Creating Corporate Accountability: Foundational Principles to Make Corporate Citizenship Real

This paper explores the growing array of initiatives aimed at creating corporate accountability with the goal of attempting to uncover the foundation principles that underlie them and create a “floor” below which practices are ethically questionable. Using the Global Compact's nine principles a...

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Published in:Journal of business ethics
Main Author: Waddock, Sandra (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2004
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2004, Volume: 50, Issue: 4, Pages: 313-327
Further subjects:B Corporate Citizenship
B Global Compact
B Foundational Principle
B Labor Standard
B Economic Growth
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Summary:This paper explores the growing array of initiatives aimed at creating corporate accountability with the goal of attempting to uncover the foundation principles that underlie them and create a “floor” below which practices are ethically questionable. Using the Global Compact's nine principles and the work of Transparency International as guides, foundational principles seem to exist in the areas of human rights, labor standards, environment, and anti-corruption initiatives.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1023/B:BUSI.0000025080.77652.a3