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Responsibility in world business [electronic resource] : managing harmful side-effects of corporate activity / edited by Lene Bomann-Larsen and Oddny Wiggen.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social responsibility of business.
- Business ethics.
- International business enterprises--Management.
- International business enterprises.
- International business enterprises--Moral and ethical aspects.
- International business enterprises--Environmental aspects.
- International business enterprises--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How should companies deal with harmful side-effects of their business operations? Should they be held responsible for the wrongdoing of other players? These are crucial issues within the current debate on corporate responsibility and they represent the most substantial challenges confronting the business community today.
- Contents:
- Addressing side-effect harm in the business context : conceptual and practical challenges / Oddny Wiggen and Lene Bomann-Larsen
- The idea of double effect : in war and business / Gregory Reichberg and Henrik Syse
- Business is not just war : implications for applying the principle of double effect to business / G.J. (Deon) Rossouw
- State responsibility, corporate responsibility, and complicity in human rights violations / Andrew Clapham
- Reconstructing the principle of double effect : towards fixing the goalposts of corporate responsibility / Lene Bomann-Larsen
- The principle of double effect : revised for the business context / Oddny Wiggen and Lene Bomann-Larsen
- The principle of double effect and moral risk : some case-studies of US transnational corporations / Patricia H. Werhane
- An object lesson in balancing business and nature in Hong Kong : saving the birds of Long Valley / Robert E. Allinson
- Shell in ogoniland / Ogbonna Ike
- Del Monte Kenya Limited / Florence J.A. Oloo
- The "just war" for profit and power? : the Bhopal catastrophe and the principle of double effect / Upendra Baxi
- Dealing with harmful side-effects : opportunities and threats in the emerging Polish market / Julita Sokoowska
- The Orissa case / Heidi von Weltzien Høivik
- Child labour in the Brazilian citrus sector : the case of Cargill's double effect / Cecilia Arruda
- A commentary on the principle of double effect / Chris Marsden
- Towards improved business practice : implementing the principle of double effect / Oddny Wiggen and Lene Bomann-Larsen.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1417564210
- 1-4175-6421-0
- 1-280-91568-4
- 9786610915682
- 92-808-7064-5
- OCLC:
- 191039655
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