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A Healthier Future for India
Author: Gupta, Rajat
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2008
Affordable care, preventive medicine, and healthy behavior must be the pillars of India's health care reform.
Improving environmental performance through innovation: Recent trends in the mining industry
Authors: Warhurst, Alyson; Bridge, Gavin
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: "Minerals Engineering", Volume 9, Issue 9, September 1996, Pages 907-921
Publication Year: 1996
Innovation in mineral processing technology can enable mining companies to combine gains in productivity with improvements in environmental management.
Should India Set up a Sovereign Wealth Fund? It's a Bad Idea
Author: Nair, Vinay B.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Publication Year: 2008
Recent media reports suggest that India, like other Asian countries such as China and Singapore, is planning to set up a sovereign wealth fund.
The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City
Author: Porter, Michael E.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review Article, #95310
Publication Year: 1995
The author argues that a sustainable economic base can be created in the inner city, through private, for-profit initiatives and investment based on economic self-interest and genuine competitive advantage...
Mining companies' role in sustainable development: the 'why' and 'how' of corporate social responsibility from a business perspective
Author: Hamann, Ralph
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Development Southern Africa, Volume 20, Issue 2 June 2003 , pages 237 - 254
Publication Year: 2003
This article - the first in a pair of articles on corporate social responsibility (CSR) - provides an overview of mining companies' role in sustainable development, from a business perspective and in the South African context.
Negotiating with Liars
Author: Adler, Robert
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review
Publication Year: 2007
Numerous studies confirm that few people can make it through a typical day without lying. So it should not be surprising that falsehoods and deception are widespread in business negotiations as well...
Scorched Earth
Authors: Economy, Elizabeth; Lieberthal, Kenneth
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
Of all the risks of doing business in China, the greatest is the threat posed by environmental degradation. And yet it's barely discussed in corporate boardrooms. This is a serious mistake. In factoring environmental issues into their China strategies, foreign firms need to be both defensive, taking steps to reduce harm, and proactive, investing in environmental protection efforts.
Building Competitive Advantage and Managing Risk Through Sustainable Development
Author: Bansal, Pratima
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Ivey Business Journal
Publication Year: 2001
Business leaders who choose to ignore pressing social, economic and environmental issues do so at their own considerable peril - and their organization's...
Creating and Testing Workplace Strategy
Authors: Kampschroer, Kevin; Heerwagen, Judith; Powell, Kevin
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2007
The growing demand for new approaches to support the changing nature of work and organizational structure has spawned innovations from both manufacturers and space designers. The result is a multitude of new concepts and designs, but little data on how well and under what circumstances these innovations are effective.
Trips and Tips for Negotiation Self-defense: Forewarned Is Forearmed
Authors: Dalton, Catherine M.; Dalton, Dan R.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2011
In this article we venture, with some measure of caution, into the dark side of negotiation: those tactics that may be duplicitous, unethical, and unprincipled.
Ethical Obligations of Public Relations in an Era of Globalisation
Authors: Starck, Kenneth; Kruckeberg, Dean
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Communication Management. Vol. 7, Issue 8.
Publication Year: 2003
Drawing on a variety of literature, the authors argue that corporations out of their own self-interest must embrace a global approach in fulfilling their social responsibility and that public relations professionals have an obligation to carry out that responsibility by recognizing in their practices that the most important 'corporate' stakeholder is society itself.
Supply Chain Specific? Understanding the Patchy Success of Ethical Sourcing Initiatives
Author: Roberts, Sarah
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Business Ethics. Vol. 44, Issue 2/3.
Publication Year: 2003
This paper begins by examining the relationship between corporate social responsibility, reputation, and supply network conditions. It then looks at the effectiveness of one tool for managing supply network sustainability issues...
Responsibility: The New Business Imperative
Authors: Waddock, Sandra; Bodwell, Charles; Graves, Samuel
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Academy of Management Executive, 2002, Volume 16, No. 2
Publication Year: 2002
Businesses today are experiencing profound pressures to reform and improve stakeholder related practices and their impacts on stakeholders and the natural environment - in short, managing responsibly as well as profitably...
