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- 2001 Student Attitudes Survey
This research began in 1999 when the Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program began studying MBA student attitudes on the role of business in society and the impact of their MBA education on the...
Citation: 2001 Student Attitudes Survey. 2001. The Aspen Institute: Center For Business Education.
Areas of Interest: Development, Economic, Economic - Social, Indigenous People
- 2003 Student Attitudes Survey
This research study continues the work started in 1999 at the Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program. This research reports documented our2003 research findings on the impact of MBA education...
Citation: 2003 Student Attitudes Survey. 2003. The Aspen Institute: Center For Business Education.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Social Responsibility, Public Policy
- 2006 Corporate Social Responsibility: Integrating CSR with Business Strategy
A more strategic approach to CSR can help grow the business, make a bigger impact on the issues, and help ensure long-term viability and a stellar corporate reputation. Focus on strategic CSR in times...
Citation: The Conference Board of Canada. 2006. 2006 Corporate Social Responsibility: Integrating CSR with Business Strategy: The Conference Board of Canada
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility
- 2008 IUCN-ICMM Roundtable
The overarching goal for the roundtable was to identify the next steps and recommendations to address issues and challenges related to legacy mines specifically concerning funding and finance, legislation, partnerships, and knowledge sharing....
Citation: International Council on Mining & Metals. 2009. 2008 IUCN-ICMM Roundtable. Roundtable Report (March 2-3, 2008). International Council on Mining & Metals.
Areas of Interest: Development, Economic - Environmental, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- 25 years of Kassie
Presents events relating to executive David Kassie and his departure from CICB bank. Date that CIBC Wood Gundy entered the U.S. securites market; Date that Kassie led the rebranding of CIBC World Mark...
Citation: Seccombe, Will. 2004. 25 years of Kassie. Canadian Business 77 (4):10-10.
Areas of Interest: SRI/Responsible Investment
- A Better Way to Think About Business: How Personal Integrity Leads to Corporate Success
Excellence in business depends on "integrity, values and virtues" as much as profits, says philosopher Robert C. Solomon. In A Better Way to Think About Business, Solomon says that business leaders sh...
Citation: Solomon, Robert C. 1999. A Better Way to Think About Business: How Personal Integrity Leads to Corporate Success. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Areas of Interest: Labour - Employee, Leadership
- A Canadian Success Story? Gildan Activewear: T-shirts, Free Trade and Worker Rights
This report is essential reading for researchers, policy-makers and activists in Canada and elsewhere who are interested in the promotion of corporate responsibility and ensuring improvements for workers as world trade evolves....
Citation: Maquila Solidarity Network and Honduran Independent Monitoring Team (EMIH). 2003. A Canadian Success Story? Gildan Activewear: T-shirts, Free Trade and Worker Rights. Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN)
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights, Labour - Employee
- A Closer Look at Applied Sustainability Centers
discusses the rise of academic centers with a focus on applied sustainability, primarily in environmental subjects, and examines a number of those centers in detail. Our hope in offering this informat...
Citation: The 2008 Student Attitudes Survey. 2008. The Aspen Institute: Center For Business Education.
Areas of Interest: Environment & Business, Sustainability
- A Code of Ethics for Corporate Codes of Ethics
Are corporate codes of ethics necessarily ethical? To challenge this notion, an initial set of universal moral standards is proposed by which all corporate codes of ethics can be ethically evaluated....
Citation: Schwartz, Mark. 2002. A Code of Ethics for Corporate Codes of Ethics. Journal of Business Ethics 41 (1):27-44.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Auditing, Codes of Conduct, Theory
- A Comparison of Labour Standards in the United States and Canada
This article introduces a methodology for measuring differences in the labour standards between the United States and Canada, taking into account variations by state and province....
