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Global Business Citizenship : A Transformative Framework for Ethics and Sustainable Capitalism.
Title:
Global Business Citizenship : A Transformative Framework for Ethics and Sustainable Capitalism.
Author:
Wood, Donna J.
ISBN:
9781317469797
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (240 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. An Invitation to Global Business Citizenship -- Linking Ethics to Business Practice -- Globalization and the New Pressures on Managers -- Countervailing Forces -- The Promise of Global Business Citizenship -- 2. What's Wrong with the Status Quo? -- Systems Are More Complex and Turbulent -- Firms Face More Threats ... and Opportunities -- Managers Are Caught in a Vise -- Capitalism Itself Is Threatened -- The Promise of Global Business Citizenship -- Conclusion -- 3. The Lens of Global Business Citizenship -- The Concept of Citizenship -- Making the Leap from Individual to Business Citizenship -- Three Approaches to Citizenship -- Comparing Views of Citizenship -- The Process of Global Business Citizenship -- Guidelines for Implementing GBC -- Conclusion -- 4. Principles, Codes, and Policies: The Guidance System for Global Business Citizenship -- Organizational Guidance Systems -- GBC Requires a Small Set of Comprehensive Universal Principles -- Universal Principles and Ethical Relativism -- What Are "Universal" Principles? -- Codes of Conduct: What's Covered? -- Codes of Conduct: Temptations and Dilemmas -- What Does a GBC Code Look Like? -- Designing for Buy-In -- The Biggest Mistakes in Codes of Conduct -- Conclusion -- 5. The Principle of Accountability and Processes of Stakeholder Engagement -- Accountability: An Overview -- Stakeholder Engagement -- Which Stakeholders Need to Be Engaged? -- How and Where Do We Engage Our Stakeholders? -- Basic Approaches to Stakeholder Engagement -- More Complex Approaches to Stakeholder Engagement -- Stakeholder Engagement for Large-Scale Social Problem-Solving -- Making Stakeholder Engagement Work -- 6. Cases in Implementing GBC Stakeholder Engagement -- Implementing Stakeholder Engagement.

Employee Stakeholder Engagement: Calcados Azaléia S/A, Brazil -- Supplier Engagement: Hewlett-Packard -- Local Community Engagement: Holcim and Union Cement -- Public-Private Partnerships: Volvo and Göteborg -- Multi-Sector Collaboration: Vietnam Footwear Industry -- Collaborating on the Hardest Stuff: AngloGold Ashanti and Danfoss Group -- Stakeholders Matter -- Conclusion: Implementing Can Be Fun -- 7. Building the Citizen Company: The Principles of Organizational Change (Nice Theory, But Will It Work?) -- Definitions, Levels, Principles -- How Does Change Occur? The CHANGE Model -- Why Do Some Change Efforts Fail? -- Conclusion -- 8. Organizational Change the GBC Way: Cases in Implementation -- What's Different About GBC Implementation? -- What Makes a Problem Easier or Harder? -- Merging the GBC Process and the Change Process: Examples from Global Compact Cases -- Conclusion -- 9. The Practice of Accountability: GBC Measurement and Reporting -- GBC Reporting Goes Further -- Reporting Then: An Historical Perspective -- Reporting Now: A Current Perspective -- Accountability Tools: An Internal Focus -- Accountability Tools: An External Focus -- Challenges of Accountability Reporting -- Conclusion: Memo to Global Business Citizens -- 10. Cases in Implementing Stakeholder Accountability -- Implementing Stakeholder Accountability -- Compliance and Local Adaptation: Beauty Essential Co., Ltd. -- Compliance, Conflicts, and Tool Development: Royal Dutch Shell -- Experiment in Monitoring and Transparency: The Gap -- Interface, Inc.'s Sustainability Reporting -- Conclusion: Accountability Processes -- 11. System-Level Learning and the Payoff in Reputation -- Knowledge Management and GBC Learning -- System-Level Learning -- How Does a GBC Company Learn? -- What's the Link from Accountability and Stakeholder Engagement to Learning?.

Benchmarking: How GBC Firms Learn to Learn -- Reputation, Image, and Identity the GBC Way -- Conclusion -- 12. The Promise of Global Business Citizenship -- GBC for Managers and Their Companies: Themes Revisited -- GBC Payoffs: Why Global Business Citizenship Makes a Difference -- The Old Rules No Longer Work -- Is It Too Late to Self-Regulate? -- Power Imbalances and the Need for Self-Regulation -- Problems to Watch Out For -- In the End, a New Beginning -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Authors -- Index.
Abstract:
This practical and engaging book provides a coherent approach to global business responsibility and ethics based on the latest research, theory, and practice. The authors incorporate numerous interesting and current real world examples to support the argument that corporations need to - and can - identify and implement processes that foster ethical conduct, ensure basic human rights, protect the natural environment, and enhance social justice wherever businesses operate around the globe. "Global Business Citizenship" combines elements of political theory, stakeholder relationships, business ethics, corporate social performance, accountability and measurement, and organizational change. Its practical approach encompasses "best practices" in stakeholder management, experiments in applying corporate values to local conditions, and social environmental auditing and reporting. Focusing on the strategic alignment and change management process for implementing business citizenship principles and practices, it is an essential supplement for any course concerned with ethics and social responsibility in today's global business climate.
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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