using-fashion-fight-child-labour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cChild Labour Free\u201d fashion shop<\/a> has recently opened.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was the spectacular news that <a title=\"UK Banks cluster bomb shame\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thisismoney.co.uk\/savings-and-banking\/article.html?in_article_id=492575&amp;in_page_id=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a leading international bank had invested in a landmine manufacturer<\/a>, despite having a clear \u201cno landmines\u201d clause in its investment policy.<\/p>\n<h3>The Sharp End Of CSR<\/h3>\n<p>Within the CSR movement there is a fundamental message which is gradually becoming engrained into every branch of corporate life: every one of your decisions affects someone somewhere, possibly more than you could ever know.<\/p>\n<p>To date the piecemeal approach has meant companies have only looked at their own communities and suppliers, considering that to be satisfactory.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s now time to take this a step further.\u00a0 CSR companies need to look not just at their suppliers and their local communities, but also their suppliers\u2019 suppliers, and <em><strong>their<\/strong><\/em> communities.<\/p>\n<p>A healthy market is one where commercial pressure is brought to bear.\u00a0 Faced with the discovery they\u2019d just bought raw materials gained through murder or extortion, most company directors would cancel the contract immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Why should it be any different for mobile phone handsets and computer keyboards, just because the murder and extortion is happening a few steps away?<\/p>\n<p>Active companies who see no further than their own corporate battlements will not help to establish a responsible business model across the commercial world.<\/p>\n<p>We need activist companies, who will join up the dots and take responsibility for every effect their actions have, no matter where that is or how many steps removed.<\/p>\n<p><sup><strong>Picture Credits:<\/strong> <a title=\"Bakalov exploding mobile phone\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/christobakalov\/4122610400\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bakalov-mobile-phone-explosion-cc-by-sa-4032x2996px<\/a> by <a title=\"christo.bakalov's photostream\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/christobakalov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">christo.bakalov<\/a> under <a title=\"Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike \" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/deed.en_GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License<\/a>; 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