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To watch/read
- Panorama Tesco
- The triple bottom line - book
- TED sustainability
- Do political systems dictate how far ahead we look?
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Managing CSR through Codes 2013-2.pptx
- Exist throughout Carroll's pyramid
- Clinton - a champion of CSR?
- Encouraging move to broader social responsibility
- Business ethics management is the direct attempt to formally or informally manage ethical issues or problems through specific policies, practices and programmes”
(Crane and Matten 2007)
- …are voluntary statements that commit organizations, industries, or professions to specific beliefs, values, and actions and/or set out appropriate ethical behaviour for employees.
(Crane and Matten 2007)
- Do the systems allow bad people to rise to the top?
- Codes of conduct are far less prevalent in the rest of Europe (Spence and Lozano 2000)
- Not what a code says but how it is developed, implemented and followed up. Suggestions for successful implementation. Maximise participation of organisation members in development stage to encourage commitment and ‘buy in’ (Newton, 1992). Discipline employees found in breach (Webley 2001)
Follow-through – actually implement and be consistent (Trevino et al. 1999).
- Multi-nationals should be guided by 3 principles (Donaldson 1996). Respect for core human values. Respect for local traditions. Belief that context matters when deciding right and wrong
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Supply Chains 2013.pptx
- Do I worry about the source of my products beyond my suppliers?
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MUltinationals
- Exposure to the competition of a major multinational can severely threaten the business of indigenous competitors (Klein, 2000)
- No longer acceptable to argue that the ethics of a firms suppliers or a firms impact on its competitors was simply not any of its business (see Emmelhainz and Adams 1999)
- “The pressure exerted by powerful corporate customers to comply with ethical sourcing guidelines and criteria does constitute strong and indeed often very effective regulation of supply chain members” (Cashore, 2002
- Socially Responsible Employment 2013.pptx
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MSc L& M Responsible Marketing 2015.pptx
- Read Molly Scott something
- Is there any such thing?
- Consumer rights rest upon the assumption that consumer dignity should be respected, and that producers have a duty to treat consumers as ends in themselves, and not only as means to the ends of the producer.
- At the most basic level, consumers have a right to products and services which are safe, efficacious, and fit for the purpose for which they are intended.
- “Deception occurs when a marketing communication either creates, or takes advantage of, a false belief that substantially interferes with the ability of people to make rational consumer choices” (Crane and Matten)