My Recommended Reading List

• 2008 UN Report on Business and Human Rights- Respect, Protect, and Remedy ("The Ruggie Report") by John Ruggie - Report by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises.
• The Emergence of New Corporate Forms by Susan Mac Cormac.- An informative and insightful discussion on alternative corporate designs that integrate financial and social missions.
• Corporation Social Responsibility: Impact of Globalization and International Business, by Kim Kercher - The history and current support of value-driven organizations in America and abroad.
• Social Enterprise: A Legal Context, by Robert Wexler - Understanding the legal framework through which hybrid organization attorneys and social entrepreneurs will view their social enterprise business plans.
• Social Enterprise: A Lawyer’s Perspective, by Allen Bromberger - Using existing legal entities to establish hybrid arrangements.
• The Case for Introducing Stakeholder Corporations, by Shann Turnbull - A detailed description of how corporations can and should be reformed to make them an explicit instrument for building an efficient, equitable and sustainable society that is locally controlled.  The article suggests a Global Community Investment Code to promote the adoption of incentives, to create stakeholder corporations and to counter concerns over globalization.
• Corporate Design: The Missing Business and Public Policy Issue of Our Time, by Marjorie Kelly and Allen White - How can corporations be designed so as to blend social, environmental, and financial mission at their very core? This is the design challenge of the 21st century.
• Michael Gottesman, From Cobblestones to Pavement: The Legal Road Forward for the Creation of Hybrid Social Organizations, 26 Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. 345 (2007).