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The Corporate Life Cycle: Business, Investment, and Management Implications
by Aswath DamodaranTHE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING COMPANY GROWTH AND DECLINE —FROM THE UNDISPUTED EXPERT ON VALUATIONThroughout his storied career, Aswath Damodaran has searched for the universal key to demystify corporate finance and valuation. Now, at last, he offers the groundbreaking answer to readers everywhere.It turns out there is a corporate lifecycle very much like our own — with unique stages of growth and decline. And just as we must learn to act our age, so too must companies. By better understanding how corporations age and the characteristics of each stage of their lifecycle, we can unlock the secrets behind any businesses behavior and optimize our management and investment decisions accordingly.In Aswath Damodaran&’s The Corporate Life Cycle, readers will learn— What markers tell where a company falls on its corporate lifecycle, and crucial insights for managers as they navigate the different stages Why the shape and timing of life cycles varies across different industriesWhen transition points pose special challenges to companies—and strategies to conquer themHow differences in investment philosophies, in particular the divide between growth and value investing, should lead investors towards companies at different lifecycle stagesAs the corporate lifecycle touches virtually every aspect of business, this book is for anyone with skin in the corporate finance game—from managers to investors, from novices to seasoned pros. Aswath Damodaran&’s The Corporate Life Cycle is the definitive guide to understanding businesses growth, behavior, and value.
Corporate M&A: Reifegradmodell und empirische Untersuchung
by Moritz KübelParallel zur Entwicklung in der Praxis hat M&A seit den 1960er Jahren auch in der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Forschung zunehmend Beachtung erfahren. Wurden Unternehmensakquisitionen und deren wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen zunächst hauptsächlich aus finanzökonomischer Perspektive analysiert, so existieren inzwischen zahlreiche Untersuchungen aus unterschiedlichen Wissenschaftsdisziplinen und Forschungsperspektiven (z. B. Institutionenökonomik, Verhaltensökonomik, Lernforschung und Managementforschung). Insgesamt sind die Forschungsergebnisse zu M&A aber sehr fragmentiert, inkonsistent und lückenhaft. Es besteht nach wie vor großer Bedarf an weiterer empirischer Forschung, um die Erfolgsfaktoren von Unternehmenszusammenschlüssen besser zu identifizieren und relevante Praxisempfehlungen ableiten zu können. Die vorliegende Untersuchung ist fokussiert auf die Unternehmensebene als die relevante Betrachtungsebene und analysiert Charakteristika der akquirierenden Unternehmen. Forschungsziel ist ein theoriegeleiteter und empiriebasierter Beitrag zum wissenschaftlichen Verständnis von Serial Acquirern und zur Verbesserung ihres Leistungsvermögens in der Praxis.
Corporate Management Ecosystem in Emerging Economies: Global Perspectives
by Fred A. Yamoah Adnan Ul HaqueEmerging economies, as actively changing societies, invoke questions about the future direction for national and global development as well as equitable economic growth. In this book, the Editors argue that understanding the corporate management ecosystem of emerging economies is key to business success in the globalized economy.Discussing the key attributes of emerging economies (for example, population dynamics, labour and production patterns, employment, and foreign direct investment) and the connection with governance, marketing, innovation management, and supply chain research and practice, the book highlights the distinctiveness of corporate management dynamics in comparison with existing knowledge that is dominated by developed country frameworks.The book offers twenty-one case studies that cover examples of corporate management research and practice in both local and international companies, making this a valuable resource for students, academics and industry stakeholders.
Corporate Management in a Knowledge-Based Economy
by Gianfranco ZandaCorporate Management in a Knowledge-Based Economy traces the evolution of corporate governance over time, with a particular focus on the changing nature of power. The control of scarce resources used in production materials, labour and capital has evolved considerably over the past centuries, with government, landowners, non-owner managers, and institutional investors acting as controlling powers at different points in time. In order to appropriately protect the various, and changing, stakeholders, the system of corporate governance has also developed over the years a process that continues to the present. In today's knowledge-based economy, with the rising importance of intangible assets, a new corporate management paradigm is needed. This book incorporates theoretical work as well as practical applications to analyse these developments and explore emerging trends of the 21st century. It examines how the pursuit of profit maximization has resulted in governance failures and it focuses on the prospective role of business ethics (once again in the spotlight following the credit crisis) in helping reform flawed governance structures. It argues that, in the long term, a system based on ethics can maximize social responsibility, customer satisfaction, human capital development and economic targets.
