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Author:   Rupesh Shah ,  David Murphy ,  Malcolm McIntosh ,  Sharon Capeling-Alakija
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Greenleaf Publishing
Weight:   0.612kg
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9781874719694

ISBN 10:   1874719691
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   01 December 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Foreword Sharon Capeling-Alakija, United Nations Volunteers Introduction Rupesh A. Shah, David F. Murphy and Malcolm McIntosh Part I: Through some looking glasses1. Something to have struggled for and now to believe in T.M. Mbeki, then Vice President of the Republic of South Africa 2. PlanetHome Malcolm McIntosh, Writer and Teacher, UK 3. From terrorism to trust: Trusting our nature? Mary-Jayne Rust, Jungian Analyst (Society of Analytical Psychology) and Art Therapis 4. Partnering trust: India's corporate social responsibility heritage Viraal B. Balsari, TERI-Europe 5. Tolerance E.M. Forster Part II: 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 Joseph Yaw Boateng, United Nations Volunteer, Association of Ghana Industries, Ghana 7. Corporate responsibility: The emerging South Asian agenda Ritu Kumar, TERI-Europe 8. Corporate governance, shareholder interests and managerial accountability in turbulent times Scott Bourke and Neil E. Bechervaise, Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, Australia 9. Strange bedfellows make for democratic deficits: The rise and challenges of private corporate social responsibility engagement Matthew J. Hirschland, Department of Political Science, University of Colorado, USA 10. The rise of the ""abdroids"" Roger Warren Evans, Barrister-at-law, UK 11. Changing focus: A business school for sustainable development Juliet Roper, Eva Collins and Mike Pratt, University of Waikato Management School, New Zealand Part III: Auditing for whom?12. Love in a time of chocolate: The corporate discipline of compassion Adrian Henriques, Middlesex University, UK 13. Trouble at the Hard Rock Cafe: Diamonds and corporate social responsibility Ian Smillie and Ralph Hazleton, Partnership Africa Canada 14. In search of transparency: Corporate codes of conduct and women workers in Central America Marina Prieto-Carron, University of Bristol, UK 15. Voluntary governance or a contradiction in terms: Are voluntary codes accountable and transparent governance tools? Simon B. Archer, Torys LLP, Canada, and S. Tina Piper, Balliol College, University of Oxford, UK 16. The auditor has no clothes: Challenging the pursuit of objectivity in auditing Rupesh A. Shah, New Academy of Business, UK Part IV: New initiatives17. In the business of making peace: La Frutera and Paglas in the Philippines Charmaine Nuguid-Anden, United Nations Volunteer, Philippine Business for Social Progress 18. Corporate responsibility in New Zealand: A case study Bob Frame, Richard Gordon and Ian Whitehouse, Landcare Research, New Zealand 19. Reforming government, working with business: The Office of the Minister of State for Administrative Reform in Lebanon Lubna Forzley, United Nations Volunteer, UNDP Lebanon 20. Living and learning in the Boland Mark Swilling and Eve Annecke, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa 21. It's the film that matters, not the photo: Good governance in development co-operation David F. Murphy, New Academy of Business, UK Part V: Conclusion22. Under the Trumpet Flower Abdul Cader Riswana, Ismael Ashraff, Jinutheen Rasmina, Kanathan Dinojit, Stepan Sampath, The Butterfly Garden of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka"

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The discussions in this book range across a wide number of areas including management schools, specific companies, countries, industries, codes of conduct, communities and government. What emerges is ... a recognition that just as people and individuals and institutions are very diverse, so too are the journeys to change the future. ...the most important feature of the journeys described here is that ... to change the world requires considerably more imagination and creativity than we are seeing from the sorts of codes and standards which are increasingly taken up by many right now. * <i>The Corporate Citizen</i> 4.1 (2004) * This book addresses themes related to the idea of trust...one strength is that there is a refreshing focus on examples of corporate social responsibility from countries that is unusual to hear from (including Ghana, Lebanon and India). Another strength is the weaving of quite different perspectives on trust from a variety of perspectives. * <i>Social and Environmental Accounting Journal</i> Vol. 25 Issue 1 *

The discussions in this book range across a wide number of areas including management schools, specific companies, countries, industries, codes of conduct, communities and government. What emerges is ... a recognition that just as people and individuals and institutions are very diverse, so too are the journeys to change the future. ...the most important feature of the journeys described here is that ... to change the world requires considerably more imagination and creativity than we are seeing from the sorts of codes and standards which are increasingly taken up by many right now. The Corporate Citizen 4.1 (2004) This book addresses themes related to the idea of trust...one strength is that there is a refreshing focus on examples of corporate social responsibility from countries that is unusual to hear from (including Ghana, Lebanon and India). Another strength is the weaving of quite different perspectives on trust from a variety of perspectives. Social and Environmental Accounting Journal Vol. 25 Issue 1

Author Information

upesh A. Shah: I am an action researcher at the New Academy of Business, UK. My PhD in sustainable development and action research was from the University of Bath. My interest is in an action learning process that can develop locally grounded forms of organisational practice that avoid the techno-management-oriented attempts to 'solve' the 'problem' of sustainability. I am engaged in an ongoing inquiry to understand my personal acting and responsibility in a broad system movement for change. David F. Murphy: I am Director of the New Academy of Business, an independent business school that provide entrepreneurs, managers and organisational leaders with the insights and capacities necessary to respond progressively to the emerging challenges of sustainability and organisational responsibility. Since I joined the organisation in 1998, I have developed the New Academy's international network of partners working together on various education and research initiatives on global corporate responsibility. This work has included a two-year international action research project on business-community relations with United Nations Volunteers (UNV) in seven countries. Other recent projects include good governance in development co-operation with the European Commission, corporate responsibility practices in South Asia with TERI-Europe, and a feasibility study on the social marketing of job quality in micro and small enterprises with the International Labour Organisation. From 1993-97, I undertook research at the University of Bristol on the implementation of corporate social responsibility policies and completed my PhD on business-NGO relations and sustainable development. Prior to my arrival in the UK in 1993, I co-ordinated various community development programmes for the Canadian NGO CUSO in West Africa and Canada, where I also managed volunteer programmes for a Canadian AIDS organisation. I am the co-author of In the Company of Partners: Business, Environmental Groups and Sustainable Development Post-Rio (The Policy Press, 1997) and am currently a member of the Amnesty International (UK) Business Group on Human Rights. Malcolm McIntosh: I am a writer and teacher on corporate responsibility and sustainability and a Visiting Professor at the universities of Bath and Nottingham (UK) and Waikato (NZ). I also teach at the universities of Stellenbosch (SA) and Bristol (UK). In 2003 I was appointed a Special Advisor to the UN Global Compact. I am Founding Editor of The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Editor of Visions of Ethical Business 1998-2002 (FT Management/PricewaterhouseCoopers) and author and co-author of many books and articles on corporate citizenship. My latest book is Raising a Ladder to the Moon: The Complexities of Corporate Responsibility (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). I am currently working on a new book, Learning To Talk: The Early Years of the UN Global Compact (Greenleaf Publishing, 2004) with Sandra Waddock and Georg Kell with a Foreword by Kofi Annan. I am most interested in the possibility of a new metalanguage which reaches across professional and intellectual divides. This requires the development of cultures of humility and conviviality.

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