Berkeley Journal of International Law Volume 26 | Issue 2 Article 5 2008 Corporate Governance as Social Responsibility: A Research Agenda Amiram Gill Recommended Citation Amiram Gill, Corporate Governance as Social Responsibility: A Research Agenda, 26 Berkeley J. Int'l Law. 452 (2008). Available at: http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/bjil/vol26/iss2/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals and Related Materials at Berkeley Law Scholarship
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Case Study "Nike: The Sweatshop Debate" Sarah Martin MGT 448 July 27, 2011 Kenneth Peter Case Study "Nike: The Sweatshop Debate" “We’ve run the course – from establishing codes of conduct and pulling together an internal team to enforce it, to working external bodies to monitor factories and engaging with stakeholders” (Nikebiz, para. 2). The creation of this code of conduct came after serious allegations of using sweatshops with women and children working in hazardous conditions for less
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Business ethics is a topic that is often on the forefront of media and journalism reports in the United States of America today. To someone that doesn’t have a background in business, or a general understanding of the business world, these reports can be cumbersome and hard to follow. One must first understand what business ethics actually are. Dictionary.com defines business ethics as the study and examination of moral and social responsibility in relation to business practices and decision-making
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Nature and Scope of Marketing Ethics O.C. Ferrell, Ph.D. Professor of Marketing Creative Enterprise Scholar The Robert O. Anderson School And Graduate School of Management MSC05 3090 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 Phone: (505) 277-3468 ocferrell@mgt.unm.edu Nature and Scope of Marketing Ethics INTRODUCTION Marketing ethics is viewed as important because of marketing’s interface with many diverse
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business. It is important to have an effective strategy that embraces a top-down approach to being proactive to environmental, compliance, and social issues in their business operations. In terms of XYZ Bank, the enterprise has a solid social responsibility strategy, but senior leadership should consider certain improvements in the areas of the planet, people, and profitability. Prompt A1 The banking industry is highly regulated, so banks have to be creative on how its products and practices effect
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The true meaning of Corporate Social Responsibility According to European Commission Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) is a concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their interaction with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis. World Business Council on Sustainable Development defines CSR as the commitment of business to contribute to sustainable economic development, working with employees, their families, the local community
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Memo | | During recent routine testing, it has been discovered that the whistle shipment set to go to South America at the end of the week has traces of lead slightly higher than those legally acceptable by the United States. Children are more at risk for poisoning, as they are more prone to place objects in their mouths, which will be guaranteed to happen with this shipment of whistles. When the body is exposed to lead — by being inhaled, swallowed, or in a small number of cases, absorbed through
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Enron, Ethics, and the Law BUS 375 Enron, Ethics, and the Law This paper will explain the history of Enron and were it failed. These failures led to many changes that today’s employees must know about and then be trained to avoid those same mistakes. While this company was based in the United States their failures had a global impact that has caused cultural changes across the world. These changes have caused employee ethics training to be changes across the world. Like everything else in the workplace
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ENSURING BUSINESS ETHICS The business world is changing. The increased awareness about long-term benefits of adopting a framework, based on ethical values, has forced business leaders to measure their decisions and actions against an ethical yardstick before taking them. This, combined with increased stress on values and principles, has made it more important for people like you and me to ensure that we make ethical decisions when faced with ethical dilemmas. Having knowledge of ethics is a pre-requisite
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Question 1: The definition of ethics deserves more than just one sentence, as it is an ambiguous, complex and intangible subject that revolves around behavior towards society, the environment and the business world at large. It is a reflection of one’s personal values and behavior within the business environment and is concerned with what is right and what is wrong based on sometimes religious values, law, established practices, society and individual conscience. Ethics is based on unwritten rules
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