Doing the Business 2013 – Something Ventured
November 7, 2013
On Monday this week we screened the first of this years films looking at social, ethical and environmental issues in business. The first film was Something Ventured, a film that documented the investors that financed the development of new technologies (genetics, computer hardware and software) through the mid to late twentieth Century. The film was …
Discretion & Institutional Ethics: The Case of the Civil Service
October 22, 2013
“The Opposition aren’t really the opposition. They are only the Government in exile. The Civil Service are the opposition in residence.” Yes Minister CSR research often focuses on the role of corporate managers, as opposed to, say, employees or consumers. What motivates this fixation on managers? The discretion of the corporate managerial …
Corporate Boycotts: no, I mean corporations doing the boycotting…
September 30, 2013
We are all too familiar with boycotts of corporations, principally by NGOs and trade unions. But there has been a recent flush of boycotts of corporations by corporations. Thus corporations appear to be behaving like NGOs by expressing their values – or the values which they think they should express – through the withdrawal of …
How do consumers negotiate citizenship in online dialogue?
September 24, 2013
Piercing the brand ‘veil’ in social media: How do consumers negotiate citizenship in online dialogue? Douglas Holt asks the question: “Why do brands cause trouble?” pointing to the potential for brands to act as explicit signifiers of product attributes (e.g. quality / reliability) and as implicit markers of wider corporate responsibilities (e.g. social justice …
Corporations, Taxation and Citizenship
September 2, 2013
Revelations of corporate tax minimisation, even of companies thought to be among the most socially responsible, are little short of grotesque. This is especially so as these corporations benefit from the UK’s transport, energy, communications, health and educational infrastructure which still owes so much to public expenditure. The UK government has vowed to get tough …
The beauty of the sustainability sector is that it recognises gender issues aren’t confined to within office walls
August 26, 2013
The business case for gender equality has really taken off. With the help of reports from McKinsey, Forum for the Future and Oxfam, the message to boost opportunities for women in business is finally getting out. Getting women into leadership positions and particularly on the board, is an especially hot topic. As recruitment firm Korn/Ferry …
Twitter and Freedom from Fear
August 19, 2013
The use of Twitter to communicate bomb, death and rape threats, and engage in misogynistic speech, has been brought to the fore in recent weeks. This relates to a number of high profile cases in which prominent female figures – such as Labour MP Stella Creasy, the feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez, and the Guardian journalist …
Corporate social responsibility in Asia: understanding business from beginning to end
August 12, 2013
In a recent interview with Sara Bice of the University of Melbourne, Professor Jeremy Moon discusses Corporate Responsibility in Asia*. This interview was originally published in The Conversation ——————— As Asian economies grow and corporate ventures become increasingly multinational, big challenges are emerging for corporate social responsibility and business ethics. But how can Australian corporations advance socially …
Beer and Corporate Social Responsibility
August 5, 2013
The occasion of International Beer Day prompts me to think aloud on this one … and thinking aloud is one of the (usually positive) features of English pubs famous for their distinctive bitters, ales and stouts… which may or may not be associated with Pliny the Elder’s motto ‘in vino veritas’. By virtue of the …
The future of business school teaching: the challenge of sustainability
July 25, 2013
Programs like the MSc in CSR here at the University of Nottingham have played an important role in ensuring that citizens are well equipped to understand ethical considerations in navigating complex and often contradictory demands from business and society. The main aim has been to ensure that natural resources and societal stakeholders are taken into …
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