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Something to Believe In : Creating Trust and Hope in Organisations: Stories of Transparency, Accountability and Governance.
Title:
Something to Believe In : Creating Trust and Hope in Organisations: Stories of Transparency, Accountability and Governance.
Author:
Shah, Rupesh.
ISBN:
9781909493391
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (248 pages)
Contents:
Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1: Through some looking glasses -- 1. Something to have struggled for and now to believe in -- 2. PlanetHome -- 3. From terrorism to trust: trusting our nature? -- 4. Partnering trust: India's corporate social responsibility heritage -- 5. Tolerance* -- Part 2: How could it be possible to believe in our corporations? -- 6. Demanding corporate responsibility is the key: the creation of a movement for corporate responsibility in Ghana* -- 7. Corporate responsibility: the emerging South Asian agenda -- 8. Corporate governance, shareholder interests and managerial accountability in turbulent times -- 9. Strange bedfellows make for democratic deficits -- 10. The rise of the 'abdroids'* -- 11. Changing focus: a business school for sustainable development -- Part 3: Auditing for whom? -- 12. Love in a time of chocolate: the corporate discipline of compassion -- 13. Trouble at the Hard Rock Café: diamonds and corporate social responsibility -- 14. In search of transparency: corporate codes of conduct and women workers in Central America -- 15. Voluntary governance or a contradiction in terms? are voluntary codes accountable and transparent governance tools? -- 16. The auditor has no clothes: challenging the pursuit of objectivity in auditing -- Part 4: New initiatives -- 17. In the business of making peace: La Frutera and Paglas in the Philippines -- 18. Corporate responsibility in New Zealand: a case study -- 19. Reforming government -- working with business: the Office of the Minister of State for Administrative Reform in Lebanon -- 20. Living and learning in Stellenbosch, South Africa -- 21. It's the film that matters, not the photo: good governance in development co-operation -- Part 5: Conclusion -- 22. Under the trumpet flower -- Abbreviations -- Index.
Abstract:
In a world where trust in politicians, corporations, and the processes that determine our lives, continues to dwindle, this book offers research and stories that begin to answer a central question for society: how can we redefine and renew the underlying contract between society and its organisations?.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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