The Effect of Stakeholder Preferences, Organizational Structure and Industry Type on Corporate Community Involvement
Authors: Brammer, Stephen; Millington, Andrew
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Business Ethics. Vol. 45, Issue 3.
Publication Year: 2003
This paper analyses the relationships between corporate community involvement activities, the organizational structures within which they are managed, the firm's industry and evolving stakeholder attitudes and preferences in a sample of 148 U.K. based firms who have demonstrated a clear desire to be socially responsible.
Cleaner Energy for China: An Interview with the Chairman of ENN Group
Authors: Wang, Michael; Xu, David
Product Type: Journal Articles; Interviews
Source: McKinsey & Company
Publication Year: 2008
Although it is difficult for privately held companies to compete in China’s energy sector, ENN Group found its niche in producing and distributing cleaner energy.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Authors: Bansal, Pratima; Kandola, Sonia
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Ivey Business Journal
Publication Year: 2004
Whistle blowers wouldn't exist if a company were doing the right things to promote social responsibility. The "right things," these authors say, are a set of strong and consistent organizational values that espouse corporate social responsibility, and employee empowerment that encourages individuals to express their concerns to senior management.
The Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility on the Branding of Financial Services
Author: Ogrizek, Michel
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Financial Services Marketing. 2002; Vol. 6, Issue 3.
Publication Year: 2002
This article asserts that CSR is a new financial risk factor, which if not properly managed can affect corporate reputation and bottom-line.
Winning the Talent War for Women
Author: McCracken, Douglas M.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2000
In 1991, Deloitte & Touche got a wake-up call about its efforts to retain women professionals. While it was recruiting almost as many women as men, the company had a much higher turnover rate for women...
Sustainable development in the mining industry: clarifying the corporate perspective
Authors: Hilson, Gavin; Murck, Barbara
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Resources Policy, Volume 26, Issue 4, December 2000, Pages 227-238
Publication Year: 2000
This paper examines sustainable development in the corporate mining context, and provides some guidelines for mining companies seeking to operate more sustainably.
Point of View
Author: Hagopian, Kip
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2006
In 2004, new standards of accounting for employee stock options (ESO) were adopted. The new standard requires that ESOs be valued at the date of grant and expensed over the vesting period of the options. The signatories to this position paper strongly oppose this revision because they believe that the expensing of ESOs is improper accounting that will result in the serious impairment of the financial statements of companies that are users of broad-based option plans.
Communities of Creation
Authors: Sawhney, Mohanbir; Prandelli, Emanuela
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2000
The community-centric model of innovation shifts the focus of innovation beyond the boundaries of the firm, to a community of individuals and firms that collaborate to create joint intellectual property. A community of creation requires an identified sponsor, a set of ground rules for participation, and a system for managing intellectual property rights.
The New Global Challengers
Authors: Aguiar, Marcos; Bhattacharya, Arindam; Bradtke, Thomas; Cotte, Pascal; Dertnig, Stephan; Meyer, Michael
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The Boston Consulting Group
Publication Year: 2006
In our discussions with executives at the world's largest companies, globalization and its challenges are often at the top of the agenda. Invariably, one key question comes up: Which are the new companies based in China, India, and other rapidly developing economies that I need to know about? Executives recognize that a new class of company is arising in the world today-- a group of emerging challengers that are becoming important players in both developing and developed markets around the globe.
Building the Civilized Workplace
Author: Sutton, Robert
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
Nasty people don't just make others feel miserable; they create economic problems for their companies...
A Multilevel Investigation of the Motivational Mechanisms Underlying Knowledge Sharing and Performance
Authors: Quigley, Narda R.; Tesluk, Paul E.; Locke, Edwin A.; Bartol, Kathryn M.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: INFORMS
Publication Year: 2009
This study draws on three different, yet complementary, theories of motivation, which we combine in an interactive manner, to explain the mechanisms that underlie the exchange between knowledge providers and recipients and ultimately impact performance. We argue that the findings constitute a useful advance in middle-range motivation theory pertaining to knowledge sharing and utilization.
