Centre for Responsible Business (CRB) is a centre of excellence facilitating social impacts and

organizational behaviour change towards incorporating responsible business strategies, policies

and practices that contribute to harmonious industrial relations in workplace, organisational
productivity and growth. CRB works with and supports actors and stakeholders across the business
landscape and supply chains - national and transnational corporations, brands and buyers, local
manufacturers and suppliers (SMEs), national and international organisations, civil society
organisations and governments - as they promote and move towards a more sustainable and
responsible future.
CRB develops capacity building and research programmes and multi-stakeholder initiatives in the
field of CSR/sustainable development and around social and environmental standards in supply
chains. CRB helps build capacities for design, development and implementation of self- and coregulatory social and environmental standards as instruments and mechanisms for promoting
responsible business policies and practices. CRBs work focuses on the essence of voluntary
standards and regulations that support stakeholders across the companies and their supply chains
along with focus on impact of interventions on workers, working conditions, worker rights and
responsibilities, factories, farms and producers and their business and the environment.
A pioneer in the field, Centre for Responsible Business (CRB) is a catalyst for organizational
behavior and change, working closely with organizations to transform their business practices.
CRBs distinctive training methods and customized advisory services enable enterprises to adopt
environmentally responsible practices and espouse workers rights and responsibilities. Both
owners and workers thus become stakeholders in the growth and success of the organization.
CRB has worked with several companies and brands, hundreds of factories and over 1000 middle
management representatives since 2010, reaching out to 150,000 workers to pilot and test models
and approaches of capacity building in areas of approach to improved social and environmental
performance, data collection and analysis, human resource management, business owner,
manager, supervisor, and worker trainings, factory training and development systems and
induction approaches for workers, and has observed very encouraging results.
CRBs conceptualisation, implementation and research capabilities draw on the strength of its core
team of specialists and its extended network of experts spanning various regions and specialising
in crosscutting domains relating to responsible business. CRB has established a network of experts
globally and in several locations locally in India to inform, design and implement various initiative.
These experts come from various disciplines and together comprise a robust development and
implementation team.
CRBs approach to implementation draws from its focus on enabling change and therefore aims
at a holistic empowerment and unbiased analysis of any situation. CRBs work aims to contribute
to creating an enabled ecosystem, and therefore CRB adopts an action-oriented approach which
looks at an interplay of socio-economic and political factors at work vis-a-vis an industry sector
under consideration, designs and develop creative solutions and also implement with diligence.