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- 2001 Student Attitudes Survey
This research began in 1999 when the Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program began studying MBA student attitudes on the role of business in society and the impact of their MBA education on the...
Citation: 2001 Student Attitudes Survey. 2001. The Aspen Institute: Center For Business Education.
Areas of Interest: Development, Economic, Economic - Social, Indigenous People
- A Review of Native American Entrepreneurial Activity
The primary scope of this research is to identify the business and entrepreneurial activity taking place in the Native American community and includes a literary review of ten articles found to be of significant importance in gathering a broader scope of how tribal entrepreneurship is succeeding and evaluating recommendations for improvement. Early on, tribal people shared a similar economy that greatly differed from the market economy of today where entrepreneurship problems loom large in Indian Country. Through this review we will gain a better understanding of where business and entrepreneurship activity stands in Native America....
Citation: Teller, John. 2010. A Review of Native American Entrepreneurial Activity (April 20). SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1647445
Areas of Interest: Development, Economic, Indigenous People
- 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
- A study of the impact of oil and gas development on the Dene First Nations of the Sahtu (Great Bear Lake) Region of the Canadian Northwest Territories (NWT)
Purpose - Beneath Canada's Northwest Territories lies a potential of 30 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Will a $16 billion gas-pipeline bring prosperity or gloom? Will this bring employment opportunities for local people or will more qualified people be brought in from southern communities? The purpose of this paper is to give an account of what Dene residents of the Sahtu Region have to say about oil and gas development....
Citation: Leo Paul Dana, Robert Brent Anderson, and Aldene Meis-Mason, "A Study of the Impact of Oil & Gas Development on the Dene First Nations of the Sahtu (Great Bear Lake) Region of the Canadian Northwest Territories (NWT)," Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, 3 (1), March 2009, pp. 94-117.
Areas of Interest: Development, Economic, Economic - Social, Indigenous People, Resource Extraction
- Adam Smith's Invisible Hand Argument
Adam Smith is usually thought to argue that the result of everyone pursuing their own interests will be the maximization of the interests of society. The invisible hand of the free market will transfo...
Citation: Bishop, John D. 1995. Adam Smith's Invisible Hand Argument. Journal of Business Ethics 14 (3):165-180.
Areas of Interest: Economic, SRI/Responsible Investment, Theory
- 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 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
- Canada's resilient North: The impact of mining on Aboriginal communities
For decades, the mining sector has been a central economic driver in the Canadian North, and the discovery of large diamond deposits in the Northwest Territories has intensified the speed and scale of...
Citation: G. Gibson and J. Klinck. 2008. Canada's resilient North: The impact of mining on Aboriginal communities. In Mining: Social and Economic Perspectives, edited by P. Phuskele. Hyderabad, India: Icfai University Press.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Indigenous People, Resource Extraction
- Corporate Citizens, Colonialists, Tourists or Activists? Ethical Challenges Facing South African Corporations in Africa
With a particular focus on South African companies, this article assesses concepts and ideas of ethical behaviour of international businesses. Given the dominance of South African companies in other African countries, there are interesting similarities between global multinational corporations and their impact on the rest of the world, and South African corporations and their smaller-scale impact on the rest of Africa....
Citation: Malan, D. 2005. Corporate Citizens, Colonialists, Tourists or Activists? Ethical Challenges Facing South African Corporations in Africa. South Africa: Greenleaf Publishing. JCC 18 (Summer): 49-60.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic, Theory
- Destabilizing Guinea: Diamonds, Charles Taylor and the Potential for Wider Humanitarian Catastrophe
Traces the development of Guinea's diamond industry and discusses the devastating attacks by Sierra Leonean rebels in 2000 and 2001, arguing that the objective was part of a wider scheme to destabiliz...
Citation: Lansana Gberie. 2001. Destabilizing Guinea: Diamonds, Charles Taylor and the Potential for Wider Humanitarian Catastrophe. In The Diamonds and Human Security Project, edited by I. Smillie: Partnership Africa Canada.
Areas of Interest: Corruption, Economic, Resource Extraction
- Diamonds in the Central African Republic: Trading, Valuing and Laundering
Discusses the strong likelihood that conflict diamonds from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and elsewhere are being laundered through the Central African Republic. Concludes with recommendations...
Citation: Lansana Gberie. 2003. West Africa: Rocks in a Hard Place. The Political Economy of Diamonds and Regional Destabilization. In The Diamonds and Human Security Project, edited by I. Smillie: Partnership Africa Canada.
