ACC 704 BBUSINESS ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE TRIMESTER 3 2014 Major Group Assignment NAME | ID | RATU LEPANI VAKACEGU | 2007001708 | EMA MARAMA | 2013114712 | KOLOFIU TALEI KANAWALE | 2013112448 | ROSALIA RADUVA | 2012000295 | Topic: Social Accounting & Ethical Governance Abstract Social accounting and ethical governance is becoming a concern in Fiji businesses nowadays. This assignment will outline how Bank of the South Pacific deals with social accounting and transparency
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Overview of the Implementation Status of the Five United Nations Treaties on Outer Space in African Countries J-A. van Wyk Department of Political Sciences, University of South Africa (UNISA), P O Box 392, Pretoria, 0003, South Africa e-mail: vwykjak@unisa.ac.za Abstract. This paper presents an overview of the five major UN Treaties on Outer Space. Each of these Treaties are briefly discussed and assessed with particular emphasis on aspects relevant to Africa. Very few African countries have
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Keywords: analysis; corporate social responsibility; definitions; discourse; social construction Introduction HE CORPORATE WORLD IS FACING THE NOTION OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) wherever it turns these days. On a wide range of issues corporations are encouraged to behave socially responsibly (Welford and Frost, 2006; Engle, 2006). However, in both the corporate and the academic world there is uncertainty as to how CSR should be defined. Some go as far as saying ‘We have looked for a definition
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and the local communities”. As highlighted by Jamaliand Mirshak (2007), the fundamental idea of CSR is that business organizations would have an obligation to fulfil the needs of various organizational stakeholders (Waddock, Bodwell, & Graves, 2002) Corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices or initiatives have been performed by many corporations, particularly as a large number of researchers have demonstrated the benefits of being socially responsible (Berens, van Riel, & van Bruggen, 2005;
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Copyright © 2011 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. ————— Chapter 1: LEGAL FOUNDATIONS My interpretation of law is that these are legally-backed rules of action and conduct that have been created to promote and protect the moral and ethical expectations of society. The primary sources of law are constitutional, statutory, administrative, and common---are found at federal, state, and local levels. Constitutional law is the foundation for all other law in the United
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Chapter 2 Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Governance and Corporate Regulation 2.1 Introduction CSR is increasingly an essential issue for companies.1 It is a complex and multidimensional organisational phenomenon that is understood as the scope for which, and the ways in which, an organisation is consciously responsible for its actions and non-actions and their impact on its stakeholders. It represents not just a change to the commercial setting in which individual companies
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Small business social responsibility: Expanding core CSR theory Laura J. Spence Abstract This paper seeks to expand business and society research in a number of ways. Its primary purpose is to redraw two core CSR theories (stakeholder theory and Carroll’s CSR pyramid), enhancing their relevance for small business. This is done by the application of the ethic of care, informed by the value of feminist perspectives and the extant empirical research on small business social responsibility. It is
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Positive Impact of Business Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility On an Organization Abstract Corporate social responsibility and business ethics have become the focus of an increasing amount of attention from the business sector and academicians following the scandal-ridden era of Enron and others during the 1990s. Although the findings from the research to date are mixed, there is a growing body of research in this area that has lent support to the notion that ethical business practices
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Definition Globalisierung !!!!!!!!!! Sachtext: Auszüge aus Thomas L. Friedman, The World is Flat The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century is an international bestselling book by Thomas Friedman that analyzes globalization, primarily in the early 21st century. The title is a metaphor for viewing the world as a level playing field in terms of commerce, where all competitors have an equal opportunity. As the first edition cover illustration indicates, the title
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Introduction Recent global financial crisis has highlighted the problems in the current financial system. Some of the analysts have even termed it as the downfall of the capitalism and interest based economy driven by ‘greed’ and has acknowledged the need of a new financial system. One interesting development in this whole scenario was the relative stability of Islamic Financial Institutions (IFIs). In the last decade, IFIs have witnessed an impressive growth and have begun to make an impact on
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