Corporate Management Of Health And Safety Hazards: A Comparison Of Current Practice
by Roger E. KaspersonThis book provides one of the first systematic accounts of how corporations manage risk to workers and consumers. Careful analysis and interviewing in different corporations elicit a portrait of the myriad hazards that currently confront industry, the corporate programs and resources that have emerged since 1970 to respond to this challenge, and factors that have contributed to successes and failures. In-depth studies of the Volvo Car Corporation, Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, Union Carbide's Bhopal facility, and large chemical and pharmaceutical corporations provide a state-of-the-art assessment of the advances and problems inherent today in industrial safety management. Roger E. Kasperson, Jeanne X. Kasperson, and Christoph Hohenemser are senior researchers at Clark University's Center for Technology, Environment, and Development (CENTED). Roger E. Kasperson is Director of CENTED and its Hazard Assessment Group. Jeanne X. Kasperson is Research Librarian at CENTED and Senior Research Associate in Brown University's World Hunger Program. Hohenemser, a professor of physics, directs the Environment, Technology, and Society Program at Clark University. Robert W. Kates, formerly with CENTED, is Director of the Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Program at Brown University. Ola Svenson, of the Department of Psychology at Lund University in Sweden, is a leading researcher in the field of risk perception and decision analysis.
Corporate Manslaughter and Regulatory Reform
by Paul AlmondThis book provides an account of the international emergence of corporate manslaughter offences to criminalise deaths in the workplace during the last twenty years, identifying the limitations of health and safety regulation that have prompted this development.
Corporate MVPs
by Margaret Butteriss Bill RoiterCorporate MVPs create extraordinary value for the organization by consistently exceeding expectations. MVPs produce tangible and dramatic business results; they improve the people they work with and the organization in which they work. In fact, the future of your business depends on this 5 to 10 percent of its very best people. But far too often, MVPs are lost because of management missteps, or even by no management at all. Based on in-depth interviews with senior executives and business owners, HR professionals and executive recruitment firms, and with MVPs themselves, Corporate MVPs explores what makes these talented individuals tick, how to develop and cultivate them, what it takes for someone to become an MVP, and the important role of HR in managing this key talent.
The Corporate Mystic: A Guidebook for Visionaries with Their Feet on the Ground
by Gay Hendricks Kate LudemanGay Hendricks and Kate Ludeman have been training top executives for more than twenty-five years. They have distilled the experience of the hundred wisest businessmen and -women they know into nuggets of just-in-time wisdom that take no more than a minute or two to read. You'll discover the twelve qualities of twenty-first-century leaders, how to make breakthrough decisions with intuitive ease, the visionary's ability to think twenty years down the line, how to spot and correct integrity problems in your organization, and how to create a mind-set of prosperity in yourself and your company. Drawing on insights and observations from legendary CEOs like Bob Galvin of Motorola and Ed McCracken of Silicon Graphics, The Corporate Mystic also offers spirited solutions to the day-in, day-out problems of business. You'll learn what these visionaries with their feet on the ground say about giving and receiving honest feedback, ending destructive turf battles, "high-firing" people who drain your energy, handling big wins and big losses, and protecting your creative think-time.
Corporate Narrative Reporting: Beyond the Numbers
by Mahmoud Marzouk and Khaled HussaineyThis book presents a comprehensive and expert-led insight into the role, types, practises and determinants of corporate narrative reporting (CNR). It provides a detailed overview of the importance of narrative disclosure in understanding the full annual report and, consequently, company performance and future prospects. CNR comprises integral information presented in the front half of the annual report, which helps to tell the full story of a business, providing a comprehensive overview and understanding of both its past and future performance. Supported with illustrative tables and figures throughout, this volume contains a plethora of carefully selected chapters, featuring the analytical insight of knowledgeable academics and researchers from all over the world. Using different data collection and analysis methods, it links and advances theory and practice in the disclosure and presentation of non-financial information in annual reports and other disclosure channels. The book is logically structured into four parts: Narrative Reporting: The State of the Art Empirical Research on Narrative Reporting Narrative Sustainability Reporting Narrative Reporting in Times of Crisis Providing a global insight into CNR in practice, Corporate Narrative Reporting is an invaluable resource for both students and practitioners interested or involved in preparing, reviewing/auditing, analysing and understanding annual reports. It should also be of particular interest to policymakers, regulators and investors.