Areas of Interest: Corruption, Economic, Resource Extraction
- Diamonds Without Maps: Liberia, the UN, Sanctions and the Kimberley Process
Warns that the United Nations Security Council should not lift its 2001 embargo on Liberian diamonds until the country has an effective diamond control mechanism in place. Diamonds have been at the ce...
Citation: Christian Dietrich. 2004. Diamonds Without Maps: Liberia, the UN, Sanctions and the Kimberley Process. In The Diamonds and Human Security Project, edited by I. Smillie: Partnership Africa Canada.
Areas of Interest: Corruption, Economic, Resource Extraction
- Diamonds: Forever or for Good? The Economic Impact of Diamonds in Southern Africa
Investigates the extent to which diamonds contribute to development in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana, countries which have been the most vocal champions of "prosperity diamonds" or "diamonds for...
Citation: Ralph Hazleton. 2002. No Problems Here: Success, Complacency and Suspicion in the Indian Diamond Industry. In The Diamonds and Human Security Project, edited by I. Smillie: Partnership Africa Canada.
Areas of Interest: Corruption, Economic, Poverty, Resource Extraction
- Ethical Mindsets: An Australian Study
The aim of this article is to define and delineate an ethical mindset. In deploying an interpretive mixed-methods analysis of the Australian services sector, data were collected through an online survey on 223 respondents followed by focus group interviews involving 20 participants....
Citation: Issa, T. and D. Pick (2010). "Ethical Mindsets: An Australian Study." Journal of Business Ethics 96 (4) 613-629.
Areas of Interest: Economic
- Ethics and Capitalism
Despite the great advantage of capitalism -- that it produces a prosperous system of exchanging goods and services -- capitalist societies struggle with the unresolved issues of poverty, exclusion, co...
Citation: John Douglas Bishop. ed. 2000. Ethics and Capitalism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Corruption, Economic, Globalization, Theory
- Fire in the Ice: Benefits, Protection and Regulation in the Canadian Diamond Industry
A report on the emerging diamond industry in Canada, specifically in the Northwest Territories; describes elements of the Canadian diamond experience which might be of use in other countries, and exam...
Citation: Ian Smillie. 2002. War & Peace in Sierra Leone: Diamonds, Corruption and the Lebanese Connection. In The Diamonds and Human Security Project: Partnership Africa Canada.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Resource Extraction
- Fodder for the entrepreneurial mind
Presents advice for entrepreneurs in Canada. Significance of business experience for entrepreneurs; Effect of government money on business budget management; Significance of the values of a leader in...
Citation: Atkins, Michael. 2004. Fodder for the entrepreneurial mind. Northern Ontario Business 24 (7):4-4.
Areas of Interest: Economic
- Friedman Fallacies
Milton Friedman's article, 'The Social Responsibility of Business Is To Increase Its Profits,' owes its appeal to the rhetorical devices of simplicity, authority, and finality. More careful considerat...
Citation: Grant, Colin. 1991. Friedman Fallacies. Journal of Business Ethics 10 (12):907-914.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic
- Fugitives and Phantoms: The Diamond Exporters of Brazil
Brazil is one of the oldest diamond producing countries in the world, but nobody can say where half of the diamonds it exports have been mined, and government certificates accompanying fully one quart...
Citation: Partnership Africa Canada. 2006. Triple Jeopardy: Triplicate Forms and Triple Borders, Controlling Diamond Exports from Guyana. In The Diamonds and Human Security Project edited by I. Smillie: Partnership Africa Canada.
Areas of Interest: Corruption, Economic, Resource Extraction
- Gender-Based Pricing in the Hairdressing Industry
This paper reviews the evidence and evaluates the claim that the hairdressing industry systematically discriminates on the basis of gender and compares the way in which courts in the UK and US have dealt with such allegations. We argue that "transaction costs" can be used to provide an alternative (perhaps more satisfactory) explanation for the pricing patterns observed than does price discrimination. Any decision to ban gender-based pricing will imply a difficult trade-off between economic efficiency and concerns for gender equality....
Citation: Liston-Heyes, Catherine and Elena Neokleous. 2000. Gender-Based Pricing in the Hairdressing Industry Journal of Consumer Policy 23 (2):107-126.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Gender
- Global Action Local Change, Moving towards Sustainable Supply Chains
The aim of this paper is to provide the reader with an insight into sustainability reporting within the supply chains of large multinational buyers. The paper aims to identify the business case, benefits and challenges of reporting through the experiences of first-time reporters during their participation in the Global Action Network for Transparency in the Supply Chain (GANTSCh) Program between 2009 and 2010. Furthermore, to sketch the context, this paper provides the reader with information about the project countries, such as macroeconomic overview, sustainability context with reference to main actors, policies and legislation, country specific issues, and public awareness of sustainability and reporting....
