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Social Responsibility: Social Responsibility

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Subjects:Business & Economics

Social Responsibility

Sources for social enterprises, corporate social responsibility, sustainability, green marketing, and energy.

Indexes and Rankings

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)
Includes KLD (now owned by MSCI), the leading authority on social research for institutional investors, with social ratings on community, governance, diversity, environment, human rights, and product concerns. Only available on campus.

Sustainability and Other Topics

AidData
Aid and development data.
Conference Board
Reports on management and economic topics including governance, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability.
GREENR (Gale)
Articles from scholarly journals and magazines covering green technologies and sustainability.

Tutorial Available
GreenFILE (EBSCO)
Similar to GREENR, with some different sources.

Tutorial Available
Statista
An aggregator of statistics on almost any topic.

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Tracks the positive and negative impacts of over 6000 companies worldwide.
CSRWire
News, reports, events, and a directory of organizations and businesses with a socially responsible focus. Links to companies' CSR reports.

Directories

GuideStar
Data on every IRS registered non-profit organization.

National Center for Charitable Statistics
In addition to general statistics, NCCS also includes a directory comparable to GuideStar.

Visit the Company Research guide for more tools.

Market and Industry Research

IBIS World
Basic industry reports, including some coverage of renewable energy and other social responsibility topics.
Frost and Sullivan
Coverage of energy, biotech, and environmental technologies and industries.
Mintel
In-depth market research reports, including some addressing green marketing and socially conscious consumers.
Gartner
Some coverage of Green IT.

Tutorial Available

See the Market Research guide for more.

Energy Data and Policy

Energy Information Administration
Statistics from the U.S. government, everything from gas prices to renewable energy.

International Energy Agency

More Global Business & Economics

See the Global Business & Economics guide for more tools.

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Andy's Top 7

Company:	Mergent
Global:	Euromonitor
Industry:	IBIS World
Marketing:	Mintel
News:	Factiva
Scholarship:	EBSCO BSP
Statistics:	Statista