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- 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
- Canadian Energy and Mining Companies: Navigating International Humanitarian Law in the 21st Century
This paper describes why energy and mining companies need to establish systems for avoiding prosecution for human rights violations under international humanitarian law....
Citation: Ethical Funds Company. 2005. Canadian Energy and Mining Companies: Navigating International Humanitarian Law in the 21st Century. In Sustainability Perspectives: The Ethical Funds Company.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Human Rights, Public Policy
- Canadian Mining Companies and Corporate Social Responsibility: Weighing the Impact of Global Norms
This study analyzes the factors that led two Canadian mining companies, Noranda and Placer Dome, to adopt polices on corporate social responsibility (CSR). Although much has been written on CSR in the...
Citation: Dashwood, Hevina S. 2007. Canadian Mining Companies and Corporate Social Responsibility: Weighing the Impact of Global Norms. Canadian Journal of Political Science 40 (1):129-156
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Globalization, Public Policy - Regulation, Resource Extraction
- Carrots and Sticks. Promoting Transparency and Sustainability. An update on trends in Voluntary and Mandatory Approaches to Sustainability Reporting
This publication provides an up-to-date and expanded overview of mandatory and voluntary approaches to sustainability reporting and assurance....
Citation: GRI, UN Environment Programme, KPMG, and the Unit for Corporate Governance in Africa, Carrots and Sticks. Promoting Transparency and Sustainability. An update on trends in Voluntary and Mandatory Approaches to Sustainability Reporting, GRI, 2010.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Globalization, Public Policy - Regulation, Sustainability
- Codes of Conduct as a Tool for Sustainable Governance in MNCs
This chapter discusses and analyses the increasingly popular tool - code - that MNCs are using to meet the goal of corporate sustainability. We discuss codes as reflexive regulation, look at the diff...
Citation: Bondy, K., Matten, D., and Moon, J. 2007. Codes of Conduct as a Tool for Sustainable Governance in MNCs. In Corporate Governance and Sustainability - Challenges for Theory and Practice, edited by S. Benn, Dunphy, D. London: Routledge.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability
- Corporate Responsibility, Maturing Innovation: A Sector-By-Sector Guide to Voluntary Initiatives
Get the inside track from some of the world's key sector initiativesThis report will:Update you on the progress of the various sector initiatives, highlighting which have developed a strong brand,...
Citation: Deborah Leipziger, Ethical Corporation Institute (2007). Corporate Responsibility, Maturing Innovation: A Sector-By-Sector Guide to Voluntary Initiatives. Special Report: March 2007. Ethical Corporation Institute.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Labour, Resource Extraction, Theory - Stakeholder
- Deconstructing Engagement. Corporate Self-Regulation in Conflict Zones – Implications for Human Rights and Canadian Public Policy
This paper examines the existing governance gap in the accountability of TNCs for violations of international human rights and humanitarian law associated with their extraterritorial operations. It as...
Citation: G. Gagnon; A. Macklin; P. Simons. 2003. Deconstructing Engagement. Corporate Self-Regulation in Conflict Zones - Implications for Human Rights and Canadian Public Policy. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Development, Human Rights, Public Policy - Regulation, Resource Extraction
- Ethical Theory and Business
This book presents a comprehensive anthology of readings, legal perspectives, and cases in ethics in business. Contrasting business ethics approaches, Regulation of business, Performance Monitoring. G...
Citation: Tom L. Beauchamp and Norman E. Bowie. 1996. Ethical Theory and Business. 5 ed: Prentice Hall.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Globalization, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Theory, Theory - Shareholder, Theory - Stakeholder
- Global Corporate Governance: Soft Law and Reputational Accountability
In this article I show how corporate governance can focus on the role of soft law in today's global environment. Soft law is analyzed as a mechanism for constraining corporate behavior. In reconciling financial and social imperatives, firms are advised to consider the impact of compliance with soft law on reputational capital....
Citation: Brooklyn Journal of International Law, Volume 35, Number 1 (2010) pp. 41-106.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Accountability - Auditing, Accountability - Certification, Accountability - Reporting, Corporate Governance, Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Corporate Governance - Transparency, Corporate Social Responsibility, Globalization, Human Rights, Leadership, Public Policy - Regulation, Sustainability
- Implementing the New UN Corporate Human Rights Framework Implications for Corporate Law, Governance, and Regulation
The UN Framework on Human Rights and Business comprises the State's duty to protect human rights, the corporate responsibility to respect human rights, and the duty to remedy abuses. This paper focuses on the corporate responsibility to respect. It considers how to overcome obstacles, arising out of national and international law, to the development of a legally binding corporate duty to respect human rights. It is argued that the notion of human rights due diligence will lead to the creation of binding legal duties and that principles of corporate and tort law can be adapted to this end. Furthermore, recent legal developments accept an "enlightened shareholder value" approach allowing corporate managers to consider human rights issues when making decisions. The responsibility to respect involves adaptation of shareholder based corporate governance towards a more stakeholder oriented approach and could lead to the development of a new, stakeholder based, corporate model....
Citation: Muchlinski, Peter. 2011. "Implementing the New UN Corporate Human Rights Framework
Implications for Corporate Law, Governance, and Regulation." Business Ethics Quarterly 22(1):145-177.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights, Public Policy - Regulation
- The Emergence of Corporate Citizenship in South Africa
This paper provides an overview of the emergence of corporate citizenship in South Africa since 1994. The first section looks at the main catalysts for the increasing focus on corporate citizenship ov...
Citation: Visser, W. 2004. The Emergence of Corporate Citizenship in South Africa. International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Nottingham University Business School.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Globalization, Public Policy - Regulation, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability, Theory - Stakeholder
- The New Corporate Accountability: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law
The adoption by companies of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies is routinely characterised as voluntary. But if CSR is self-governance by business, it is self-governance that has received a firm push from external social and market forces, from forces of social accountability. Law is also playing a more significant role than the image of CSR suggests, and this legal accountability - the focus of the book - is set to increase....
Citation: McBarnet,Doreen,Aurora Voiculescu, and Tom Campbell, eds. 2009. The New Corporate Accountability: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic - Social, Public Policy - Regulation
- Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty
Discussions of whistleblowing and employee loyalty usually assume either that the concept of loyalty is irrelevant to the issue or, more commonly, that whistleblowing involves a moral choice in which...
Citation: Larmer, Robert A. 1992. Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty. Journal of Business Ethics 11 (2):125-128.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Labour - Employee
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