Just Business Practices in a Diverse and Developing World

FREDERICK BIRD holds the Concordia University (Montreal) Research Chair in Comparative Ethics. He is the co-editor of International Businesses and the Challenges of Poverty in the Developing World, the author of The Muted Conscience: Moral Silence and the Practice of Ethics in Business and co-author of Good Management: Business Ethics in Practice. He has also written a number of articles. He is a graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Divinity School, and the Graduate Theological Union. MANUEL VELASQUEZ is the Charles J. Dirksen Professor of Business Ethics and Profes

• Introduction; F.Bird & M.Velasquez PART ONE Introduction: Searching for Common Standards in a Morally Diverse World; F.Bird & M.Velasquez Natural Law in International Business Ethics; M.Velasquez Justice in International Businesses; F.Bird PART TWO Introduction: Global Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility; F.Bird & M.Velasquez Pursuing Corporate Responsibility in Changing Institutional Fields; J.Smucker Toward a Political Ethic for International Businesses; F.Bird Global Initiatives to Promote Corporate Social Responsibility in the Mining Sector; H.S.Dashwood Fostering Social Responsibility in Businesses: The Role of Ethical Auditing; F.Bird Monitoring Labour Conditions of Textile Manufacturing: The Work of COVERCO in Guatemala; S.Babarik PART THREE Introduction: Acting Responsibly in the World As It Is and As We Hope It Will Become; F.Bird & M.Velasquez Global Poverty: Causes and Remedies; F.Bird Theological Responses to Economic Globalization; R.Daye Markets, Development and Equity: Lessons from South Korea; J.Smucker

'...the book is fitting for both academics and practitioners...provides much needed theoretical as well as practical guidance in responding to this unique challenge of gloabization.' - Min-Dong Paul Lee, Administrative Science Quarterly