Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability
Check out Case Histories in Business Ethics: Virtues and Moral Decision Making in Business in which Jon contributes a chapter on the historic confrontation in 1995 between Shell Oil and Greenpeace over the Brent Spar North Sea oil platform. Who were the 'good guys' in this dispute, Shell or Greenpeace? Was the media duped?
A Green Backlash Gains Momentum
Jon quoted in Brandweek, March 3, 2008Will a Market Slump Slow Greentech?
Jon quoted in Sustainable Industries, February 29, 2008Why Social Investing Threatens Public Employee Pension Funds
Corporate Retirement Security, edited by Robert W. Kolb
(Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2007)Invest With Your Heart and Soul?
Read the debate with Jon on BusinessWeek.com, August 1, 2007Pension Funds and Social Investing
Jon quoted in Hartford Business Journal, Aug 30, 2007Save the Earth Sacrifice Your Returns?
quoting Jon, Washington Post, May 13, 2007What Should Bill Gates Do? Philanthropy and Social Investing Wall Street Journal, January 26, 2007
US Mining Company Agrees to "Green" Review quoting Jon
Christian Science Monitor, April 26, 2007Brand Marketing and CSR
World Bank Private Sector Development Blog, August 15, 2006Let Them Eat Precaution: Beyond the WTO Decision on GMOs
Jon Entine, National Review Online, February 8, 2006WTO Condemns E.U. Over GMO Moratorium
David R. Butcher, ThomasNet February 8WTO Biotech Ruling Reveals Special Interests, Say Critics
Emad Mekay, IPS, February 9Europe, WTO Battle Over Biotech Crops
Julia Watson, UPI, February 10Electronic Journal of Radical Organizational Theory
(EJROT) November 1995The Ethics of Responding to Stakeholder Interests: A Reply to Entine
Leon-C. Malan EJROT, November 1995A Reply to Malan: The Curse of Good Intentions
EJROT, November 1995Critics Fear Pension Activism
David Hafetz, New York Sun, July 22, 2004Asking Do-Gooders to Prove They Do Good
Jon Christensen (citing Jon) New York Times, January 3, 2004Do You Need an Ethics Officer?
Ethical Corporation, December 2003Grass Is Green for Amazon Farmers Tony Smith (quoting Jon)
New York Times, October 8, 2003"Biotechnology, the Media, and Public Policy" Conference (organized by Jon)
American Enterprise Institute, June 12, 2003
How the "progressive community" is abandoning its commitment to the developing world in its opposition to agricultural biotechnologyThe Backlash of Social Investing
Chicago Tribune, October 14, 2002A novel labour compliance tool – is it for your company?
Ethical Corporation, August 2002Warning: Stakeholder Dialogue Can be Dangerous to Your Health
Ethical Corporation Magazine, June 6, 2002Body Flop: Anita Roddick proclaimed that business could be caring as well as capitalist. Today The Body Shop is struggling on both counts.
R.O.B. - Toronto Globe and Mail's Report on Business Magazine, May 31, 2002Anti-GMO Protesters Don't Know Beans About Milk
National Post (Canada), February 27, 2002Reaction: Bottomless Cup of Protest
National Post (Canada), March 1, 2002Milking the Public's Food Fears Protesting Starbucks—Coffee, Tea or rbST?
San Francisco Chronicle, February 2002Are 'Socially Responsible' Mutual Funds for You?
Business Digest "Ethical Edge" Column, March/April 1999The Odwalla Affair: Reassessing Corporate Social Responsibility
At Work, January/February 1999The Green Power Hustle: "Clean" Energy's Dirty Little Secret
Solar Utilities Network, October 1998Business with a Soul: A Reexamination of what Counts in Business Ethics
(with Marjorie Jennings)
Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy, Fall 1998California Green Energy Fiasco: Is 'Cleaner Energy' Worth the Price?
Business Digest "Ethical Edge" Column, July/August 1998Food Fight The brouhaha over the new federal organic standards
Utne Reader, May/June 1998Beware of "Green" Firms
Journal of the Society of Environmental Journalists, Fall 1997Deregulation and Green Marketing: The Threat to Safe Energy
Dollars & Sense, September 1997Social Auditing: Oxymoron or Wave of the Future?
Values, July 1997Clean Shell: Clean Power's Dirty Little Secret
The Progressive Populist, June 1997Working Assets/Jon Entine Debate
The Progressive Populist, August 1997Vivisecting the Anti-Vivisectionist Movement
Drug and Cosmetic Industry, January 1997Is Ethical Investing Ethical?
Corporate Governance, 1997Corporate Ethics and Accountability
Corporate Governance, 1996After Bhopal: Responsible Care
At Work, September 1996Rain-forest Chic
The Toronto Globe and Mail Report on Business (R.O.B.) Magazine, October 1995In Search of Saintly Stock Picks
The Toronto Globe and Mail Report on Business (R.O.B.) Magazine, October 1995
Leadership and Reputation Management
Body Flop: Anita Roddick proclaimed that business could be caring as well as capitalist. Today The Body Shop is struggling on both counts.
R.O.B. - Toronto Globe and Mail's Report on Business Magazine, May 31, 2002The Liar's Club
San Francisco Chronicle, July 2001Leadership: The Feckless Defense of Fabulists
Chicago Tribune, June 27, 2001Why Good Works (New Zealand) (citing Jon)
Unlimited Inspiring Business, March 1, 2000How "Jack" Turned Crisis Into Opportunity
Business Digest "Ethical Edge" Column, November/December 1999Uh Oh! We Screwed Up, and the Press Is on the Phone!
Business Digest "Ethical Edge" Column, July/August 1999No Spin Zone: The Story Behind Media Frenzies
Business Digest "Ethical Edge" Column, May/June 1999Good leadership: What's its Gender?
Executive Female, January 2, 1997Handling a Critical Journalist What do you do when an investigative reporter calls?
CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility Magazine), Winter 1996Reflections on Jon's Advice by the Public Affairs Council
CSR, Winter 1996Blowing the Whistle on Meaningless Good Intentions (with Martha Nichols)
Chicago Tribune, June 1996When Rainforest Ice Cream Melts: The Messy Reality of 'Socially Responsible Business
Electronic Journal of Radical Organizational Theory (EJROT), November 1995The Ethics of Responding to Stakeholder Interests: A Reply to Entine, Leon-C. Malan
EJROT, November 1995A Reply to Malan: The Curse of Good Intentions
EJROT, November 1995Rain-forest Chic
The Toronto Globe and Mail Report on Business (R.O.B.) Magazine, October 1995
Business Commentaries Quoting or Citing Jon
Ethics in Kuwait Marlene Johnson
Kuwait Times, April 1, 2006NGOs in the US Firing Line
Asia Times, June 14, 2003NGOs, Social Investing and Business Ethics (cites Jon)
UPI June 12, 2003Mining for Corporate Truth
Christian Science Monitor, March 31, 2003Demands on Donors Push our Corporations' Goodwill
Hamilton Spectator, August 27, 2002Business Relationships Matter
INC., April 2001The scoop on Ben & Jerry's: an examination of corporate social responsibility
Management First, 2001The New Establishment: The Problems of Rebel Brands that Have Grown Up
Marketing, May 2000Rainforest Maketing Case Study: Ben & Jerry's and the Body Shop Marketing Verde - Vida ou morte para as Florestas Tropicais? Patrícia Andrade de Oliveira. IntegrAção/Terceiro Setor, April 2000
Marketing Verde: Vida ou morte para as Florestas Tropicais?
Portal do Voluntário, 2000Taming the Corporate Beast, Making business work for all of us
Utne Reader, August 1998Following the money: The Corruption of the Liberal Press
San Francisco Bay Guardian, October 1997A Resource-based Perspective on Corporate Environmental Performance and Profitability
Academy of Management Journal, June 1997Enviropreneurial Marketing Strategy: The Emergence of Corporate Environmentalism as Market Strategy
Anil Menon and Ajay Menon, Journal of Marketing, January 1997Botton-Line Charity: Doing Well by Doing Good?
The New Republic, January 1997
The give and take of corporate stewardship
U.S. Catholic, January 1997Ethical Investment and the Challenge of Corporate Reform
Craig Mackenzie (Director Ethical Investments, Friends Ivory & Sime) 1997The Evil Empire: The Scoop on Ben & Jerry's Crunchy Capitalism
The New Republic, September 1995Is Social Responsibility Possible?
Stanford University Graduate School of Business, 1995Dark Cloud: Ben & Jerry's Inaccurate in Rainforest Nut Pitch
Boston Globe, July 1995Green Cosmetics:
The Definition Undergoes Broadening but Consumer Interest Remains High
Drug & Cosmetic Industry, February 1995