Citation: Global Reporting Initiative, Global Action Local Change, Moving towards Sustainable Supply Chains, GRI, 2011.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic, Globalization, Labour, Public Policy - Regulation, 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 Economy Contested: Power and Conflict Across the International Division of Labour
Multidisciplinary in its approach, the book brings together an international group of social scientists who share a common interest in providing critical examinations of contemporary globalizations. With perspectives from sociologists, political scientists and political economists, it juxtaposes the examination of global trends with the diverse contexts of specific regions and countries....
Citation: Taylor, Marcus, ed. 2008. Global Economy Contested: Power and Conflict Across the International Division of Labour. London: Routledge.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic, Globalization, Labour, SRI/Responsible Investment
- 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
- Hard Currency: The Criminalized Diamond Economy of the Democratic Republic of Congo and its Neighbours
This report links the wars in Angola and the Congo, along with other conflicts in Central Africa, to the massive illicit trade in conflict diamonds. Concludes with recommendations for countries in Cen...
Citation: Christian Dietrich. 2002. The Kimberley Process: The Case for Proper Monitoring. In The Diamonds and Human Security Project, edited by I. Smillie: Partnership Africa Canada.
Areas of Interest: Corruption, Economic, Resource Extraction
- Hostile Takeovers and Methods of Defense: A Stakeholder Analysis
During the last decade, there has been a wave of mergers and hostile takeovers throughout the corporate world. This wave has been accompanied by various defensive strategies of managers to defend targ...
Citation: Hanly, Ken. 1992. Hostile Takeovers and Methods of Defense: A Stakeholder Analysis. Journal of Business Ethics 11 (12):895-913.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Theory - Stakeholder
- Individual Responsibility in the American Corporate System: Does Sarbanes-Oxley Strike the Right Balance?
Provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act that attempt to increase the personal responsibility of executives raise a question about the extent to which such responsibility out to be imposed? This article s...
Citation: Boatright, John R. 2005. Individual Responsibility in the American Corporate System: Does Sarbanes-Oxley Strike the Right Balance? Business and Professional Ethics Journal 23:9-41.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic, Theory, Theory - Shareholder
- International Handbook on Economic Regulation
Michael Crew and David Parker have compiled a comprehensive, up-to-date and detailed analytical work on leading research issues in the economics of regulation. With contributions from international specialists in economic regulation, the Handbook provides a comprehensive discussion of major developments in both the theory and practice of regulatory economics. This book will be an indispensable source for both students and practitioners of regulation....
Citation: Crew, Michael A. and David Parker, eds. 2006. International Handbook on Economic Regulation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Public Policy - Regulation
- Is Production and Operations Management a Discipline? A Citation/Co-citation Study
For the past 20 years, the field of production and operations management (POM) has tried to establish itself as a discipline distinct from operations research (OR), management science (MS) and industr...
Citation: Pilkington, Alan and Catherine Liston-Heyes. 1999. Is Production and Operations Management a Discipline? A Citation/Co-citation Study. International Journal of Operations and Production Management 19 (1):7-20.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Theory
- Killing Kimberley? Conflict Diamonds and Paper Tigers
“Blood Diamond”, a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Honsou and Jennifer Connelly, will not be released until December, but it will be a major focus of attention at the Kimberley Process diamond...
Citation: Partnership Africa Canada. 2006. Killing Kimberley? Conflict Diamonds and Paper Tigers. In The Diamonds and Human Security Project edited by I. Smillie: Partnership Africa Canada.
Areas of Interest: Corruption, Economic, Resource Extraction
- Lawyers in a Postmodern World: Translation and Transgression
Through engaging case studies, the book examines how lawyers work within and for powerful institutions and provides suggestions--both general and practical--for ways in which the practice of law can be made to work with and for the powerless. Individuals chapters address such subjects as the contradictions of radical law practice; legal work in South Africa; the economics and politics of negotiating justice; feminist legal scholarship and women's gendered lives; the overlapping worlds of law, business, and politics; theories of legal practice; and how lawyers are constitutive of gender relations....
Citation: Cain, Maureen and Christine Harrington, eds. 1994. Lawyers in a Postmodern World: Translation and Transgression. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Gender, Labour, Public Policy, Theory
- Management Systems and Defence Procurement
In this paper, we examine how defence procurement policy should be adapted to take account of a particular type of informational asymmetry that exists between a government and a defence contractor. For any particular project, a firm must choose the comprehensiveness of the information available to its decision-makers which they use to coordinate construction activities. However, because the procurement agency has access to all project-relevant data held by the firm, when it chooses how thorough its records are to be, the firm simultaneously determines its 'cost transparency' to the agency. Since this degree of transparency affects its ability to extract rents from the government, the firm's choice of management input will generally be biased. Policy implications are considered....
