The starting point of this thesis is the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in China. CSR can certainly not solve all of the social and environmental problems, but we believe that it can play a part, which is why we find it interesting to study the status quo of the concept in China. The research question of the thesis is “How is CSR depicted in China?”. The purpose of this study is to identify and describe Chinese views of CSR and analyze the differences between these views and CSR, as it is commonly understood in the West, in order to contribute to a better understanding of the CSR concept in China. We spent ten weeks in China conducting a qualitative case study. We interviewed companies, academics and governmental and non-governmental organisations, within the CSR area in China. Our material was then categorised into five views of CSR, where CSR is depicted as: - CSR as labour law compliance - CSR as law enforcement - CSR as codes of conduct compliance - CSR as a PR exercise - CSR with Chinese characteristics In addition to describe these views, we set out to analyze the differences between these views, and CSR as understood in the West. When analyzing the views we have mainly departed from CSR theory and translation theory. The main differences can be seen when it comes to the, from a Western point of view, limited scope of corporate responsibility, the lack of stakeholder dialogue, the lack of consideration for environmental issues, and in the concept of a harmonious society, which is not a part of CSR in the West. CSR with Chinese characteristics still seems to be an aspiration they are striving for, while the other four views rather are different aspects of the problems related to CSR in China at present. Our views are examples of how CSR has been translated in China, but none of them seems to be a suitable option for the further development of the concept. Put together, these views give a quite negative image of CSR in China, and it comes forth as rather ineffective. If the concept is going to have any impact on the social and environmental problems in China there is a need for further research. The development of the concept needs to be in accordance with the realities of the Chinese society, addressing the problems in the society as well as the problems with the concept.

Issues in production processes in the fashion industry are highly topical as recentscandals covered by the media show. However, these scandals rather involved multinationalcompanies than small and medium-sized enterprises. This study investigates, how small andmedium-sized fashion enterprises source their material ethically and implement a CSRstrategy by introducing of a code of conduct. Motives and challenges for implementing codeswill be discussed as well as possible solutions.Data was collected by conducting four semi-structured interviews with three fashion retailersand a multi-stakeholder organisation in the textile industry. In addition, documents includingsustainability reports were analysed. Results show that the motives for introducing codes ofconduct are closely linked to the company’s definition of CSR. External pressure contributedto the introduction, however, the main motivation was based on internal decisions of thecompanies. Main challenges of implementing a code of conduct included handling thecomplexity of the fashion supply chain, effective monitoring of compliance as well as culturaldifferences between suppliers and buying brands. Meeting these challenges included theinvolvement of workers, and additional measures as the introduction of complaintsmechanisms.

This study was conducted to examine whether large publicly listed companies in Sweden have any demands regarding their customers’ codes of conduct as well as how business-to- business collaborations are affected by the presence of codes of conduct at the customer in this relationship. The business-to-business relationships were investigated in their three essential relationship-stages (pre-relationship stage, established/mature-relationship stage and ending-relationship stage) that are introduced in previous business-to-business research. Theories about contract theory and external accounting helped illustrate the complications surrounding codes of conduct in regard to customers. It was found that codes of conduct are important for companies’ business to-business relationships. However, the code of conduct is still not included in the contractual agreement with customers in most cases. The study was conducted through a survey and a content analysis in cooperation with KPMG and the Swedish law firm Delphi.

