Understanding How Issues in Business Ethics Develop

by Pollitt, Michael; Jones, Ian

• ISBN13: 9780333998106
• ISBN10: 0333998103
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-18
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Business ethics is currently a significant and widely debated global issue, and one that no business can afford to ignore. In this book, the authors bring together a diverse range of views on the subject, arising from an international conference on business ethics.Chapters on highly topical issues such as GM foods, child labor and bribery will make this an important tool for many businesses.

Author Biography

Michael Pollitt is Lecturer in Applied Industrial Organisation at Cambridge University. Ian Jones is at Brasenose College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vii
List of Figures	viii
Preface and Acknowledgements	ix
List of Contributors	x
Understanding How Issues in Business Ethics Develop: Introduction	1	(13)
Ian W. Jones
Michael G. Pollitt
Who Influences Debates in Business Ethics? An Investigation into the Development of Corporate Governance in the UK since 1990	14	(55)
Ian W. Jones
Michael G. Pollitt
Robert M. Worcester
Agricultural Biotechnology Hanging in the Balance: Why the Anti-GM Food Campaign has been so Successful	69	(21)
Sue Mayer
Peter Siddall
Child Labour in the Third World	90	(28)
Andrew Clayton
R. Stephen Rubin
Corporate Ethics: The Role of Internal Compliance Programmes under the US Sentencing Guidelines	118	(17)
Michael Goldsmith
Amy Bice Larson
Simon Deakin
The OECD's Anti-bribery Convention	135	(10)
Graham Rodmell
Rodney Whittaker
The Role of Global Institutional Investors -- Shareholder Engagement Opportunities for a New Era	145	(12)
Peter Butler
Guy Jubb
Reading the Business Ethics Radar: Lessons from Shell	157	(12)
Mark Moody-Stuart
Bernard Taylor
Understanding How Issues in Business Ethics Develop: Lessons for Business	169	(12)
Ian W. Jones
Michael G. Pollitt
Index	181