Citation: Liston-Heyes, Catherine. 1995. Management Systems and Defence Procurement. Defence and Peace Economics 6 (1):1-11.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Public Policy
- Management Training for Women: International Experiences and Lessons for Canada
In Canada, there is growing recognition that women play an increasingly important role in the working world. Management training programs for women have been considered as a route to prepare women to...
Citation: Natalie M. Lam. 1990. Management Training for Women: International Experiences and Lessons for Canada. Journal of Business Ethics 9 (4/5):385-406.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Gender, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Leadership
- Moral Issues in Business
This book combines text, cases, and articles with comprehensiveness and flexibility. The chapters are distinct enough to be taught independent of one another. With two chapters on the nature of morali...
Citation: William H. Shaw and Vincent Barry. 1997. Moral Issues in Business 7ed: Wadsworth Publishing Company.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Economic
- Motherhood, Apple Pie and False Teeth: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Diamond Industry
Argues that ending the phenomenon of conflict diamonds now and in the future still requires considerable work. Corporate social responsibility in the diamond industry is not about making donations to...
Citation: Ian Smillie. 2003. Diamonds in the Central African Republic: Trading, Valuing and Laundering. In The Diamonds and Human Security Project, edited by I. Smillie: Partnership Africa Canada.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Economic, Poverty, Resource Extraction
- No Problems Here: Success, Complacency and Suspicion in the Indian Diamond Industry
Examines the Indian diamond industry, the world's major cutting and polishing centre. While the report finds no direct evidence of conflict diamonds in India, it concludes that the Indian diamond indu...
Citation: Vinod Kuriyan. 2002. Diamonds: Forever or for Good? The Economic Impact of Diamonds in Southern Africa. In The Diamonds and Human Security Project, edited by I. Smillie: Partnership Africa Canada.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Resource Extraction
- Price-Cap Regulation and Technical Change
Existing analyses of the implications of price-cap regulation for the development of cost-reducing technologies assume that all R&D is done by the regulated industry. This is unrealistic. We present a...
Citation: Heyes, Anthony G. and Catherine Liston-Heyes. 1998. Price-Cap Regulation and Technical Change. Journal of Public Economics 68 (1):231-247.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Public Policy - Regulation
- Price-Cap versus Rate-of-Return Regulation
Rate-of-return regulation has been criticized for providing inappropriate incentives to regulated firms and for being costly to administer. An alternative is price-cap regulation, by which ceilings ("...
Citation: Liston-Heyes, Catherine. 1993. Price-Cap versus Rate-of-Return Regulation. Journal of Regulatory Economics 5 (1):25-48.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Public Policy - Regulation
- Progress Payments as a Cause of Cost Over-runs in Procurement
In recent years military procurement agencies have used “progress payments” in contracting. Although, overall, the adoption of such a policy may well have contributed to a decrease in total costs of p...
Citation: Heyes, Anthony G. and Catherine Liston-Heyes. 1994. Progress Payments as a Cause of Cost Over-runs in Procurement. Defence Economics 5 (1):289-299.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Public Policy
- Project Management Practice, Generic or Contextual: A Reality Check
The purpose of this research is to contribute to a better understanding of project management practice by investigating the use of project management tools and techniques and the levels of support pro...
Citation: Besner, Claude, and Brian Hobbs. 2008. Project Management Practice, Generic or Contextual: A Reality Check. In Project Management Journal: Project Management Institute 39 (1):16-33.
Areas of Interest: Economic
- Property Rights, Resource Exploitation & Long Run Growth
In this paper we investigate the impact that judicial decisions relating to the recognition of aboriginal property rights have on long run resource industry and macroeconomic performance....
Citation: Keay, Ian, and Cherie Metcalf. 2010. Property Rights, Resource Exploitation & Long Run Growth (July 15). 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper. SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1641439
Areas of Interest: Economic, Human Rights, Indigenous People, Resource Extraction
- Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences
The volume of secondary material now available to students is often overwhelming. The Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences offers students, teachers, researchers, and librarians help and advice on how to find what they want. The Reader's Guide is a guide to reading--it provides expert guidance to and critical analysis of the vast number of books available in hundred of specific topics....
Citation: Michie, Jonathan, ed. 2001. Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences. London: Fitzroy-Dearborn Publishers.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Education, Public Policy, Theory
- Recreational Benefits from the Dartmoor National Park
The travel cost method (TCM) is commonly used by Government agencies to evaluate the benefits users derive from access to parks and other recreational sites. The results of such studies can provide us...
