US-Japan-China Comparative Policy Research Institute (CPRI)

Corporate Social Responsibility Review (CSRR)

This is the release of CPRI’s research on corporate social responsibility index, with a focus on human rights.  Many companies added environmental factor to their CSR reports, but it is not comparable or fair among energy, manufacturing and software companies, and I noticed some companies inserting this factor to dilute social concerns. At this stage, I include these companies (1 in Japan, 6 in China and the rest in the U.S.) based on my personal knowledge and field study since as early as 1992 when I started to work in Japan.  The hundreds documents/articles in English and Chinese in the foot notes extensively show how I reach to conclusion for each company’s CSR.  Being a trained Sociologist on social research, I am fully aware of the methodology constrain of this project.  Nonetheless, it provides an alternative perspective among so many reviews on how to gauge corporate social responsibility in the age of globalization, which has greatly been driven by these international companies under review.

A: 80-100, leader

B: 60-80, good citizen

C: 40-60, average effort

D: 20-40, concerned, need improvement

F: 0-20, failure, unethical, unlawful

Jing Zhao

US-Japan-China Comparative Policy Research Institute

November 8, 2012 [V.1]

March 21, 2013 [V.2]

March 4, 2014 [V.3]

January 1, 2015 [V.4]

A         Google[1]

A-        Intel[2]

B+       Chevron[3]

B-        HP[4], Microsoft[5], Cisco[6], facebook[7]

C+       Dentsu group[8], Adobe Systems[9], Best Buy[10], Boeing[11]

C           Applied Materials[12], eBay[13], China Digital TV[14], JDS Uniphase[15], Sun Microsystems[16], Brocade Communications[17], Visa[18], PG&E[19], SunEdsion[20], Hoapira[21], Altera[22], Hospira[23], Netflix[24]

C-         Goldman Sachs[25], China Southern Airlines[26], Juniper Networks[27], Oracle[28], NetApp[29], Symantec[30], Sandisk[31], IBM[32]

D+       Apple[33], PetroChina[34], RadioShack[35], Zynga[36], Baidu[37], Sina[38]

D         Sohu[39]

F          News[40], Yahoo[41]

[Updates]

March 21, 2013: downgraded Apple from C- to D+; downgraded Goldman Sachs from C to C-; upgraded HP from C+ to B-.

March 4, 2014: added B-: facebook, C: PG&E, SunEdison; added more research to HP, Goldman Sachs, Sohu, Microsoft, NetApp, and Yahoo, with more contents on international peace.

January 1, 2015: added C: Hospira, Altera, Hospira, Netflix, JPMorgan[42]; C-: IBM; added more research on eBay, Goldman Sachs, Sohu, NetApp, Applied Materials, Brocade Communications, Cisco, Symantec; changed “Corporate Social Responsibility Index” to ” Corporate Social Responsibility Review”.