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- 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
- 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 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 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 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
- 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
- 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
- An Empirical Analysis of the Nuclear Liability Act (1970) in Canada
The Nuclear Liability Act (1970) limits the liability of nuclear reactor operators in Canada to the first $75 m of any off-site damage done by an accident. In recent litigation, the limitation has bee...
Citation: Heyes, Anthony, and Catherine Heyes. 2000. An Empirical Analysis of the Nuclear Liability Act (1970) in Canada. Resource & Energy Economics 22 (1):91-101.
Areas of Interest: Public Policy, Resource Extraction
- ASC slaps Ontario PCs
The government of Ontario is under fire from Advertising Standards Canada (ASC), which ruled that a television advertisement on the Conservatives' education spending was misleading, as of June 2, 2003...
Citation: Rendon, Paul-Mark. 2003. ASC slaps Ontario PCs. Marketing Magazine 108 (21):3.
Areas of Interest: Public Policy
- Background Paper on Land Access, Protected Areas and Sustainable Development
This paper identifies proposals for consideration and discussion that take into account the nature of protected areas, the methods of creating networks of protected areas, and the need to manage the entirety of the land base within the scope of sustainable development objectives....
Citation: Natural Resources Canada. 1998. Background Paper on Land Access, Protected Areas and Sustainable Development. Natural Resources Canada.
Areas of Interest: Development, Economic - Environmental, Indigenous People, Public Policy, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Bailouts of Defence Firms: A Necessary Evil?
Governments value the survival of the industrial defence base per se, quite apart from the value of the defence goods it currently produces. Procurement policies are myopic, however, in that they do n...
Citation: Heyes, Catherine. 1995. Bailouts of Defence Firms: A Necessary Evil? Defence and Peace Economics 6 (4):289-294.
Areas of Interest: Economic - Environmental, Public Policy
- Balancing Sweatshop Ethics and Economics
The referenced paper is one of the first to attempt to use ethics in order to provide guidelines for the labor activities of international commercial organizations. The paper seeks to find a balance b...
Citation: L. Hartman, B. Shaw and R. Stevenson. 1999. Balancing Sweatshop Ethics and Economics. University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Business.
Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues - Ethical Consumption, Development, Economic, Human Rights, Labour, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety, Public Policy, Theory
- Business and human rights: Towards operationalizing the 'protect, respect and remedy' framework
This report recapitulates the key features of the “protect, respect and remedy” framework and outlines the strategic directions of the Special Representative’s work streams to date in operationalizing the framework. [Sections are:I. IntroductionII. The...
Citation: Ruggie, John. 2009. Business and human rights: Towards operationalizing the 'protect, respect and remedy' framework: United Nations.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights, Labour, Public Policy
- Business Ethics in Canada: A Personal View
The article presents a discussion on business ethics in Canada. It cites the two areas of concern such as the intensity of attacks by social activists on various forms of natural harvesting in Canada,...
Citation: Boyd, Colin. 1997. Business Ethics in Canada: A Personal View. Journal of Business Ethics 16 (6):605-609.
Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues - Ethical Consumption, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Gender, Labour, Public Policy
- Business Ethics in Canada: Distinctiveness and Directions
The article presents an analysis on the distinctiveness and directions of business ethics in Canada. The author introduces several articles published within the issue, including one by Len Brooks pres...
Citation: Di Norcia, Vincent. 1997. Business Ethics in Canada: Distinctiveness and Directions. Journal of Business Ethics 16 (6):583-590.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Economic - Social, Education, Public Policy, Theory
- Business in Government and Society: Ethical, International Decision-Making
This practical book illustrates, in an easy-to-read format, how to make ethical decisions. It employs a “hands-on,” international approach unique to this market. Complete, structured ethical decision-...
Citation: Frederick Maidment and William Eldridge. 1999. Business in Government and Society: Ethical, International Decision-Making: Prentice Hall.
Areas of Interest: Environment & Business, Globalization, Leadership, Public Policy
- Canada and Missions for Peace: Lessons from Nicaragua, Cambodia, and Somalia
The end of the Cold War was to usher in a new era of international peace and security. Instead, new types of conflicts have emerged and the international community has had to react quickly. New threat...
