Look Under the Rug - Step 1 - MGMT 480 - Social Audit of a Company - Research Guides at Eastern Michigan University

Second Party Web Sites

These are a few quick places to look ...

Sustainable Shopping Tips
The free database at this site has profiles of 350+ companies that describe how the company has been criticized and/or praised on social responsibility topics related to the environment, corporate ethics, labor issues, discrimination/diversity, corporate welfare, unfair competition, antitrust, safety, human rights, executive compensation, privacy, charitable giving, community involvement, legal disputes, etc.
Natural Resources Defense Council
Search your company on the NRDC web site and you may discover both positive and negative potential environmental impacts of company actions.
CorpWatch
Search your company's name here to discover potential issues. Since this site gathers mostly newswires and doesn't always give full source info, use article sources such as ABI/INFORM to find longer articles on the issue (see step 3).
Subsidy Tracker
A "national search engine for economic development subsidies and other forms of government financial assistance to business" that draws on information from numerous state government programs.

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society by Robert W. Kolb (Editor)
Publication Date: 2018
A search of your company name in this eBook may find articles on your company related to ethics topics.
Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime, 2nd ed. by Lawrence M. Salinger (Editor)
Publication Date: 2013
Search to see if your company is mentioned in articles on corporate crime in this scholarly encyclopedia.
Green Business : An A-to-Z Guide
Publication Date: 2010
This scholarly encyclopedia "provides an overview of the key principles, approaches, strategies, and tools that businesses have used to reduce their environmental impacts and contribute to sustainability, as well as describing some of the firms that have taken steps to green their operations and products."
Better World Shopping Guide, 6th ed. by Ellis Jones
Publication Date: 2017
Rates hundreds of products and services from A to F. To look for your company: download PDF Full text,, then use search within. Look below the grade charts for additional useful information and web site links.

Step - 2 Company Profiles
Learning more about your company may help you identify potential issues to research.

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