Understanding How Issues in Business Ethics

Business ethics is currently a significant and widely debated global issue, and one that no business can afford to ignore. In this book, the authors bring together a diverse range of views on the subject, arising from an international conference on business ethics.Chapters on highly topical issues such as GM foods, child labor and bribery will make this an important tool for many businesses.

Michael Pollitt is Lecturer in Applied Industrial Organisation at Cambridge University. Ian Jones is at Brasenose College, Oxford.

List of Tables

vii

List of Figures

viii

Preface and Acknowledgements

ix

List of Contributors

x

Understanding How Issues in Business Ethics Develop: Introduction

1

(13)

Ian W. Jones

Michael G. Pollitt

Who Influences Debates in Business Ethics? An Investigation into the Development of Corporate Governance in the UK since 1990

14

(55)

Ian W. Jones

Michael G. Pollitt

Robert M. Worcester

Agricultural Biotechnology Hanging in the Balance: Why the Anti-GM Food Campaign has been so Successful

69

(21)

Sue Mayer

Peter Siddall

Child Labour in the Third World

90

(28)

Andrew Clayton

R. Stephen Rubin

Corporate Ethics: The Role of Internal Compliance Programmes under the US Sentencing Guidelines

118

(17)

Michael Goldsmith

Amy Bice Larson

Simon Deakin

The OECD's Anti-bribery Convention

135

(10)

Graham Rodmell

Rodney Whittaker

The Role of Global Institutional Investors -- Shareholder Engagement Opportunities for a New Era

145

(12)

Peter Butler

Guy Jubb

Reading the Business Ethics Radar: Lessons from Shell

157

(12)

Mark Moody-Stuart

Bernard Taylor

Understanding How Issues in Business Ethics Develop: Lessons for Business

169

(12)

Ian W. Jones

Michael G. Pollitt

Index

181

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Understanding How Issues in Business Ethics Develop

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