Citation: Gregory Wirick; Lloyd Axworthy; Robert Miller. 1999. Canada and Missions for Peace: Lessons from Nicaragua, Cambodia, and Somalia: IDRC Books.
Areas of Interest: Development, Public Policy
- Canada's Energy Outlook: The Reference Case 2006
This report provides a reference outlook for the Canadian energy supply and demand up to 2020....
Citation: Natural Resources Canada. 2006. Canada's Energy Outlook: The Reference Case 2006. Natural Resources Canada.
Areas of Interest: Economic - Environmental, Public Policy, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Canada's Resource Curse: Too Much of a Good Thing
The paper contends that Canada is not a simple offshoot of Anglo-American, hyper-commercial capitalism but is subject to the recurring dynamics of social Canada and for this reason the Northern market model of capitalism needs its own theoretical articulation. [...] The paper also examines the uncoupling of Canadian and American economies driven in part by the global resource boom. […] The final section addresses the dynamics of growing income polarization and its lessons for the future....
Citation: Drache, Daniel. 2009. Canada's Resource Curse: Too Much of a Good Thing. (December 1). SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1645409
Areas of Interest: Development, Economic - Social, Public Policy, Resource Extraction
- 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 Suppliers of Mining Goods and Services: Links Between Canadian Mining Companies and Selected Sectors of the Canadian Economy
Natural Resources Canada, with the full support of the Canadian Association of Mining Equipment and Services for Export (CAMESE), the national voice of Canada's exporters of mining equipment and services, has examined the economic links between Canada's minerals and metals industry and Canadian suppliers of mining goods and services. This ground-breaking study provides considerable insight into the interdependencies of these two key resource-related components of Canada's economy. It also shows how their mutual growth represents benefits to Canadians in urban and remote communities....
Citation: Natural Resources Canada. 2000. Canadian Suppliers of Mining Goods and Services: Links Between Canadian Mining Companies and Selected Sectors of the Canadian Economy. Natural Resources Canada.
Areas of Interest: Economic - Environmental, Globalization, Public Policy, Resource Extraction
- Case Studies in Business, Society, and Ethics
A collection of 35 original and reprinted contemporary cases that focus on ethical and social issues surrounding business. Readers will be made aware of situations that require moral reflection, judgm...
Citation: Beauchamp, Tom L. 1997. Case Studies in Business, Society, and Ethics. 4 ed: Prentice Hall.
Areas of Interest: Public Policy
- Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: A Canadian Perspective
The report 'Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: A Canadian Perspective' provides an overview of research in the field of climate change impacts and adaptation over the past five years, as it relates to Canada. [The] summary presents common themes of the report, as well as highlights from individual chapters....
Citation: Warren, Fiona J. and Natural Resources Canada. 2004. Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: A Canadian Perspective. Government of Canada.
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Development, Economic - Environmental, Health, Public Policy, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Conducting Law and Society Research: Reflections on Methods and Practices
Through interviews with many of the most noteworthy authors in Law and Society, Conducting Law and Society Research takes students and scholars behind the scenes of empirical scholarship, showing the messy reality of research methods....
Citation: Halliday, Simon and Patrick Schmidt, eds. 2009. Conducting Law and Society Research: Reflections on Methods and Practices.Cambridge Studies in Law and Society Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Areas of Interest: Corruption, Education, Globalization, Public Policy
- Corporate Citizenship: Toward An Extended Theoretical Conceptualization
Corporate citizenship (CC) has emerged as a prominent term in the management literature dealing with the social role of business. This paper critically examines the content of contemporary understandi...
Citation: D. Matten and A. Crane; A. 2005. Corporate Citizenship: Toward An Extended Theoretical Conceptualization. Academy of Management Review 30 (1):166-179.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Globalization, Public Policy, Theory - Stakeholder
- Corporate finance and the challenge of creative compliance
The study of company law is often seen as a tedious journey through complex statutes, enlivened only by occasional glimpses of judicial activity. By contrast, the real activities of firms, both small...
Citation: D. McBarnet, C. Whelan. 1994. Corporate finance and the challenge of creative compliance. In The business enterprise and the law, edited by S. Wheeler: OUP.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Public Policy
- Corporate Law and the Sovereignty of States
This article explores the origins of a phenomenon of lasting and profound impact on American society: the private business corporation....
