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Author : Richard A. Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:257855582
Author : Farnsworth, Kevin
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847425867
Spanning the complete era of the Conservative governments and the first term of New Labour, this book looks at mechanisms of corporate power and influence; corporate opinion and influence in a range of social policy areas including: education, training, health and social security; changing business influence on social policy in recent years in an international context and business involvement in social policy initiatives and welfare delivery. By exploring business views and opinions, power, influence and involvement in social provision, this book helps to address important questions in social policy and, in so doing, goes some way towards closing a gaping hole in the current literature. The book's breadth and multidisciplinary approach will appeal not only to students of social policy, but also to students of business, public sector management and politics, their teachers and policy makers in the field.
Author : Christoph Dörrenbächer,Mike Geppert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139500012
This book was first published in 2011. The current financial and economic crisis has negatively underlined the vital role of multinational companies (MNCs) in our daily lives. The breakdown and crisis of flagship MNCs, such as Enron, WorldCom, Lehman Brothers, Toyota and General Motors, does not merely reveal the problems of corporate malfeasance and market dysfunction. It also raises important questions, both for the public and the academic community, about the use and misuse of power by MNCs in the wider society, as well as the exercise of power by key actors within internationally operating firms. This book examines how issues of power and politics affect MNCs at three different levels; the macro-level, the meso-level and the micro-level. This wide-ranging analysis shows not only that power matters but also how and why it matters, pointing to the political interactions of key power holders and actors within the MNC, both managers and employees.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Employees
ISBN : 9222116313
Author : David Ernest Apter,Louis Wolf Goodman
Publisher : New York : Praeger
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSC:32106000903531
Author : United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038475161
Author : Olufemi Amao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136715891
The control of multinational corporations is an area of law that has attracted immense attention both at national and international level. In recognition of the importance of the subject matter, the United Nations Secretary General has appointed a special representative to work in this area. The book discusses the current trend by MNCs to self regulate by employing voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy. Olufemi Amao argues that the CSR concept is insufficient to deal with externalities emanating from MNCs’ operations, including human rights violations. Amao maintains that for CSR to be effective, the law must engage with the concept. In particular, he examines how the law can be employed to achieve this goal. While noting that the control of MNCs involves regulation at the international level, it is argued that more emphasis needs to be placed on possibilities at home, in States and host States where there are stronger bases for the control of corporations. This book will be useful to academic scholars, students, policy makers in developing countries, UN, UN Agencies, the African Union and its agencies, the European Union and its agencies and other international policy makers.
Author : Rebecca Surender,Robert Walker
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849809931
ÔThis volume makes a valuable contribution to the dynamic and expanding field of scholarship on social policy in developing countries. In combining analytical frameworks used in comparative social policy analysis with an examination of key areas of policy and provision in selected countries, it will be a key resource for anyone interested in current debates in international social policy and welfare.Õ Ð Nicola Yeates, Open University, UK There is increasing interest in the significance of social policy in the management of welfare and risk in the developing world. This volume provides a critical analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing social protection systems in the global south, and examines current strategies for addressing poverty and welfare needs in the region. In particular, the text explores the extent to which the analytic models and concepts for the study of social policy in the industrialised North are relevant in a developing country context. The volume analyses the various institutions, actors, instruments and mechanisms involved in the welfare arrangements of developing countries and provides a study of the contexts, development and future trajectory of social policy in the global South. The bookÕs comparative and interdisciplinary approach will be of interest to anyone involved in social policy research and analysis and current welfare debates.
Author : Usha C V Haley
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814492348
Multinational Corporations in Political Environments advances and tests a theory of why foreign corporations leave host states. Theories of international business have often ignored the complexity of corporate decisions about leaving foreign countries, generally assuming that the economic and competitive reasons that prompt multinational corporations to enter host states also explain their subsequent reasons for leaving. Alternatively, this book proposes a theory of how different stakeholders' values and ethics shape multinationals' strategic leaving behaviors. Tested in South Africa when US multinationals were facing diverse pressures from stockholders, governments and consumers to leave, the research provides a prism to isolate how different stakeholders' actions influenced multinationals' behaviors. Detailed analyses of subsidiary-level archival data over a period of four crucial years revealed that the multinationals engaged in diverse forms of leaving reflecting their involvements, strategies and stakeholders' influences. The research, the first to test which stakeholders' strategies, including boycotts and sanctions, influenced multinationals and which did not, and to identify their effects on multinationals' behaviors, has enormous implications for policy makers, managers and social activists. The book also applies the findings and explores implications for recent stakeholders' attempts at influencing multinationals and governments, such as Nike in Asia and the Burmese government, through sanctions, resolutions and boycotts.
Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : International business enterprises
ISBN : 9789221190103
Author : Richard A. Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Corporations, American
ISBN : UOM:39015031446175
Conference report on the social role and ethics of multinational enterprise - includes views on managerial and corporate management responsibility (incl. The role of the computer in decision making), the ' corporate social audit', the ownership role of the institution, etc., and examines corporate responsiveness to social change, illustrated by a case study of general motors (motor vehicle industry) of South Africa R. Flow charts, list of participants and statistical tables. Conference held in airlie 1972 October 15 to 17.
Author : Ursula Mühle
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783593392639
Bringing together the fields of sociology, political science, and management and organization studies, Ursula Mühle offers in this unique volume an authoritative overview of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Mühle first considers the origins of CSR during the 1970s, highlighting the various approaches to CSR and explaining its early shortcomings. She then turns to the United Nations Global Compact and the Global Reporting Initiative to investigate why, since the mid-1990s, CSR has been on the rise. Finally, Mühle employs several case studies as well as interviews with business executives and politicians to illustrate why businesses worldwide now view CSR as a key component to their success. The Politics of Corporate Social Responsibility will be welcomed by scholars and CSR practitioners alike.
Author : Xavier Richet,Violaine Delteil,Patrick Dieuaide
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642413698
This contributed volume seeks to provide a unique window on the globalization process by analyzing the dynamics of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Europe and Asia, as well as its influence on the renewal of public policies and regulations, both transnational and local. It discusses the link between the trans-nationalization of productive and business systems and the renewal of local regulations in the light of concerns over competitiveness and attractiveness, as well as new social tensions. Multinational corporations (MNCs) as key actors of globalization are central for understanding the new interactions between the global, regional and local dimensions as well as for highlighting the challenges of regulation both at transnational level and within national boundaries. Research approaches along two broad lines are presented: First, a theoretical and empirical approach that examines links between the strategies of multinationals and local public policy in order to contribute to a better understanding of the institutional dynamics of social regulation. Second, a comparative approach that compares regional spaces, with particular attention to Europe on the one hand, and to the two great emerging powers, China and India, on the other.
Author : Edwin Mujih
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317068761
Edwin Mujih explores the difficulties associated with regulating multinational companies operating in developing countries, with a particular focus on extractive industries. The author highlights the need to establish an international legally binding framework to ensure that multinationals operate in a socially responsible manner to protect local communities and the environment. Edwin Mujih’s analysis reveals that the existing mechanisms for controlling the behaviour of huge multinational entities are of normative force only, that these are particularly inadequate, and that the notion of corporate social responsibility is only meaningful where behaviour can be legally regulated. Regulating Multinationals in Developing Countries features a study of the Chad and Cameroon Oil and pipeline project, which highlights the problems arising in countries that have neither the capacity nor the will to effectively regulate those operating within their borders. The author has evaluated compliance by the parties with their social and environmental obligations. He has found that, despite controversy surrounding inadequate regulation of this project in its incipient stages, the system that was put in place following huge opposition from the affected communities and from NGOs is worthy of attention and could stand as a model for similar projects elsewhere. This first title in Gower's Corporate Social Responsibility Series to approach CSR from a legal perspective provides insight not just into the complexity surrounding efforts to regulate multinationals operating in countries with weak regulatory regimes, but also into the fundamental nature of multinational corporations and the debate about different notions of CSR itself.
Author : Michael Blowfield,Charlotte Karam,Dima Jamali
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351285551
Globalization and the professionalization of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) have led to a surge of CSR activities claiming to support development across the globe. In this two volume series, the chapters explore this claim through nuanced debate about the potentialities, limitations and threats of development-oriented CSR in the developing world at both the global and local levels. Volume 1 explores whether there is a genuine possibility for corporations to contribute to development through CSR activities. With corporate reach spreading into every corner of the globe, this is a timely contribution presenting cases from developing countries spanning multiple continents. It explores the multi-level and multi-stakeholder dynamics involved in shaping the complex interface between multinational corporations (MNCs) and possibilities for CSR-related development. The chapters highlight the potential for MNCs to spread best practice and complement the role of governments in bridging governance gaps and spearheading capacity building efforts. But they also highlights serious reservations, stemming from isolated assessments, limited appreciation of the complexities of context, and the permeation of a northern agenda that marginalizes local voices.Within the larger debate on the merits and evils of globalization, this volume captures the mixed record of MNCs in promoting effective development in those parts of the world where it is most needed. This important series will be the reference source for academics, practitioners, policy-makers and NGOs involved in development-oriented CSR.