...Simulation & Individual Written Examination 70% Case study analysis for a group advice conference and an individual written submission of the investigation: “McLibel documentary” Explain and critically comment on the various legal issues arising out of the documentary McLibel. Attention needs to be focused on the issues surrounding the importance for the protection of business creations and the intellectual property rights in place in order to provide such protection. Part 1: Group Simulation (15-20 minutes (35%)) The groups will consist of 3-5 members. The information on the given topic will be presented as a group advice conference (simulation) which, may take many different forms (e.g. traditional presentations, board room scenarios, video footage, audio footage, explained posters etc). The groups are free to choose the format in which they wish to present the relevant information. It is the responsibility of each individual student to find, form and join the group. It is the responsibility of each group and individual members to ensure that group meetings are held regularly. The records should be kept of when meetings took place and who attended them (need to appoint the person responsible for the record keeping). Your presentation should provide an outline of the relevant issues and should be no longer than 20 minutes. There will be a short time for questions and answers after each presentation. The format for...
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...No. 04-2003 ICCSR Research Paper Series - ISSN 1479-5124 Corporate Citizenship: Towards an extended theoretical conceptualization Dirk Matten & Andrew Crane Research Paper Series International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility ISSN 1479-5124 Editor: Dirk Matten International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility Nottingham University Business School Nottingham University Jubilee Campus Wollaton Road Nottingham NG8 1BB United Kingdom Phone +44 (0)115 95 15261 Fax +44 (0)115 84 66667 Email dirk.matten@nottingham.ac.uk www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/ICCSR Corporate Citizenship: Towards an extended theoretical conceptualization Dirk Matten & Andrew Crane Abstract 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 understandings of CC and locates them within the extant body of research dealing with business-society relations. Two conventional views of CC are catalogued – a limited view which largely equates CC with strategic philanthropy and an equivalent view which primarily conflates CC with CSR. Significant limits and redundancies are subsequently identified in these views, and the need for an extended theoretical conceptualization is highlighted. The main purpose of the paper is thus to realize a theoretically informed definition of CC that is descriptively robust and conceptually distinct from existing concepts in...
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