McKinsey Global Survey of Business Executives: Economic and Hiring Outlook
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Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
More than twice as many companies plan to increase their workforces as to shrink them, with most new jobs in the same country as headquarters. Executives are optimistic about prospects for the economies of their home countries, despite fear of rising inflation...
Corporate Social Responsibility: A Complementary Perspective of Community and Corporate Leaders
Author: Boehm, Amnon
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business and Society Review. Vol. 107, Issue 2.
Publication Year: 2002
This article argues that to understand CSR is necessary to study the attitudes of community leaders besides those of corporate leaders.
End of Business Schools? Less Success Than Meets the Eye
Author: Fong, Christina T.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Academy of Management Learning & Education. Volume 1, Number 1.
Publication Year: 2002
Although business school enrollments have soared and business education has become big business, surprisingly little evaluation of the impact of business schools on either their graduates or the profession of management exists...
Business Ethics
Author: Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 1992
The search for a grand, unifying principle of management morality often leads to frustration and cynicism. The moral dilemmas managers face are, in essence, clashes among very different spheres of responsibility.
Is Employee Ownership Counterproductive?
Authors: Faleye, Olubunmi; Mehrotra, Vikas; Morck, Randall
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review
Publication Year: 2005
Turning workers into shareholders improves corporate performance, or so advocates of employee ownership maintain. Their logic is simple: workers with a stake in their company's future are more likely to take a long-term view, which translates into higher productivity and other gains.
Corporate Responsibility and Strategic Management
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Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: European Academy of Business in Society
Publication Year: 2007
To access and download PDF copies of the articles, click on the individual titles below. Corporate Responsibility, Strategic Management and the Stakeholder View of the Firm - Introduction and Editorial. Guest editors: Gilbert Lenssen, President, EABIS and Professor, University of Leiden (Netherlands); Francesco Perrini, Professor and Chair of Social Entrepreneurship, Bocconi University (Italy); Antonio Tencati, Assistant Professor and Senior Researcher, Bocconi University (Italy); and Peter Lacy, Executive Director, EABIS.
Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution
Authors: Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source:
Publication Year: 2002
Among countries colonized by European powers during the past 500 years, those that were relatively rich in 1500 are now relatively poor.
Risky Business: Geopolitics and the Global Corporation
Authors: Behrendt, Sven; Khanna, Parag
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Strategy + Business
Publication Year: 2003
In an economy filled with both promise and threat, business executives must draw a new map of the world...
The Bindingness of Social and Psychological Contracts: Toward a Theory of Social Responsibility in Downsizing
Author: Van Buren III, Harry J.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Business Ethics, No. 25, 2000, pp. 205-219
Publication Year: 2000
In considering downsizing, the author explores the constraining role of social and psychological contracts which bound the moral free space of managers, as well as resource factors.
Five Priorities for Brazil's Economy
Authors: Elstrodt, Heinz-Peter; Laboissire, Martha; Pietracci, Bruno
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
It is high time for Brazil to seize its future. The world's fifth-most-populous nation needs a long-term vision for its economy, as well as a commitment at all levels of government to implement measures that could lead to a dramatic increase in productivity...
Retrieving and Transferring Embodied Data: Implications for the Management of Interdependence within Organizations
Author: King, Andrew
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Management Science, Volume 45, No. 7.
Publication Year: 1999
This research helps to link theories of sticky research with organizational design and governance. It suggests that information embodied in process material can allow downstream tasks to uncover information about upstream tasks...
Strategic Thinking at the Top
Author: Goldman, Ellen
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review
Publication Year: 2007
Business schools and others interested in management education and development have vigorously debated how best to teach strategy to future leaders...
Focusing on the Customer: An Interview with the Head of Merrill Lynch's Operations and IT
Author: Weinberg, Allen
Product Type: Journal Articles; Interviews
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
Merrill Lynch has combined operations with IT in a single unit. Diane Schueneman, the head of the company's Global Infrastructure Solutions, explains how she is changing both to focus on the customer.
An Urban Grants Economy Revisited
Author: Galaskiewicz, Joseph
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Administrative Science Quarterly
Publication Year: 1997
Corporate charitable contributions can teach us how social, political, and cultural contexts influence corporate behavior...
