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- Accounting for the Value of Volunteer Contributions
There is a need for an accounting paradigm that properly illustrates the value that nonprofits generate. Much of that value comes from volunteer contributions, which are significant but for the most p...
Citation: Laurie Mook, Jorge Sousa, Susan Elgie & Jack Quarter. 2005. Accounting for the Value of Volunteer Contributions. Nonprofit Management & Leadership 15 (4):401-415.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Accountability - Reporting, Public Policy - Regulation
- Adversary Accounting: strategic uses of financial information by capital and labour
This paper illustrates the concept and implications of "adversary accounting" in the context of both "intra-capital" and "capital-labour" disputes. Informed by a small pilot study on the uses made by unions and their approaches to financial information, we explore whether accounting techniques and financial information are necessarily "capitalist" tools or whether they can be used "strategically" by anyone with the access, skill and will to turn them to their advantage....
Citation: McBarnet, Doreen, Syd Weston, and Christopher J. Whelan. 1993. Adversary Accounting: strategic uses of financial information by capital and labour. Accounting, Organisations and Society 18 (1):81-100.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Labour
- After Enron Will 'Whiter than White Collar Crime' Still Wash?
In thinking about white-collar crime, it is not just crime that becomes problematic but compliance, particularly the practice of 'creative compliance'. This article asks, in the post-Enron era, can creative compliance by business still claim to be 'whiter than white collar crime'?...
Citation: McBarnet, Doreen. 2006. After Enron Will 'Whiter than White Collar Crime' Still Wash? British Journal of Criminology 46 (6):1091-1109.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance - Transparency, Corruption, Public Policy - Regulation
- An Accounting System Proposal for Sustainable Communities: The Impact of Cancun's Marine Parks
Gross Domestic Product is a touchstone for growth and prosperity. However, this calculative practice is now dissonant with current natural resource depletion and social strife. The institutionalized social practice of NEA on which GDP is based, privileges flows over stocks under the untenable assumption that the stocks to fuel the flows are infinite....
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Areas of Interest: Accountability, Accountability - Reporting, Economic - Environmental, Economic - Social, Health, Public Policy - Regulation, Sustainability
- Anti-corporate Activist Anger: Inappropriate Irrationality or Social Change Essential?
Dominant western perspectives in which anger is constructed as a socially inappropriate irrationality in need of containment are contrasted with alternate viewpoints in which anger is seen as a politically essential mechanism for addressing social injusti...
Citation: Simola, S. K. Anti-corporate Activist Anger: Inappropriate Irrationality or Social Change Essential?. Society and Business Review.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Theory
- Can We Reconcile Nature with Finance?
The unanimity principle that underlies financial decision-making rules is ethically unacceptable and empirically invalid. Ecological sustainability requires radically different decision rules. This...
Citation: Robinson, Chris. 1996. Can We Reconcile Nature with Finance? International Review of Financial Analysis 5 (3):185-195.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Leadership, Sustainability
- Canada
This is a chapter on Canada for a new book that explores the growing relationship between human rights and global business and the developing international focus on this topic, particularly as a result of recent United Nations initiatives. This first edition focuses on the legal accountability and due diligence responsibilities of corporations for human rights compliance by their overseas operations....
Citation: Dhir, Aaron A., Edward J. Waitzer, Aaron Fransen, and Christen Daniels. 2011. "Canada." In Global Business and Human Rights. The European Lawyer Ltd. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1807282
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Globalization, Human Rights
- Canada: Development Assistance Committee. Peer Review
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development undertakes regular peer reviews on the practices of member countries' development policies and practices. This report discusses the strengths...
Citation: Canada: Development Assistance Committee. Peer Review. 2007. Development Assistance Committee, OECD.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Development, Poverty
- Canadian Energy and Mining Companies: Navigating International Humanitarian Law in the 21st Century
This paper describes why energy and mining companies need to establish systems for avoiding prosecution for human rights violations under international humanitarian law....
