Tag: corporate responsibility
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Allocation of responsibility
A correspondent recently faxed to me the details of a 'loyalty' scheme which allows its members to secure substantial discounts at participating...
Responsibility and accountability
What should we make of a 'loyalty' scheme which, amongst other things, generates receipts for an amount that exceeds the real cost to members when...
Applied corporate governance
A minimalist view Until recently, the most conventional response to a question about the purpose of a company was a paraphrase of Milton Friedman...
Ethics and corporate performance
Q: What part do ethics play in an organisation's responsibility to 'perform' for its stakeholders? In companies today, maximum performance will only...
Wring out the golden handshake
The recent decision by AMP to pay its former managing director George Trumbull AU$13.2 million as a 'golden goodbye' has rammed the issue of...
Corporate collapse
Corporations rise and fall with each passing day. In most cases, the demise of a company is unremarkable – just part of the evolutionary...
Do business ethics have a future beyond the '90s?
The question that I have been asked to address today invites me to speculate about whether or not there will be a concern about business ethics in...
Is good ethics good business?
To write sensibly about the topic of business ethics is to be confronted by something of a dilemma. There is, for the sake of easy argument, a...
Ethics: can you afford not to have them?
Contents: Introduction The challenge of conflicting duties Is good ethics good business? The more things change the more they stay the same So what...
Corporate conscience
Who keeps the conscience of a corporation? Is it the role of the Board, senior management, the whole company (or all of the above)? Can a corporation...
Mainstream activists: socially responsible investing
Simon Longstaff asks whether the community has found for itself a new, winning formula for affecting change in a complex world. If it is true that...
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