A Quiet Revolution in China's Capital Markets
Authors: Ahn, James; Cogman, David
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
Reforms that attracted little attention in the Western world mark a major step forward in the modernization of China's capital markets...
Accountancy and Society: A Covenant Desecrated
Author: Briloff, Abraham J.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: CPA Journal. Vol. 72, Issue 12.
Publication Year: 2002
This article discusses the importance of the social responsibility of accountants in independent audits.
The Philosopher of Progress and Prosperity
Author: Kleiner, Art
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Strategy + Business
Publication Year: 2004
What separates poor nations from wealthy ones is “the mystery of capital,” says Mr. de Soto. To solve that mystery, he argues, one must understand why it is so common for the poor in non-Western countries to be locked inside large, informal, extralegal economies where they are unable to accumulate wealth...
Exploring the Relationship Between Corporate Social Performance and Employer Attractiveness
Authors: Backhaus, Kristin B.; Stone, Brett A.; Heiner, Karl
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business & Society, V41, #3: 292-318. 2002. Copyright by Business and Society
Reprinted by Permission of Sage Publications, Inc.
Publication Year: 2002
What makes an organization attractive to a potential applicant? One stream of research suggests that job seekers prefer organizations with whom they perceive congruence between their and the organization's primary values...
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The Elusive Goal of Corporate Outperformance
Authors: Devan, Janamitra; Klusas, Matthew B.; Ruefli, Timothy W.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
Few large global companies outperform their competitors on both revenue growth and profitability over a decade. Do those that do have anything else in common?...
Who Uses Broad-Based Stock Option Grants After An IPO
Authors: Roosenboom, Peter; van der Groot, Tjalling
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Journal Articles
Source: Bowne, Routledge, Applied Economics - Vol. 38, No. 12, Pgs. 1343-1351
Publication Year: 2006
CFOs may wonder about the best ways to keep stock-owning employees committed to the company after an IPO. Research by corporate finance professors Peter Roosenboom and Tjalling van der Groot shows a decrease in insiders' stock ownership from 52.1% before the IPO to 34% afterward, an indication of the powerful financial lure a post-IPO stock sale presents.
The New Work of the Nonprofit Board
Authors: Taylor, Barbara E.; Chait, Richard P.; Holland, Thomas P.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 1996
Too often, the board of a nonprofit organization is little more than a collection of high-powered people engaged in low-level activities. But that can change, the authors say, if trustees are willing to discover and take on the new work of the board...
Executing Strategic Change
Authors: Franken, Arnoud; Edwards, Chris; Lambert, Rob
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2009
Despite the availability of many methodologies, management approaches, and literature on strategy execution, research suggests that seven out of ten organizations fail to successfully execute their strategies. While mastery of formal methodologies and development of business cases are important, successful strategy execution is critically dependent on having a portfolio of change programs that are explicitly aligned with the organization's strategy.
Insider Trading 2011: How Technology and Social Networks Have 'Friended' Access to Confidential Information
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Knowledge@Wharton
Publication Year: 2011
Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon Group hedge fund in New York, has been found guilty on all counts in one of the largest insider trading cases in U.S history. Amid the discussions on that case and on insider trading generally, the role of technology in communicating information has often been overlooked.
From risk to opportunity—How global executives view sociopolitical issues: McKinsey Global Survey Results
Author: McKinsey & Company
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: McKinsey & Company
Publication Year: 2008
Executives have yet to fathom the extent to which the public expects companies to address major global problems.
The Structure of Optimal Trust: Moral and Strategic Implications
Authors: Wicks, Andrew C.; Berman, Shawn L.; Jones, Thomas M.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The academy of Management Review. Vol. 24, issue 1.
Publication Year: 1999
This article discusses the notion of optimal trust in management.
The Tragedy of the Commons
Author: Hardin, Garrett
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Journal Articles
Source: Science, 162, 1968
Publication Year: 1968
In economic affairs, The Wealth of Nations (1776) popularized the "invisible hand," the idea that an individual who "intends only his own gain," is, as it were, "led by an invisible hand to promote… the public interest."
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