Research Catalog

Title

Is the good corporation dead? : social responsibility in a global economy / edited by John W. Houck and Oliver F. Williams.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Houck, John W.
• Williams, Oliver F.

Description

xviii, 318 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• International business enterprises > Moral and ethical aspects
• Corporations > Moral and ethical aspects
• Social responsibility of business

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Preface / John W. Houck and Oliver F. Williams -- 1. The Good Corporation: R.I.P. / Robert J. Samuelson -- 2. The Myth of Corporate Social Responsibility: Ethics and International Business / Richard T. De George -- 3. Responsibility and the Virtual Corporation / Ronald M. Green -- 4. The New Social Contract / James E. Post -- 5. The International Economic Order Revisited: Are We Better Off Today? / Howard F. Rosen -- 6. Moving from a Socially Responsible to a Socially Accountable Corporation / S. Prakash Sethi -- 7. Managerial Discretion: A Necessary Condition for Multinational Corporate Social Responsibility / Lee A. Tavis -- 8. The Socially Responsible Corporation: Responsible to Whom and for What? / Marina v. N. Whitman -- 9. Accountability in a Global Economy / J. Philip Wogaman -- 10. Evolution of Corporate Social Responsibility: Educating Stakeholders and Virtuous Entrepreneurs / Gerald F. Cavanagh -- 11. Seven Corporate Responsibilities / Michael Novak --
• 12. The Apartheid Struggle: Learnings from the Interaction between Church Groups and Business / Oliver F. Williams -- 13. Corporate Social Responsibility: Wisdom from the World's Religions / Dennis P. McCann -- 14. Corporate Social Responsibility Is Not a Challenge / Robert W. Galvin -- 15. The Hershey Story: Vision and Leadership for a Socially Responsible Corporation / William Lehr, Jr. -- 16. How One Company Is Socially Responsible / David W. Fox -- 17. The Value of Corporate Values / W. Douglas Ford -- 18. Chevron's Ethical Commitment / James N. Sullivan -- 19. Henkels & McCoy - Our Story / Paul M. Henkels -- About the Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business.

ISBN

• 0847682080 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0847682099 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

95052589

OCLC

• 33947264
• ocm33947264

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries