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Csr 2.0: Transforming The Role Of Business In Society, Wayne Visser 2011 Singapore Management University

Csr 2.0: Transforming The Role Of Business In Society, Wayne Visser

Social Space

Corporate Social Responsibility (or CSR) comes in different forms and shades. But according to Wayne Visser, it also comes in different stages, most of which have failed. Save, perhaps, for one.


Given An Illiquid, Yet Transparent Market, Is It Ethical For Management Of Banks To Use Level 3 Inputs To Increase The Fair Value Of Mortgage-Backed Securities, When Level 2 Valuations Are Available?, Joshua Sauerwein, Seth Sikkema 2011 George Fox University

Given An Illiquid, Yet Transparent Market, Is It Ethical For Management Of Banks To Use Level 3 Inputs To Increase The Fair Value Of Mortgage-Backed Securities, When Level 2 Valuations Are Available?, Joshua Sauerwein, Seth Sikkema

Faculty Publications - College of Business

No abstract provided.


Workplace Learning: Organizations, Ethics, And Issues, Craig E. Johnson 2011 George Fox University

Workplace Learning: Organizations, Ethics, And Issues, Craig E. Johnson

Faculty Publications - College of Business

The rhetoric surrounding workplace learning is overwhelmingly positive. Boud and Garrick (1999) declare, for example: “Learning at work has become one of the most exciting areas of development in the dual fields of management and education” (p. 1). Advocates promise that education on the job will promote economic prosperity, empower workers, foster collaboration, encourage lifelong learning, and reduce the need for organizational hierarchy (Fenwick, 1998). Government policy makers, human resource professionals, college administrators and faculty, employees, union officials, and executives all support corporate learning. Even the term “workplace learning” has positive connotations. This phrase makes older terms like “vocational education” …


Ethical Issues In Business And The Lawyer's Role, Robert J. Rhee, Carol Morgan, Tamar Frankel, Mark Fagan 2011 University of Maryland School of Law

Ethical Issues In Business And The Lawyer's Role, Robert J. Rhee, Carol Morgan, Tamar Frankel, Mark Fagan

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Does Distributive Justice Pay? Sternberg’S Compensation Ethics, Jeffrey Moriarty 2011 Bentley University

Does Distributive Justice Pay? Sternberg’S Compensation Ethics, Jeffrey Moriarty

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Compensation has received a great deal of attention from social scientists. Characteristically, they have been concerned with the causes and effects of various compensation schemes. By contrast, few theorists have addressed the normative aspects of compensation. An exception is Elaine Sternberg, who offers in Just Business a comprehensive theory of compensation ethics. This paper critically examines her theory, and argues that the justification she gives for it fails. Its failure is instructive, however. The main argument Sternberg gives for her theory points in the direction of a different one. This, in turns, helps us to see what a justification of …


Don’T Burst The Bubble: An Analysis Of The First-Time Homebuyer Credit And Its Use As An Economic Policy Tool, Sarah J. Webber 2011 University of Dayton

Don’T Burst The Bubble: An Analysis Of The First-Time Homebuyer Credit And Its Use As An Economic Policy Tool, Sarah J. Webber

Accounting Faculty Publications

In 2008, faced with a looming real estate crisis, Congress hastily acted to stabilize the economy by offering a first-time homebuyer credit. This tax credit was trumpeted as a solution to the excess inventory of homes for sale and to stop the free-fall in home values. The credit, however, failed to deliver on its promises. By analyzing the first-time homebuyer credit, its creation, its implementation and its economic impact, this Article concludes that, when compared to alternative policy solutions, Congress erred in using the tax code to implement a first-time homebuyer credit.


