My Interest in Business Ethics

Region
Ontario

Sector
Academic - PhD Student

Areas of Interest
Accountability ; Corporate Governance - Transparency ; Corporate Social Responsibility ; Corruption ; Development ; Economic - Environmental ; Economic - Social ; Globalization ; Human Rights ; Public Policy - Regulation ; Resource Extraction


Me in Brief

Part of my research agenda (including my doctoral research project) involves understanding the types of global regulation proposed to deal with a serious development conundrum: the resource curse. Resource Curse is the expression used to describe the counter-intuitive fact that various developing countries that are rich in natural resources end up, in the long run, growing slower and presenting worse social indicators than their resource-poor peers. Recent economics and political science literature attributes the resource curse to a governance gap in developing countries. Transnational extractive corporations and their home countries have been engaging in various global initiatives to address this governance gap. I am interested in understanding why corporations are choosing some forms of transnational regulation over potential alternatives, including: (1) their motivations (ideas, values, and/or interests) and (2)their assumptions.