Values and Stakeholders in an Era of Social Responsibility: Cut-Throat Competition?

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures, Tables and Questionnaires......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 14
List of Abbreviations......Page 16
Talking responsibility with my barista......Page 18
Sustainability report: balance sheet or bull sheet?......Page 21
Preview......Page 22
PART I: DEVELOPING A CSR PROCESS FRAMEWORK......Page 28
Linux? Microsoft ignores it......Page 30
The external effects of McDonald\'s......Page 32
BAe Systems\' weapons......Page 34
Total\'s Club Med......Page 36
Nike: disclosure and diversity......Page 37
The yoke of Fiat......Page 39
Holcim\'s breathing cement......Page 41
Monnalisa\'s caring for China......Page 42
Novartis and Médecins Sans Frontières......Page 44
Sanofi Aventis for Africa?......Page 45
The ethics governance of Siemens......Page 46
Conclusion......Page 48
CSR is not philanthropy......Page 49
Living on the margins......Page 50
The four noble truths of CSR......Page 51
Topology of responsibility......Page 53
Not against thieves......Page 56
A ‘weak\' theory of CSR......Page 60
Subway blues......Page 61
Is there CSR outside Porter and Kramer?......Page 62
CSR doppelgänger: irresponsibility......Page 63
Kristijan Krkac\'s concept of \'Lying by Default\'......Page 64
The anesthetic of positive reporting......Page 65
Irresponsibility is important......Page 66
The Figure in the Carpet: deriving a framework from the database......Page 67
Questioning the stakeholder approach......Page 69
In praise of competition......Page 71
Highway system......Page 72
Gas station owner-operators......Page 74
Monopolist air carrier......Page 75
Closed-shop recruitment by political parties......Page 76
The value of the unknown stakeholder......Page 78
Questionnaire tool box......Page 79
Relevance......Page 81
Doubt and vulnerability......Page 82
Regional electoral communication......Page 83
The European Central Bank......Page 84
ICT pundits......Page 85
7 Implementation......Page 88
An enthusiasm for technicalities......Page 89
From strategy to tactics......Page 90
Citizen security system......Page 91
We have met the enemy, and he is us......Page 92
8 Everyman\'s Decision-Making: Micro-Ethics......Page 95
The organizational model......Page 96
More on the media......Page 98
Ethics revealed......Page 99
Ostrich ethics......Page 100
Conclusion......Page 101
9 Who\'s Afraid of the Policy Analyst?......Page 103
The sorrows of the young CSR executive......Page 104
The USDIME framework, CSR standards, and integrated reporting......Page 105
Finding what was expected by the corporation......Page 108
Finding what was expected by the values......Page 111
Towards an open source community of CSR rating......Page 113
Conclusion......Page 114
USDIME Framework Course Work......Page 115
PART II: FROM CSR TO POLITICS: THE COMPETITIVE DIVIDE......Page 134
11 The Neighborhood Bullies......Page 136
The consumer and the telephone monopolist......Page 137
The irresponsibility of the freeway company......Page 139
The irresponsibility of banks......Page 141
The power company report......Page 143
The unbearable communication of the water company......Page 145
Reforming paternalism in the media......Page 146
The name of the euro: the National Central Bank......Page 148
Conclusion......Page 150
Case study: applying the USDIME to a sample of European banks......Page 151
12 The Profits of Non-Profit......Page 157
Philanthropy does not mean responsibility......Page 158
The Jesuits\' accountability......Page 159
The American Cancer Society: no need for indicators......Page 160
Professor Jeffrey Sachs\' recipe for international aid......Page 161
The Vatican\'s accountability: the Devil\'s tail......Page 162
Accounting for the industrialists\' association......Page 163
Case study: a comparative analysis of research institutions......Page 164
13 The Autarky of Public Administration......Page 170
Turning back the brain drain......Page 171
The accounts of the courts......Page 172
Shylock industrial policy......Page 174
Dirigistic milk pricing......Page 175
Micro health services......Page 176
Public sector accounts......Page 177
Case study: reverse engineering in the police force accounts......Page 178
Supra-national bodies......Page 185
Primary elections......Page 186
Budgetary shortcuts......Page 187
The value of politics......Page 188
Case study: if you do not measure it, you did not do it......Page 189
Work evasion exists......Page 196
Work evasion is pandemic......Page 199
There is a competitive divide among workers......Page 200
From CSR to politics: interdisciplinary work and anti-politics......Page 205
Stakeholders of what? The cost of non-government......Page 207
\'Communicating vessels\'......Page 209
16 What Is To Be Done? Developing a Political Agenda for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises......Page 211
The ghost of competition......Page 213
Partitioning the workforce......Page 218
Small is not beautiful, but it is useful......Page 220
The status of SMEs in the political arena......Page 221
SMEs as collective actors and full-field economic and social stakeholders......Page 223
Global professional support for sustainability......Page 228
A CSR framework for individual SMEs......Page 231
An inter-cultural perspective on economic and social competition......Page 236
Values and Stakeholders: separating the beautiful from the useful......Page 237
Farewell......Page 240
Bibliography......Page 242
Index......Page 251