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Responsibility in world business [electronic resource] : managing harmful side-effects of corporate activity / edited by Lene Bomann-Larsen and Oddny Wiggen.

Bomann-Larsen, Lene. (Added Author). Wiggen, Oddny. (Added Author). NetLibrary, Inc. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 1417564210 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: xv, 288 p. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Tokyo ; United Nations University Press, c2004.

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General Note:
Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
PART I: INTRODUCTION -- Addressing side-effect harm in the business context : conceptual and practical challenges / Oddny Wiggen, Lene Bomann-Larsen -- PART II: THEORETICAL DISCUSSION -- The idea of double effect : in war and business / Gregory Reichberg, Henrik Syse -- Business is not just war : implications for applying the principle of double effect to business / G.J. (Deon) Rossouw -- State responsibility, corporate responsibility, and complicity in human rights violations / Andrew Clapham -- Reconstructing the principle of double effect : towards fixing the goalposts of corporate responsibility / Lene Bomann-Larsen -- The principle of double effect : revised for the business context / Oddny Wiggen and Lene Bomann-Larsen -- PART III: CASE STUDIES -- The principle of double effect and moral risk : some case-studies of US transnational corporations / Patricia H. Werhane -- An object lesson in balancing business and nature in Hong Kong : saving the birds of Long Valley / Robert E. Allinson -- Shell in ogoniland / Ogbonna Ike -- Del Monte Kenya Limited / Florence J.A. Oloo -- The "just war" for profit and power? : the Bhopal catastrophe and the principle of double effect / Upendra Baxi -- Dealing with harmful side-effects : opportunities and threats in the emerging Polish market / Julita Sokoowska -- The Orissa case / Heidi von Weltzien Høivik -- Child labour in the Brazilian citrus sector : the case of Cargill's double effect / Cecilia Arruda -- A commentary on the principle of double effect / Chris Marsden -- PART IV: CONCLUSION -- Towards improved business practice : implementing the principle of double effect / Oddny Wiggen, Lene Bomann-Larsen.
Reproduction Note:
Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2004. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.
Subject: Social responsibility of business.
Business ethics.
International business enterprises > Moral and ethical aspects.
International business enterprises > Social aspects.
International business enterprises > Moral and ethical aspects.
International business enterprises > Management.
Social responsibility of business.
Business ethics.
International business enterprises > Environmental aspects.
International business enterprises > Management.
International business enterprises > Environmental aspects.
International business enterprises > Social aspects.
Genre: Electronic books.

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