Citation: Block, Richard N. and Roberts, Karen. 2000. A Comparison of Labour Standards in the United States and Canada (June 15, 2000). Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, Vol. 55, No. 2, 2000. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1673897
Areas of Interest: Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety
- A Family Portrait of Canada's Most Successful Female Entrepreneurs
In an attempt to study the factors contributing to the decision to become an entrepreneur, an intensive interview survey of 36 successful women entrepreneurs was conducted. The importance of paternal...
Citation: Belcourt, Monica. 1990. A Family Portrait of Canada's Most Successful Female Entrepreneurs. Journal of Business Ethics 9 (4/5):435-438.
Areas of Interest: Education, Gender
- A Federally Coordinated Review of Federal Environmental Regulations Affecting Mining in Canada
At the July 1997 Mines Ministers' Conference (MMC), mines ministers charged the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Mineral Industry (IGWG) with preparing a government/industry report that reviews federal-provincial-territorial regulations affecting mining and proposing appropriate recommendations for their consideration at the 1998 MMC....
Citation: Natural Resources Canada. 1998. A Federally Coordinated Review of Federal Environmental Regulations Affecting Mining in Canada. Natural Resources Canada.
Areas of Interest: Public Policy, Public Policy - Regulation, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- A Framework for Discussing Normative Theories of Business Ethics
This paper carries forward the conceptual clarification of normative theories of business ethics ably begun by Hasnas in the January 1998 issue of BEQ. This paper proposes a normatively neutral framew...
Citation: John Douglas Bishop. 2000. A Framework for Discussing Normative Theories of Business Ethics. Business Ethics Quarterly 10 (3):563-591.
Areas of Interest: Labour - Employee, Theory - ISCT, Theory - Stakeholder
- A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Professional Rights and Responsibilities
Professions are granted autonomy by society, to regulate their own affairs. In return for the economic benefits autonomy grants to professions, society expects professions to act in a socially respons...
Citation: Gaa, James C. 1990. A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Professional Rights and Responsibilities. Journal of Business Ethics 9 (3):159-169.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic - Social
- A History of Mining and Mineral Exploration in Canada and Outlook for The Future
This report traces the emergence of Canada's mineral industry and provides concise information on production, reserves, exploration results and outlook....
Citation: Cranstone, Donald A. 2002. A History of Mining and Mineral Exploration in Canada and Outlook for The Future. Natural Resources Canada.
Areas of Interest: Public Policy, Resource Extraction
- A Knight's Code of Business: How to Achieve Character and Competence in the Corporate World
This clever and insightful book reveals the depth and breadth of high moral character and competence in the corporate world. The good news is that the corporate world, by and large, is in good shape....
Citation: Gene Del Vecchio and Roderick Fong. 2003. A Knight's Code of Business: How to Achieve Character and Competence in the Corporate World Paramount Market Publishing
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct
- A Light but Effective Touch: Conservative Party Working Group on Responsible Business
ECI has been working with the UK Conservative Party since 2006 in order to produce a modern responsible business policy report. ECI has led the process, set up and facilitated an expert working group....
Citation: A Light but effective Touch: Conservative Party Working Group on Responsible Business. 2008. Ethical Corporation Institute.
Areas of Interest: Public Policy
- A New Mindset for Business Education
In this book chapter I refine stakeholder theory by identifying its connection to the traditional attention given by business managers to shareholders via the notion of the intangible assets of a firm as they are affected by moral conduct....
Citation: "A New Mindset for Business Education," in Rethinking Business Management, S. Gregg & J. Stoner, eds., Princeton: The Witherspoon Institute, 2008.
Areas of Interest: Education, Leadership, Theory
- A Resource Guide to Corporate Human Rights Reporting
This resource guide is designed to help organizations in beginning the process of identifying relevant human rights issues in their operations and to assist them in translating existing and planned practices into meaningful and effective reporting. Public reporting on human rights is, of course, a work in progress. The Global Reporting Initiative, Realizing Rights and the United Nations Global Compact stand ready to support companies and other organizations in advancing their efforts in this important area of corporate responsibility and encourage feedback on this resource guide from all interested parties....
Citation: Global Reporting Initiative, Realizing Rights and the United Nations Global Compact, A Resource Guide to Corporate Human Rights Reporting, GRI, 2009.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights, Sustainability, Theory - Stakeholder
- A Review of Native American Entrepreneurial Activity
The primary scope of this research is to identify the business and entrepreneurial activity taking place in the Native American community and includes a literary review of ten articles found to be of significant importance in gathering a broader scope of how tribal entrepreneurship is succeeding and evaluating recommendations for improvement. Early on, tribal people shared a similar economy that greatly differed from the market economy of today where entrepreneurship problems loom large in Indian Country. Through this review we will gain a better understanding of where business and entrepreneurship activity stands in Native America....
Citation: Teller, John. 2010. A Review of Native American Entrepreneurial Activity (April 20). SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1647445
Areas of Interest: Development, Economic, Indigenous People
- A Review of Selected Issues Affecting the Price of Crude Oil
The paper examines the economic impacts of oil price movements, and the outlook for crude oil prices, in both the short term (2010, 2011) and, on the basis of surveys of respected organizations, longer term (to 2030)....
Citation: Izzard, Cameron. 2010.A Review of Selected Issues Affecting the Price of Crude Oil. Natural Resources Canada.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Public Policy, Resource Extraction
- A study of the impact of oil and gas development on the Dene First Nations of the Sahtu (Great Bear Lake) Region of the Canadian Northwest Territories (NWT)
Purpose - Beneath Canada's Northwest Territories lies a potential of 30 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Will a $16 billion gas-pipeline bring prosperity or gloom? Will this bring employment opportunities for local people or will more qualified people be brought in from southern communities? The purpose of this paper is to give an account of what Dene residents of the Sahtu Region have to say about oil and gas development....
Citation: Leo Paul Dana, Robert Brent Anderson, and Aldene Meis-Mason, "A Study of the Impact of Oil & Gas Development on the Dene First Nations of the Sahtu (Great Bear Lake) Region of the Canadian Northwest Territories (NWT)," Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, 3 (1), March 2009, pp. 94-117.
Areas of Interest: Development, Economic, Economic - Social, Indigenous People, Resource Extraction
- A Team Production Theory of Canadian Corporate Law
This article suggests that the response to the most recent Supreme Court of Canada decision concerning corporate governance, Peoples, and the Canadian corporate governance debate, as currently engaged, are operating on the false underlying assumption that the principle-agent, shareholder primacy model accurately describes Canadian corporate law's treatment of public corporations....
Citation: Ben-Ishai, Stephanie. 2006. A Team Production Theory of Canadian Corporate Law. CLPE Research Paper Nos. 1-2. Alberta Law Review, Vol. 44. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=885369
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Theory - Stakeholder
- A Validation and Extension of a Multidimensional Ethics Scale
Reidenbach and Robin (1988, 1990) proposed and refined a multidimensional ethics scale. This study replicates and extends their work by examining the generalizability of the scale beyond marketing to...
Citation: Cohen, Jeffrey; Pant, Laurie; Sharp, David. 1993. A Validation and Extension of a Multidimensional Ethics Scale. Journal of Business Ethics 12 (1):13-26.
Areas of Interest: Leadership, Theory
- Abandoned Mines in Canada
WOM Geological Associates Inc. was retained by MiningWatch Canada to undertake a survey of abandoned mine inventories in Canada. Questionnaires were sent to provincial and federal agencies, requesting information on inventories, number of abandoned mines, testing and remediation completed, and current management policy....
Citation: W.O. Mackasey, WOM Geological Associates Inc. 2000. Abandoned Mines in Canada. MiningWatch Canada.