Citation: Ethical Funds Company. 2005. Canadian Energy and Mining Companies: Navigating International Humanitarian Law in the 21st Century. In Sustainability Perspectives: The Ethical Funds Company.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Human Rights, Public Policy
- Canadian Mining Companies and Corporate Social Responsibility: Weighing the Impact of Global Norms
This study analyzes the factors that led two Canadian mining companies, Noranda and Placer Dome, to adopt polices on corporate social responsibility (CSR). Although much has been written on CSR in the...
Citation: Dashwood, Hevina S. 2007. Canadian Mining Companies and Corporate Social Responsibility: Weighing the Impact of Global Norms. Canadian Journal of Political Science 40 (1):129-156
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Globalization, Public Policy - Regulation, Resource Extraction
- Compendium of Ethics Codes and Instruments of Corporate Responsibility
This compendium of ethics codes and instruments of corporate responsibility was been compiled as a companion to the book Ethics Codes, Corporations and the Challenge of Globalization edited by Wesley...
Citation: McKague, Kevin. 2006. Compendium of Ethics Codes and Instruments of Corporate Responsibility, edited by W. Cragg. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Schulich School of Business, York University.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Codes of Conduct, Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Corporate Governance
Corporate governance (CG) is one of the most talked about topics in business, indeed in society, today. A Google search revealed 513 news citations during a single week in June 2006. Most academics, b...
Citation: Social Entrepreneurship. 2006. The Aspen Institute: Center For Business Education.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Consumer Issues, Development, Economic - Social, Gender, Globalization, Human Rights, Indigenous People, Labour, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety, Poverty
- Corporate Governance and Accountability: What Do We Know and What Do We Teach Future Business Leaders?
This paper was presented by Mary Gentile at the 3rd Colloquium of the European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS). The conference, entitled "The Challenges of Sustainable Growth: Integrating Socie...
Citation: Gentile, Mary C. Corporate Governance and Accountability: The Aspen Institute: Center For Business Education.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Leadership, Theory, Theory - Shareholder
- Deciphering Codes of Corporate Conduct: A Review of their Contents
Public concerns about globalisation are growing. Many firms are trying to respond to these concerns, often by issuing statements of ethics or values that cover various facets of corporate conduct. Thi...
Citation: K. Gordon; M. Miyake. 1999. Deciphering Codes of Corporate Conduct: A Review of their Contents: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Codes of Conduct, Consumer Issues, Corruption, Economic - Environmental, Globalization, Resource Extraction
- Deconstructing Engagement. Corporate Self-Regulation in Conflict Zones – Implications for Human Rights and Canadian Public Policy
This paper examines the existing governance gap in the accountability of TNCs for violations of international human rights and humanitarian law associated with their extraterritorial operations. It as...
Citation: G. Gagnon; A. Macklin; P. Simons. 2003. Deconstructing Engagement. Corporate Self-Regulation in Conflict Zones - Implications for Human Rights and Canadian Public Policy. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Development, Human Rights, Public Policy - Regulation, Resource Extraction
- Ethics and Corruption in Education: An Overview
This paper argues that the problems posed by corruption in education have been neglected for too long. It details the three assumptions that underlie the IIEP's project on “Ethics and corruption in education”. It then describes the approach followed to tackle this sensitive issue within the framework of the project. Finally, it summarizes a few conclusions drawn from the research thus far in three areas: teacher behaviour, teacher management, and private tutoring. It then concludes by identifying key strategies for improving transparency and accountability in education....
Citation: Jacques Hallak; Muriel Poisson. 2005. Ethics and Corruption in Education: An Overview. Journal of Education for International Development
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corruption, Education
- Ethics and the Conduct of Business
Ethics and the Conduct of Business, 6/e is a comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of the most prominent issues in the field of business ethics and the major positions and arguments on these issues....
Citation: Boatright, John R. 2008. Ethics and the Conduct of Business. 6 ed: Prentice Hall.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety
- Evaluating the Social Impact of the OCLF/Alterna Community Micro Loan Program. 2009-2010 Survey: findings, comparison and analysis
The purpose of this social impact evaluation is to provide an independent measure of the effectiveness of OCLF/Alterna Community Micro Loans Program. The findings of this evaluation will allow the OCLF to provide a detailed snapshot of the impact of its loan program and as a result will provide increased accountability to government, donors, and the public as it increases the breadth of its programming in the future....
