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Bibliography and Web Resources Bibliography Adbusters (2001) Corporate spotlight. Adbusters. 34, 38. Barlow, M. and Clark, T. (2001) Global showdown: how the new activists are fighting global corporate rule. (Toronto: Stoddart).Bendell, J. (ed.) (2000) Terms for endearment: business, NGOs and sustainable development. (Sheffield: Greenleaf Publishing). Barry, Vincent; Moral Issues in Business; “Economic Justice”; Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1983, 2nd Edit., Belmont, Calif., p.81-82 Beauchamp, Thomas L. and Norman E. Bowie. Ethical Theory and Business. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1983 Bray, J. (2000) Web wars: NGOs, companies and governments in the internet connected world. In: J. Bendell (ed.) Terms of Endearment: Business, NGOs and Sustainable Development. (Sheffield: Greenleaf). Clay, J. (2005) Exploring the links between international business and poverty reduction: a case study of Unilever in Indonesia. (London: Oxfam GB, Novib/Oxfam Netherlands). De George, Richard T. Business Ethics, 4th Ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995 Donaldson, Thomas, and Patricia H. Werhane. Ethical Issue in Business. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1988 Friedman, Milton. “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Its Profits”. Moral Issues in Business (edit. Vincent Barry). Belmont, Calif.; Wadsworth Publishing Co. 1983 Freeman, R.E. (1984) Strategic management: a stakeholder approach. (Boston: Pitman Publishers). Gap, Inc. case material: http://www.csrwire.com/PressReleasePrint.php?id=2654 http://www.gapinc.com/public/documents/CSR_Report_04.pdf; http://www.socialfunds.com/news/release.cgi/4158.html Harman, W. (1990) Why a world business academy? (Burlingame: World Business Academy). Hertz, N. (2001) The silent takeover: global capitalism and the death of democracy. (London: Heinemann). Hopkins, M. (2003) The planetary bargain: corporate social responsibility matters. (London: Earthscan Reader Ltd). Interface Carpets, CEO Roy Anderson video: http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=97 e06486eb9cfbe4c61d31b885b0bec1d5d38990 Jenkins, R. (2002) Corporate codes of conduct: self-regulation in a global economy. In: NGLS/UNRISD (eds) Voluntary Approaches to Corporate Responsibility: Readings and Resource Guide. (Geneva: NGLS/UNRISD). Johnson & Johnson, Credo: http://www.jnj.com/our_company/our_credo/index.htm;jsessionid= RQUXI1QGKCCKQCQPCCGSU0A . Johnson & Johnson, Tylenol case: http://www.mallenbaker.net/csr/CSRfiles/crisis02.html Kamieniecki, Sheldon (2006) Corporate America and Environmental Policy: How Often Does Business Get Its Way?, Stanford University Press: Stanford, CA.This book adds to the environmental politics and policy literature by conducting a comprehensive investigation of business influence environmental policymaking in the United States over time. The author presents an analysis of six cases in which private firms were involved in disputes concerning pollution control and natural resource management. Madsen, Peter, and Jay M. Shafritz, ed. Essentials of Business Ethics, New York: Meridian, 1990 Klein, N. (2000) No logo. (London: Flamingo). Kramer and Kania, “Changing the Game: Leading Corporations switch from defense to offense in solving global problems” Stanford Social Innovation Review (Spring 2006), http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/changing_the_game/ McIntosh, M., Leipziger, D., Jones, K. and Coleman, G. (1998) Successful strategies for responsible companies: corporate citizenship. (London: Financial Times Pitman Publishing). Merck River Blindness case, http://www.cgdev.org/doc/millions/ CGD-MillionsSaved_Case6.pdf Rawls, John. “Justice as Fairness””. The Philosophical Review. XVII, April 1958 U.S. Congressional House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 86th Congress. Vol.2, No. 15. April 10, 1959. Spiller, R. (2000) Ethical business and investment: a model for business and society. Journal of Business Ethics 27(1-2), 149–160. Solomon, Robert C. It’s Good Business: Ethics and Free Enterprise for the New Millennium, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997. Tallontire, A., Rentsendorj, E. and Blowfield, M. (2001) Ethical consumers and ethical trade: a review of current literature. Policy Series 12. (Chatham: Natural Resources Institute). UNRISD (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development) (1995) States of disarray: The social effects of globalisation. An UNRISD report for the World Summit for Social Development. (Geneva: UNRISD). UNRISD (2003) CSR and development: is a new agenda needed? (Geneva: UNRISD Wal-Mart case material: Greenhouse, S., “How Costco Became the Anti-Wal-Mart” New York Times, July 17, 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/business/yourmoney/17 costco.html?ei=5088&en=8b31033c5b6a6d68&ex= 1279252800&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print Ethical Analysis of Shopping at Wal-Mart http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/ethicalperspectives/walmart.html Ward, H. (2003) Legal Issues in Corporate Citizenship, Swedish Partnership for Global Responsibility, Stockholm. Willis, Clint and Hardcastle, Nate (Eds.) (2004) The I Hate Corporate America Reader: How Big Companies from McDonald's