Citation: Kaufman , Jason. 2008. Corporate Law and the Sovereignty of States (2006). American Sociological Review, Vol. 73, pp. 402-425, June. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=949313
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Public Policy, Theory
- Corporate Responsibility for Innovation - A Citizenship Framework
This paper applies the metaphor of citizenship to business-society relations because citizenship is concerned with power and responsibility as two major themes in the context of ethical implications o...
Citation: Matten, Dirk, Andy Crane, and Jeremy Moon. 2007. Corporate Responsibility for Innovation - A Citizenship Framework. In Business Ethics of Innovation: Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment, 2007, Vol. 31, 63-87.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Public Policy, Theory - Stakeholder
- Corporate Social Performance and Politics: Do Liberals Do More?
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is increasingly recognised as a tool that firms can use to improve the bottom line. But how are the returns to such activities affected by the political climate?...
Citation: Liston-Heyes, Catherine and Gwen Ceton. 2007. Corporate Social Performance and Politics: Do Liberals Do More? Journal of Corporate Citizenship 25:1-14.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Public Policy
- Corporations and Citizenship
Advance praise: 'This book offer a comprehensive, authoritative and thought provoking discussion of corporate citizenship, but it does more than explore a key theme in contemporary society. It reflect...
Citation: A. Crane, D. Matten and J. Moon. 2008. Corporations and Citizenship. Edited by R. E. F. S. L. H. D. Wheeler, Business, Value Creation, and Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Public Policy, Theory - Stakeholder
- Corporations, Institutions and Better Governance
Leading companies are addressing the issue of limited government and institutional capacity in developing nations by becoming catalysts for institutional improvements. This report focuses on the pract...
Citation: Carstens, Toby Webb; Meg. 2008. Corporations, Institutions and Better Governance: Ethical Corporation Institute
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Development, Public Policy
- Doing Business with the World – The New Role of Corporate Leadership in Global Development
Poverty remains the main challenge facing the countries that will be the home of 85% of the world's population in the decades to come. Some 2.7 billion people worldwide continue to subsist on less than US$2 per day. The challenge facing the global communi...
Citation: World Business Council for Sustainable Development. 2007. Doing Business with the World - The New Role of Corporate Leadership in Global Development. World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
Areas of Interest: Development, Education, Globalization, Health - Healthcare, Poverty, Public Policy, Sustainability
- Editorial: The Risk Society thesis in environmental politics and management--a global perspective
The article discusses several papers about environmental politics and management. All papers touched the thesis by Ulrich Beck, which he presented in his book "Risk Society." Finished in 1986, the boo...
Citation: Matten, Dirk. 2004. Editorial: The Risk Society thesis in environmental politics and management--a global perspective. Journal of Risk Research, 371-376.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Economic - Environmental, Public Policy
- Electronic Waste Recovery Study
The scope of this document is to address enhanced EOL management of the following electronic products: computers, monitors, computer peripherals (including keyboards, printers and scanners), televisions, telephones, cell phones, stereos and rechargeable batteries....
Citation: PHA Consulting Associates. 2003. Electronic Waste Recovery Study. [Government of Canada].
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Economic - Environmental, Public Policy, Public Policy - Regulation, Resource Extraction
- Engaging Business in Development. Results of an International Benchmarking Study
This study examines ways of engaging business in development through Public Private Partnerships (PPP). It highlights areas of best practice and likely advances for the partnership tool in development...
Citation: A. Binder; M. Palenberg; J.M. Witte; A. Binder; M. Palenberg; J.M. Witte. 2007. Engaging Business in Development. Results of an International Benchmarking Study. Global Public Policy Institute. GPPi Research Paper Series No. 8.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Globalization, Poverty, Public Policy, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- European Union Law: Texts and Analysis
How can the law of the European Union be most effectively taught in the face of the EU's current upheavals? With this new book a team of specialists provide a comprehensive survey of EU law, placing it in its social, political and economic contexts....