Citation: Langford, Arjun (2010). Evaluating the Social Impact of the OCLF/Alterna Community Micro Loan Program. 2009-2010 Survey: findings, comparison and analysis. Report. Ottawa: Carleton Centre for Community Innovation.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Public Policy, SRI/Responsible Investment
- From Implicit to Explicit: Putting Corporate Values and Personal Accountability Front and Centre
Organizational values often seem like abstractions. But if employees are to grasp and live those values every day, leaders need to develop and implement strategies that bring those values to life, tha...
Citation: Patten, Rose M. 2004. From Implicit to Explicit: Putting Corporate Values and Personal Accountability Front and Centre. Ivey Business Journal, September/October, pp. 1-5.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance, Labour - Employee
- Global Corporate Governance: Soft Law and Reputational Accountability
In this article I show how corporate governance can focus on the role of soft law in today's global environment. Soft law is analyzed as a mechanism for constraining corporate behavior. In reconciling financial and social imperatives, firms are advised to consider the impact of compliance with soft law on reputational capital....
Citation: Brooklyn Journal of International Law, Volume 35, Number 1 (2010) pp. 41-106.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Accountability - Auditing, Accountability - Certification, Accountability - Reporting, Corporate Governance, Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Corporate Governance - Transparency, Corporate Social Responsibility, Globalization, Human Rights, Leadership, Public Policy - Regulation, Sustainability
- Governing the Corporation: Regulation and Corporate Governance in an Age of Scandal and Global Markets
The demise of the era of the imperial chief executive has been accompanied by a resurgence in financial regulation. High-level criminal prosecutions, proactive enforcement strategies and a strengthene...
Citation: O'Brien, Justin, ed. 2005. Governing the Corporation: Regulation and Corporate Governance in an Age of Scandal and Global Markets. Chichester: John Wiley.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance, Globalization, Public Policy - Regulation, SRI/Responsible Investment
- How Civil Can Corporations Be? Ethical business in a fairer world
What scope is there for corporations to improve their social and economic performance? Can we shape markets in ways that entice or force corporations to operate within a sustainable social and environ...
Citation: Zadek, Simon. 2002. How Civil Can Corporations Be? Ethical business in a fairer world. id21 Development Research Reporting Service.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Economic - Environmental, Economic - Social, Leadership, Public Policy, Sustainability
- Human Security, Corporate Accountability and the Regulation of Trade and Investment
This paper explores the current disconnection between trade and investment, on the one hand, and human rights on the other, both at the international and domestic level. Its aim is to provide a better...
Citation: Simons, P. 2004. Human Security, Corporate Accountability and the Regulation of Trade and Investment. Canadian Consortium on Human Security
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Globalization, Human Rights, Public Policy - Regulation
- Integrated Social Accounting for Nonprofits: A Case from Canada
This paper argues that accounting for nonprofits would be enhanced by the creation of financial statements that combine the economic and social impact of an organization (referred to as an integrated approach)....
Citation: Laurie Mook, Betty Jane Richmond & Jack Quarter. 2003. Integrated Social Accounting for Nonprofits: A Case from Canada. Voluntas 14 (3):283-297.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Accountability - Auditing, Accountability - Reporting
- Legitimate Rackets: Tax Evasion, Tax Avoidance and the Boundaries of Legality
Corporate crime is not the only means by which business can escape legal control. Law and legal definitions can also be used and manipulated to legally avoid both control and penalties or stigma associated with outright crime. This article analyses such 'legitimate rackets' via a study of tax avoidance practices among business and 'high net worth' individuals. It describes some of the techniques employed, analyses the difference between tax evasion (an offence) and tax avoidance, explores the 'grey area' at the boundaries, and draws out the implications for theory and policy....
