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Multinational Corporations, Governance Deficits, and Corruption
Author: Novartis Foundation
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Global Development Research Center
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A web essay from Novartis Foundation discussing corruption in both developing and developed countries. The different types of corruption are summarized. The article also mentions that ethical corporate behavior by some companies may encourage other companies to do likewise.
The Business Case for Being a Responsible Business
Authors: Exter, Nadine; Turner, Charlotte
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Business in the Community; Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield School of Management
Publication Year: 2011
The way we do business is changing. What is needed is a form of capitalism that is driven by businesses which not only think about the short term returns but also about building longer term sustainable businesses that create economic, environmental and social value...
The Value of ESOPs in Engineering Firms
Author: Roback, Thomas, Jr.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2012
While all kinds of businesses become employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) companies, there is a large percentage of engineering firms that have chosen the ESOP structure. Why so?
Employee Ownership Companies on the Hunt - Acquisitions by ESOP Companies
Author: Staubus, Martin
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2012
With ESOPs now formed almost entirely at very healthy companies – and many of those enjoying the unique cash flow benefits of operating as ESOP-owned S corporations – a growing number of these companies have become the predators of the M&A jungle...
REDF Box Set — Social Purpose Enterprises and Venture Philanthropy in the New Millennium
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Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: REDF
Publication Year: 1999
REDF and its Portfolio members produced this three volume set to answer questions about practitioner perspectives, investor perspectives, and practitioner profiles.
Because It's Right: Effective Arguments for Green Supply Chains
Author: Knowledge@W.P. Carey
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Knowledge@W.P. Carey
Publication Year: 2012
The effectiveness of environmental advocates inside organizations depends a great deal on their choice of influence tactics, and some of the most promising options are often overlooked...
Re-booting Capitalism: The Action Agenda for Business
Authors: Grayson, David; McLaren, Melody
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Ethical Corporation
Publication Year: 2012
Capitalism is living in interesting times. Politicians, academics and activists around the world are debating the merits of the capitalist system, and how and if it could be improved...
Teaching Business at a Liberal Arts College
Author: Nesteruk, Jeffrey
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Publication Year: 2008
Bringing business education and the liberal arts into close proximity, as happens at many small liberal arts colleges today, can unsettle the assumptions of each. But if done well there are tremendous benefits, certainly to business education and, surprisingly to many, also to the liberal arts. The key to a business program flourishing at a liberal arts college is threefold: blending, bridging, and building...
The 2012 Election Cycle: An Embarrassing Circus, Perhaps, but a Great Opportunity for Employee Ownership, for Sure
Author: Mathews, Anthony
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2012
It is time to make the case that employee ownership is a solution to a lot of what is wrong with our country, and we need to continue to promote the concept until we have 30,000 or 40,000 employee-owned companies rather than the static 10,000 we have had for the last decade or more. If we can do that, we will have put a large part of the country on a much stronger footing, and moved toward solving some fundamental economic and social problems...
Restoring the Primacy of the Real Economy
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Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: 2009 Summit of the Future of the Corporation
Publication Year: 2009
The topic of corporate purpose and structure has shifted from relative obscurity to front page headlines as all stakeholders grapple with the worst economic recession in decades. The papers in this document pay special attention to the purpose, regulation and restructuring of the financial sector at both the global and national levels...
Don't Buy This Jacket, Black Friday and the New York Times
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Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Cleanest Line
Publication Year: 2011
Why run an ad in The New York Times on Black Friday telling people, “Don’t Buy This Jacket”? Patagonia argues that businesses need to make fewer things but of higher quality. Customers need to think twice before they buy.
More than Merely Sustainable
Author: Mathews, Anthony
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2010
The sustainability debate continues in the employee-ownership community. The fear that employee-owned companies will not be strong enough to survive without significant outside capital, which will end their employee ownership, is still very widespread...
The CEO's Role in Fixing the System
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Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Multimedia
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2011
This Harvard Business Review Forum on the CEO’s role in fixing capitalism is an interactive resource that highlights emerging thinking around one of today’s most important issues.
