One thing that keeps coming up in conversations I have with people doing business in Latvia is transparency. Simply put: there is too little of it, and the government does not have the bandwidth at this moment to do something about that. Even though a growing contingent of people in Latvia think it is a [...]
In a recent article for the Christian Science Monitor Christine Arena asked the question whether Corporate Social Responsibility rankings were irresponsible. The basis of that question is that many rankings are popping up, sometimes based on unclear criteria, or criteria for a certain purpose and even with the occasional conflict of interest. This makes for [...]