to Microsoft Are Destroying Our Way of Life, Thunder’s Mouth Press: New York, NY. Americans are beginning to take note that large corporations are at the heart of what ails our country—from job losses to mad cow disease to pollution to rising cancer rates to obesity to empire building. Every week brings new headlines of some new outrage by companies ranging from the former Enron and Halliburton to McDonald’s and Wal-Mart; meanwhile, other crimes are hidden from public view. WCED (World Commission on Environment and Development) (1987a) Our common future. The report of the World Commission on Environment and Development. (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Welford, R. (1995) Environmental strategy and sustainable development: The corporate challenge for the 21st century. (London: Routledge). Waridel, L. (2002) Sustainable trade: the case of coffee in North America. MA thesis, University of Victoria, British Columbia. Zadek (2001) The civil corporation: the new economy of corporate citizenship. (London: Earthscan). ADDITIONAL WEB RESOURCES General Background on CSR “Corporate Social Responsibility: What Does it Mean?” http://www.mallenbaker.net/csr/ CSRfiles/definition.html Stanford Social Innovation Review, http://www.ssireview.org/ CSR corporate summary information: http://www.corpwatch.org/ Living Wage Issues Living wage Facts at a Glance: http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/issueguides_ livingwage_livingwagefacts Living wage calculator: http://www.livingwage.geog.psu.edu/ Gertner, J., “What is a Living Wage?” New York Times Magazine, January 15, 2006. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/magazine/15wage.html?ex=1181966400 &en=9cc397279f1cf836&ei=5070 Tomato War Ends at Taco-Bell, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/09/ national/main678918.shtml Sweatshop Issues “The End of Gap Sweatshops?”, http://www.globalenvision.org/library/8/639/ The Nike Sweatshop Campaign”, http://depts.washington.edu/ccce/ polcommcampaigns/Nike.htm Environmental Sustainability Issues 10 Green Giants These companies have gone beyond what the law requires to operate in an environmentally responsible way. Gunther, Marc, Fortune, March 16, 2007: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/04/02/8403417/index.htm “Big business courts the green queen” Companies that used to shun the nonprofit Rainforest Alliance are now actively soliciting its approval. Boyle, Matthew, Fortune, April 19, 2007: http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/19/news/companies/ pluggedin_boyle_rainforest.fortune/index.htm “Green before green was cool” Shaklee, a direct seller of nutrition, personal care and household cleaning products, embraced environmental responsibility decades ago, Gunther, Marc, Fortune, May 18, 2007. http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/17/news/companies/ pluggedin_gunther_shaklee.fortune/index.htm Wal-Mart: Here comes the sun Wal-Mart's installation of solar rooftop panels could give a big boost to the use of solar energy, Gunther, Marc, Fortune, May 9, 2007. http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/07/news/companies/ pluggedin_gunther_wmtsolar.fortune/index.htm Green is good “No, it's not just greenwash. Business in the U.S. really has become cleaner and greener. Environmentalists actually have embraced market-based solutions. And the politics are about to get very interesting.” Marc Gunther, Fortune, March 22, 2007. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/ fortune_archive/2007/04/02/8403418/index.htm Four ways to go green Want to make your small firm an eco-friendly powerhouse, and more profitable? Here's some tips. By Martha Visser. March 26 2007: 4:47 PM EDT http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/26/magazines/fsb/green.fsb/index.htm Opposing positions: Greed is still better than 'green' People, people. By all means, care about the earth, but invest in the real world and make money. Here are 15 great stocks in dirty businesses like coal and mining that make the world run. Markman, Jon, http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/SuperModels/GreedIsStillBetter ThanGreen.aspxSuperM Videos Change a Lightbulb, Save the World (video) CNN Money's Steve Hargreaves sits down with Philips North America CEO, Paul Zeven, to discuss how the company plans to help reduce energy use worldwide, by simply changing a light bulb. Video: Change a light bulb, save the world* Relevant Corporate Websites: Ford Motor Company and CSR: a. http://media.ford.com/newsroom/release_display.cfm?release=23423 b. http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/soc-dial/csr/pdf/046- COMP_Ford_US_011218_en.htm GAP: http://www.csrwire.com/News/7517.html Home depot: http://corporate.homedepot.com/wps/portal/Community_Development IBM (presentation): http://www.iadb.org/csramericas/2006/documento/presentations/Litow.pdf Johnson & Johnson: a.http://www.jnj.com/community/contributions/publications/2003_contributions.pdf; jsessionid=4IFBWGZ30W1JECQPCCEGU3AKB2IIWTT1 b. http://www.jnj.com/community/contributions/programs/responsibility.htm McDonalds: http://www.csrwire.com/News/831.html Verizon: http://www.vzmultimedia.com/responsibility/promote/index.aspx Wal-Mart Stores: http://www.wal-martchina.com/english/community/community.htm http://www.csrwire.com/News/89.html