Citation: Chalmers, Damian and Giorgio Monti. 2008. European Union Law: Texts and Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Areas of Interest: Development, Economic - Social, Education, Public Policy
- Evaluating the Social Impact of the OCLF/Alterna Community Micro Loan Program. 2009-2010 Survey: findings, comparison and analysis
The purpose of this social impact evaluation is to provide an independent measure of the effectiveness of OCLF/Alterna Community Micro Loans Program. The findings of this evaluation will allow the OCLF to provide a detailed snapshot of the impact of its loan program and as a result will provide increased accountability to government, donors, and the public as it increases the breadth of its programming in the future....
Citation: Langford, Arjun (2010). Evaluating the Social Impact of the OCLF/Alterna Community Micro Loan Program. 2009-2010 Survey: findings, comparison and analysis. Report. Ottawa: Carleton Centre for Community Innovation.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Public Policy, SRI/Responsible Investment
- Federal-Provincial-Territorial Review of Environmental Regulations Affecting Mining in Canada: An Overview Report
The purpose of the review was to identify opportunities to work cooperatively to improve existing regulatory regimes by enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of regulations and related decision-making processes....
Citation: Intergovernmental Working Group on the Mineral Industry (IGWG), Industry Task Force on Regulatory Reform. 1998. Federal-Provincial-Territorial Review of Environmental Regulations Affecting Mining in Canada: An Overview Report. Natural Resources Canada.
Areas of Interest: Development, Economic - Environmental, Public Policy, Public Policy - Regulation, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Global Disequilibrium in the World Economy
This book brings together leading economists to analyze present economic issues and further debate on the need for sound economic policies to avoid a crash on a global scale. Subjects covered include: the US twin deficit, Western European economic integration, Eastern Europe's transition towards a market economy, the debt burden of the less developed countries, the growing and deepening discrimination against the rest of the world by new homogeneous areas such as the North America free trade area, and the new Europe and Japan. These are the issues at the head of global disequilibrium in the world economy....
Citation: Baldassarri,Mario, John McCallum, and Robert Mundell, eds. 1992. Global Disequilibrium in the World Economy. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Public Policy
- Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) - 2001 Canadian National Executive Report
In 2001, 7% of all adults in Canada were actively engaged in starting a business. In this respect, Canada ranked 14th of the 29 countries participating in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) research project in 2001. Three investigation methods are used in the GEM studies: an adult population survey; interviews with entrepreneurship experts in that country; and selected national and demographic data....
Citation: Riverin, Nathaly, Rein Peterson, and Robert Kleiman. 2002. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) - 2001 Canadian National Executive Report. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1509248
Areas of Interest: Education, Gender, Labour, Public Policy
- Global Transparency: Fighting Corruption For A Sustainable Future
The primary focus of corruption studies and anti-corruption activism has been corruption within sovereign states. However, over the last twenty years ‘globalization’, the flow of money, goods, people and ideas across borders, has threatened to overwhelm the system of sovereign states....
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Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Corporate Governance, Corruption, Globalization, Leadership, Public Policy, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Global Voter Media Platform
Our existing media, both private sector and public sector, have inadequate economic incentives for serving voter interests in our democracies and shareowner interests in our corporations. As a result, we suffer from corruption and inefficient policies. To remedy this, we can create a new hybrid media sector, where organizations compete for funds allocated by voters....
Citation: Latham, Mark. 2008. Global Voter Media Platform (December 30). Vermont Law School Research Paper, Nos. 09-13. SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1321490
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance - Transparency, Public Policy
- Globalisation and Gender Development: Perspectives and Interventions
Canada's official foreign policy statement, Canada in the World, recognises that globalisation has dramatic economiceffects. Globalisation has become the watchword of the 1990s for an important struct...
Citation: Keller-Herzog, A. 1996. Globalisation and Gender Development. Perspectives and Interventions.
Areas of Interest: Development, Gender, Globalization, Public Policy
- Globalization, Immigrants' Transnational Agency and Economic Development in Their Homelands
This paper looks at transnational immigrant communities living in Canada, focusing on the issues of remittance market development in the south, and some of the most recent initiatives that rich countr...
Citation: Robinson, R. 2004. Globalization, Immigrants' Transnational Agency and Economic Development in Their Homelands. Canadian Foundation for the Americas
Areas of Interest: Development, Economic, Globalization, Public Policy
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