The Global Peace Index and Multi-National Attitude Research
Author: Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Institute for Economics and Peace
Publication Year: 2009
In order to examine how people’s attitudes and beliefs in different nations may be related to their peacefulness, the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland has gathered multi-national attitude research and correlated it with the Global Peace Index.
Defining Peace Industries and Calculating the Potential Size of a Peace Gross World Product by Country and by Economic Sector
Authors: Brauer, J.; Tepper-Marlin, J.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Institute for Economics and Peace
Publication Year: 2009
This paper outlines a definition of peace industries (economic sectors whose market size tends to increase with increasing peacefulness and decrease with decreasing peacefulness) in a systematic, readily measurable, and replicable way, and begins to estimate the economic effects of the cessation of violence and the occurrence of peace, including break down these effects not only by but also by economic sectors and subsectors.
Use Equity (Stock) to Motivate Your Key Employees
Authors: Honeycutt, Paul; Smith, Ronald
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2011
Business owners who set up employee incentive plans generally do so to motivate their employees to work harder and smarter. There are several types of equity-based incentive plans owners can use to achieve these purposes...
Ownership and Outcomes
Author: Thompson, Peter B.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: University of Illinois at Chicago
Publication Year: 2005
The relationship between employee ownership and desirable organizational outcomes is well documented, but the cause, if any, is not.
Leader Values, the Structure of Employee Stock Ownership Plans, and Organizational Outcomes
Author: Thompson, Peter B.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: University of Illinois at Chicago
Publication Year: 2003
What is the relationship between the personal philosophy (as it relates to the management of the firm) of leaders of employee-owned companies and the structure of their employee stock ownership plans?
Topic: Nuclear Energy
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Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Web Sites
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
A list of resources from around the Web about nuclear energy. This selection includes articles, editorials, and other material as a way to help faculty use current events to discuss nuclear energy and its relationship to society, business and government within the curriculum.
Social Intrapreneurs — An Extra Force for Sustainability
Authors: Grayson, David; McLaren, Melody; Spitzeck, Heiko
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University
Publication Year: 2011
Social intrapreneurs are people within a large corporation who take direct initiative for innovations which address social or environmental challenges profitably. This occasional paper examines how individuals, businesses and Civil Society organisations interact to create sustainable value for business and for society at large. It focuses on the contribution that social intrapreneurs can make to this.
Employee Ownership as Creative Capitalism
Author: Durwood, Ben
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2010
Employee ownership plans transform a company’s culture, because employees adopt the mentality of owners; they work harder and become more involved in process improvement and cost management, causing their company’s net income to increase at a faster rate.
Building a System of Trust: Ten Hidden Secrets of Success in Employee-Owned Companies
Authors: Staubus, Martin; Lynch, Robert Porter
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2010
The great potential of employee ownership to improve business performance lies in its capacity to bring people together to work as a team toward shared success.
Trends in Employee Ownership: Important Demographic Developments
Author: Staubus, Martin
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2010
As the baby boom approaches retirement, prospects for employee ownership are ramping up...
A New Framework of Employee Engagement
Author: Castellano, William G.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Rutgers Center for Human Resource Strategy
Publication Year: 2009
In a world that is changing both in terms of the global nature of work and the diversity of the workforce, engaged employees may be a key to competitive advantage.
Business responses to environmental and social protection policies: toward a framework for analysis
Authors: Rivera, Jorge; Oetzel, Jennifer; deLeon, Peter; Starik, Mark
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
Publication Year: 2009
This conceptual paper seeks to advance neo-institutional work that has traditionally portrayed environmental and social protection policies as constraints followed by businesses.
Managing an Employee-Owned Company. It's Different. It's Better.
Author: Staubus, Martin
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2010
Ask Don about what it's like to run a company where the employees are stockholders, and he can wax warm and fuzzy.
Perpetuating an Ownership Culture
Author: Binns, David
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2010
In its summer, 2003 issue, Business Ethics magazine highlighted "The Legacy Problem" whereby the culture and vision of a number of socially conscious corporations was being lost when the companies were acquired by larger firms.
