Corporate Social Irresponsibility
Paula Alexander
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Corporate Social Irresponsibility
Paula Alexander
Información del libro
Corporate Social Irresponsibility focuses on ethical failures in order to relate corporate responsibility to business ethics, corporate governance, and organization effectiveness. The book advocates a strategic approach to CSR – ethical management cannot, and should not, be divorced from effective management.
Corporate social responsibility has transitioned from oxymoron into a defining challenge of the twenty first century. Taking the recent financial crisis as a starting point, Alexander examines the underlying ethical and legal crises these events expose in the business world. The problems that have come to light go beyond issues of firm financial performance into the integrity of the manufacturing and marketing processes, and relations with consumers. As such, the book presents a model that resolves the apparent conflict between maximizing shareholder value, and meeting the interests of other firm stakeholders. Alexander presents a balanced view, contrasting her model with alternative approaches. The book also covers the impact of globalization on management, the ethics of outsourcing, the limits of regulation, as well as poverty alleviation and social entrepreneurship.
Blending a comprehensive theoretical framework with a broad range of cases, this book covers the latest major changes in US legislation, as well as recent corporate scandals making it a valuable accompaniment to any course in CSR, business ethics, or business, government and society.
Preguntas frecuentes
Información
Unit II
5 Managing the Business–Government Relationship I Regulation of Business Enterprise and the Relation of the Enterprise to Its Competitors
- Laissez Faire Capitalism
- The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of the Market-Driven Economy
- Justifications for Government Regulation of Business Corporations According to Laissez Faire Capitalism
- Correcting Market “Failure”
- Redistribution of Goods
- Evolving/New Social Norms
- Evolving/New Social Norms and Redistribution of Goods
- Government Authority to Regulate
- Regulatory Agencies
- Anti-Trust Law: The Regulation of Competitor Relations
- Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890
- Amendments to the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
- Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914)
- Federal Trade Commission Act (1914)
- Robinson-Patman Price Discrimination Act (1936)
- The Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvement Act (1976)
- The Role of Competitors
- Unintended Consequences of Regulatory Enforcement
- The Impact of Changing Technology
- End of Chapter Case 5.1: Microsoft Corporation and Anti-Trust Litigation: USA and EU
- End of Chapter Case 5.2: Corporate Personhood
Chapter Introduction
Chapter Goal and Learning Objectives
- Discuss the evolution of laissez faire capitalism.
- Discuss the market-failure justification for regulation of business enterprise, as well as other justifications for business regulation.
- Debate monopoly power as an ethical issue; understand the development of anti-trust regulation.
- Discuss the role of competitors vis-à-vis each other and in the enforcement of anti-trust and other law.
- Discuss unintended negative consequences of regulation and the alternatives to regulation.
Laissez Faire Capitalism
The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of the Market-Driven Economy
Justifications for Government Regulation of Business Corporations According to Laissez Faire Capitalism
Correcting Market “Failure”
The assumptions of a “free” or rational market economy include: |
(1) no monopoly power; |
(2) no external costs; |