Corporate New Ventures at Procter & Gamble
by Teresa M. Amabile Dean WhitneyConsumer products giant Procter & Gamble is faced with an urgent need to revitalize new-product innovation, given its recent focus on incremental product improvements and its aggressive growth goals. As part of this effort, the company's top executives form a small, autonomous, cross-functional Corporate New Ventures team led by a young former brand manager. Operating within a conducive work environment, the team invents a systematic approach to gathering information and producing creative ideas for radically new product categories.
The Corporate Newsroom: Steering Companies Efficiently Through Communication (Management for Professionals)
by Christoph MossBreaking down barriers, creating transparency in digital communication and effectively targeting different audiences is critical to today’s successful organisations. Establishing a Corporate Newsroom is the answer. The first part discusses the different theoretical approaches of communication and the corporate newsroom model. Special emphasis is given to efficiency and effectiveness as the main pillars of this strategy.The second part presents case studies to illustrate how the corporate newsroom system can be used in the communication departments of organisations. The authors discuss real life examples from Swiss Life Germany and the Dutch Police among others and show how the corporate newsroom method impacted communication strategies and results in these organisations. This book will be of interest not only for PR professionals but also for marketing specialists and business leaders trying to bring corporate communication to the next level.
Corporate Nudging: Chancen und Risiken (BestMasters)
by Cameli HoqueDieses Buch widmet sich der Frage, wie private Unternehmen die Erkenntnisse der Verhaltensökonomie nutzen und Nudges erfolgreich in der Praxis einsetzen können. Die Untersuchung zeigt, dass Nudges sowohl im Mitarbeitermanagement als auch bei der Beeinflussung des Verbraucherverhaltens eine große Palette an vielversprechenden Anwendungsmöglichkeiten bieten. Die Arbeit betont jedoch auch potenzielle ethische Risiken und unerwünschte Auswirkungen und liefert umfangreiche Erkenntnisse über effektive Nudge-Techniken, ethische Überlegungen und Handlungsempfehlungen für Unternehmen.
The Corporate Paradox: Power and Control in the Business Franchise (Routledge Revivals)
by Alan FelsteadFirst published in 1993, The Corporate Paradox is the first major, in-depth study of the franchise relationship and how it functions. While past debates have focused on the question: ‘What do bosses do?’, we are now being asked: ‘Who really is the boss?’. Since the late 1970s the emergence of franchising arrangements has been a major part of the wider process of change taking place in the nature of modern business organization. The names of franchise companies are familiar to most people: Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Pepsi cola, Body Shop, to name but a few. But how many people realize that each such outlet is a separate legal entity owned by a local franchisee? Franchising remains, at best, little understood.In this book, Alan Felstead explores who controls what, why and how, setting his discussion within the context of the many current changes affecting traditional contractual bonds between employers and employees, producers and buyers, owners and managers. This is a must read for students of management, organizational studies, marketing, industrial sociology and commercial law.
Corporate Performance: A Ratio-Based Approach to Country and Industry Analyses (Contributions to Management Science)
by Julia Koralun-BereźnickaThis book presents the comparative evaluation of international and industrial factors affecting the financial condition of enterprises. In the theoretical part, the results of previous research on the occurrence of the country and industry effect in the financial health of companies are reviewed. The aim of the empirical study is to determine such factors - national or industrial ones - that have a greater impact on the corporate performance in the selected European Union countries. Corporate performance is measured and described with the use of a large set of fundamental ratios. Corporate performance is therefore treated as a more complex matter influenced by such aspects as profitability, liquidity, working capital and solvency. The book especially analyses the importance of non-public companies of all sizes, which is also rare as current research focuses mainly on public companies due to the data constraints.
Corporate Performance Management (Improving Human Performance Ser.)
by David Wade Ron RecardoBusiness experts, business economists, and organizational psychologists agree that a specific business strategy must be chosen for a corporation to excel. Beyond the strategy, companies must have a performance measurement system that ties every aspect of the organization - from the boardroom to the factory floor - to the strategy. In their book 'Corporate Performance Management', noted authors David Wade and Ron Recardo show companies how to craft a strategic focus and create sound business strategy by using a unique and pragmatic performance-measurement system. Concepts in the book are illustrated by 'real world' case studies. It provides tools and techniques to show how to apply the concepts within an organization.David Wade is the director of performance measurement for Aetna, Inc., and the author of several business-related books and articles.Ron Recardo is the founder and managing partner of The Catalyst Consulting Group, L.L.C. The author of several articles and books, he is a frequent speaker at meetings of professional associations, trade groups, and senior executives.