A Moral Contractual Approach To Labor Law Reform: A Template For Using Ethical Principles To Regulate Behavior Where Law Failed To Do So Effectively, Zev J. Eigen, David S. Sherwyn 2011 Northwestern University School of Law

A Moral Contractual Approach To Labor Law Reform: A Template For Using Ethical Principles To Regulate Behavior Where Law Failed To Do So Effectively, Zev J. Eigen, David S. Sherwyn

Faculty Working Papers

If laws cease to work as they should or as intended, legislators and scholars propose new laws to replace or amend them. This paper posits an alternative—offering regulated parties the opportunity to contractually bind themselves to behave ethically. The perfect test-case for this proposal is labor law, because (1) labor law has not been amended for decades, (2) proposals to amend it have failed for political reasons, and are focused on union election win rates, and less on the election process itself, (3) it is an area of law already statutorily regulating parties' reciprocal contractual obligations, and (4) moral means …


Update Report: Missouri’S Dirty Dozen, The Humane Society of the United States 2011 WellBeing International

Update Report: Missouri’S Dirty Dozen, The Humane Society Of The United States

PUPPY MILL INFORMATION

Late last year, researchers at The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) spent weeks poring over state and federal inspection reports, investigators’ photographs, and enforcement records to compile a list of some of the worst puppy mills in Missouri, known as “Missouri’s Dirty Dozen.” The report included direct quotes detailing horrific care violations documented in the facilities’ federal and/or state kennel inspection reports. The violations included thin-coated breeds like Italian greyhounds found shivering in the cold in temperatures as low as 9 degrees, dogs with open, oozing or bleeding sores, underweight dogs with their entire skeletal structures showing, and …


The Promise Of Social Impact Bonds, John Loder 2011 Singapore Management University

The Promise Of Social Impact Bonds, John Loder

Social Space

A financial tool from Wall Street is being adapted in the social market to nurture early interventions and incentivise capital flow. As John Loder reports, social impact bonds promise two fundamental shifts—for governments to overcome the politics of fear and for private investors to fund social causes with impact.


Approches Stratégiques Des Émissions Co2: Les Cas De L’Industrie Cimentière Et De L’Industrie Chimique, Diane-Laure Arjaliès, Goubet Cécile, Jean-Pierre Ponssard 2011 Ivey Business School

Approches Stratégiques Des Émissions Co2: Les Cas De L’Industrie Cimentière Et De L’Industrie Chimique, Diane-Laure Arjaliès, Goubet Cécile, Jean-Pierre Ponssard

Business Publications

La capacité des entreprises à transformer une contrainte environnementale en source d’opportunité stratégique est un sujet controversé dans la littérature. S’appuyant sur une étude comparative des stratégies de lutte contre les émissions CO2 mises en place par les industries cimentière et chimique, l’article1 démontre que la latitude des entreprises à adopter une approche proactive face au développement durable est fortement contrainte par les caractéristiques du secteur en termes de dépendance vis-à-vis des ressources naturelles, de flexibilité dans la composition du portefeuille d’activités et de structure du secteur aval.


Russia's Lack Of American-Style Agency Priciples: A Primary Cause Of Corporate Governance Problems Today, C. Keith Marshall Jr. 2011 University of South Carolina

Russia's Lack Of American-Style Agency Priciples: A Primary Cause Of Corporate Governance Problems Today, C. Keith Marshall Jr.

South Carolina Journal of International Law and Business

No abstract provided.


Environmental Ethical Commitment Of The Business Corporations In Malaysia., Maliza Delima Kamarul Zaman 2011 Universiti Malaya

Environmental Ethical Commitment Of The Business Corporations In Malaysia., Maliza Delima Kamarul Zaman

Student Works (2010-2019)

This study is about environmental ethics and the commitment of manufacturing companies in Malaysia. It is to reduce the gap in the literature in this area, which it is claimed is relatively brief, young as a discipline and has received little attention. Based on the extensive literature and a review of environmental disasters from the past, such as Exxon, Chernobyl and Bhopal, the researcher was impelled to study the environmental ethical concept. Therefore, the main objective of the study is to understand and explain the role of environmental ethics in conjunction with the commitment of the companies. Specifically, the objective …


Consumer Complaint Behaviour And The Effectiveness Of Consumer Court In Malaysia., Zhao Wen Jie 2011 Universiti Malaya

Consumer Complaint Behaviour And The Effectiveness Of Consumer Court In Malaysia., Zhao Wen Jie

Student Works (2010-2019)

In the face of accelerating globalisation, consumers have to face new challenges and threats, and they also have to confront the flooding of goods and services in local markets as never before. Due to the lack of the skills and information for making choices on purchasing that are safe, reflect value for money and for workers and the environment, consumer protection becomes even more important. Consumer complaint behaviour involves third parties who have become important in our society. This study investigates two main research objectives. The first main objective is to observe whether the Tribunal for Consumer Claim (TCC) is …


The Politics Of Carbon Disclosure As Climate Governance, Janelle Knox-Hayes, David Levy 2011 Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus

The Politics Of Carbon Disclosure As Climate Governance, Janelle Knox-Hayes, David Levy

Management and Marketing Faculty Publication Series

The rapid growth in carbon disclosure in recent years represents a major success in the struggle to build awareness and action on climate change. The growth of carbon disclosure is the result of three core drivers: regulatory compliance, pressure from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and managerial information systems intended to facilitate participation in carbon markets, reduce energy costs and manage reputational risks. In this essay, we argue that the strategies pursued by ‘institutional entrepreneurs’ have played a key role in the successful institutionalization of carbon disclosure by bringing together companies, NGOs and government agencies. The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), in particular, …


Somebody's Watching Me: Fcpa Monitorships And How They Can Work Better, F. Joseph Warin, Michael S. Diamant, Veronica S. Root 2011 Duke Law School

Somebody's Watching Me: Fcpa Monitorships And How They Can Work Better, F. Joseph Warin, Michael S. Diamant, Veronica S. Root

Faculty Scholarship

This article explores the rise of the corporate compliance monitor as a condition for settling violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) — a setting in which federal prosecutors routinely impose monitors. If U.S. enforcement authorities maintain their current approach, the reality is that companies facing liability for violating the FCPA are likely to have a monitor imposed on them as part of a settlement agreement. From the U.S. government’s perspective, monitorships make sense for companies that violate anti-bribery laws, making it important for offending corporations to learn how to deal with monitors. Pulling from the authors’ extensive …


The Role Of The Site Selector, Andrew H. Shapiro 2011 University of South Carolina

The Role Of The Site Selector, Andrew H. Shapiro

South Carolina Journal of International Law and Business

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents - Issue 1, 2011 University of South Carolina

Table Of Contents - Issue 1

South Carolina Journal of International Law and Business

No abstract provided.


The Impact Of The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act On American Business From 1977-2010, Ajani Harris 2011 Claremont McKenna College

The Impact Of The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act On American Business From 1977-2010, Ajani Harris

CMC Senior Theses

This paper seeks to present the moral and ethical frameworks in which to consider the effect of bribing on business and the great community; confront the cultural differences that lie between American businesses and its potential interest abroad, as well as the growing international move to implementation similar to that of the FCPA; analyze prior anti-bribery legislation and the historical events that prompted the need for a policy like the FCPA, discuss the basic elements of the policy’s two pronged approach of anti-bribery and disclosure regulation; examine several cases in the enforcement of the FCPA on American businesses; and consider …


Ethics In Accounting: Sustainability As A Predictor Of Financial Statement Usefulness, Kyle L. Shipley 2011 Claremont McKenna College

Ethics In Accounting: Sustainability As A Predictor Of Financial Statement Usefulness, Kyle L. Shipley

CMC Senior Theses

This paper examines the impact of ethics on financial statement usefulness in 120 publicly traded companies. Because ethics are difficult, if not impossible, to quantify, Corporate Social Responsibility ratings are used as a proxy. The potential implications of this study are vast, though the main idea is that investors would be able to make better financial decisions should the hypothesis come to fruition. Contrarily, investors will also be able to avoid potentially bad investments if they can ascertain certain companies that lack ethical values. In this paper, I will discuss several facets of corporate ethics such as creative accounting in …


Take Me Out Of The Ball Game: The Efficacy Of Public Subsidies In The Success Of Professional Sports Stadiums, Jonah Chodosh 2011 Claremont McKenna College

Take Me Out Of The Ball Game: The Efficacy Of Public Subsidies In The Success Of Professional Sports Stadiums, Jonah Chodosh

CMC Senior Theses

This paper weights the relative advantages of multiple factors that lead to the success of professional sports stadiums in major markets, though a discussion of the arguments for and against public subsidies towards these projects. Using a logit statistical model, the paper determines that the two factors determining the highest likelihood of venue success include multiple tenants and access to mass transit. The analysis demonstrates that public subsidies towards stadiums don’t generate sufficient economic returns, and that successful stadiums can be created without using taxpayer funds.


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