Something To Believe In Creating Trust and Hope in Organisations: Stories of Transparency, Accountability and Governance

• Main Authors: Shah, Rupesh, Murphy, David, McIntosh, Malcolm
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2003; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Business; Corporate governance; Corporate Social Responsibility & Business Ethics; Environment & Business; Globalization; Organization; Social aspects; Social responsibility; Social responsibility of business; Society; Trust; International Cocoa Initiative; NGO Participant; AngloAmerican Model; Corporate Governance; Contemporary Society; Voluntary Codes; CSR Institution; Conflict Diamonds; Development Co-operation Programmes; CSR Practice; Voluntary Corporate Codes; Waikato Management School; Public Administration; NGO Commission; Incentive Compensation Schemes; Diamond Industry; Chiquita Brands International; Facilitating Tax Evasion; Trumpet Flower; Pay For Performance; Private CSR; De Beers; Managerial Malfeasance; PAC Report; Kimberley Process
• ISBN: 1874719691; 9781874719694; 1874719748; 9781874719748
• DOI: 10.4324/9781351281324

Something to Believe In provides a fresh take on the corporate responsibility debate, based as it is on the work of key global thinkers on corporate social responsibility, along with a raft of work developed from collaborations between the New Academy of Business and the United Nations Volunteers, UK Department for International Development and TERI-Europe in countries such as Brazil, Nicaragua, Ghana, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Nigeria, the Philippines and South Africa. The focus is on business, and particularly how deeper, more systemic changes to current ways of understanding and undertaking business can and have been enacted in both developed countries and in nations where the Western concept of CSR means nothing. The market-based model of economic thinking—the increasingly distrusted globalisation project—which threatens to sweep all before it is challenged by many of the contributions to this book.