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Home / Business / Investing / Socially Responsible / Serious Critiques of SRI
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- Archive of articles by Jon Entine - Television producer, reporter, and author who specializes in sports and race, business ethics, socially responsible investing, and green brand marketing.
www.jonentine.com/entine_file.htm#brand_marketing
- Ask Mother Jones about SRI - Doug Henwood's "Mutually Exclusive" article says socially responsible funds promise to help you do good as you do well. But they're only half-right because of contradictory criteria. Excellent critique of mainstream SR mutual funds.
www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/ND98/henwood.html
- Ben's Big Flop - Sadly for those with high hopes for "Ben & Jerry's" move into helping third world rain forest workers, this expose tells it like it is and details what went wrong.
www.inc.com/incmagazine/archives/09980401.html
- Better World Editorial - Jon Entine and Martha Nichols question simplistic approaches and contradictions of SR Corporate Codes of Conduct
www.betterworld.com/BWZ/9608/editor.htm
- Clean Energy's not so clean facts - Solar Utilities Network hosts this investigative piece by Jon Entine, exposing false claims by "green" energy businesses and organizations.
www.solarnet.org/greenwash.htm
- Corporate Ethics and Accountability - Why All the Fuss About Stockholders. Jon Entine speaks up.
www.corpgov.net/forums/commentary/entine1.html
- Ethical Investing - Contradictory issues in socially responsible determinations. A paper by Jon Entine.
www.corpgov.net/forums/commentary/entine2.html
- London Greenpeace on "The Body Shop." - London Greenpeace provides scholarly, penetrating review of the hypocrisy and double dealing of this publicly traded, and "so called" ethical firm.
www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/companies/bs_ref.html
- McLibel: story of London Greenpeace and McDonald's Burgers - McDonald's Restaurants Ltd - Stories about Health, Nutrition, Environmental, Animal Welfare, Employment, Social Awareness and very sneaky tactics by a firm that prefers to "look good" (responsible) by behaving very badly. McDonalds even hired seven spies to infiltrate London Greenpeace.
www.mcspotlight.org/case/trial/story.html
- Salon Ivory Tower - First of two page article showing how MBA's ethics training may not bear fruit in the real world.
www.salonmagazine.com/it
- Stanford seminar on SR - Is Social Responsibility Possible? Brief paper argues ways that it can be.
www.stanford.edu/group/gsb-vr/v29/n09/v29n09-srb-wei.qxp.html
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