Global Codes of Conduct

Oliver F. Williams, C.S.C., is Associate Professor of Management in the College of Business Administration and academic director of the Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business at the University of Notre Dame. He is the co-editor of Is the Good Corporation Dead? Social Responsibility in a Global Economy (1996), and The Moral Imagination: How Literature and Films Can Stimulate Ethical Reflection in the Business World (Notre Dame Press, 1998).

"A useful all-in-one-volume survey of the values and the limitations of global codes of conduct for multinational corporations—a topic of obvious importance in an increasingly 'globalized' economy.... Recommended for academic collections, lower-division undergraduate through research, as well as professional libraries." —Choice"These two books [Economic Imperatives and Ethical Values in Global Business and Global Codes of Conduct] present the best current thinking about efforts to appraise and influence the social and ethical impact of global corporations, and set the stage for the new UN Global Compact initiated by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 1999." —Ethics and International Affairs"The contemporary globalization of business cries out for a global ethic, the successful articulation of which is furthered by this collection of timely new essays that together evaluate existing global codes and suggest fruitful lines of future development. The twenty-seven codes conveniently gathered in the Appendix enhance the volume's usefulness. The books is an important and welcome addition to the literature on international business ethics." —Richard T. De George, University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Kansas