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Corporate Knights (CK) is a media, research and financial information products company based in Toronto, Canada, focused on promoting an economic system where prices fully incorporate social, economic and ecological costs and benefits, and market participants are clearly aware of the consequences of their actions. The company calls such as system "clean capitalism." Founded in 2002, Corporate Knights has a media and research division, which includes the award-winning business and society magazine Corporate Knights, and a research division which produces corporate rankings, research reports and financial product ratings based on corporate sustainability performance. Its best-known rankings include the Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada and the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations. In June 2013, ''Corporate Knights'' was named "Magazine of the Year" by Canada's National Magazine Awards Foundation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Get to know Corporate Knights: Canada’s Magazine of the Year - Magazine Awards )〕 In addition to its two divisions, Corporate Knights Inc. spearheaded the creation in 2012 of the Council for Clean Capitalism,〔http://cleancapitalism.com〕 a multi-industry group of leading Canadian companies dedicated to advocating economic and social policy changes that reward responsible corporate behaviour and remove barriers to clean capitalism. The council's 10 members include Telus, Vancity, Teck Resources, and Hewlett-Packard Canada. ==History== Corporate Knights Inc. was co-founded in 2002 by Toby A. A. Heaps and Paul Fengler. Fengler was an International Relations and Russian Language graduate, and Heaps majored in Economics and International Development.〔(The McGill Daily - McGill Alumni Launch Business Ethics Magazine )〕 The pair created the magazine as a "halfway house between Adbusters and Forbes," according to Heaps. The magazine was first published in the wake of the accounting scandals at Enron and WorldCom with the objective of holding companies more accountable while recognizing that "power is where the money is, and if you want to make social change, it’s through business." Heaps has made clear since the magazine was founded that there's no pretending that corporations are saints. "There are no Mother Teresas here. But these are the best we've got."〔(The Globe and Mail - Glossy offers new spin on business ethics )〕 As such, two of the magazine's major goals has been to publicize positive business practices and rank the sustainability performance of companies. CK has expanded both its reach and research over the past decade. CK Media ''Corporate Knights magazine is a business and society publication focused on how companies, markets and governments are advancing social and environmental sustainability worldwide. Calling itself "the magazine for clean capitalism," it highlights and analyses trends around sustainable corporate practices and investment products. In 2012, an overhaul of the magazine's content and design was conducted. On June 6, 2013, the National Magazine Awards Foundation named ''Corporate Knights'' "Magazine of the Year". The publication was also nominated for having Best Feature Package and Best Artistic Package in 2012. There are approximately 110,000 copies of ''Corporate Knights'' magazine distributed quarterly through the Washington Post and Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper. The magazine is also direct-mailed to corporate and political decision makers worldwide. It's largest presence is in North America and Europe. A digital version was launched in spring 2012 through iTunes in partnership with e-publisher PixelMags,〔http://www.pixelmags.com〕 and another 6,000 digital copies are distributed through the Globe and Mail's Globe2Go e-paper delivery service. CK Media also produces an e-newsletter and is active on social media. In 2013, the magazine launched a mobile app called CK Ranker〔http://www.ckranker.com〕 that lets any company rank its sustainability performance and compare itself against industry peers. The magazine published its November (Winter 2013) issue on paper made from 60 per cent wheat straw, a first in North America, part of a partnership with Prairie Paper Ventures, a company co-founded by actor Woody Harrelson, who appears on the issue's cover. Corporate Knights Research The Corporate Knights research division produces corporate rankings, research reports and financial product ratings based on corporate sustainability performance. A significant portion of this research is used in the rankings and reports published in ''Corporate Knights'' magazine. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Corporate Knights」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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