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The Corporate Responsibility (CR) Index is a voluntary benchmarking tool launched in 2002 by UK Business in the Community (BITC). CR Index follows a systematic approach to managing, measuring, and reporting on business responsible business practices and the impacts on society and the environment.
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According to Business in the Community (BITC), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) – also known as Corporate Responsibility (CR) or Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CRS) – hints at a voluntary integration of social and environmental concerns into business practice. It’s about being a responsible business, thus taking charge of the impacts on society and the environment. Such a CR conception is embedded in the Corporate Responsibility Index (CR Index), considered as the leading benchmark of responsible business in the UK.
In 1996, BITC launched a “Business in the Environment Index” to...
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Cuccia, A. (2020). Business in the Community Index. In: Idowu, S., Schmidpeter, R., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Del Baldo, M., Abreu, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4_706-2
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