Responsibility in world business : managing harmful side-effects of corporate activity

Online-Ressource (xv, 288 p)

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Addressing side effect harm in the business context Conceptual and practical challenges; 2 The idea of double effect in war and business; 3 Business is not Just War Implications for applying the principle of double effect to business; 4 State responsibility corporate responsibility and complicity in human rights violations; 5 Reconstructing the principle of double effect Towards fixing the goalposts of corporate responsibility; 6 The principle of double effect revised for the business context; 7 The principle of double effect and moral risk

8 An object lesson in balancing business and nature in Hong Kong Saving the birds of Long Valley9 Shell in Ogoniland; 10 Del Monte Kenya Limited; 11 The just war for profit and power The Bhopal catastrophe and the principle of double effect; 12 Dealing with harmful side effects Opportunities and threats in the emerging Polish market; 13 The Orissa case; 14 Child labour in the Brazilian citrus sector The case of Cargill's double effect; 15 A commentary on the principle of double effect; 16 Towards improved business practice Implementing the principle of double effect; Index

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