Charles Bodwell Author

Sandra Waddock is Professor of Management at Boston College's Carroll School of Management and Senior Research Fellow at BC's Center for Corporate Citizenship. She holds MBA and DBA degrees from Boston University and has published over 100 articles on corporate responsibility, corporate citizenship and inter-sector collaboration in journals such as The Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Executive, Strategic Management Journal, The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Human Relations and Business and Society. Author of Leading Corporate Citizens (McGraw-Hill, 2nd edn 2006), co-editor of Unfolding Stakeholder Thinking (Greenleaf Publishing, 2002, 2003), and Learning to Talk (Greenleaf Publishing, 2004), she is a founding faculty of the Leadership for Change Program, co-founder (with Steven Lydenberg and Brad Googins) of the Institute for Responsible Investment, initiated Business Ethics' 100 Best Corporate Citizens ranking with co-author Samuel Graves and editor Marjorie Kelly, and edited The Journal of Corporate Citizenship from 2003 to 2004. She received the 2004 Sumner Marcus Award for Distinguished Service from the Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management, and the 2005 Faculty Pioneer Award for External Impact by the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program and the World Resources Institute. She has been a visiting scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (2006–2007) and University of Virginia Darden Graduate School of Business (2000). Charles Bodwell is currently the manager of the ILO's Factory Improvement Programme (FIP), a Swiss- and US-funded project linking competitiveness with improved labour practices. As with TRM, FIP takes a holistic view of organisations, focusing on establishing strengthened systems, improved measurement, broad-based involvement and a commitment to continuous improvement. With FIP, Charles is currently working with auto and motorcycle parts supplier factories in India and garment factories in Vietnam and Sri Lanka (see more on FIP). Prior to taking over FIP, as a senior specialist in the International Labour Office his work focused on corporate citizenship and supply chain issues, in particular the CSR efforts of large multinational enterprises. It was while based at ILO headquarters in Geneva that he developed, together with Sandra Waddock, the TRM model as well as the FIP approach to upgrading production facilities. He has been a graduate researcher at Cambridge University, visiting professor at the Helsinki School of Economics and visiting scholar at Stanford University. He has worked for IBM, Agfa and Schlumberger, while also consulting to various Fortune 500 companies. He has an MBA from McGill University and a Master's of International Management from ESADE. He currently lives in Bangkok, Thailand, with his wife Ivanka and three sons, Tomi, Matija and Nikola.