Citation: McBarnet, Doreen. 1992. Legitimate Rackets: Tax Evasion, Tax Avoidance and the Boundaries of Legality. Journal of Human Justice 3 (2):56-74.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance
- Lifting the Veil: Exploring the Transparency of Canadian Companies - A Report by Publish What You Pay Canada
The primary goal of this report is to map Canadian regulations governing disclosure in the extractive industries. Focusing on resource and reserve data; payments to host governments; contracts and licenses; and environmental, social, and governance factors....
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Areas of Interest: Accountability, Accountability - Reporting, Corporate Governance - Transparency, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Development, Economic - Environmental, Economic - Social, Human Rights, Public Policy, Public Policy - Regulation, Resource Extraction
- Management Ethics [Fall / Winter, 2010]
Editorial; Why Privacy Matters; Privacy by Design: Achieving Consumer Trust and Freedom in the Information Age; Hiring in a Social Media Age; Privacy Law: Questions and Answers; Business Ethics Scholarship...
Citation: EthicsCentre CA. 2010. Management Ethics, Fall / Winter. EthicsCentre CA
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Consumer Issues, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Public Policy
- Management Ethics [Fall, 2003]
Sarbanes Oxley and Canadian Counterparts: Any Prospects for Improved Corporate Ethics?; Editorial: Some Reflections on an Ethics-Filled Summer; Director's Biography: Christina Donely; Book Review: Nickel and Dimed; Speakers' Corner; Upcoming Events...
Citation: EthicsCentre CA. 2003. Management Ethics, Fall. EthicsCentre CA
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility
- Management Ethics [Fall, 2007]
Cover: Navigating Web 2.0; Editorial: The Ethics of Aging; Legislative update: The Federal Accountability Act; A Message from the Executive Director; News at EthicsCentre CA...
Citation: EthicsCentre CA. 2007. Management Ethics, Fall. EthicsCentre CA
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Labour - Employee
- Management Ethics [Spring, 2001]
Dealing with Corporate Crimes in Canada; Which stakeholder did you have in mind?; Editorial: Trust We Must; Ethical models for corporate employees - Can existentialism play a role?...
Citation: The Canadian Centre for Ethics & Corporate Policy. 2001. Management Ethics, Spring. The Canadian Centre for Ethics & Corporate Policy
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Labour - Health & Safety, Resource Extraction, Theory - Stakeholder
- Management Ethics [Spring, 2004]
CSR and Values-Driven Decision-Making; Editorial; Sarbanes Oxley: Any Prospects for Improved Corporate Ethics? A Response by Robert Yalden; Director's Biography: Michael Davies, QC; Speakers' Corner; Retailers are Advancing Responsible Trade; Upcoming Events; Recent Events...
Citation: EthicsCentre CA. 2004. Management Ethics, Spring. EthicsCentre CA
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance
- Management Ethics [Spring, 2006]
Cover: Pandemic Flu; Editorial: Over before it begins?; Legislative Watch; Ethical Issues & Considerations; Profile: Editorial Board; Book Summaries...
Citation: EthicsCentre CA. 2006. Management Ethics, Spring. EthicsCentre CA
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance - Transparency, Public Policy
- Management Ethics [Winter, 2006]
Cover: The Companies We Want; Editorial: A New Year – No New Resolution; Corporate Governance – One Size Does Not Fit All; Speakers' Corner; Thank you Members...
Citation: EthicsCentre CA. 2006. Management Ethics, Winter. EthicsCentre CA
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance
- Merrill Lynch: The Cost Could Be Fatal: My War Against Wall Street's Giant
When financial consultant Keith Schooley took a job with one of the largest, most respected securities firms on Wall Street, he had high hopes for a successful career. He was proud to work for a compa...
Citation: Schooley, Keith A. 2002. Merrill Lynch: The Cost Could Be Fatal: My War Against Wall Street's Giant. Enid, Oklahoma: Lakepointe Publishing.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance, Leadership
- Partnerships for Development: Four Models of Business Involvement
Over the last two decades there has been a proliferation of partnerships between business and government, multilateral bodies, and/or social actors such as NGOs and local community organizations engag...
