Corporate Responsibility: Governance, Compliance, and Ethics in a Sustainable Environment

✍ Scribed by Cannon, Tom

• Publisher: Pearson Education UK
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This new edition of Corporate Responsibility starts with a fundamental shift in perspective from the previous edition by highlighting the shift from corporate responsibility being a vital business issue, to being the vital issue facing business. In the process the author brings together a comprehensive guide to the subject to addressing contemporary developments in both theory and practice. A distinct intellectual framework is developed which highlights the ways the issues at the heart of Corporate Responsibility hang together. This links the ethics which underpin the values of corporations and their leadership to the way they exercise their responsibilities as stewards not just of their business but of the natural, human and built environment which they affect. Up-to-the minute research is integrated with case studies that allow the teacher, student and researcher to access the body of contemporary knowledge while responding to a rapidly changing landscape.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Corporate Responsibility......Page 2
Dedication......Page 6
Brief contents......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 14
Publisher’s acknowledgements......Page 17
From teapots to hot chocolate......Page 20
New institutions and novel challenges ......Page 22
Questions......Page 23
Case study 1 John d. Rockefeller, the standard oil trust and his philanthropy: does the latter legitimise the former?......Page 24
References......Page 27
Banking on responsible banking......Page 28
Trouble pours on oily waters......Page 30
An earthquake ......Page 32
Good or greedy?......Page 34
Friedman and his critics......Page 37
Shareholder value......Page 38
Questions......Page 39
Case study 2 Mining sector: BHP Billiton ......Page 40
References......Page 41
Defining corporate social responsibility......Page 43
The first industrial Revolution......Page 44
Industrialisation and ethics ......Page 45
Philanthropy......Page 47
Foundations......Page 49
Questions ......Page 53
Case Study 3 McDonald’s and CSR ......Page 54
References......Page 55
The role and function of business in society......Page 56
The social challenge......Page 57
Restrictive trade practices......Page 61
Markets and marketing......Page 63
Blowing the whistle......Page 67
Consumer action......Page 68
An oxymoron? ......Page 69
Voluntary action and consumer action – a partnership......Page 70
Questions ......Page 72
Case study 4: ABC Textiles ......Page 73
References......Page 74
A two-legged creature ......Page 76
The challenge......Page 77
Ownership and control ......Page 79
The ethical challenges......Page 81
A matter of trust......Page 82
Innovation and change ......Page 85
The social cost of change......Page 87
Innovation and change ......Page 88
Climate change and the needs of the natural and built environments......Page 90
Taxation......Page 91
Defining business ethics......Page 93
Questions ......Page 94
Case study 5 nurse Margaret Haywood and Panorama......Page 95
References......Page 96
The value, content and embedding of management codes of practice......Page 98
The pressures on executives......Page 99
I swear by apollo......Page 101
Corporate codes......Page 102
Embedding codes ......Page 104
Corporate codes......Page 111
Questions......Page 115
Case study 6 Leadership and responsibility ......Page 116
References......Page 117
The challenge......Page 118
Shareholders......Page 120
Europe ......Page 121
Remuneration......Page 125
The public sector......Page 127
The challenge of the multinational......Page 129
Obligations and contracts......Page 130
Other players, other values?......Page 131
The nature of entrepreneurship......Page 132
Questions......Page 133
References......Page 134
Standards, safety and security......Page 136
Evolving agendas......Page 141
Managerial responsibilities in practice......Page 147
Cases......Page 148
Legislation......Page 150
Employees ......Page 151
Bhopal......Page 152
Piper alpha......Page 154
Conclusion......Page 155
Question......Page 156
Case study 8 Standard Life Healthcare – a case study in health promotion......Page 158
References......Page 161
The greening of economies and corporations – the sustainability challenge......Page 162
A silent spring or false dawn?......Page 165
Responsibilities......Page 176
Conclusion......Page 177
Questions......Page 178
Case study 9 Climate change action at Tufts university William Moomaw and Sarah Hammond Creighton......Page 179
References......Page 181
Sustainability – the opportunities and challenges......Page 183
Vulnerability......Page 186
Information and information systems......Page 193
Accidents, liabilities and challenges ......Page 195
Questions......Page 198
Case study 10 american express Business Travel ......Page 199
References......Page 201
Managing a sustainable business......Page 202
Marketing......Page 204
People......Page 206
Finance......Page 208
Conclusion......Page 209
Questions......Page 210
Case study 11 Platt oils......Page 211
References......Page 212
Supporting the CSR effort ......Page 213
The business case for CSR ......Page 218
Organising and managing CSR......Page 220
Issues and challenges ......Page 221
Questions......Page 222
Case study 12 saving the barako bean: The Figaro Coffee Company’s approach to fair trade ......Page 223
References......Page 228
The built environment......Page 230
Cities......Page 234
Vision......Page 236
Definitions......Page 237
Smaller communities......Page 240
Questions ......Page 243
Case study 13 Pompier engineering Works......Page 244
References......Page 245
Ways forward and conclusions......Page 246
Carbon credits and carbon trading......Page 248
The sarbanes-oxley act......Page 249
Managing the corporate responsibility function......Page 250
The future......Page 252
Questions......Page 253
Case study 14 Manchester City FC and corporate social responsibility......Page 254
References......Page 255
Quiz: Who said this? – (by company) ......Page 256
Index......Page 258