Leading Corporate Citizens: Vision, Values, Value Added

Leading Corporate Citizens: Vision, Values, Value Added

Language: English

Pages: 456

ISBN: 0073381527

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Leading Corporate Citizens, 3/e, explores the insight, vision, values, and learning that it takes to add enough values to a company so that it becomes a leading corporate citizen. This innovative text operates at three levels of leadership: individual, organizational, and societal. The premise is that businesses operate successfully in society when they respect and are responsible to stakeholders.

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Practices can in many ways build trust and social capital, contributing to broad-based development and sustainable markets.”31 wad81527_ch01_001-036.indd 13 10/10/08 2:43:08 PM 14 Part One A Context for Leading Corporate Citizens There has been a virtual explosion of interest in the issue of corporate citizenship and corporate responsibility since the mid-1990s. The growing global membership of the UN Global Compact attests to this growing interest. Increasing attention to issues of climate.

And the U.N.: A Global Compact of Shared Values and Principles,” World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, January 31, 1999. Reprinted in Vital Speeches of the Day 65, no. 9 (February 15, 1999) pp. 260–61. For further information on the Global Compact, see http://www.unglobalcompact.org. 2. Information on membership and the UN Global Compact can be found at http://www. unglobalcompact.org. 3. The classic references are R. Edward Freeman, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach (New York:.

Corporation,” in which he discussed Wal-Mart’s sustainability initiatives (which, to date, include collaborations with the Carbon Disclosure Project and the Clinton Climate Initiative, major purchases of solar power in California and Hawaii, more fuel-efficient truck designs, and opening several high-efficiency stores). Scott went on to discuss positive changes in the company’s health care policies, energy efficiency (from products sold to in-store changes), and supply chain company standards. In.

Discourse, types of organizations and activities permitted in civil and economic realms, and wad81527_ch02_037-082.indd 58 10/10/08 2:44:39 PM Chapter 2 The Three Spheres of Human Civilization 59 national or state priorities. Governments, when they work on behalf of citizens (which is not always the case in dictatorships), protect citizens from harmful actions that might result if there were no socially accepted rules to follow. In addition, they have an important role in protecting public.

Direction Autonomy Evolution (stage of growth) Creativity Small Complexity Leadership Revolution (stage of crisis) Age of organization through structures such as profit centers, and “divisionalization” may occur to create new incentives for innovation and entrepreneurial activities. The seeds of the crisis of control are planted in this decentralization, however, as communication within the organization falters because managers are autonomously running their own units. This crisis creates.

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