Submitted by Luciana Sebin (lusebin@ufscar.br) on 2016-09-20T12:05:56Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DissDPP.pdf: 1150158 bytes, checksum: d70db8f42ac07e2e408929d180fd9afb (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marina Freitas (marinapf@ufscar.br) on 2016-09-21T12:44:01Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DissDPP.pdf: 1150158 bytes, checksum: d70db8f42ac07e2e408929d180fd9afb (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marina Freitas (marinapf@ufscar.br) on 2016-09-21T12:44:08Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DissDPP.pdf: 1150158 bytes, checksum: d70db8f42ac07e2e408929d180fd9afb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-21T12:44:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissDPP.pdf: 1150158 bytes, checksum: d70db8f42ac07e2e408929d180fd9afb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-15 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / The prostitution is ambiguous: while it is recognized as an occupation is also a morally confusing activity to the dominant values at the same time that the state guarantees the occupancy condition for prostitute, criminalize the other activities in your surroundings (whose main implication is the operating profit of impossibility about the work of a prostitute) and victimizes. This injunction prostitution condition causes people dealing with this world end up creating conduct and internal codes of everyday action, so you can keep your active practices and markets, moving just between the spheres of legal and illegal, moral and immoral. This work aims to understand, from the codes and conducts the operation of some areas of prostitution in three different cities in the interior of São Paulo: Iris, Girassol and Gardenia. In each of these cities it was possible to see some prostitution contexts, especially in streets, squares and houses. These spaces was conducted fieldwork with interviews and analysis of media records (printed and virtual newspapers, blogs, brochures etc.). / O exercício da prostituição é ambíguo: ao mesmo tempo em que é reconhecido como uma ocupação é também uma atividade moralmente desconcertante para os valores dominantes, ao mesmo tempo em que o Estado garante a condição de ocupação para a prostituta, criminaliza as demais atividades no seu entorno (cuja principal implicação é a impossibilidade de exploração de lucro sobre o trabalho de uma prostituta) e a vitimiza. Essa condição liminar da prostituição faz com que as pessoas que lidam com esse mundo acabem criando condutas e códigos internos, de ação cotidiana, para que seja possível manter suas práticas e mercados atuantes, transitando justamente entre as esferas do legal e ilegal, moral e imoral. Este trabalho tem o intuito de entender, a partir dos códigos e condutas, o funcionamento de alguns espaços de prostituição em três cidades distintas do interior de São Paulo: Íris, Girassol e Gardênia. Em cada uma dessas cidades foi possível ver vários contextos de prostituição, sobretudo em ruas, praças e casas. Nesses espaços foi realizado um trabalho de campo, com entrevistas e análises de registros midiáticos (jornais impressos e virtuais, blogs, folders etc.) .

Prepared by: Hana Kuchaříková Title of thesis: Business Ethics The subtitle of the thesis: Corporate ethics of GE Money, Inc. Objective: To characterize GE Money Bank, as to become familiar with its code of ethics. Then describe the behavior of employees of this company and find out how to comply with the rules of ethical behavior in practice. And compared with the ethical behavior of employees outside the banking sector. For comparison, IBM has been selected. Results: In this thesis it was found that neither company has a well developed code of ethics is unable to fulfill its essence in practice. Although employees are thoroughly trained, many do not comply with rules established by this Code. It was found many cases where there are violations and then suggested measures that could lead to at least partial removal. In comparison with IBM, it was found that the state of corporate ethics at both companies is very similar

No / Unethical business practices, the conduct of corrupt rulers and conflict entrepreneurs in conflict-prone societies have provoked genuine humanitarian concern from NGOs and activists who constitute the main driving force behind calls for ethical markets. However, powerful players, such as western multinational corporations and OECD governments, have been able to undercut campaigns for compulsory legal regulatory codes by promoting industry self-regulation and voluntary codes of conduct. This article assesses a number of these initiatives to control the trade in conflict goods and promote good resource governance. It concludes that current mechanisms constitute a weak attempt to control the negative impacts of the market and, by failing to tackle the real causes of instability, are inadequate for building a political economy of peace.

yes / In recent years, there has been increasing concern about unethical conduct within corporate business, not least because of the scandalous behaviour of former chief executives at top blue chip companies such as Enron, Worldcom, Parmalat and Volkswagen. These scandals have not only threatened the privileged position of senior corporate employees but also the solvency of the companies they manage and lead. The high profile cases of corporate crime and corruption that occurred in the early 2000s together with the 2008 Wall Street bailouts (Sorokin 2010) and the growth in criminal prosecutions since (Garrett 2014) have raised the profile of business ethics to an unprecedented level. Greater public sensitivity towards and awareness about the unlawful and immoral conduct of firms in the United States and elsewhere, has created demand for organizations to become more accountable and socially responsible and prompted greater regulatory scrutiny. It has also served to highlight the embryonic (Ciulla 2005) and delimited (Freidland 2012) state of research and scholarship on business ethics, where the focus has tended to remain on leadership (Kellerman 2012). A neglected, though important, line of ethical enquiry concerns followership (Kellerman, 2008). Corporate wrongdoing would be less formidable and extensive if it was not aided and abetted. Two key questions arise. First, what prompts followers to support rather than oppose bad leaders? Second, what can be done to stem or at least curtail their allegiance to bad leaders?

