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Created: Feb 22, 2008
Updated: Oct 19, 2009
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Updated: about 1 year ago
AbstractThe fundamental assumptions of corporate law have changed little in decades. Accepted as truth are the notions that corporations are voluntary, private, contractual entities, that they have...
Areas: Business Firm and Organization Sustainability, Corporate Ethics, Responsible Business Practices
Type: Other - Author: Kent Greenfield
Type: Other - Author: Kent Greenfield
Updated: 7 months ago
This hasn’t been the best year for British Petroleum. After the
series of embarrassing pipeline breaks in Alaska, critics say the
British energy giant can no longer claim to be an environmentally
c...
Updated: 4 months ago
“A bad system produces bad situations in which people act badly
without even necessarily knowing why . . . if enough people absorbed
this argument, we might find ourselves in a better polity . . . ...
Areas: Business Firm and Organization Sustainability, Corporate Ethics, Responsible Business Practices, Socially Responsible Investment, Democracy and Civil Society, Democracy Education, Democratic Participation, Democratic Reform, Access To Education, Education ...
Type: Book - Author: Marjorie Kelly
Type: Book - Author: Marjorie Kelly
Updated: about 1 year ago
Hardin, Garrett. 1968. The Tragedy of the Commons. Science, Vol. 162. 6 pp. Subtitle: The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.Here...
Areas: Conservation and the Commons, Ecopsychology, Environmental Ethics, Sustainability, Religious and Spiritual Issues, Human Population Growth and Impacts, Pollution Prevention and Reduction, Appropriate Technology, Biotechnology, Global Pollution ...
Type: Other - Author: Garrett Hardin
Type: Other - Author: Garrett Hardin
Updated: 11 months ago
How to spot, prevent and avoid greenwash for consumers, companies and agencies. Futerra’s new Greenwash Guide analyses the current state of greenwash and what’s being done about it. You can also fi...
Updated: about 1 year ago
CORPORATE
CRIME REPORTER
Twenty
Things You Should Know About Corporate Crime
21 Corporate Crime Reporter 25, June 12, 2007
Twenty years ago, Corporate Crime Reporter, a weekly prin...
Updated: 11 months ago
Updated: about 1 year ago
CORPORATE
CRIME REPORTER
Twenty
Things You Should Know About Corporate Crime
21 Corporate Crime Reporter 25, June 12, 2007
Twenty years ago, Corporate Crime Reporter, a weekly prin...
Updated: 11 months ago
Excerpt from Joel Makower's Strategies for the Green Economy.
Areas: Responsible Business Practices, Corporate Ethics, Business Firm and Organization Sustainability
Type: Article - Author: Joel Makower
Type: Article - Author: Joel Makower
Updated: about 1 year ago
"It makes no sense to endlessly chase after individual instances of corporate wrongdoing, when that wrongdoing is a natural result of our system's design. Corporations abuse the public interest bec...
Areas: Business Firm and Organization Sustainability, Corporate Ethics, Responsible Business Practices, Socially Responsible Investment
Type: White Paper - Author: John Karvel
Type: White Paper - Author: John Karvel