Areas of Interest: Economic - Environmental, Public Policy, Resource Extraction
- Aboriginal Engagement in the Mining and Energy Sectors: Case Studies and Lessons Learned. 2008 Report to Energy and Mines Ministers
The compendium comprises 16 case studies on Aboriginal engagement in the mining and energy sectors involving governments, communities, and industry that range from preliminary geoscience mapping to exploration, operation, and the rehabilitation of abandoned sites....
Citation: Aboriginal Engagement Task Group (ATG) of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Mineral Industry (IGWG). 2008. Aboriginal Engagement in the Mining and Energy Sectors: Case Studies and Lessons Learned. 2008 Report to Energy and Mines Ministers. [Government of Canada].
Areas of Interest: Development, Economic - Environmental, Indigenous People, Public Policy - Regulation, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Aboriginal Rights, Resource Development, and the Source of the Provincial Duty to Consult in Haida Nation and Taku River
The main issues dealt with by the Supreme Court of Canada in its decisions in Haida Nation v. British Columbia (Minister of Forests) and Taku River Tlingit First Nation v. British Columbia (Project Assessment Director/ were the nature and scope of the provincial Crown's duty to consult with First Nations and accommodate their interests before authorizing resource development on lands subject to unestablished Aboriginal title claims. Those issues will not, however, be the focus of this article. Instead, I am going to discuss what, in my opinion, is a major preliminary issue lying largely hidden in both cases, namely the source and extent of provincial jurisdiction to infringe Aboriginal title for the purposes of resource development. In Haida Nation and Taku River, the Court assumed that British Columbia has authority to infringe Aboriginal title in appropriate circumstances for the purposes of forestry and mining, thereby triggering a duty to consult with the Aboriginal nations concerned. However, although logically that provincial authority to infringe must be present before the duty to consult can arise in these circumstances, its source was not explained or even identified....
Citation: McNeil, Kent. 2005. Aboriginal Rights, Resource Development, and the Source of the Provincial Duty to Consult in Haida Nation and Taku River. Supreme Court Law Review, Vol. 29, pp. 447-460. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1649042
Areas of Interest: Development, Indigenous People, Public Policy - Regulation, Resource Extraction
- About Global Leadership and Global Ethics, and a Possible Moral Compass: An Introduction to the Special Issue
This paper reviews a number of huge challenges to ethical leadership in the twenty-first century and concludes that the need for global ethical leadership is not merely a desirable option, but rather – and quite literally – a matter of survival....
Citation: Jones, M. T. and C. C. J. M. Millar (2010). "About Global Leadership and Global Ethics, and a Possible Moral Compass: An Introduction to the Special Issue." Journal of Business Ethics 93 (1).
Areas of Interest: Leadership
- Accounting for the Social Economy: The Socioeconomic Impact Statement
Organizations within the social economy have unique characteristics, yet their accounting procedures do not reflect this uniqueness, and rather are designed for private-sectororganizations that exchage...
Citation: Laurie Mook and Jack Quarter 2006. Accounting for the Social Economy: The Socioeconomic Impact Statement. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics 77 (2):247-269.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Economic - Social
- Accounting for the Value of Volunteer Contributions
There is a need for an accounting paradigm that properly illustrates the value that nonprofits generate. Much of that value comes from volunteer contributions, which are significant but for the most p...
Citation: Laurie Mook, Jorge Sousa, Susan Elgie & Jack Quarter. 2005. Accounting for the Value of Volunteer Contributions. Nonprofit Management & Leadership 15 (4):401-415.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Accountability - Reporting, Public Policy - Regulation
- Acid Mine Drainage. Mining and Water Pollution Issues
Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) is the biggest environmental threat from mining in British Columbia. Water resources are particularly affected. This report introduces issues, profiles key sites, and identifies outstanding concerns. Published by BC Wild and Environmental Mining Council of BC....
Citation: BC Wild and Environmental Mining Council of BC. [2001]. Acid Mine Drainage. Mining and Water Pollution Issues. Environmental Mining Council of BC.
