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Business Responsibility for Sustainable Development
An increasing number of large firms claim that they are adopting policies and practices conducive to sustainable development. This paper asks whether these assertions are valid. It assesses the current range of their efforts, and finds that change is taking place in a piecemeal fashion. The paper then considers whether there are forces that might permit a scaling-up of initiatives associated with corporate responsibility, thus enabling business to make a more meaningful contribution to sustainable development.