Something to Believe In
Subtitle: Creating Trust and Hope in Organisations: Stories of Transparency, Accountability and Governance
By: editors, David Murphy, Malcolm McIntosh
Contributors: Murphy, David, editor; McIntosh, Malcolm, editor
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781351281324
Subjects: Social responsibility of business; Corporate governance; Globalization; Social aspects; Trust; Confidence; Entreprises; Responsabilité sociale; Gouvernement d'entreprise; Mondialisation; Aspect social; Confiance
Description: "In a world where trust in politicians, corporations and the processes that determine our lives continues to dwindle, this innovative book brings together research, case studies and stories that begin to answer a central question for society: How we can create organisations, institutions, groups and societies that can nurture trusting relationships with one another and among individuals?Something to Believe In provides a fresh take on the corporate responsibility debate, based as it is on the work of key global thinkers on corporate social responsibility, along with a raft of work developed from collaborations between the New Academy of Business and the United Nations Volunteers, UK Department for International Development and TERI-Europe in countries such as Brazil, Nicaragua, Ghana, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Nigeria, the Philippines and South Africa. The focus is on business, and particularly how deeper, more systemic changes to current ways of understanding and undertaking business can and have been enacted in both developed countries and in nations where the Western concept of CSR means nothing. The market-based model of economic thinking-the increasingly distrusted globalisation project-which threatens to sweep all before it is challenged by many of the contributions to this book. The book tells stories such as the mobilization of civil society in Ghana to bring business to account; the reorientation of a business school to focus on values; the life-cycle of ethical chocolate; the accountability of the diamond business in a war zone; the need to reinvent codes of conduct for women workers in the plantations and factories of Nicaragua; a Philippine initiative to economically empower former Moslem liberation fighters; and the development of local governance practices in a South African eco-village. The book is split into four sections. "Through Some Looking Glasses" contains short, thought-provoking pieces about the issues of trust, belief and change from writers including Thabo Mbeki, Malcolm McIntosh and a reprinted piece from E.M. Forster. Section Two asks how it will be possible to believe in our corporations and provides new approaches from around the world on how space is being opened up to found businesses that are able to create trust. Section Three examines the role of auditing in fostering trust. Corporations continue to attempt to engender trust through their activities in philanthropy, reporting and voluntary programmes. But, post-Enron et al., even the most highly praised corporate mission statements are tarnished. Can social and environmental audits of corporate reports, codes and practices assuage our doubts about boardroom democracy? Section Four examines alternative forms of accountability, transparency and governance from around the world and offers some different ways of thinking about the practice of creating trust in society. Something to Believe In provides a host of fascinating suggestions about redefining and renewing the underlying deal between society and its organizations. It will become a key text for students, thinkers and practitioners in the field of corporate responsibility."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, 1 Through some looking glasses --; title: chapter Introduction --; title: chapter 1 Something to have struggled for and now to believe*  -- T.M. Mbeki; title: chapter 2 PlanetHome  -- Malcolm McIntosh; title: chapter 3 From terrorism to trust --; title: Trusting our nature?  -- Mary-Jayne Rust; title: chapter 4 Partnering trust --; title: India's corporate social responsibility heritage  -- Viraal B. Balsari; title: chapter 5 Tolerance*  -- E.M. Forster; title: part, 2 How could it be possible to believe in our corporations? --; title: chapter 6 Demanding corporate responsibility is the key --; title: The creation of a movement for corporate responsibility in Ghana*  -- Joseph Yaw Boateng; title: chapter 7 Corporate responsibility --; title: The emerging South Asian agenda*  -- Ritu Kumar; title: chapter 8 Corporate governance, shareholder interests and managerial accountability in turbulent times  -- Scott Bourke Neil E. Béchervaise; title: chapter 9 Strange bedfellows make for democratic deficits --; title: The rise and challenges of private corporate social responsibility engagement  -- Matthew J. Hirschland; title: chapter 10 The rise of the 'abdroids'*  -- Roger Warren Evans; title: chapter 11 Changing focus --; title: A business school for sustainable development  -- Juliet Roper Eva Collins Mike Pratt; title: part, 3 Auditing for whom? --; title: chapter 12 Love in a time of chocolate --; title: The corporate discipline of compassion  -- Adrian Henriques; title: chapter 13 Trouble at the Hard Rock Café --; title: Diamonds and corporate social responsibility  -- Ian Smillie Ralph Hazleton; title: chapter 14 In search of transparency --; title: Corporate codes of conduct and women workers in Central America  -- Marina Prieto-Carron; title: chapter 15 Voluntary governance or a contradiction in terms? --; title: Are voluntary codes accountable and transparent governance tools?  -- Simon B. Archer S. Tina Piper; title: chapter 16 The auditor has no clothes --; title: Challenging the pursuit of objectivity in auditing  -- Rupesh A. Shah; title: part, 4 New initiatives --; title: chapter 17 In the business of making peace --; title: La Frutera and Paglas in the Philippines*  -- Charmaine Nuguid-Anden; title: chapter 18 Corporate responsibility in New Zealand --; title: A case study  -- Bob Frame Richard Gordon Ian Whitehouse; title: chapter 19 Reforming government; working with business --; title: The Office of the Minister of State for Administrative Reform in Lebanon*  -- Lubna Forzley; title: chapter 20 Living and learning in Stellenbosch, South Africa  -- Mark Swilling Eve Annecke; title: chapter 21 It's the film that matters, not the photo --; title: Good governance in development co-operation*  -- David F. Murphy; title: part, 5 Conclusion --; title: chapter 22 Under the trumpet flower * -- Abdul Cader Riswana Ismael Ashraff Jinutheen Rasmina Kanathan Dinojit Stepan Sampath.