... responsibility Business ethics Sourcing Sports Social responsibility Dominican Republic The desire to cut costs by securing cheaper inputs from developing countries is a salient feature of the global economy (Lee and Kim, 2009). However, the sourcing of cheaper inputs comes at a cost. Recently...

... markets Corporate governance Corporate social responsibility Business ethics Business strategy Trade Investment Economic growth Risk management Development Institutions There are a number of ways to define or classify a group of emerging market countries from other transition or less...

...” value (to use Chairman Bernanke's terms). Hence regulation is always a palliative to market failure with punctual actions where crisis has occurred. Banks Business ethics Regulation Economic fluctuations The superior person understands rightness; the inferior person understands profit...

... of this change that one would expect to see is that these public sector organizations would tend towards adopting some of the ethical artefacts of business ethics such as ethics training and ethics audits which are prevalent in the private sector. A code of ethics should therefore be one of the first...

... the more notable given the considerable involvement of consultants in CSR. It is common for stakeholders to be defined simply as (Kerr, 2006): Corporate social responsibility Business ethics Corporate image Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a generalised concept of what constitutes...

... they renovated the old winery completely, introducing new technologies in the machinery with the ultimate and sole goal of obtaining the highest quality products, based on both traditional and environmentally friendly methods. Business ethics Corporate social responsibility Small to medium‐sized...

... provides an initial and important insight into the dynamic features of corporate codes of ethics. Corporate codes of ethics are one of several influences on business ethics within and across cultures. In a model that goes beyond philosophically‐based ethics, Stajkovic and Luthans (1997) use social...

...). In summary accountability is an institutionalized feature of all forms of governance. Business ethics Management accountability Religion © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Sivakumar Velayutham can be contacted at: sivav@sharjah.ac.ae first, the steward or accountor, i.e...

... It would appear that business ethics has only recently become a topic of interest in corporate Sweden and that many companies are in the early stages of code development and assimilation into company policies. The incidence of codes in the population (of 100) suggested by this survey (56 per cent) is lower...

... Competitive strategy Corporate social responsibility Governance Partnership Business ethics Achieving the moral and pragmatic imperative symbolized by the UN's Millennium Development Goals requires “responsible markets” in the sense that markets reward companies that embrace responsible practices...

... by the North American school of business ethics, in fact we can also argue that there are some specificities in Community action in CSR. More than a specific policy of CSR in the Community, CSR seems to become an element of transversal policy which has to be re‐considered in the larger triptych “CSR...

...S. Prakash Sethi; Nien‐hê Hsieh Purpose The object of this paper is to examine the debate in business ethics over extending insights from political philosophy (e.g. theories of distributive justice) to address questions about the management and governance of economic enterprises...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Corporate governance Liability Business ethics The downfall of Enron, conviction of Arthur Andersen, and bankruptcy of WorldCom define what has been called an historic period of corporate greed, unprecedented fraud, widespread “gatekeeper...

... directly on corporate boardrooms where shareholders can now insist that directors' interests be separate from those of the CEO and upper management. Corporate governance Business ethics United States of America Boards of Directors Steven T. Petra can be contacted at: actstp@hofstra.edu...

.... The answer is not as simple as drawing or redrawing the lines between what is legal and what is not. Hence this paper. Corporate governance Accounting Auditing Business ethics Unites States of America Australia The prime focus of this paper is corporate governance in Australia. However...

... present their definition of CSR but, as there are many factors that interfere in this concept, it will be shown that some aspects share the idea of this concept and that its origins are inside of the firm (Peyró, 1997). Organizations Social responsibility Portugal Business ethics Corporate...

... for ethical congruence between the two companies. The examination of these ethical artefacts highlighted that the companies appeared to have been quite divergent in their commitment to business ethics when they entered the merger. If companies are to merge across country, and thus cultural boundaries...

... deficiencies. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Business ethics Board of directors Conflict management Corporate governance From 1989 to 1995, Enron was named “America's Most Innovative Company” by Fortune magazine. In 2001, the chief executive officer (CEO...

... Organizational culture Business ethics Workplace Social deviance The past ten years has fostered an increased interest in the unethical behaviour exhibited by firms. Large corporations such as Enron, WorldCom and Tyco have brought public attention to the inherent dangers of unethical business...

... to those with more resonance at corporate headquarters. Business ethics Responsibilities Society At the heart of corporate citizenship is how the relationship between companies and wider society is managed. For multinational corporations, managing these relationships on a global scale...