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      Something To Believe In book

      Creating Trust and Hope in Organisations: Stories of Transparency, Accountability and Governance

      Something To Believe In

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      Something To Believe In book

      Creating Trust and Hope in Organisations: Stories of Transparency, Accountability and Governance
      Edited ByRupesh A. Shah, David F. Murphy, Malcolm McIntosh
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2003
      eBook Published 1 October 2017
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351281324
      Pages 245
      eBook ISBN 9781351281324
      Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Environment and Sustainability
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      Shah, R.A., Murphy, D.F., & McIntosh, M. (Eds.). (2003). Something To Believe In: Creating Trust and Hope in Organisations: Stories of Transparency, Accountability and Governance (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351281324

      ABSTRACT

      In a world where trust in politicians, corporations and the processes that determine our lives continues to dwindle, this innovative book brings together research, case studies and stories that begin to answer a central question for society: How we can create organisations, institutions, groups and societies that can nurture trusting relationships with one another and among individuals?Something to Believe In provides a fresh take on the corporate responsibility debate, based as it is on the work of key global thinkers on corporate social responsibility, along with a raft of work developed from collaborations between the New Academy of Business and the United Nations Volunteers, UK Department for International Development and TERI-Europe in countries such as Brazil, Nicaragua, Ghana, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Nigeria, the Philippines and South Africa. The focus is on business, and particularly how deeper, more systemic changes to current ways of understanding and undertaking business can and have been enacted in both developed countries and in nations where the Western concept of CSR means nothing. The market-based model of economic thinking-the increasingly distrusted globalisation project-which threatens to sweep all before it is challenged by many of the contributions to this book.The book tells stories such as the mobilization of civil society in Ghana to bring business to account; the reorientation of a business school to focus on values; the life-cycle of ethical chocolate; the accountability of the diamond business in a war zone; the need to reinvent codes of conduct for women workers in the plantations and factories of Nicaragua; a Philippine initiative to economically empower former Moslem liberation fighters; and the development of local governance practices in a South African eco-village.The book is split into four sections. "Through Some Looking Glasses" contains short, thought-provoking pieces about the issues of trust, belief and change from writers including Thabo Mbeki, Malcolm McIntosh and a reprinted piece from E.M. Forster. Section Two asks how it will be possible to believe in our corporations and provides new approaches from around the world on how space is being opened up to found businesses that are able to create trust. Section Three examines the role of auditing in fostering trust. Corporations continue to attempt to engender trust through their activities in philanthropy, reporting and voluntary programmes. But, post-Enron et al., even the most highly praised corporate mission statements are tarnished. Can social and environmental audits of corporate reports, codes and practices assuage our doubts about boardroom democracy? Section Four examines alternative forms of accountability, transparency and governance from around the world and offers some different ways of thinking about the practice of creating trust in society.Something to Believe In provides a host of fascinating suggestions about redefining and renewing the underlying deal between society and its organizations. It will become a key text for students, thinkers and practitioners in the field of corporate responsibility.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |9 pages

      Introduction

      Edited ByRupesh A. Shah, David F. Murphy, Malcolm McIntosh

      part 1|22 pages

      Through some looking glasses

      chapter 1|2 pages

      Something to have struggled for and now to believe*

      ByT.M. Mbeki

      chapter 2|6 pages

      PlanetHome

      ByMalcolm McIntosh

      chapter 3|6 pages

      From terrorism to trust

      Trusting our nature?
      ByMary-Jayne Rust

      chapter 4|3 pages

      Partnering trust

      India’s corporate social responsibility heritage
      ByViraal B. Balsari

      chapter 5|4 pages

      Tolerance*

      ByE.M. Forster

      part 2|65 pages

      How could it be possible to believe in our corporations?

      chapter 6|9 pages

      Demanding corporate responsibility is the key

      The creation of a movement for corporate responsibility in Ghana*
      ByJoseph Yaw Boateng

      chapter 7|6 pages

      Corporate responsibility

      The emerging South Asian agenda*
      ByRitu Kumar

      chapter 8|20 pages

      Corporate governance, shareholder interests and managerial accountability in turbulent times

      ByScott Bourke, Neil E. Béchervaise

      chapter 9|19 pages

      Strange bedfellows make for democratic deficits

      The rise and challenges of private corporate social responsibility engagement
      ByMatthew J. Hirschland

      chapter 10|6 pages

      The rise of the ‘abdroids’*

      ByRoger Warren Evans

      chapter 11|4 pages

      Changing focus

      A business school for sustainable development
      ByJuliet Roper, Eva Collins, Mike Pratt

      part 3|71 pages

      Auditing for whom?

      chapter 12|5 pages

      Love in a time of chocolate

      The corporate discipline of compassion
      ByAdrian Henriques

      chapter 13|18 pages

      Trouble at the Hard Rock Café

      Diamonds and corporate social responsibility
      ByIan Smillie, Ralph Hazleton

      chapter 14|9 pages

      In search of transparency

      Corporate codes of conduct and women workers in Central America
      ByMarina Prieto-Carron

      chapter 15|24 pages

      Voluntary governance or a contradiction in terms?

      Are voluntary codes accountable and transparent governance tools?
      BySimon B. Archer, S. Tina Piper

      chapter 16|14 pages

      The auditor has no clothes

      Challenging the pursuit of objectivity in auditing
      ByRupesh A. Shah

      part 4|50 pages

      New initiatives

      chapter 17|8 pages

      In the business of making peace

      La Frutera and Paglas in the Philippines*
      ByCharmaine Nuguid-Anden

      chapter 18|17 pages

      Corporate responsibility in New Zealand

      A case study
      ByBob Frame, Richard Gordon, Ian Whitehouse

      chapter 19|9 pages

      Reforming government; working with business

      The Office of the Minister of State for Administrative Reform in Lebanon*
      ByLubna Forzley

      chapter 20|8 pages

      Living and learning in Stellenbosch, South Africa

      ByMark Swilling, Eve Annecke

      chapter 21|7 pages

      It's the film that matters, not the photo

      Good governance in development co-operation*
      ByDavid F. Murphy

      part 5|5 pages

      Conclusion

      chapter 22|4 pages

      Under the trumpet flower *

      ByAbdul Cader Riswana, Ismael Ashraff, Jinutheen Rasmina, Kanathan Dinojit, Stepan Sampath
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