Corporate Responsibility Private Initiatives and Public Goals
Private initiatives for corporate responsibility have been a major development in international management over the last twenty years. The initiatives include issuance of codes of business conduct, implementation of management systems and broader efforts to improve business accountability. Yet, ther...
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Paris :
OECD Publishing
2001.
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| Colección: | Governance (Paris, France)
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009705640206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1. An Analysis of Private Initiatives for Corporate Responsibility""; ""Executive Summary""; ""Introduction""; ""The Record to Date""; ""Box 1. Consensus-building and Voluntary Initiatives � examples from the Codes Inventory""; ""Consensus � A Basic Building Block for the Effective Control of Business Conduct""; ""Expertise � Human Capital and the Social Control of Organisations""; ""Costs and Benefits of Private Initiatives""; ""The Benefits for Firms""; ""Box 2. The Business of Business is Business � Direct Quotes...""
- ""The Effectiveness of Voluntary Initiatives: Do they Change Company Behaviour?""""Voluntary Initiatives in a Broader Governance Context""; ""Box 3. A Comparison of Binding Laws with Voluntary Initiatives""; ""Cost Uncertainty and Unintended Consequences""; ""Implications for International Economic Policy""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 2. Overview of a Fact-finding Mission on Private Initiatives""; ""Introduction""; ""Commitments and Codes of Conduct: Actors, Issues and Audiences""; ""Figure 1. Composition of codes by type of issuer""; ""Box 4. Principal Findings""
- ""Figure 2. Issues addressed in codes of corporate conduct""""Figure 3. Type of Codes""; ""Table 1. Commitments in the Environmental Codes""; ""Table 2. Commitment in the Labour Codes""; ""Implementing the Codes � A Portfolio of Tools""; ""Figure 4a. Implementation in the 96 codes of conduct addressed to employees""; ""Figure 4b. Implementation in the 96 codes of conduct addressed to employees""; ""Figure 5. Implementation measures in 22 codes of conduct addressed to suppliers""; ""Management Systems and Reporting � Focus on the Environment""
- ""Figure 6. The environmental practices of European companies: policy, management systems and reporting""""Figure 7. Standardised EMAS and ISO 14001 versus Tailor-made EMSs in Europe""; ""Figure 8. Environmental management practices of non-member Asian companies""; ""Governments� Roles in Influencing These Initiatives""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 3. Codes of Corporate Conduct: Expanded Review of their Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""Introduction""; ""Methodology and Limitations""; ""A Profile of the Codes Reviewed""; ""Figure 9. Composition of Codes by Type of Issuer""
- ""Figure 10. Type of Company Codes""""Table 3. Countries of Origin by Issuer of Code""; ""Table 4. Sectoral Composition of Firms Issuing Codes""; ""The Content of the Codes: Issues and Audiences""; ""Figure 11. Attributes of the Codes""; ""Environmental Stewardship""; ""Table 5. Environmental Content of Codes""; ""Labour management""; ""Table 6. The Labour Content of the Codes""; ""Disclosure of Information""; ""Figure 12. Disclosure Mentioned in Company Codes""; ""Competition""; ""Taxation""; ""Bribery and Corruption""; ""Table 7. The Attributes of Bribery Codes""; ""Science and Technology""
- ""Consumer Protection""