Citation: Ananya Mukherjee Reed; Darryl Reed. 2008. Partnerships for Development: Four Models of Business Involvement. Journal of Business Ethics:35.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Globalization, Public Policy
- Perspectives in Business Ethics
Laura Hartman's: Perspectives in Business Ethics offers a foundation in ethical thought, followed by a variety of perspectives on difficult ethical dilemmas in both the personal and professional conte...
Citation: Hartman, Laura P. 2004. Perspectives in Business Ethics. 3 ed: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Environment & Business, Human Rights
- Relating Practice to Theory in Indigenous Entrepreneurship: A Pilot Investigation of the Kitsaki Partnership Portfolio
Indigenous peoples are increasingly developing enterprises in the form of partnerships to participate in the global economy. The pilot study investigates the Kitsaki initiative at the Lac La Ronge Indian Band, near the city of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada....
Citation: Hindle, Kevin, Robert B. Anderson, Robert J. Giberson, and Bob L. Kayseas. 2005. Relating Practice to Theory in Indigenous Entrepreneurship: A Pilot Investigation of the Kitsaki Partnership Portfolio. American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 29, Nos. 1 & 2, pp. 1-23. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1508292
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Development, Indigenous People, Leadership
- Shareholder Engagement in the Embedded Business Corporation Investment Activism, Human Rights, and TWAIL Discourse
The expansion of extractive corporations' overseas business operations has led to serious concerns regarding human rights–related impacts. As these apprehensions grow, we see a countervailing rise in calls for government intervention and in levels of socially conscious shareholder advocacy. I focus on the latter as manifested in recent use of the shareholder proposal mechanism found in corporate law. Shareholder proposals, while under-theorized, provide a valuable lens through which to consider the argument that economic behaviour is embedded within social relations. In doing so, I situate my analysis within Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) scholarship. Elsewhere, I have supported the use of corporate law tools in advancing the international human rights enterprise and argued that investment activism can be an essential component of this advancement. This paper represents a reflexive pause. Using the case study of a recent proposal submitted to Goldcorp Inc., I seek to problematize the shareholder proposal as a human rights advocacy tool and to examine it as a site of contestation....
Citation: Dhir, Aaron A. 2011. "Shareholder Engagement in the Embedded Business Corporation
Investment Activism, Human Rights, and TWAIL Discourse." Business Ethics Quarterly 22(1):99-118.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance, Public Policy - Regulation, Resource Extraction, Theory - Shareholder
- Social Accountability International (SAI) Annual Report 2010
SAI's latest Annual Report features stories from their programs and highlights accomplishments and challenges in Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, India and Nicaragua as SAI and their partners work to win respect for the human rights of workers....
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Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Economic - Social, Globalization, Human Rights, Labour, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety, Poverty
- Social Standards: Toward an Active Ethical Involvement of Businesses in Developing Countries
As a consequence of the changing conditions of doing business, we can observe the emergence of an increasing number of industrial and company-specific codes of conduct, as well as social and environme...
Citation: Beschorner, Thomas; Muller, Martin. 2007. Social Standards: Toward an Active Ethical Involvement of Businesses in Developing Countries. Journal of Business Ethics 73 (1):11-20.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Codes of Conduct, Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Environment & Business
- Stakeholder as Citizens? Rethinking Rights, Participation and Democracy
This paper reviews and analyses the implications of citizenship thinking for building 'ethical' institutional arrangements for business. The paper looks at various stakeholder groups whose relation with the company changes quite significantly when one starts to conceptualize it in terms of citizenship...
Citation: A. Crane, D. Matten and J. Moon. 2004. Stakeholder as Citizens? Rethinking Rights, Participation and Democracy. Journal of Business Ethics 53 (1/2):107-122.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Citizenship, Public Policy, Theory - Stakeholder
- Taxing Democracy
The research program for the Centre for Tax System Integrity revolves around three questions that are relevant to tax administrations around the world: (a) What options do democratic states have for cultivating a voluntary taxpaying culture? (b) How practicable and desirable is the ATO Compliance Model for managing tax compliance and non-compliance? (c) Can evidence-based tax administration be built around a continuing program of experimentation that builds an increasingly rich tool-kit of cost-effective strategies (represented in the middle column of the model) for improving compliance? This volume presents findings from the first phase of our research....