Areas of Interest: Economic - Environmental, Resource Extraction
- Acquired Disability and Returning to Work: Towards a Stakeholder Approach
This article examines the potential application of stakeholder theory to the case of a disabled worker returning to work. A gated notion combining both the instrumental and ethical views of stakeholde...
Citation: Yue, Anthony R. 2008. Acquired Disability and Returning to Work: Towards a Stakeholder Approach. In Journal of Workplace Rights 13 (1):73-91.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Labour - Employee, Theory - Stakeholder
- Acting Like Owners: Proxy Voting, Corporate Engagement and the Fiduciary Responsibilities of Pension Trustees
The paper reviews the legal and practical barriers in these areas, and provides a fiduciary framework for pension trustees to use as a guide....
Citation: Yaron, Gil. 2005. Acting Like Owners: Proxy Voting, Corporate Engagement and the Fiduciary Responsibilities of Pension Trustees (June 28). SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=772184
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, SRI/Responsible Investment, Theory - Shareholder
- Adam Smith's Invisible Hand Argument
Adam Smith is usually thought to argue that the result of everyone pursuing their own interests will be the maximization of the interests of society. The invisible hand of the free market will transfo...
Citation: Bishop, John D. 1995. Adam Smith's Invisible Hand Argument. Journal of Business Ethics 14 (3):165-180.
Areas of Interest: Economic, SRI/Responsible Investment, Theory
- Address by Mr. P.M. Anderson Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, BHP Billiton
Address by Mr. P.M. Anderson at the CIBC World Markets Mining Dinner (November 05, 2001): I would like to offer you some views on the opportunities we embrace, from my position as the CEO of a global mining company. What are the big issues facing business generally, and the mining industry in particular? How do those issues relate to corporate responsibility? What, in very specific terms, is BHP Billiton doing to provide global leadership in these areas?...
Citation: Anderson, Paul M. 2001. Address by Mr. P.M. Anderson Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, BHP Billiton. International Council on Mining & Metals.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Economic - Environmental, Leadership, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Addressing Sustainability and Consumption
This article examines issues of sustainability in relation to consumption. The authors first discuss the notion of sustainable consumption and the link between individual consumer behavior and the mac...
Citation: Anja Schaefer and Andrew Crane. 2005. Addressing Sustainability and Consumption. Journal of Macromarketing 25 (1):76-92.
Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues, Sustainability
- Adversary Accounting: strategic uses of financial information by capital and labour
This paper illustrates the concept and implications of "adversary accounting" in the context of both "intra-capital" and "capital-labour" disputes. Informed by a small pilot study on the uses made by unions and their approaches to financial information, we explore whether accounting techniques and financial information are necessarily "capitalist" tools or whether they can be used "strategically" by anyone with the access, skill and will to turn them to their advantage....
Citation: McBarnet, Doreen, Syd Weston, and Christopher J. Whelan. 1993. Adversary Accounting: strategic uses of financial information by capital and labour. Accounting, Organisations and Society 18 (1):81-100.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Labour
- Affirmative Action As A Form Of Restitution
Though the common sense defense of affirmative action (or employment equity) appeals to principles of restitution, philosophers have tried to defend it in other ways....
Citation: Groarke, Leo. . 1990. Affirmative Action As A Form Of Restitution. Journal of Business Ethics 9 (3):207-213.
Areas of Interest: Labour - Employee, Theory
- After Enron Will 'Whiter than White Collar Crime' Still Wash?
In thinking about white-collar crime, it is not just crime that becomes problematic but compliance, particularly the practice of 'creative compliance'. This article asks, in the post-Enron era, can creative compliance by business still claim to be 'whiter than white collar crime'?...
