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UN Global Compact
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Product Type: Web Sites
Source: United Nations
Publication Year: 2005
The United Nations Global Compact is an initiative encouraging vendor companies to the United Nations to support nine principles focusing on human rights, labor rights, and the environment.
Corporate Social Impacts: Comparing U.K. and U.S. Corporate Policies and Practices
Author: Griffin, Jennifer
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: The George Washington University: School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
This class explores the similarities, differences, and consequences of corporate social impacts by focusing on three controversial industries: tobacco, alcohol, and petrochemicals. This course expands existing conceptual frameworks by integrating three perspectives: (1) corporate strategy, (2) international globalization and civil society, and (3) corporate social responsibility.
Globalization and Employment by U.S. Multinationals
Author: Slaughter, Matthew J.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Unpublished manuscript, Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Publication Year: 2004
This paper argues that the debate over employment, globalization and outsourcing is limited by a lack of information and a narrow view of the impacts of globalization on companies and their home countries...
Global Corporate Social Responsibility
Author: Iankova, Elena
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Cornell University, Johnson Graduate School of Management
Publication Year: 2006
This course will introduce students to the various practices developed by multinational corporations in their attempt to redefine their role on a world stage as “global citizens” – actively participating in creating a safer, more humane, sustainable world.
Novartis and the United Nations Global Compact Initiative
Author: Tavis, Lee A.
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: The Aspen Institute; The William Davidson Institute
Publication Year: 2002
This article presents a case study of Novartis, emphasizing its relationship to the United Nations Global Compact Initiative.
Indupalma (A1, A2)
Authors: Fernandez, D; Trujillo, D; Gutierrez, R
Product Type: Cases
Source: Social Enterprise Knowledge Network
Publication Year: 2003
Indupalma was managed as a plantation since its creation in 1961. Labor conditions were grim, and labor unrest was at a peak when the general manager of Indupalma was kidnapped...
Norway Sells Wal-Mart
Authors: Pozen, Robert C.; Sesia, Aldo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
In June 2006, Norway's Pension Fund decided to divest its position in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. after an investigation by the Fund's Ethics Council...
China Minmetals Corporation and Noranda Inc.
Author: Litvak, Isaiah A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
The proposed takeover of Noranda Inc. (one of the biggest mineral players in the world) by the Chinese state owned enterprise, China Minmetals Corporation, was cause for Canadian government concern as it required some understanding about the workings and objectives of state owned enterprises. There was particular concern around the labour issues and human rights violations in China...
John McCulloch - United Beef Packers
Authors: Erskine, James A.; Dolansky, Eric
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
John McCulloch takes a job as assistant general manager at a meat packing plant. After a short time in the job, he discovers it was nothing like he expected...
Nike Inc.: Developing an Effective Public Relations Strategy
Authors: Everett, Donna R.; Slaughter, Kathleen E.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2000
It had been almost a decade since the first article surfaced in the media alleging that factories sub-contracted by Nike in China and Indonesia were forcing workers to work long hours for low pay, and for physically and verbally abusive managers. The article was the seed of a media campaign that created a public relations nightmare for the company...
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