This paper argues that Australian corporations are shifting away from traditional business metrics towards stakeholder values, allowing personal or political agendas to take precedence over profitability. It calls for greater accountability in corporate governance and a reconsideration of the role of management in addressing social issues.

According to this survey report younger generations are extremely cynical about big business’s motivations to jump on social justice bandwagons and some think their employers judge them on their ability to toe a politically correct corporate line.

Policymakers need to recognise the importance of privately owned social infrastructure and the willingness of many in the private sector to deliver community space. By broadening our understanding of the agents responsible for social infrastructure and highlighting creative approaches to its provision, the report's authors hope to encourage a new model of social infrastructure delivery...

Increasingly, corporations are seen to be moving away from holding shareholders interests as the central goal in order to align themselves prominently with popular causes. Polling shows that the public are increasingly unimpressed by corporate activism and that overall, doing nothing is almost certainly the best approach from a business perspective.

In the UK, the economic divide between people, places and institutions has become unsustainably wide. This paper considers how a new vision for social value can build trust in the social value agenda and help unlock economic opportunities, enabled by technology.