McQuade LibGuides: BUS 1100 Introduction to Business: Social Responsbility, Sustainability-ESG

Corporate Responsibility Reports

Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Full text and indexing of scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and related topics.
- Search for your company and "corporate social responsibility" or CSR or sustainability
Morningstar Direct This link opens in a new window
Enter the Company Ticker or Name in the search box and hit enter. Select "Sustainability" from the top menu to find a company's ESG Risk Rating Assessment.
Access in the Mucci Capital Markets Lab, McQuade Library workstations, or through Morningstar Direct desktop software.

CorporateRegister
Register for free access to corporate non-financial reports, including Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), sustainability, environmental and social reports.
BSR Insights - Business for Social Responsibility
Check out their Insights with Reports and Primers on topics including Conflict Minerals, Human Rights, Women Empowerment and the State of Sustainable Business.
CSR Hub
Limited free access to corporate social responsibility information and sustainability reports.

World's Most Ethical Companies
From Ethisphere.com
Corporate Knights
Canadian media and research company rating companies as corporate citizens for sustainability and social and economic benefits - "clean capitalism."
Glass Door
Reviews from current and past employees with current local job opening.
Reputation Institute
Ranks the top global and US companies by reputations. You may need to register for some reports.
Green America Responsible Shopper
Open Secrets
The Center for Responsive Politics looks analyzes corporate donations in politics among other related topics. Use the Search feature to find a company report.
CSR Hub
Free data includes ratings of a company's social responsibility, but the free data may be limited. The company's description may include a link to the company's own CSR reports.

ESG Investing

See James Mackintosh's Wall Street Journal article "Streetwise: Social, Environmental Investment Scores Diverge" (September 18, 2018), comparing 3 different ratings.

Search ABI/Inform or ProQuest Business or MACKsearch. Filter results by date.
Combine the company name with relevant terms, such as:

companyname AND (sustainability OR environment OR green)

companyname AND social responsibility

company name AND ethic?

Note: ethic? searches for: ethic, ethics, ethical

MACKsearch This link opens in a new window
Find books, ebooks, streaming videos, DVDs, articles, reports and more from a wide selection of McQuade's databases, the Library Catalog and beyond.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Try strategies above using the Advanced Search.

Nexis Uni Company Dossier This link opens in a new window
Enter your company name or ticker symbol, choose your company, and then check the Legal tab for Recent Cases in the US, Canada, UK, and Commonwealth.
SEC EDGAR This link opens in a new window
A company's annual Form 10-K filing includes a section "Legal Proceedings" highlighting any major legal suits that could affect the company.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Possible search strategy:
Walmart and (civil actions or litigation or settlements or legal)