Introducing a Corporate Registry with Spatial, Cadastre and CSR Functionalities

This conceptual paper aims to present a critical commentary analysis of the introduction of a Corporate Registry with spatial, cadastre, and corporate social responsibilities (CSR) functionalities. In particular, this paper shortly reviews the UNGP and OECD ethic principles for advancing CSR and challenges conventional thinking, reporting, and practice on CSR spatial and cadastre disclosure. Then, this article, proposes possible developments to existing CSR reporting frameworks, by incorporating metadata structures with regard to space (location), to cadastre (law descriptive data), to adverse human rights impact functionalities, and finally to personalized interpretation and adaptive implementation of those UNGP principles related to CSR. Finally, the process of transferring, in the future, from today's soft-law ethic Corporate Principles to sustainable, hard-law, executive, personalized, and adaptive Corporate Law Standards for practical and effective protection of human rights by establishing a common, global, and flexible Corporate Registry with a number of spatial, cadastre and CSR functionalities on companies' corporate and CSR spatial and cadastre disclosure is discussed.