Ethics Codes, Corporations, and the Challenge of Globalization

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Wesley Cragg
Edward Elgar Publishing, 24 de fev. de 2005 - 396 páginas
Globalization has altered in significant ways the tools available to regulate international commerce. One result is the emergence of ethics codes, codes of responsible conduct, and best practice codes designed to win adherence to internationally acceptabl

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An Introduction
1
Ethics Law Globalization and the Modern Shareholder Owned Multinational Corporation
21
2 Ethics Law and Corporate SelfRegulation
23
Profit Power and Law in the Global Economy
51
Case Studies
73
The Adequacy and Effectiveness of Voluntary SelfRegulation Regimes
75
The Role of Ethics Law and SelfRegulation in Global Markets
112
AntiMoney Laundering Compliance and the Financial Sector
154
Future Directions
243
Problematizations Authorizations and the PublicPrivate Divide
245
The Potential of Sentencing Guidelines
290
11 Voluntary Codes and the New Sustainability Paradigm
321
The Regulatory Norms of a Globalized Society?
353
Compendium of Ethics Codes and Instruments of Corporate Responsibility Table of Contents 2004 edition
373
Are For Profit Corporations Capable of Ethical SelfRegulation?
379
Corporate Responsibility and Accountability in the Global Marketplace A Canadian Vision and NextSteps National Agenda
384

Corporate Codes of Conduct as a Regime of Labour Market Regulation
194
The Case of a Bauxite Mine in Brazil
212

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Página 39 - Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
Página 29 - A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law. it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence.
Página 26 - If this were not the case, there would be no need for a careful, quantitative, experimental science of psychology.
Página 83 - Support and respect the protection of international human rights within their sphere of influence; and Principle 2: Make sure their own corporations are not complicit in human rights abuses.
Página 147 - As used in this section, the term "foreign official" means any officer or employee of a foreign government or any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof, or any person acting in an official capacity for or on behalf of such government or department, agency, or instrumentality.
Página 82 - Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights within their sphere of influence; and Principle 2: make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses.
Página 84 - States have the primary responsibility to promote, secure the fulfilment of, respect, ensure respect of and protect human rights recognized in international as well as national law, including ensuring that transnational corporations and other business enterprises respect human rights.
Página 36 - Now we are being asked to accept an obligation to serve a wider range of human values and to accept an obligation to members of the public with whom we have no commercial transactions (Donaldson 1982, p.
Página x - Research for this paper is supported by a grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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Edited by the late Wesley Cragg, formerly Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar in Philosophy, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada where he is also Principle Investigator and Project Director, Canadian Business Ethics Research Network, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada

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