Citation: Braithwaite, Valerie, ed. Taxing Democracy. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2002.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Accountability - Auditing, Corruption, Public Policy - Regulation
- The Business Ethics Activity Book: 50 Exercises for Promoting Integrity at Work
In an age of ethical decay at organizations of every type, a call is being sounded for accountability. Accordingly, companies must educate their employees and executives regarding acceptable practice....
Citation: Caros, Marlene. 2003. The Business Ethics Activity Book: 50 Exercises for Promoting Integrity at Work. 1 ed: AMACOM.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Education, Labour - Employee, Leadership
- The Human Face of Law: Essays in Honour of Donald Harris
These essays by leading scholars provide rich insights into current thinking in socio-legal studies and a thoughtful evaluation of future directions....
Citation: Hawkins,Keith. 1997. The Human Face of Law: Essays in Honour of Donald Harris. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance - Transparency, Economic, Health, Labour, Labour - Health & Safety, Public Policy - Regulation
- The Myth of CSR: The Problem with Assuming That Companies Can Do Well While Also Doing Good is That Markets Don't Really Work That Way
This paper takes a rather critical look on CSR, arguing that optimism about the power of market mechanisms to deliver social and environmental change is flawed, as it does not take into account that m...
Citation: Doane, D. 2005. The Myth of CSR: The Problem with Assuming That Companies Can Do Well While Also Doing Good is That Markets Don't Really Work That Way. Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Consumer Issues - Ethical Consumption, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Development, Environment & Business, Globalization, Human Rights, Public Policy - Lobbying, SRI/Responsible Investment
- The New Corporate Accountability: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law
The adoption by companies of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies is routinely characterised as voluntary. But if CSR is self-governance by business, it is self-governance that has received...
Citation: McBarnet, Doreen, Aurora Voiculescu, and Tom Campbell, eds. The New Corporate Accountability: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility
- The New Corporate Accountability: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law
The adoption by companies of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies is routinely characterised as voluntary. But if CSR is self-governance by business, it is self-governance that has received a firm push from external social and market forces, from forces of social accountability. Law is also playing a more significant role than the image of CSR suggests, and this legal accountability - the focus of the book - is set to increase....
Citation: McBarnet,Doreen,Aurora Voiculescu, and Tom Campbell, eds. 2009. The New Corporate Accountability: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic - Social, Public Policy - Regulation
- The Politics of Knowledge Dissemination: Corporate Reporting, Shareholder Voice and Human Rights
This article considers the relationship between social disclosure and corporate accountability in Canada. It focuses on the potential benefits social disclosure can provide in terms of the overall human rights project. I explore this issue with reference to the broader theoretical frameworks of new governance and reflexive law....
Citation: Dhir, Aaron A. 2009. The Politics of Knowledge Dissemination: Corporate Reporting, Shareholder Voice and Human Rights (September 7, 2008). Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Vol. 47, No. 47, 2009. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1807253
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights
- The Role of the Board of Directors in Protecting the Environment for Future Generations
Accountability and enforceability are not the only concerns raised by a duty on boards to minimize the corporation's environmental impacts. The effect, if any, on Canada's competitiveness, the possibility of increased personal liability and the effect this would have on individuals' decisions to serve on boards are all concerns that would need to be considered and addressed before making the change to Canadian corporate law argued for in this essay. Exactly what such a duty would entail in practice also remains to be worked out....
Citation: Henderson, Gail E. 2012. The Role of the Board of Directors in Protecting the Environment for Future Generations. EthicsCentre CA.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance, Environment & Business, Leadership, Public Policy - Regulation, Theory - Shareholder
- Unravelling Criminal Justice: Eleven British Studies
This book brings together the major findings of 11 projects funded under the Crime and the Criminal Justice System Initiative by the Economic and Social Research Council in the mid-1980s. Normally, ea...
Citation: Downes, David, ed. 1992. Unravelling Criminal Justice: Eleven British Studies. London: MacMillan.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Public Policy
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