Teams, Not Stars, Are the Key to High Performance
Author: Staubus, Martin
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2010
It's all well and good that a shared ownership stake may promote a team orientation, but does teamwork necessarily translate into superior business results?
The Impact of the Second-hand Clothing Trade on Developing Countries
Authors: Baden, Sally; Barber, Catherine
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Oxfam
Publication Year: 2005
The global trade in second-hand clothing is worth more than $1 billion each year. Supporters of the SHC industry point out that the trade creates employment in the receiving countries and provides low-cost clothing for people living in poverty. At the same time, however, there are concerns that the trade may be undermining local textile and garment industries, and livelihoods in some developing countries.
The Accountable Corporation
Author: Hanson, Kirk O.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters; Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Praeger
Publication Year: 2005
This landmark set of essays brings new clarity to the issues of business ethics, social responsibility, and accountability, as societies around the world begin to hold corporations and their leaders to higher standards of conduct.
A New View of Society, Or, Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character, and the Application of the Principle to Practice
Author: Owen, Robert
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source:
Publication Year: 1816
Robert Owen founded New Lanark, a Scottish cotton mill town he started as a model utopian community. Owen saw the town as a demonstration of the ways in which the evils of poverty, social disadvantage and ignorance could be overcome through imaginative education, fair discipline, regular work, good housing and health care.
Caring and sharing: the co-owned route to better care
Author: Wheatcroft, Dave
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Employee Ownership Association
Publication Year: 2007
Launched at a reception at Newcastle's Centre for Life, this EOA paper by Dave Wheatcroft is the story of award winning employee owned Sunderland Home Care Associates and how founder Margaret Elliott and co-owners have built a family of enterprises lifting care standards in the North of England.
From Colleagues to Owners
Author: Bibby, Andrew
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Cases
Source: The Employee Ownership Association
Publication Year: 2009
Based on ten case studies, the report explains what motivated a highly diverse mix of businesses to consider employee ownership as a succession or start up route.
Binary Economics: The Economic Theory that Gave Rise to ESOPs
Author: Ashford, Robert
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Syracuse University, Owners At Work
Publication Year: 2006
ESOPs are part of a broader approach to expanded capital ownership, broader prosperity, and economic justice known as binary economics. Binary economics was first advanced by Louis Kelso, who is also widely known as the inventor of the ESOP.
When Workers Share in Profits: Effort and Responses to Shirking
Author: Freeman, Richard B.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Centre for Economic Performance
Publication Year: 2008
This paper summarizes new evidence from the “Shared Capitalism” Project on the extent to which workers’ earnings depend on the performance of their firm or work group in the US and advanced European countries and on the impact of sharing arrangements on economic behavior.
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.
Employee ownership and human resource management: a theoretical and empirical treatise with a digression on the Dutch Context
Author: Kaarsemaker, Eric
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers; Essays and Concept Papers
Source: E.C.A. Kaarsemaker
Publication Year: 2006
What are the effects of employee ownership, and of the internal fit between employee ownership and the HRM system, on HRM outcomes and firm performance?
Internal Financial Controls in the U.S. Catholic Church
Authors: West, Robert; Zech, Charles
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Edwards, Inc.
Publication Year: 2008
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the internal financial control mechanisms employed by U.S. Catholic dioceses on one measure of their effectiveness – the amount of embezzlement that has occurred in the diocese in recent years. The study is based on data collected from a recent survey of diocesan chief financial officers.
How Much Will We Pay for a Year of Life?
Authors: Zenios, S.A.; Chertow, G.M.; Lee, C.P.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business, International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
Publication Year: 2009
How much are we-and should we be-willing to pay, as a society, for improving health outcomes? The authors discuss how making medical decisions based on their cost-effectiveness leads to profound ethical dilemmas.
Death and Development in Africa
Authors: McMillan, John; Lorentzen, Peter; Wacziarg, Romain
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Springer Science+Business Media
Publication Year: 2008
Analyzing a variety of cross-national and sub-national data, this paper argues that high adult mortality reduces economic growth by shortening time horizons. It finds that a greater risk of death during the prime productive years is associated with higher levels of risky behavior, high fertility, and lower investment in physical capital, and that adult mortality explains almost all of Africa's growth tragedy.