Citation: Liston-Heyes, Catherine and Anthony Heyes. 1999. Recreational Benefits from the Dartmoor National Park. Journal of Environmental Management 55 (2):69-80.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Economic - Environmental, Public Policy
- Strengthening Domestic Corporate Activity in Global Capital Markets: A Canadian Perspective on South Africa's Corporate Governance
This paper is divided into four parts. The first part sets a context for the discussion, including an overview of the corporate law regime in South Africa and more generally, the challenges faced by Sub-Saharan Africa in terms of economic development. Corporate governance cannot be discussed without at least some appreciation of the challenges posed by foreign direct investment, the level of debt of these nations and broader development concerns. Much of the wealth of Sub-Saharan Africa has been mortgaged previously, creating enormous barriers to becoming independent in their economic policy choices. Part II then sets out a framework for thinking about corporate governance in Sub-Saharan Africa, briefly analyzing both shareholder wealth maximization and stakeholder models of governance. Part III shifts into a more specific discussion of corporate governance developments in South Africa. In this respect, South Africa shares much in common with Canada in terms of its capital structure, corporate law and challenges of being a host nation for many multinational enterprises (MNEs) headquartered elsewhere. The King II Report on corporate governance is examined in terms of its influence on shaping corporate governance policy in South Africa. A more fulsome conception of corporate governance for South Africa includes empowerment, equity and the inclusion of African value systems. Finally, Part IV looks forward, examining the possible benefits and limits of socially responsible investing through the new Johannesburg Stock Exchange SRI Index. It also briefly discusses areas of further research that may provide assistance in enhancing domestic corporate activity in South Africa....
Citation: Sarra, Janis P. 2004. Strengthening Domestic Corporate Activity in Global Capital Markets: A Canadian Perspective on South Africa's Corporate Governance (May 21). GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper, No. 118. SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=628702
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Development, Economic, Globalization, Public Policy - Regulation, SRI/Responsible Investment, Theory - Shareholder, Theory - Stakeholder
- Sustainability Reporting Guidelines & Financial Services Sector Supplement
The financial sector was segmented into four categories for the purposes of developing this Sector Supplement i.e. retail banking, commercial and corporate banking, asset management and insurance, otherwise referred to as the core business lines throughout the Sector Supplement....
Citation: Global Reporting Initiative, Sustainability Reporting Guidelines & Financial Services Sector Supplement,GRI, 2000-2008.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Climate Change, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (G3.1) and Technical Protocol
The urgency and magnitude of the risks and threats to our collective sustainability, alongside increasing choice and opportunities, will make transparency about economic, environmental, and social impacts a fundamental component in effective stakeholder relations, investment decisions, and other market relations. To support this expectation, and to communicate clearly and openly about sustainability, a globally shared framework of concepts, consistent language, and metrics is required. It is the Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) mission to fulfil this need by providing a trusted and credible framework for sustainability reporting that can be used by organizations of any size, sector, or location....
Citation: Global Reporting Initiative, Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (G3.1) and Technical Protocol, GRI, 2000-2011.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Climate Change, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- The Effectiveness of International Legislative Responses to the Helms-Burton Act
The Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Libertad) Act (Helms-Burton Act) is the latest appendage to the Cuban embargo....
Citation: Atuahene, Bernadette. 2000. The Effectiveness of International Legislative Responses to the Helms-Burton Act. Revista Juridica de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Vol. 69, pp. 809-855. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=827407
Areas of Interest: Development, Economic, Public Policy - Regulation, SRI/Responsible Investment
- The Failure of Good Intentions: Fraud, Theft and Murder in the Brazilian Diamond Industry
This report is a detective story. It is about fraud and theft and murder, and good intentions gone wrong. The study was undertaken for several reasons. First, Brazil has a long history of diamond prod...
Citation: Lansana Gberie. 2005. The Failure of Good Intentions: Fraud, Theft and Murder in the Brazilian Diamond Industry. In The Diamonds and Human Security Project, edited by I. Smillie: Partnership Africa Canada.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Resource Extraction
- The Heart of the Matter - Sierra Leone, Diamonds and Human Security
This study of the Sierra Leone diamond trade and its international connections demonstrated the centrality of diamonds to that country's brutal conflict. The RUF rebels exchanged diamonds for arms and...
Citation: Ian Smillie, Lansana Gberie, and Ralph Hazleton. 2000. The Heart of the Matter - Sierra Leone, Diamonds and Human Security. In The Diamonds and Human Security Project: Partnership Africa Canada.
Areas of Interest: Corruption, Economic, Resource Extraction
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