Corporate Responsibility [electronic resource]: Private Initiatives and Public Goals /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2001.
Private initiatives for corporate responsibility have been a major development in international management over the last twenty years. The initiatives include issuance of codes of business conduct, implementation of management systems and broader efforts to improve business accountability. Yet, there is little agreement about what these initiatives mean or how effective they are. OECD research on private initiatives sheds light on various aspects of the corporate responsibility movement: what are firms and business associations doing? How have governments influenced the initiatives? What contributions, if any, have these initiatives made to improving the business sector’s ability to comply with law and regulation and to respond to broader societal expectations?
Description based upon print version of record.
""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1. An Analysis of Private Initiatives for Corporate Responsibility""; ""Executive Summary""; ""Introduction""; ""The Record to Date""; ""Box 1. Consensus-building and Voluntary Initiatives â€? examples from the Codes Inventory""; ""Consensus â€? A Basic Building Block for the Effective Control of Business Conduct""; ""Expertise â€? Human Capital and the Social Control of Organisations""; ""Costs and Benefits of Private Initiatives""; ""The Benefits for Firms""; ""Box 2. The Business of Business is Business â€? Direct Quotes...""
""The Effectiveness of Voluntary Initiatives: Do they Change Company Behaviour?""""Voluntary Initiatives in a Broader Governance Context""; ""Box 3. A Comparison of Binding Laws with Voluntary Initiatives""; ""Cost Uncertainty and Unintended Consequences""; ""Implications for International Economic Policy""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 2. Overview of a Fact-finding Mission on Private Initiatives""; ""Introduction""; ""Commitments and Codes of Conduct: Actors, Issues and Audiences""; ""Figure 1. Composition of codes by type of issuer""; ""Box 4. Principal Findings""
""Figure 2. Issues addressed in codes of corporate conduct""""Figure 3. Type of Codes""; ""Table 1. Commitments in the Environmental Codes""; ""Table 2. Commitment in the Labour Codes""; ""Implementing the Codes â€? A Portfolio of Tools""; ""Figure 4a. Implementation in the 96 codes of conduct addressed to employees""; ""Figure 4b. Implementation in the 96 codes of conduct addressed to employees""; ""Figure 5. Implementation measures in 22 codes of conduct addressed to suppliers""; ""Management Systems and Reporting â€? Focus on the Environment""
""Figure 6. The environmental practices of European companies: policy, management systems and reporting""""Figure 7. Standardised EMAS and ISO 14001 versus Tailor-made EMSs in Europe""; ""Figure 8. Environmental management practices of non-member Asian companies""; ""Governmentsâ€? Roles in Influencing These Initiatives""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 3. Codes of Corporate Conduct: Expanded Review of their Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""Introduction""; ""Methodology and Limitations""; ""A Profile of the Codes Reviewed""; ""Figure 9. Composition of Codes by Type of Issuer""
""Figure 10. Type of Company Codes""""Table 3. Countries of Origin by Issuer of Code""; ""Table 4. Sectoral Composition of Firms Issuing Codes""; ""The Content of the Codes: Issues and Audiences""; ""Figure 11. Attributes of the Codes""; ""Environmental Stewardship""; ""Table 5. Environmental Content of Codes""; ""Labour management""; ""Table 6. The Labour Content of the Codes""; ""Disclosure of Information""; ""Figure 12. Disclosure Mentioned in Company Codes""; ""Competition""; ""Taxation""; ""Bribery and Corruption""; ""Table 7. The Attributes of Bribery Codes""; ""Science and Technology""
""Consumer Protection""
Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-111).
Private initiatives for corporate responsibility have been a major development in international management over the last twenty years. The initiatives include issuance of codes of business conduct, implementation of management systems and broader efforts to improve business accountability. Yet, there is little agreement about what these initiatives mean or how effective they are. OECD research on private initiatives sheds light on various aspects of the corporate responsibility movement: what are firms and business associations doing? How have governments influenced the initiatives? What contributions, if any, have these initiatives made to improving the business sector’s ability to comply with law and regulation and to respond to broader societal expectations?
Business ethics.
Social responsibility of business.