Corporate Performance Management Best Practices
by Bob PaladinoBusiness improvement best practices and a proven methodology for improving corporate performance management, illustrated through a high performing program including numerous team case studiesCorporate performance management consists of a set of processes that help organizations optimize their business performance. It provides a framework for organizing, automating and analyzing business methodologies, metrics, processes and systems that drive business performance. Corporate Performance Management Best Practices will help your organization benchmark itself against the best.Written by the winner of three globally accepted performance management awardsFocuses on a single case study chronicling a health care system's corporate performance management journeyExplores how the use of corporate performance management methods has created significant and broad based improvements in patient satisfaction scores, medical outcomes, people development, and corporate shared services and clinical processesRevealing practical techniques that can be adopted at all levels of an organization, from facilities manager to HR manager to CFO to CEO, Corporate Performance Management Best Practices provides a proven implementation model that accelerates breakthrough results.
Corporate Personhood
by Susanna Kim RipkenThe topic of corporate personhood has captured the attention of many who are concerned about the increasing presence, power, and influence of corporations in modern society. Recent Supreme Court cases like Citizens United, Hobby Lobby, and Masterpiece Cakeshop - which solidified the free speech and religious liberty rights of corporations and their owners - have heightened the controversy over treating corporations as persons under the law. What does it mean to say that the corporation is a person, and why does it matter? In Corporate Personhood, Susanna Kim Ripken addresses these questions and highlights the complexity of the corporate personhood concept. Using a broad, interdisciplinary framework - incorporating law, economics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, organizational theory, political science, and linguistics - this highly original work explores the complex, multidimensional nature of corporate personhood and its implications for corporate rights and duties.
Corporate Planning: A Practical Guide (Routledge Library Editions: Management #2)
by John ArgentiOriginally published in 1968. Corporate planning is now an established part of management thinking. John Argenti had a large part to play in introducing the technique to British management. His book shows how the manager can apply corporate planning in his own company with a very clear idea of why he is introducing it, what to expect from it, how to start, and what to avoid. This title will be of interest to students of business studies and management.
Corporate Plasticity: How to Change, Adapt, and Excel
by Christian Schuh Alenka Triplat Laurent Chevreux Wim Plaizier Wayne BrownWhat do The Beatles, Apollo 13, the Roman military, a pack of wolves, and the very best companies in the world all have in common? Answer: Plasticity. They can change, adapt, and excel as the situation requires. In most organizations, strategy and functional excellence get the most attention. But even the best of either provides only limited long-term advantage. Highly effective organizations add Plasticity as a third dimension and rack up stellar breakthroughs again and again. It is the key ingredient that allows strategy and functional excellence to deliver value. As the authors show in Corporate Plasticity: How to Change, Adapt, and Excel, Plasticity also enables great organizations to break down barriers and collaborate in the pursuit of a common objective, and to reconfigure or rewire themselves to face down challenges or reach ever-stronger competitive positions. Through entertaining stories and astute analysis, this book demonstrates that Plasticity spurs sports teams to become champions, companies to book record earnings, and artists to attain worldwide fame. You can use its principles adaptability, flexibility, fluid networks and roles, lofty goals, and innovation, among others to achieve operational excellence, tear down silos, and create more vibrant, creative enterprises. Your organization can become not just highly profitable and fun to work for, but an organization that can change the world. Plasticity allows an organization to choose its own destiny, become versatile, and dare more than others. Its success lies in a set of abilities called the Magic 7: Purpose: Your company must discover, select, and express what it is meant for. Focus: Your company must have the courage to ignore everything that is not in line with its purpose, and then see that purpose through. Culture: Your company must create the conditions that allow people to work across boundaries and outside of predefined roles. Spirit: Your company must inspire people to feel part of a cause that is bigger than they are. Networking: Your company must provide the means, freedom, and encouragement for people to nurture and grow their internal and external networks continuously. Knowledge: Your company must encourage experts to provide their knowledge and make it readily available to everyone who needs it. Leadership: Your company's leaders must model and personify the characteristics they want others to adopt. Silo thinking? Poor collaboration? Weak earnings? Strategies that gain no traction? Corporate Plasticity: How to Change, Adapt, and Excel is the answer. It shows you how to cultivate each of the seven disciplines to infuse Plasticity in an organization. That along with razor-sharp strategy and crisp execution will unleash the power you need to reach both personal and corporate goals. You might even change the world. "
Corporate Political Behavior: Why Corporations Do What They Do in Politics
by Robert HealyCorporate Political Behavior centers on why corporations do what they do in politics. The text draws upon insights from the author’s forty years of government and political experience—insights placed within an operating framework grounded in the political science and strategic issue management disciplines. Robert Healy argues that corporate political behavior results from the interplay of behavioral drivers—commercial objectives, competitive political advantage, corporate political culture and leadership—and behavioral enablers—political capital, corporate political reputation, corporate campaign financing, and corporate political clout. This interplay all functions within a three-world environment: market, non-market, and internal corporate. The book examines how these factors structure a firm’s political positioning, its business-political strategies, and its political behavior as it seeks to attain its marketplace goals. The text features in-chapter side bars— events, or circumstances or political happenings of which the author either knew or participated—along with longer mini-cases in which the author also participated or was consulted. Each chapter concludes with a summary and takeaway points. Corporate Political Behavior will be applicable to courses in political science and in business school courses on strategic issue management, policy construction, corporate agency and corporate strategy, as well as of interest to corporations and practitioners.
