World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

The International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) is an independent advisory working with top companies on the sustainability, leadership and corporate responsibility agenda Pathways to Change This report identifies eight key challenges facing South African managers and opportunities for researchers to contribute insight and implementable guidance in sustainability knowledge and practice. It builds on a similar report published last year by deepening some previously identified themes and also recommending new ones. All eight of the prioritised themes represent managers’ quest for guidance on how to affect meaningful change at individual, organisational, and societal levels. FOAL: Multi-disciplinary - INASP The following is a list of links to and information about about multi-disciplinary e-resources. These resources are open access and freely available to all. Academic Journals

Global Warming Effects Executive Report: Measuring and Valuing Social Capital Recently, the value of relationships has been foregrounded in the integrated reporting movement. The guidance provided by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) suggests that a company’s public report should include information about six forms of “capital” as inputs and outputs of the value generation process. One of these is social capital, which focuses on “institutions and relationships.” In South Africa, the first country requiring listed companies to publish such integrated reports, understanding and enhancing social capital is a key priority among the Network for Business Sustainability's South African Leadership Council. The need for this research is clear.

Knowledge management for Development-KM4Dev