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Claire Moore Dickerson

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The Cameroonian Experience Under Ohada: Business Organizations In A Developing Economy, Claire Moore Dickerson Apr 2007

The Cameroonian Experience Under Ohada: Business Organizations In A Developing Economy, Claire Moore Dickerson

Claire Moore Dickerson

The Cameroonian experience underscores that corporate social responsibility is socio-political contruct implemented by governance concepts. In the US, we have not yet engaged in a sufficiently broad discussion of what is our understanding of corporate social responsibilty.


Sex And Capital: What They Tell Us About Ourselves, Claire Moore Dickerson Dec 2006

Sex And Capital: What They Tell Us About Ourselves, Claire Moore Dickerson

Claire Moore Dickerson

From a Symposium on People of Color, Women, and the Public Corporation: Different perceptions of public corporations and of business enterprises in the US and Ghana underscore differences in those institutions, as well as issues of gender and class.


Corporations As Cities: Targeting The Nodes In Overlapping Networks,, Claire Moore Dickerson Apr 2004

Corporations As Cities: Targeting The Nodes In Overlapping Networks,, Claire Moore Dickerson

Claire Moore Dickerson

Conceptualizing corporations as combinations of interrelated networks helps to identify the persons within the institution who are most able to influence change of policy.


Ozymandias As Community Project: Managerial/Corporate Social Responsibility And The Failure Of Transparency, Claire Moore Dickerson Apr 2003

Ozymandias As Community Project: Managerial/Corporate Social Responsibility And The Failure Of Transparency, Claire Moore Dickerson

Claire Moore Dickerson

Transparency is ineffectual as a contraint when the relevant society accepts what it sees. Far from encouraging compliance with international norms, national governments reflect a short-term perception of national interest.


Human Rights: The Emerging Norm Of Corporate Responsibility, Claire Moore Dickerson Apr 2002

Human Rights: The Emerging Norm Of Corporate Responsibility, Claire Moore Dickerson

Claire Moore Dickerson

Human-rights norms are now evolving toward an increased recognition of the collective as well. Included among the civil and political rights, and the economic, social, and cultural rights, are rights that are most effective when used by a group. The solidarity rights, including the right to development, are a natural culmination of that trend. These norms emerge from the larger society that extends beyond the developed world, and certainly far beyond the corporations' commercial environment. A democratic process of admittedly varying formality and effectiveness creates and legitimates these norms. The feedback between (1) corporations' conduct in support of the collective …


Bracketed Flexibility: Standards Of Performance Level The Playing Field, Claire Moore Dickerson Apr 2001

Bracketed Flexibility: Standards Of Performance Level The Playing Field, Claire Moore Dickerson

Claire Moore Dickerson

Experiments in behavioral economics suggest that legal constraints do reduce uncertainty, thus justifying the use of standards of performance and challenging assertions that regulation of this nature is inefficient.