Social Movements in Organizations and Markets
Authors: Rao, Hayagreeva; Davis, Gerald F.; Morrill, Calvin; Soule, Sarah A.
Product Type: Journal Articles; Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Administrative Science Quarterly
Publication Year: 2008
The agendas of organization studies and the study of social movements are converging. Scholars of both fields contribute to a special issue of Administrative Science Quarterly dedicated to building stronger connections among scholars of social movements, organizations, and markets.
Do Stakeholders Belong in Corporate Finance?
Author: Becker-Blease, John
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2008
Economists and legal scholars have discussed the proper role of a public corporation since at least the early part of the 20th century. The two major schools of thought that have emerged from this discourse are frequently characterized as shareholder primacy and stakeholder primacy, noting that shareholders are one of many stakeholders.
Sustainable Tourism & the Cruise Line Industry
Authors: Bailey, Kalena Samon; Mansour, Saf El; Silue, Rene; Singleton, Denna
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill
Publication Year: 2004
The tourism industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world, generating revenue and creating jobs in many countries. The impacts of tourism on a location are not only positive, however.
BP and Biodiversity: Beyond Petroleum
Authors: Bariso, Alex; Burnett, Catherine; Collins, Geoff; Gupta, Maneesh; Dapper, Kay-Uwe; Garg, Amit
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill
Publication Year: 2004
This paper reviews BP’s sustainability initiatives by focusing on the firm’s biodiversity preservation efforts in Alaska. The paper also analyzes the company’s internal corporate environment and its company-wide push towards sustainability and suggests that while BP is trying to address environmental challenges, many of its efforts appear to be incremental rather than truly forward thinking and progressively strategic.
Alternative Cooking Technology
Authors: Ban, Alessandro; Gallo, Peter; Gouws, John; Gros, Julien; Guy, Kristen; Schneider, Elizabeth
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill
Publication Year: 2004
The underdeveloped world is highly dependent on biomass fuels as an energy source for cooking. Coupled with poor cooking technologies, this dependence has led to devastating health implications for women and children – the prime preparers of food in these areas.
How HP, Dell, Kodak, and Sony Achieve Eco-Efficiency Throughout Their Product Life Cycles
Authors: Wilson, Brian; Baker, Tarry; Sako, Takafumi; Lee, Won Kook
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill
Publication Year: 2005
There is an increasing awareness of the need for sustainable practices in the entire product life cycle, particularly in manufacturing sectors. This can be achieved through eco-efficiency.
Emerging Marketplaces
Authors: Herman, Lindsay; Takihiro, Masatoshi; Whitley, Matthew; Asare, Abena
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill
Publication Year: 2005
In the face of saturation and rising competition in their major markets, multinational corporations are increasingly searching for and investing in emerging markets.
Cradle to Cradle Manufacturing
Authors: Dobbie, Jeremy; Libby, Karen; Peters, Arlan; Sun, Charlie
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill
Publication Year: 2005
The current manufacturing model for most corporations, born out of the Industrial Revolution, results in a production process that burdens raw material resources and creates significant waste streams, both during manufacturing and at the end of a product’s life. An alternative model, “cradle to cradle” design and manufacturing, seeks to address these challenges by making the manufacturing process a closed loop system.
Maintaining the Sustainability Advantage
Author: Pau, Oliver
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill
Publication Year: 2006
Cherokee Investment Partners specializes in the acquisition, remediation and sustainable redevelopment of brownfields, real estate parcels that are underdeveloped due to concerns over environmental contamination and legal liability for their cleanup. The firm has turned sustainability into a core competency that creates competitive advantages.
Sustainability and the Triple Bottom Line
Authors: Dalby, Kaarsten Turner; Palmer, Todd; Potts, Kevin; Sullivan, Denny; Eager, Claire
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill
Publication Year: 2006
Whole Foods Markets (WF) owns and operates the largest chain of natural food stores in the United States. Already an internationally-recognized brand synonymous with organic and natural foods, the chain prides itself on its commitment to sustainable agriculture, wise environmental practices and community involvement.
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