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- Jensen, Tommy, 1970-, et al.
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Translating corporate codes of ethics
- 2010
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Ingår i: Corporate Social Responsibility. - Stockholm : Santérus Academic Press. - 9789173350129 ; , s. 53-70
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Jensen, Tommy, 1970-, et al.
(författare)
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Re-articulating the ethical corporation : The case of the Woolf Committee Report
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Global Responsibility. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 2041-2568 .- 2041-2576. ; 1:2, s. 279-292
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – Efforts to address the role and responsibilities of large global corporations have predominantly focused on the need for increased and more effective global corporate governance, but this underestimates the need to articulate a global ethics for these corporations. This paper aims to analyse the Woolf Committee Report (WCR; the weapon company BAE Systems plc’s attempt to outline what it would take to become a global corporate leader in ethics) and benchmark it against an ethical response to corporate responsibility articulated as a global ethics. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a textual analysis of the WCR. Findings – The WCR contains openings towards a re-articulation of the role and responsibilities of large global corporations, but it is predominantly a text that gives us more clues to how difficult it will be for BAE, or any other corporation, to “live” a global ethics. Research limitations/implications – Critical analyses of the language that corporations use in order to address their role and responsibilities are important. However, how texts influence practice is dependent on how they travel and more studies on such journeys are also needed. Practical implications – Given that textual analyses, such as ours, are re-connected to practitioners, such studies might contribute to making practitioners more discursively aware of the corporate talk that they are embedded in. Originality/value – The paper predominantly speaks to the field of business studies and its originality lies in its focus on a global ethics (without reducing this to governance) in relation to the role and responsibilities of large global corporations.
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- Helin, Sven, 1962-, et al.
(författare)
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On the dark side of codes! : Domination not enlightenment
- 2011
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Management. - : Elsevier. - 0956-5221 .- 1873-3387. ; 27:1, s. 24-33
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we show how a middle manager interprets the action of two employees as problematic and how he solves it by using the company's code of ethics as the basis for firing them. Our telling of the story unmasks a darker side of codes and we conceptualize it in terms of power and domination. The paper contributes to the literature on corporate codes of ethics (CCEs) and corporate ethics programs by showing that such codes need not necessarily play an enabling role in organizations. Rather than being instruments of enlightenment and self-regulation, they may be used as instruments to further domination.
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- Jensen, Tommy, et al.
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Stakeholder theory and globalization : the challenges of power and responsibility
- 2011
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Ingår i: Organization Studies. - : Sage Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 32:4, s. 473-488
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Globalization is a blind spot in stakeholder theory and this undermines its explanatory power and usefulness to managers in global corporations. In this paper we build on Edward Freeman and colleagues’ attempts to construct divergent stories about how to create value for the corporation and its stakeholders when developing a stakeholder theory that is more sensitive to globalization. We achieve this by highlighting two particular challenges that globalization brings to stakeholder theory. The first challenge is to acknowledge new power relations (sub-political movements, new forms of bureaucracy and hierarchy) and the second is to acknowledge new dimensions of responsibility (a political responsibility). In the paper we relate our developments of stakeholder theory to two previously published case studies.
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