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1. Unleashing Entrepreneurship: Making business work for the poor. Report of the Commission on

the Private Sector and Development to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, March 2004. 2. Ibid.

3. Statement of the Advisors Group to the United Nations International Year of Microcredit 2005.

Statement submitted to the UN in New York on November, 8 2005.

4. Patricof, Alan. J and Sunderland, Julie. E. Venture Capital for Development. Paper prepared for Brookings-Blum Roundtable: The Private Sector in the Fight Against Global Poverty. Aspen Institute, August 3-4 2005.

5. Ibid. 6. Ibid.

7. Unleashing Entrepreneurship: Making business work for the poor. Report of the Commission on

the Private Sector and Development to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, March 2004. 8. Altenburg, Tilman and Eckardt, Ute. Productivity enhancement and equitable development: The

challenge for SME development. Presentation made by German Development Institute, Vienna, 7

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9. Integrating SMEs in Global Value Chains: Towards Partnership for Development. UNIDO, 2001.

10. Sustainable Business Linkages for SME Development: UNIDO Thematic Initiative. UNIDO, 16

December, 2002.

11. Luetkenhorst, Wilfried. Corporate Social Responsibility and the Development Agenda: The Case

for Actively Involving Small and Medium Enterprises. Intereconomics, May/June 2004.

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13. Stanton, D. and Polatajko, T. Business Linkages: Their value and donor approaches towards

them. UK Department for International Development (DFID). London, 2001. (mimeo)

14. Why UNIDO Business Partnerships are Important. UNIDO Business Partnerships for Industrial

Development. UNIDO, 2002. 15. Ibid.

16. World Investment Report 2001: Promoting Linkages. United Nations Conference on Trade and

17. Interview with Peter Brew cited in Jackson, Ira and Nelson, Jane. Profits with Principles: Seven

strategies for delivering value with values. Currency Doubleday, 2004. (p151)

18. World Investment Report 2001: Promoting Linkages. United Nations Conference on Trade and

Development (UNCTAD). New York and Geneva, 2001.

19. Stanton, D. and Polatajko, T. Business Linkages: Their value and donor approaches towards

them. UK Department for International Development (DFID). London, 2001. (mimeo)

20. World Investment Report 2001: Promoting Linkages. United Nations Conference on Trade and

Development (UNCTAD). New York and Geneva, 2001.

21. Jackson, Ira and Nelson, Jane. Profits with Principles: Seven strategies for delivering value with

values. New York: Currency Doubleday, 2004.

22. Eco-efficiency: Creating more value with less impact. Geneva: World Business Council for

Sustainable Development, 2000.

23. For some of the most useful research carried out on CSR and small enterprises see:

• European SMEs and Social and Environmental Responsibility. Observatory of European SMEs, No. 4, 2002.

• European Commission Directorate-General for Enterprise. “Introduction to Corporate Social Responsibility for Small & Medium-Sized Enterprises.” European Commission: Enterprise and

Industry Web Site.

http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/csr/campaign/documentation/download/introduction_en.pdfAcc essed July 28, 2005.

• Responsible entrepreneurship: A collection of good practice cases among small and medium-

sized enterprises across Europe. European Commission Directorate-General for Enterprise,

2003.

• Grayson, David. Inspiration: Successfully engaging Europe’s smaller businesses in

environmental and social issues. Working paper for the Copenhagen Centre, 2003.

• Survey of Small and Medium Enterprises in the Global Compact. Vienna:UNIDO and the Global Compact, 2004.

24. Grayson, David. Chairman Small Business Consortium and Director, Business in the Community. Interview with author, January 22, 2006. See also: www.davidgrayson.net

25. Grayson, David. Inspiration: Successfully engaging Europe’s smaller businesses in environmental

and social issues. Working paper for the Copenhagen Centre, 2003.

26. SME Clusters and Responsible Competitiveness in Developing Countries. AccountAbility with

UNIDO, 2005.

27. Surveys that include SME motivations for engaging in CSR include the following:

• European SMEs and Social and Environmental Responsibility. Observatory of European SMEs. No. 4, 2002.

• The Business of Enterprise: Meeting the challenge of economic development through

business and community partnerships. International Business Leaders Forum, 2002.

• Small and Medium Size Enterprises and Sustainable Development: A scoping paper on the

large company link. Draft Paper. World Business Council for Sustainable development, 2004.

• Survey of Small and Medium Enterprises in the Global Compact. Vienna: UNIDO and the Global Compact, 2004.

• Kramer, Mark, Pfitzer, Marc, and Lee, Paul. Competitive Social Responsibility: Uncovering the

economic rationale for corporate social responsibility among Danish small and medium-sized enterprises. Prepared for the People and Profit Project of the Danish Commerce and

Companies Agency and Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs, 2005.

28. European SMEs and Social and Environmental Responsibility. Observatory of European SMEs. No.

29. Luetkenhorst, Wilfried. Corporate Social Responsibility and the Development Agenda: The case

for Actively Involving Small and Medium Enterprises. Intereconomics, May/June 2004.

30. Kramer, Mark, Pfitzer, Marc, and Lee, Paul. Competitive Social Responsibility: Uncovering the

economic rationale for corporate social responsibility among Danish small and medium-sized enterprises. Prepared for the People and Profit Project of the Danish Commerce and Companies

Agency and Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs, 2005.

31. SME Clusters and Responsible Competitiveness in Developing Countries. AccountAbility with

UNIDO, 2005. 32. Ibid.

33. Vives, Antonio, Corral, Antonio, and Isusi, Inigo. 2005. Responsabilidad Social de la Empresa en

les PyMEs de Latinoamérica, Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo/ Ikei. Washington DC. Cited in SME Clusters and Responsible Competitiveness in Developing Countries. AccountAbility with

UNIDO, 2005.

34. Corporate Social Responsibility: Implications for Small and Medium Enterprises in Developing Countries. Vienna: United Nations Industrial Organisation (UNIDO), 2002.

35. Ibid.