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The eco-profiles for current and near-future NatureWorks polylactide (PLA) production
Author: Vink, Erwin
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Publication Year: 2007
This paper provides the cradle-to-polymer-factory-gate life cycle inventory data (eco-profiles) for the 2006 and the near-future PLA production systems and explains the use of renewable energy certificates (RECs).
Cracking the Complexity Code
Authors: Heywood, Suzanne; Spungin, Jessica; Turnbull, David
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
There are two types of complexity. Understanding where to intervene is the key to managing them to create value...
Weighing the Risks in South American Basic Materials
Authors: Gurlit, Wieland; Mencarini, Eduardo; Montealto, Ricardo
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
Multinational companies remain wary of political and macroeconomic risk in Latin America. Yet the region is full of attractive opportunities...
Harvard Business School’s Sandra J. Sucher on the Value of a Book Club for Executives
Authors: Sucher, Sandra J.; Peebles, M. Ellen
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
For 20 years, Harvard Business School’s literature class "The Moral Leader' has tapped a rich canon of fiction and nonfiction to offer executives deep and powerful lessons about leadership.
Standards for Corporate Conduct in the International Arena: Challenges and Opportunities for Multinational Corporations
Author: Sethi, S. Prakash
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business and Society Review, vol. 1007, No. 1 (2002) pp. 20-40.
Publication Year: 2002
This article discusses the nature of MNC responses to external criticism with regard to operational policies in overseas markets; analyzes the efficacy of international codes of conduct in setting standards for corporate behavior as well as looking at how this form of corporate governance can be made more effective...
Unions and Employee Ownership: A Road to Economic Democracy?
Author: Yates, Jacquelyn
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 709-733
Publication Year: 2006
In the relationship between unions and employee share ownership, neither threatened the other, and their combination led to benefits for employees, particularly where unionized employees were majority owners.
The Relational View: Co-operative Strategy and Sources of Interorganizational Competitive Advantage
Authors: Dyer, Jeffrey H.; Singh, Harbir
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Academy of Management Review, 1998, Volume 23, No. 4
Publication Year: 1998
This article explores a firm's critical resources and how they may span firm boundaries and operate as inter-firm resources and routines.
One Business's Commitment to Society: An Interview with the President of the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development
Author: Kumra, Gautam
Product Type: Journal Articles; Interviews
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2006
Since the creation of the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development in 1979, it has been in the thick of efforts to tackle the Third World's health- and poverty-related problems. Besides contributing to the fight against tuberculosis and malaria, for instance, the organization has pioneered novel techniques to teach people suffering from leprosy that it is a treatable disease, introduced new programs to support the orphans of AIDS, and launched a potentially groundbreaking experiment to bring health insurance to Africa's rural poor...
India's Economic Agenda: An Interview with Manmohan Singh
Author: Gupta, Rajat K.
Product Type: Journal Articles; Interviews
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2005
The prime minister of India discusses his plans to modernize the country's infrastructure, attract foreign investment, and create jobs -- all in the service of eliminating chronic poverty and disease in India...
Retaliation
Authors: Sincoff, Michael Z.; Slonaker, William M.; Wendt, Ann C.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons, Indiana University Press
Publication Year: 2006
This case discusses the increasing prevalence of retaliation as a basis for employment discrimination claims and offer recommendations to employers on how best to handle such claims.
The Dangers of Too Much Governance
Authors: Holstrom, Bengt; Kaplan, Steven N.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review
Publication Year: 2003
Most people accept that innovating involves risk. If a gene therapy patient dies, regulators stiffen controls, but they don't make gene therapy impossible. Similarly, the United States must apply balance in addressing business scandals. Corporate governance problems call for safeguards, but not to the point of hobbling risk taking and economic growth. As dangerous as an Enron Corp is, even more dangerous would be a system designed to make all future Enrons impossible...
Delivering Innovation in Hospital Construction
Authors: Barlow, James; Koberle-Gaiser, Martina
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2009
This article discusses the relationship between the system for planning, financing, constructing, and operating new hospitals and the design and construction innovation.
