Corporate Responsibility Magazine announces its annual 100 Best Corporate Citizens 2012 List, known as the world’s top corporate responsibility ranking based on publicly-available information and recognized by PR Week as one of America’s top three most-important  business rankings. 

Click here to view the 2012 100 Best Corporate Citizens List

Why we do what we do the way we do it

Our overarching mission is accountability. We believe it’s vital for investors, regulators, customers, suppliers, employees, and neighbors to know as much as possible about the companies they invest in, do business with, and work for.

CR Magazine’s Corporate Citizenship Methodology fulfills that mission by calling upon companies to make information available. Through this process, we put hard data into the hands of the people who have the most direct influence over these companies – and the most to gain or lose by their good or bad behavior.

By advancing accountability and transparency through this research we empower those closest to these companies to make better decisions and ultimately judge these companies and their behaviors. In that way, we move us all closer to a world where everyone has the information they need and markets function more effectively.

A group effort – CR Magazine, CROA and the CR community

CR Magazine and the Corporate Responsibility Officers Association (CROA) share a common purpose in advancing corporate accountability and responsibility. Together within direct input from the CR community we’ve developed and manage a fully transparent, objective, fact-based methodology for evaluating corporate accountability and responsibility.

Through its Methodology Committee (composed of a cross-section of corporate responsibility experts, including active practitioners, academics, NGOs, investment firms, and other relevant communities), the CROA stewards the methodology to ensure its relevance, transparency, and efficacy. The Association plays a vital role as a convener, consensus builder, and promulgator of standards and practices. Together the CROA and CR Magazine regularly open the discussion up to public comment. CR Magazine independently verifies the data and publishes it for all to see and use. This simultaneous breadth of input and separation of powers forms the very foundation of our commitment to our own transparency and to advancing accountability and responsibility.

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