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• Corporate Responsibility
• Dedication
• Brief contents
• Contents
• Preface
• Publisher’s acknowledgements
• Corporate social responsibility: the emerging agenda
• From teapots to hot chocolate
• New institutions and novel challenges
• Questions
• Case study 1 John d. Rockefeller, the standard oil trust and his philanthropy: does the latter legit
• References
• The corporate and social/economic challenge
• Banking on responsible banking
• Trouble pours on oily waters
• An earthquake
• Good or greedy?
• Friedman and his critics
• Shareholder value
• Questions
• Case study 2 Mining sector: BHP Billiton
• References
• Defining corporate social responsibility
• Context, content and debate
• The first industrial Revolution
• Industrialisation and ethics
• Philanthropy
• Foundations
• Questions
• Case Study 3 McDonald’s and CSR
• References
• The role and function of business in society
• The social challenge
• Restrictive trade practices
• Markets and marketing
• Blowing the whistle
• Consumer action
• An oxymoron?
• Voluntary action and consumer action – a partnership
• Questions
• Case study 4: ABC Textiles
• References
• Business ethics
• A two-legged creature
• The challenge
• Ownership and control
• The ethical challenges
• A matter of trust
• Innovation and change
• The social cost of change
• Innovation and change
• Climate change and the needs of the natural and built environments
• Taxation
• Defining business ethics
• Questions
• Case study 5 nurse Margaret Haywood and Panorama
• References
• Codes of behaviour
• The value, content and embedding of management codes of practice
• The pressures on executives
• I swear by apollo
• Corporate codes
• Embedding codes
• Corporate codes
• Questions
• Case study 6 Leadership and responsibility
• References
• The nature and evolution of corporate governance
• The challenge
• Shareholders
• Europe
• Remuneration
• The public sector
• The challenge of the multinational
• Obligations and contracts
• Other players, other values?
• The nature of entrepreneurship
• Definitions
• Questions
• Case study 7 sir stuart Rose, Chairman and Chief executive
• References
• Standards, safety and security
• Evolving agendas
• Managerial responsibilities in practice
• Cases
• Legislation
• Employees
• Bhopal
• Piper alpha
• Conclusion
• Question
• Case study 8 Standard Life Healthcare – a case study in health promotion
• References
• The greening of economies and corporations – the sustainability challenge
• A silent spring or false dawn?
• Europe
• Responsibilities
• Conclusion
• Questions
• Case study 9 Climate change action at Tufts university William Moomaw and Sarah Hammond Creighton
• References
• Sustainability – the opportunities and challenges
• Vulnerability
• Information and information systems
• Accidents, liabilities and challenges
• Questions
• Case study 10 american express Business Travel
• References
• Managing a sustainable business
• Marketing
• operations
• People
• Finance
• Conclusion
• Questions
• Case study 11 Platt oils
• References
• Embedding CSR practice
• Supporting the CSR effort
• The business case for CSR
• Organising and managing CSR
• Issues and challenges
• Questions
• Case study 12 saving the barako bean: The Figaro Coffee Company’s approach to fair trade
• References
• The built environment
• Cities
• Vision
• Definitions
• Management
• Smaller communities
• Conclusion
• Questions
• Case study 13 Pompier engineering Works
• References
• Ways forward and conclusions
• Carbon credits and carbon trading
• The sarbanes-oxley act
• Managing the corporate responsibility function
• An international dimension
• The future
• Questions
• Case study 14 Manchester City FC and corporate social responsibility
• References
• Quiz: Who said this? – (by company)
• Index