Ethics Codes, Corporations and the Challenge of Globalization

Edited by the late Wesley Cragg, formerly Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar in Philosophy, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada where he is also Principle Investigator and Project Director, Canadian Business Ethics Research Network, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada

• Contents: Preface 1. Ethics, Globalization and the Phenomenon of Self-Regulation: An Introduction Part I: Ethics, Law, Globalization and the Modern Shareholder Owned Multinational Corporation 2. Ethics, Law and Corporate Self-Regulation 3. Corporate Codes of Conduct: Profit, Power and Law in the Global Economy Part II: Case Studies 4. Corporate Voluntarism and Human Rights: The Adequacy and Effectiveness of Voluntary Self-Regulation Regimes 5. The US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: The Role of Ethics, Law and Self-Regulation in Global Markets 6. ‘Voluntary’ Ethical Conduct: Anti-Money Laundering Compliance and the Financial Sector 7. Private Ordering and Workers’ Rights in the Global Economy: Corporate Codes of Conduct as a Regime of Labour Market Regulation 8. Ethics Codes and MNCs as Minority Shareholders: The Case of a Bauxite Mine in Brazil Part III: Future Directions 9. Three Questions about Corporate Codes: Problemizations, Authorizations and the Public/Private Divide 10. Legally Mandated Self-Regulation: The Potential of Sentencing Guidelines 11. Voluntary Codes and the New Sustainability Paradigm 12. Ethics Codes: The Regulatory Norms of a Globalized Society? Index

'This is a book which will have wide appeal, not just to business ethicists, but to politicians, members of non-governmental organisations, historians, economists, the general public and, of course, company directors. . . The case studies in this book are enormously informative and fascinating. . . On finishing this book I found that Cragg's optimism had inflected my own pessimism. I also found the book so much more interesting than I expected it to be, to the extent that some of the papers were positively gripping.'