Citation: McBarnet, Doreen. 2006. After Enron Will 'Whiter than White Collar Crime' Still Wash? British Journal of Criminology 46 (6):1091-1109.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance - Transparency, Corruption, Public Policy - Regulation
- Aging and Work in Canada: Firm Policies
In Canada, public policy sets only a very broad framework concerning older worker issues. Few Canadian firms have explicit policies dealing with the aging of their workforces but many firm policies have unanticipated consequences for older workers and the age composition of the workforce. Focusing on downsizing, we draw on five Canadian case studies of firms in different sectors and with varying policy initiatives....
Citation: Marshall, Victor W. and Joanne Gard Marshall. 2003. Aging and Work in
Canada: Firm Policies. Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, Vol. 28, pp.
625-639, October. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=447314
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Labour - Employee, Public Policy
- AIDS - New Ethical Challenges
AIDS in bioethics is over, so to speak, the caravan has moved on to other issues quite some time ago. Perhaps, in light of the continuing pandemic and the numbers of people affected by it, it might be worth our while to re-visit some of these issues....
Citation: Schuklenk, Udo. 2008. Editorial: AIDS - New Ethical Challenges. Bioethics 22 (8).
Areas of Interest: Health, Public Policy
- Alienation and Empowerment: Some Ethical Imperatives in Business
The issue of worker alienation in the context of business ethics is critically examined. From a normative perspective, it is assumed that the minimal ethical requirement in business should include acc...
Citation: Kanungo, Rabindra N. 1992. Alienation and Empowerment: Some Ethical Imperatives in Business. Journal of Business Ethics 11 (5/6):413-422.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Labour - Employee
- All about ethics. (cover story)
The article profiles rabbi Jay Kelman, an accountant and columnist in Canada. His achievement includes a CA designation in Ontario in 1990. He has various affiliations from 1990 to 2004 as rabbi. He a...
Citation: Satov, Tamar. 2006. All about ethics. (cover story). CA Magazine 139 (2):12-12.
Areas of Interest: Spirituality
- Alternative Dispute Resolution for Stakeholders in International Investment Law
This article discusses several new alternative dispute resolution (‘ADR’) mechanisms that intend to address complaints from stakeholder groups that may suffer as a consequence of foreign direct investment (‘FDI’)....
Citation: Collins, David. 2011. Alternative Dispute Resolution for Stakeholders in International Investment Law (March 16). SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1788243
Areas of Interest: SRI/Responsible Investment, Theory - Stakeholder
- Alternative Energy Sources in Cement Manufacturing: A Systematic Review of the Body of Knowledge
The most comprehensive and credible evidence to date on alternative energy for cement manufacturing. Systematic review of more than 110 applied and academic studies. The use of alternative fuels in cement manufacturing was found to generally lead to a reduction in greenhouse gasses and criteria air contaminants compared to the use of fossil fuels....
Citation: Network for Business Sustainability. 2011. Alternative Energy Sources in Cement Manufacturing: A Systematic Review of the Body of Knowledge. Network for Business Sustainability. Retrieved
from: nbs.net/knowledge
Areas of Interest: Economic - Environmental, Environment & Business, Sustainability
- An Accounting System Proposal for Sustainable Communities: The Impact of Cancun's Marine Parks
Gross Domestic Product is a touchstone for growth and prosperity. However, this calculative practice is now dissonant with current natural resource depletion and social strife. The institutionalized social practice of NEA on which GDP is based, privileges flows over stocks under the untenable assumption that the stocks to fuel the flows are infinite....
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Areas of Interest: Accountability, Accountability - Reporting, Economic - Environmental, Economic - Social, Health, Public Policy - Regulation, Sustainability
- An Assessment of Wal-Mart de Mexico (Walmex) Social Responsibility Reporting
MSN’s analysis is based primarily on Walmex’s 2009 SRSD Report. It also relies on other, publicly available information about company policy and practice in order to supplement and compare with the company’s own reporting....
Citation: Maquila Solidarity Network. 2010. An Assessment of Wal-Mart de Mexico (Walmex) Social Responsibility Reporting. Maquila Solidarity Network
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Consumer Issues, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour
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