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Perspectives on International Corporate Responsibility

International Corporate Responsibility Series, Volume 2

John Hooker, Ans Kolk, and Peter Madsen, Editors

The field of international corporate responsibility has emerged as an important subfield of business ethics in response to increasing concerns about the ethical conduct of international businesses. This volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the Second Conference on International Corporate Responsibility, which was held in 2004 at the graduate business school of the University of Amsterdam. It includes intensive discussions by prominent scholars from many countries of codes of business conduct for multinational enterprises, socially responsible investing, corporate reputation and globalization, corporate responsibility and environmental issues, investment in developing economies, and responsible marketing. The complete table of contents is provided below.

This conference was organized by the Center for International Corporate Responsibility at Carnegie Mellon University, which believes that advances in business ethics require a truly international approach that accounts for cultural differences. The Center was established in 2002 to raise awareness and increase understanding of the global consequences of corporate decisions. The Conference on International Corporate Responsibility is sponsored by the Carnegie Bosch Institute for Applied Studies in International Management at Carnegie Mellon University, which also supported this publication. The conference is held every two years and each conference volume is now published on behalf of Carnegie Mellon University by the Philosophy Documentation Center.

Table of Contents

  • Preface

  • INTERNATIONAL CODES OF BUSINESS CONDUCT

    • James K. Rowe and Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Corporate Codes of Conduct as a Global Business Strategy
    Duane Windsor, Formulating a Moral Core for International Codes of Conduct
    Ian Maitland, A Cartel Theory of Corporate Codes of Conduct


  • SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, AND REPUTATION

Ben Richardson, Corporate Finance and Environmentally Responsible Business
Jacob Park, Socially Responsible Investing: Steering the Global Market Toward a New Ethical Architecture?
Rae Weston, An Analysis of Corporate Governance Issues for Large Japanese Multinationals Seen through the Prism of Three Recent Cases
Susanne van de Wateringen, Petroleum Industry and Reputation: Developments in Corporate Reputation in the Period 1990-2002


  • CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AND GLOBALIZATION

Albino Barrera, Corporate Responsibility in Adverse Pecuniary Externalities: The Case of International Agricultural Subsidies
Bryane Michael, The New Globalization: Multinational Enterprises and Corporate Social Responsibility


  • ICR AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

Ans Kolk and Jonatan Pinkse, The Evolution of Climate-Change Strategies in MNCs
Runa Sarkar, Environmental Initiatives at Tata Steel: Greenwashing or Reality?


  • REGIONAL STUDIES

Nada Kobeissi, Foreign Investment in the MENA Region: Analyzing Non-Traditional Determinants
Vivien T. Supangco, Exploring Organizational Determinants and Consequences of Contingent Employment in the Philippines
Roy W. Smolens, Jr. and Nicolaas Tempelhoff, CSR Opportunities for German Companies in Poland
Adewole A. A. Asolo, New Global Business Moral Order and Business Development in Third-World Countries in Latin America
Roberto Gutiérrez and Audra Jones, Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility on Local Communities in Latin America


  • RESPONSIBLE MARKETING AND ICR INFORMATION STRATEGIES

Laura Radulian, Marketing of Harmful Products
Jayraj Jadeja, Bhara Sha, and Preshth Bhardwaj, Codes of Business Conduct: Pharma Marketing at Crossroads
William Flanagan and Gail Whiteman, AIDS is not a Business: A Study of Global Corporate Responsibility - Securing Access to Low-Cost HIV Medications
Adedayo Adeyemi and M. H. Ayegboyin, The Use of Information and Communication Technologies for Providing Access to HIV/AIDS Information Management in a Resource-Poor Country: The Case of Nigeria
Pegram Harrison, Corporate Responsibility: An Information Strategy

· ISBN 1-889680-45-1 · ISSN 1935-1178 · Published December 2005 · Softbound · 422 pages · Institutions $55, Individuals $35, SBE Members $25

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