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2017-10-09T13:58:18Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Estael de Lima Goncalves.pdf: 13910542 bytes, checksum: 72f0338606f3ecd75f6e33ebedf1f8a8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-09T13:58:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Estael de Lima Goncalves.pdf: 13910542 bytes, checksum: 72f0338606f3ecd75f6e33ebedf1f8a8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-02 / The human living in society, and especially in urban areas, requires the definition of rules that are appropriated for the planning and for the arrengement of collective life. To achieve this, human societies have created mechanisms for the organization of spaces and activities that enable groups to live in greater harmony. The analysis of the formation of urban life in the interior of Goiás, with emphasis on Jataí from the late nineteenth century until the end of the 1920s, takes place from legislative documents called the municipal codes, which are used as elements for guiding research. The prominence in shaping urban and addressing hygiene and sanitation present in these documents enables the perception of so-called civilizing process and the material transformations of urban space. It points out the main features of European and Brazilian urbanization, especially the motivations of the rapid growth of cities during the period considered, with focus to the case of Goiás. It analyzes the attitudes of urban Jataí as an element of control of the city and shaping a new way of living in public space. The case of the city of Jataí is studied to show how the legislation sought to interfere with everyday people just out of rural areas, revealing the action of so-called 'civilizing process' of the local society. Through the analysis of archival documents, it is understood as was the organization of public space and how the legislation affects the municipal acts on individuals. Small inland towns as Jataí went through a process guided by the dictates of civilization medicalsanitary and moral of the nineteenth century, which originated in Europe and influenced the whole modern world, which contributes significantly to the model of city that we experience today. / A convivência humana no meio social e, acima de tudo no meio urbano, implica a delimitação de normas e condutas apropriadas ao ordenamento da vida coletiva. As sociedades humanas têm criado mecanismos de organização dos espaços e das ações que permitem aos grupos viver em maior harmonia. A análise da formação da vida urbana no interior goiano, com ênfase para Jataí, a partir do final do século XIX até o fim da década de 1920, se dá a partir de documentos legislativos denominados de códigos de posturas municipais, que são utilizados como elementos norteadores para as pesquisas. A proeminência na conformação urbana e na questão higiênico-sanitarista presente em tais documentos permite a percepção do chamado processo civilizador e das transformações materiais do espaço urbano. Aponta-se as principais características da urbanização européia e brasileira, destacando-se as motivações do crescimento acelerado das cidades no período considerado, com foco para o caso de Goiás. Analisa-se as posturas urbanas de Jataí como elemento do controle da cidade e de conformação de um novo modo de viver no espaço público. O caso da cidade de Jataí é estudado de modo a mostrar como a legislação buscou interferir no cotidiano da população recém-saída do meio rural, revelando a ação do chamado 'processo civilizador' da sociedade local. Através da análise de documentação arquivística, entende-se como ocorreu a organização do espaço público e como a legislação de posturas municipais interfere age sobre os indivíduos. Pequenas cidades interioranas como Jataí passaram por um processo de civilização pautado pelos ditames médicosanitaristas e morais do século XIX, que tiveram origem na Europa e influenciaram todo o mundo moderno, o que contribui decisivamente para o modelo de cidade que vivenciamos atualmente.

<p>This study uses Actor – Network Theory as a lens to present a case study of the process by which Indiska Magasinet, a large Swedish retailer, has defined and developed its conceptualization of Corporate Social Responsibility. Actor – Network Theory offers a valuable tool to examine the inter-actor negotiations that precede a conceptualization of Corporate Social Responsibility. The study results are primarily based on interviews with two prominent Indiska personnel in decision-making positions. At the instigation of the writers, the Indiska personnel told stories about the company’s way of working with Corporate Social Responsibility. In doing so, they described four principle examples of how inter-actor negotiations resulted in significant developments in Indiska’s approach to Corporate Social Responsibility. Their stories also highlighted shared values and legitimacy as the main reasons that Indiska allows other actors to influence its conceptualization of Corporate Social Responsibility.</p>

This study uses Actor – Network Theory as a lens to present a case study of the process by which Indiska Magasinet, a large Swedish retailer, has defined and developed its conceptualization of Corporate Social Responsibility. Actor – Network Theory offers a valuable tool to examine the inter-actor negotiations that precede a conceptualization of Corporate Social Responsibility. The study results are primarily based on interviews with two prominent Indiska personnel in decision-making positions. At the instigation of the writers, the Indiska personnel told stories about the company’s way of working with Corporate Social Responsibility. In doing so, they described four principle examples of how inter-actor negotiations resulted in significant developments in Indiska’s approach to Corporate Social Responsibility. Their stories also highlighted shared values and legitimacy as the main reasons that Indiska allows other actors to influence its conceptualization of Corporate Social Responsibility.