Corporate Political Responsibility: How Businesses Can Strengthen Democracy for Mutual Benefit (Future of Business and Finance)
by Johannes BohnenThis book demonstrates how companies can effectively promote their business by assuming political responsibility and expanding their investment concept to include a political component. It shows that the success of companies is crucially dependent on socio-political conditions. In other words: politically sustainable management is a business case. Therefore companies should take a closer look at the opportunities at the interface of politics and business.To date, there has not been a satisfactory assessment of the issue of Corporate Political Responsibility (CPR), which combines a conceptual framework with practical measures for implementation. This book remedies that oversight, and shows how companies can develop the necessary attitude and operate in concrete CPR fields of action, illustrated by diagrams and examples. While doing so, the author explains how CPR is different from shere lobbying or Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).The author provides an overview of the public realm and its actors, and shows how, through political contributions, they can strengthen the performance of the state and thus their own performance. Companies have unique resources for doing so, and in their own interest they should get involved: being impartial in particular, but partial in principle - when it comes to our liberal way of life as such.
Corporate Political Responsibility (CPR): Wie Unternehmen die Demokratie und damit sich selbst stärken
by Johannes BohnenUnternehmen fördern ihr Geschäft, wenn sie politische Verantwortung übernehmen Unternehmen müssen sich stärker mit den Chancen an den Schnittstellen von Politik und Wirtschaft beschäftigen, denn ihr Geschäftserfolg ist maßgeblich von gesellschaftspolitischen Voraussetzungen abhängig. Mit anderen Worten: Politisch nachhaltige Unternehmensführung ist ein Business Case. Bislang gibt es noch keinen hinreichenden Zugang zu dem Thema der politischen Verantwortung von Unternehmen, der einen konzeptionellen Rahmen mit der praktischen Umsetzung verbindet. Diese Lücke wird nun geschlossen: In diesem Fachbuch erfahren Sie, illustriert durch Schaubilder und Beispiele, wie Unternehmen die notwendige Haltung entwickeln und in konkreten CPR-Handlungsfeldern tätig werden können. Der Autor liefert eine Bestandsaufnahme des öffentlichen Raumes mit seinen Akteuren und zeigt, wie sie durch politische Beiträge die Leistungsfähigkeit des Staates und damit sich selbst stärken können. Unternehmen verfügen dazu über besondere Ressourcen. In ihrem eigenen Interesse sollten sie sich einmischen: unparteiisch im Besonderen, aber parteiisch im Grundsätzlichen – dann, wenn es um unsere freiheitliche Lebensform als solche geht. In drei Buchteilen wird ein umfassendes Corporate Political Responsibility-Konzept vorgestellt: Teil I thematisiert im Sinne einer Bestandsaufnahme den öffentlichen Raum mit seinen wichtigsten Akteuren und dem permanenten Kampf um Deutungshoheit, insbesondere die belastete Beziehung von Wirtschaft und Politik. In den darauffolgenden Teilen steht im Mittelpunkt, wie Unternehmen auf die skizzierten Herausforderungen reagieren können.Verstehen: Wie der öffentliche Raum funktioniertGestalten: Den öffentlichen Raum neu belebenDer öffentliche Raum und seine AkteureDas Governance-Konzept Teil II stellt das CPR-Konzept vor. Hier geht es vor allem um die These, dass es im wirtschaftlichen Interesse von Unternehmen liegt, mit einer neuen gesellschaftspolitischen Haltung und entsprechenden Beiträgen die Leistungsfähigkeit des Staates zu erhöhen. Unternehmen benötigen eine politische Haltung: Corporate Political ResponsibilityGesellschaftliche VerantwortungskonzepteCPR als Business Case – der strategische Mehrwert Teil III widmet sich dann der praktischen Umsetzung von CPR, dem „Political Branding“. Es werden konkrete Handlungsfelder skizziert und Fallbeispiele aufgeführt, die anschaulich zeigen, was politische Markenführung bedeutet. CPR richtig anwenden: Political BrandingPolitische MarkenführungPolitische Markenführung: CPR und LeadershipDie CPR-HandlungsfelderDie Planung von CPR-Maßnahmen Zielgruppe dieses Buches sind primär Entscheider der Wirtschaft (mit ihren CSR-, Strategie- und Kommunikationsabteilungen) sowie Vertreter aus Politik und Verwaltung, aber auch Akteure aus Wissenschaft, Kultur, Medien, Rechtswesen, NGOs, Stiftungen und Kommunikations- bzw. Public Affairs-Beratungen.