Infrastructure Meets Business: Building New Bridges, Mending Old Ones
Authors: Beckman, Sara L.; Gil, Nuno
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2009
An Introduction to the Special Issue on "Infrastructure Meets Business: Building New Bridges, Mending Old Ones."
A Framework for Understanding Corporate Social Responsibility Programs as a Continuum
Authors: Pirsch, Julie; Gupta, Shruti; Landreth Grau, Stacy
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Springer
Publication Year: 2006
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs are increasingly popular corporate marketing strategies. This paper argues that CSR programs can fall along a continuum between two endpoints: Institutionalized programs and Promotional programs. Ethical and managerial implications of preliminary findings are discussed.
Preparing for a Low-carbon Future
Authors: Grobbel, Christoph; Maly, Jiri; Molitor, Michael
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2004
Tackling carbon exposure is more than good environmental stewardship; it could also protect a company's share price in the near term and create a long-term competitive advantage...
Mapping the Global Capital Markets
Authors: Farrell, Diana; Marcheva, Aneta; Shavers, Tim
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2005
In-depth analysis of the financial assets of more than 100 countries shows that financial markets are becoming deeper, more liquid, and increasingly integrated...
Do Socially Responsible Funds Actually Deliver What They Promise?
Authors: Sethi, S. Prakash; Schepers, Donald H.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business and Society Review, 108:1,2003, pp. 11-32 and Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College, published by Blackwell Publishing, 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, 2003
Publication Year: 2003
Socially Responsible Investing, also known as the ‘Ethical Investing Movement' is a growing niche among investors, benefiting from public concerns that include environmental protection, worker health and safety, human rights and workplace diversity...
Share Price as a Poor Criterion for Good Corporate Law
Author: Stout, Lynn A.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
Publication Year: 2005
Academics, reformers, and business leaders all yearn for a single, objective, easy-to-read measure of corporate performance that can be used to judge the quality of public corporation law and practice. This collective desire is so powerful that it has led many commentators to grab onto the first marginally plausible candidate: share price.
Contemporary economic and corporate theory (as well as recent business history) nevertheless warn us against unthinking acceptance of share price as a measure of corporate performance...
A Commentary and an Overview of Key Questions on Corporate Social Performance Measurement
Author: Carroll, Archie B.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business & Society. Vol. 39, Issue 4.
Publication Year: 2000
This article offers a commentary on Donna Wood's article, "Theory and Integrity in Business and Society," and discusses key issues that need to be addressed in order to advance the measurement of Corporate Social Performance (CSP)...
Living With the Limitations of Success
Authors: Jiang, Bin; Koller, Timothy
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
Once companies reach a certain size, setting realistic performance aspirations gets a bit trickier...
Architecture and Communication among Product Development Engineers
Author: Allen, Thomas J.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2007
Summarizes quantitative measures and qualitative observations regarding the effect of architecture on technical communication.
Justice and Fairness
Authors: Velasquez, Manuel; Andre, Claire; Shanks, Thomas; Meyer, Michael
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Publication Year: 1999
Justice means giving each person what he or she deserves or, in more traditional terms, giving each person his or her due. But what criteria and what principles should we use to determine what is due to this or that person?
How Should a Company Respond to a Product Harm Crisis?
Authors: Laufer, Daniel; Coombs, W. Timothy
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons, Indiana University Press
Publication Year: 2006
Contaminated Coca-Cola cans in Belgium, poisoned Tylenol capsules in the United Sates, defective Firestone tires in the United Sates, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia, and most recently, patients becoming ill after using Vioxx; these are but a few examples of product harm crises. Companies should not underestimate the importance of properly handling these crises, and this case discusses how to best cope with and manage product harm crises in organizations.
Lean and Green
Author: Florida, Richard
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 1996
Efforts by firms to improve manufacturing processes and increase productivity create substantial opportunities for environmental improvement. The adoption of advanced manufacturing process innovations provides incentives for the adoption of environmentally conscious manufacturing strategies.
Estimating the Value of Political Connections
Author: Fisman, Raymond
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The American Economic Review
Publication Year: 2001
Stories suggest that the value of some firms may have been highly dependent on their political connections. However, investigations in this area have not progressed beyond the level of case study and anecdote. That is, there has been no attempt to estimate the degree to which firms rely on connections for their profitability.
Insights From Preferability Letters
Author: Wallace, Wanda A.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons, Indiana University Press
Publication Year: 2006
Broad policy questions involve whether voluntary accounting changes made under “preferability letters” ought to be permitted and what independence considerations arise as managers, directors, auditors, and regulators discuss and sometimes disagree on the preferred accounting principles.
Organizational Response to Environmental Regulation: Punctuated Change or Autogenesis?
Author: King, Andrew
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Strategy and the Environment, 9, 2000, pp. 224-238
Publication Year: 2000
Theory predicts that when faced with threatening new conditions, managers often attempt to preserve the status quo by creating a buffer between the organization and the outside world. This paper presents evidence that in response to new water pollution regulation, managers indeed created buffers of technology and personnel...
Help Employees Give Away Some of That Bonus
Authors: Norton, Michael; Dunn, Elizabeth W.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
When companies hand out bonuses, one intention is to make the rewarded workers happy. But how employees spend that bonus money, our research shows, is what really affects their happiness.
Stakeholder Influence Strategies
Author: Frooman, Jeff
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Academy of Management Review. 1999; Vol. 24, Issue 2.
Publication Year: 1999
This article discusses the influence strategies available to stakeholders and what determines which they decide to use.
Microfinance Misses its Mark
Author: Karnani, Aneel
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2007
Despite the hoopla over microfinance, it doesn't cure poverty. But stable jobs do. If societies are serious about helping the poorest of the poor, they should stop investing in microfinance and start supporting large, labor-intensive industries. At the same time, governments must hold up their end of the deal, for market-based solutions will never be enough...
The Origin and History of the ESOP and Its Future Role as a Business Succession Tool
Authors: Menke, John D.; Buxton, Dickson C.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Financial Service Professionals, May 2010
Publication Year: 2010
The first ESOP (employee stock ownership plan) came into being in 1956. This article describes the origin and history of the ESOP and explains why ESOPs will increasingly become the business succession tool of choice for many owners of privately held businesses.
The Mini-Cases: 5 Companies, 5 Strategies, 5 Transformations
Author: Fromartz, Samuel
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Sloan Management Review
Publication Year: 2009
Here are mini-case glimpses of Nike, Rio Tinto, GE, Better Place and Wal-Mart.
Carris Companies' Practice of Employee Governance
Author: Betit, Cecile G.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Issue 6, Summer 2002, pp. 87-109
Publication Year: 2002
Distinguishing the Carris Companies’ transition to 100% employee ownership was its more unusual movement towards 100% employee governance. This paper examines the Carris Companies’ practice of governance and the process used to prepare stakeholder citizens for their changing roles and relationships.
Building Stakeholder Theory with a Decision Modeling Methodology
Author: Winn, Monika I.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business & Society, Volume 40, No. 2,
pp. 133-166.
Publication Year: 2001
This paper offers a case study methodology to analyze the objectives of a variety of stakeholders.
Overhauling the US Health Care Payment System
Authors: LeCuyer, Nick A.; Singhal, Shubham
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
During the next five years, rapid innovation may restructure the value chain of health care payments and change the sector's balance of power...
The Politics of Corporate Control and the Future of Shareholder Activism in the United States
Authors: Thompson, Tracy A.; Davis, Gerald F.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Corporate Governance: An International Review, 1997, vol. 5, issue 3, pages 152-159
Publication Year: 1997
Over the past eleven years, activists – particularly public pension funds such as the California Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) – are credited with prompting boards to roust under performing management at some of the largest US corporations, and they have pushed for reforms in areas ranging from compensation to corporate strategy.
The Benefits and Costs of Corporate Social Responsibility
Authors: Maines, Laureen A.; Sprinkle, Geoffrey B.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2010
The purpose of this article is to provide guidance for organizations that wish to assess the benefits and costs of CSR, with a particular focus on the interplay between accounting and corporate social responsibility.
When a Business Leader Joins a Nonprofit Board
Author: Bowen, William G.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 1994
In this adaptation from his most recent book, William Bowen, president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the former president of Princeton University, argues that nonprofit boards have much to learn from the business world.
Demystifying the Digital Divide
Author: Warschauer, Mark
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Scientific American. Vol. 289, Issue 2.
Publication Year: 2003
This article argues that the use of the technology rather than the access to it is fundamental in understanding the complex reality of unequality.
Running with risk
Authors: Buehler, Kevin S.; Pritsch, Gunnar
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2003
Risk is a fact of business life, but many companies fail to manage it well. McKinsey looked at 200 leading financial-services companies and found 150 cases of significant financial distress between 1997 and 2002. In about half of them, poorly handled risk played a significant role...
Searching for Sustainability: No Quick Fix
Author: Ehrenfeld, John
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The SoL Journal, Volume 5, Number 8 (2004).
Publication Year: 2004
In the face of alarming environmental and social imbalances, the growing push for sustainability has given hope to many thoughtful practitioners. But John Ehrenfeld, a leader in the emerging field of industrial ecology, questions the conventional approach to "sustainable development." Creating true sustainability, he argues, requires radical solutions, not quick fixes...
Outside Directors with a Stake
Authors: Hambrick, Donald C.; Jackson, Eric M.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2000
In recent years, numerous governance experts and activist investors have argued that outside directors should hold significant stakes in the companies they oversee. This article provides evidence that directors with a meaningful stake in the companies they serve are a pivotal factor in improved governance.
Can the Overcommercialization of Cause-Related Marketing Harm Society?
Authors: Polonsky, Michael J.; Wood, Greg
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Macromarketing. Vol. 21, Issue 1.
Publication Year: 2001
This article discusses potential downsides of cause-related marketing. Recommendations as to how to diminish such possible drawbacks are offered.
Corporate Codes of Conduct and the Success of Globalization
Author: Sethi, S. Prakash
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Ethics and International Affairs, New York, New York, 2002, pp. 89-107.
Publication Year: 2002
There is another aspect to this problem in terms of MNC's local suppliers. In the past MNCs sought to abrogate their responsibility for the conduct of their overseas suppliers by arguing that these suppliers were independent entrepreneurs and that the companies had no control over these suppliers. However it has been shown that foreign multinationals exert tremendous control over the operations of their suppliers because of their buying power.
The CEO's Role in Leading Transformation
Authors: Aiken, Carolyn B.; Keller, Scott P.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
The CEO helps a transformation succeed by communicating its significance, modeling the desired changes, building a strong top team, and getting personally involved...
Social Issues in Electronic Commerce: Implications for Policy Makers
Authors: Papazafeiropoulou, Anastasia; Pouloudi, Athanasia
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Information Resources Management Journal. Vol. 14, Issue 4.
Publication Year: 2001
This article explores factors influencing the development of a socially responsible strategy for electronic commerce.
Betting on Biofuels
Authors: Caesar, William K.; Riese, Jens; Seitz, Thomas
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
The industry is still in its infancy but evolving rapidly. Companies that hope to compete must devise their entry strategy now...
Who Should—and Shouldn't—Run the Family Business
Authors: Dorgan, Stephen J.; Dowdy, John J.; Rippin, Thomas M.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The Mckinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2006
Family-owned companies run by eldest sons account for a good deal of the managerial-quality gap between the countries in a study...
The Supply Chain Implications of Recycling
Authors: Pagell, Mark; Murthy, Nagesh N.; Wu, Zhoahui
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons, Indiana University Press
Publication Year: 2007
As product cast-off becomes increasingly important to the environment, more and more firms will be confronted with end-of-life product management, making it of the utmost importance to managers and firms alike.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Disclosures: An Alternative Explanation
Authors: Gelb, David; Strawer, Joyce
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Business Ethics. Vol. 33., Issue 1.
Publication Year: 2001
This article argues that firms disclose because it is socially responsible to do so.
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