1、 1 1200 单词, 7500 英文字符, 2140 汉字 外文翻译 原文 Global Practices of CSR in Context Material Source: Samuel O.Idowu,Walter Leal Filho. Global Practices of CSR in ContextM. German:WMX Design GmbH,Heidelberg,2009. Author: Samuel O. Idowu, Walter Leal Filho Chapter 1 The United kingdom of Great Britain and North
2、ern Ireland The notion that British corporate entities should behave responsibly can be traced back several centuries.It was the Portuguese that started the slaving of Africans in 1440 Rawley and Behrendt(2005);by 1562 England had joined in the socially irresponsible trade through Sir John Hawkins(D
3、u Bois 1896).By the 1760s,slavery and the treatment of African slaves had become a social issue in Great Britain.By the late 1780s,Sir William Wilberforce and two of his other parliamentary colleagues, Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp,had formed the social activists group of their time The Abolit
4、ionists as they were then called! This pressure group they formed campaigned peacefully(reponsibly) for 35 years for the abolition of slave trade. Chapter 2 France By the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century ,almost 400 French Companies had joined United Nations Global Compact,almo
5、st a fifth of all participating companies at that time .Since the 2001econnomic reform of public pocurement contracts,strengthened in 2004,sustainable development criteria have been incorporated into tenders and this has somewhat modified publicprivate ralations in terms of adopting corporate social
6、 responsibility(CRS).Lastly,there are 2 almost a dozen significant legal texts in existence on the application of CRS in France .More recently ,after the May 2007 presidential elections, the new government introduced an impartant institutional development with the appointment of a high-ranking Minister,number two in the hiearachy after the Prime Minister,with special responsibility for ecology,sustainable development,and planning.With a