Corporate Political Strategies of Private Chinese Firms
by Hao Ma Shu Lin Neng LiangThis book is about how Chinese entrepreneurs deal with China’s most important institution-the government-in their struggle to survive and even prosper in China’s transitional economy. It takes an "inside look" at several private firms in China and provides a first-hand account, as well as the underlying rationale and decision considerations, of their corporate political strategy. The book is based firmly on solid academic research but actually written with both practitioners and scholars in mind. It offers candid and insightful quotes and observations from the owners and executives of China’s private firms with regards to their dealing with the government. This book advances a typology of corporate political strategies based on the respective motivations of the business (the entrepreneurs and their firms) and the government (the government institutions and individual officials) as well as the modes of their interactions. Eight different types of political strategies by China’s private firms are identified and illustrated with real-life examples, ranging from one-night-stand, situational shopper, good ole friend, patronage seeker, model volunteer, institutional improviser, direct participator, to red hat insider. The book also dissects a living case and traces the development of one particular private firm, from its humble start-up to present day glory, which fittingly illustrates the evolution and dynamics of the various types of political strategies the firm employed at different stages of its growth. For anyone who wants to understand China’s private firms and the Chinese government, thus be able to deal with them more effectively, this book is a must-read.
Corporate Politics for IT Managers: How to get Streetwise (Computer Weekly Professional Ser.)
by Robina Chatham Keith Patching'Corporate Politics for IT Managers: How to get Streetwise' addresses some of the most persistent problems faced by IT managers which undermine their power and influence in their organisations and which prevents them obtaining seat on the board of directors.It deals directly with the IT stereotype and offers advice on how to survive and then thrive despite the odds being stacked against the IT manager. Divided into four parts, 'How the IT Manager Gets Streetwise' begins by placing the IT stereotype in context, and proceeds to challenge the IT persons' habitual behaviours of the past, and present ways of rethinking IT services, before concluding with how managers can become "streetwise" in today's organisations.There are many books on the market telling IT managers how to construct IT and IS strategies, and even more on how to 'run' an IT department or function. However, few deal with the politics in organisations.'Corporate Politics for IT Managers: How to get Streetwise' equips IT managers with the necessary skills to cope successfully in the political arenas of the boardrooms in today's businesses.
Corporate Power and Human Rights
by Manette Kaisershot and Nicholas ConnollyThere is ample evidence about the negative effects business activity of all types can have on the provision of human rights. Equally, there can be little doubt economic development, usually driven through business activity and trade, is necessary for any state to provide the institutions and infrastructure necessary to secure and provide human rights for their citizens. The United Nations and businesses recognise this tension and are collaborating to effect change in business behaviours through voluntary initiatives such as the Global Compact and John Ruggie’s Guiding Principles. Yet voluntary approaches are evidently failing to prevent human rights violations and there are few alternatives in law for affected communities to seek justice. This book seeks to robustly challenge the current status quo of business approaches to human rights in order to develop meaningful alternatives in an attempt to breech the gap between the realities of business and human rights and its discourse. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights.