About the Corporate Responsibility Index

Photograph of hands holding a thick rope.The Corporate Responsibility Index (CRI), licensed in Australia to St James Ethics Centre, is a strategic management tool designed by business for business. With international scope, the CRI was developed by Business in the Community (UK) in consultation with eighty leading businesses.

The primary aim of the Corporate Responsibility Index is to provide a benchmark through a comprehensive, self-assessed measure that helps companies communicate, track and manage corporate responsibility by integrating it within the business model. 

It is unique in the Australian marketplace as it is the only voluntary, non-prescriptive, business-led measure and benchmark of corporate responsibility available.

The Corporate Responsibility Index is wide-ranging in that your submission is validated by an independent third party validators and measures responsible business practice through four main areas of your business:

  • strategy
  • strategy implementation
  • management practice in regards to the community, environment, marketplace and workplace issues
  • performance in a range of social and environmental impact areas