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Globalizing corporate social irresponsibility : a tale of two toxic cities / Mamoun Benmamoun, Christie Ascencio, James E. Fisher, and Yunmei Kuang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benmamoun, Mamoun, author.
- Ascencio, Christine, author.
- Fisher, James E., active 2024, author.
- Kuang, Yunmei, author.
- Series:
- SAGE Business cases.
- SAGE Business cases
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social responsibility of business--Case studies.
- Social responsibility of business.
- Globalization--Case studies.
- Globalization.
- Environmental disasters--Case studies.
- Environmental disasters.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- London : NeilsonJournals Publishing, 2024.
- Summary:
- La Oroya, Peru, and Herculaneum, Missouri, USA, are two cities 4,000 miles apart but beset with common health and environmental risk: high levels of lead contamination. A key participant in this unfolding tale of environmental disaster has been The Renco Group, a privately held investment holding company based in New York. This case study sheds light on The Renco Group's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in a developing country (Peru) as distinct from CSR in a developed country (USA) by presenting the distinctive set of formal and informal forces that shape the ethical outcome. The question - one which animates much of this case - is what mechanisms exist that work either collectively or individually to encourage or even require a privately-owned firm to act in a socially responsible manner or, more modestly, to cease activities that are deemed to harm society or the general welfare in a multi-country context?
- Notes:
- Description based on XML content.
- ISBN:
- 1-0719-3203-9
- 9781071932032
- OCLC:
- 1417358791
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