The following definition of Corporate Social Responsibility was taken word-for-word from "Wikipedia", the Internet-based encyclopedia. It would be difficult to improve upon these words to define the core of our business ethics:

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a concept that organisations, especially (but not only) corporations, have an obligation to consider the interests of customers, employees, shareholders, communities, and ecological considerations in all aspects of their operations. This obligation is seen to extend beyond their statutory obligation to comply with legislation.

CSR is closely linked with the principles of Sustainable Development, which argues that enterprises should make decisions based not only on financial factors such as profits or dividends, but also based on the immediate and long-term social and environmental consequences of their activities.

US NewsService
March 02, 2005