Responsibility in world business : managing harmful side-effects of corporate activity /

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How should companies deal with the harmful side-effects of their business operations? To what extent should they be held responsible for the wrongdoing of other actors? And how can they conduct business in a responsible manner in countries where human rights abuses are widespread, or where the envir...

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Other Authors: Bomann-Larsen, Lene, Wiggen, Oddny
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
UN Global Compact.
Social responsibility of business.
Business ethics.
International business enterprises > Management.
International business enterprises > Moral and ethical aspects.
International business enterprises > Environmental aspects.
International business enterprises > Social aspects.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • PART I: INTRODUCTION
  • Addressing side-effect harm in the business context : conceptual and practical challenges / Oddny Wiggen, Lene Bomann-Larsen
  • PART II: THEORETICAL DISCUSSION
  • The idea of double effect : in war and business / Gregory Reichberg, Henrik Syse
  • Business is not just war : implications for applying the principle of double effect to business / G.J. (Deon) Rossouw
  • State responsibility, corporate responsibility, and complicity in human rights violations / Andrew Clapham
  • Reconstructing the principle of double effect : towards fixing the goalposts of corporate responsibility / Lene Bomann-Larsen
  • The principle of double effect : revised for the business context / Oddny Wiggen and Lene Bomann-Larsen
  • PART III: CASE STUDIES
  • The principle of double effect and moral risk : some case-studies of US transnational corporations / Patricia H. Werhane
  • An object lesson in balancing business and nature in Hong Kong : saving the birds of Long Valley / Robert E. Allinson
  • Shell in ogoniland / Ogbonna Ike
  • Del Monte Kenya Limited / Florence J.A. Oloo
  • The "just war" for profit and power? : the Bhopal catastrophe and the principle of double effect / Upendra Baxi
  • Dealing with harmful side-effects : opportunities and threats in the emerging Polish market / Julita Sokoowska
  • The Orissa case / Heidi von Weltzien Høivik
  • Child labour in the Brazilian citrus sector : the case of Cargill's double effect / Cecilia Arruda
  • A commentary on the principle of double effect / Chris Marsden
  • PART IV: CONCLUSION
  • Towards improved business practice : implementing the principle of double effect / Oddny Wiggen, Lene Bomann-Larsen.

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