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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"corporate accountability"”.
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Global Health, Social Justice, and Corporate Accountability
Chapter one of the dissertation contrasts libertarian theories to the theories of John Rawls and the human development approach favored by Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen. Libertarian theorists such as Robert Nozick, Murray Rothbard, and Jan Narveson claim that justice is achieved when and only …
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Corporate accountability in a globalizing environment : empirical evidence
… to which system is more effective in enhancing corporate values and disciplining managements. What view one takes of course very much depends on political viewpoint and national background. For example. economists or lawyers in the US or UK may argue that the Anglo-American shareholder model is …
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Piercing the Corporate Veil: Exploring Legal Implications and Corporate Accountability
… explore and analyse the concept of piercing the corporate veil within the context of South African corporate law. The purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the circumstances in which courts in South Africa may disregard the separate legal personality of a company …
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The CERES principals : does adopting a voluntary code of management produce corporate accountability?
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1995.
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Navigating Corporate Accountability: Addressing Regulatory Challenges in the Face of Human Rights and Environmental Violations
The impact of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) on the environment and human well-being has reached a critical point. Instances of environmental degradation caused by these corporations have led to severe violations of human rights, resulting in complex challenges. Despite numerous cases brought to …
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Synthesising Synergies between Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Human Rights for Corporate Accountability: Microfoundations for an Integrated Approach
… related to CSR leading to a significant corporate accountability gap. Almost parallel to this literature, the field of Law has conceived and advanced the concept of Business and Human Rights (BHR). This thesis highlights compelling gaps in scholarship at the intersection of the fields of …
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Corporate strategy and corporate environmental responsibility in Canada : multiple descriptive case studies
… years we have witnessed growing interest in corporate environmental responsibility and the concept of sustainability amongst businesses globally. Regardless of the motivation, be it competitive advantage, social license to operate, share value (socially responsible investing), shareholder …
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An assessment of the South African agro-food sector
… and legitimacy. Whilst there has been a climate corporate accountability analysis of carbon-intensive sectors such as mining and energy in South Africa, c
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The Fight Against Breast Cancer: A Policy and Programmatic Approach
… through public education and engagement, corporate accountability and sustainability campaigns, and legislative advocacy. This fieldwork placement resulted in the Breast Cancer Prevention Partners drafting a public comment to the FDA in response to their proposed lead maximum in lip …
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Race to the Bottom? : A Critical Analysis of Canada's Modern Slavery in Supply Chain Legislation
… of Canada's conceptualization of transnational corporate accountability and exploitative labour in its legislative response to modern slavery in global supply chains. With a primary focus on the government's recently proposed Bill S-216: Modern Slavery Act - which would mandate companies to …
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The right to health implications of data-driven health research partnerships
… asymmetries that prevent effective state and corporate accountability for the right to health, exposing the limitations of existing instruments for corporate human rights responsibilities and exploring the rationale for additional human rights obligations for Big Tech. Together, these findings …
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Corporate Reputation Management during a Social-Mediated Crisis: The Case of Clicks-TRESEmme Controversy
… plays a central role in amplifying and managing corporate crises, limited empirical research has examined how organisations respond to and manage reputational crises in the South African social media context. This study examines how Clicks managed its corporate reputation during the TRESemmé …
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Remedy for corporate human rights abuses in transitional justice contexts
… address, even if still only in a marginal way, corporate accountability for human rights abuses and crimes under international law and have attempted to provide redress for victims. This research analyses this development. This research provides an original contribution to the field on business …
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A Critical Analysis of Victims' Experiences and State Responses to a Corporate Killing
… of the criminal justice system following a corporate killing. The visibility of the corporate accountability movement, mounted from the late 1980s against the victimisation of workers, raises questions for future research. It concludes with a discussion of how this situation has altered and …
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The extraterritorial quest for justice: the case for imposing a "duty of care" on parent companies in the absence of a binding business and human rights treaty
… Despite this, there are no effective accountability mechanisms to hold MNCs liable in the international sphere. This often leaves victims of human rights violations without recourse or forced to seek justice in other jurisdictions. Against the backdrop of the international negotiations …
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Improving the human rights accountability of multinational corporations in the oil and gas industry: a case study of Nigeria.
… that they have a major role to play in the accountability paradigm in the oil and gas industry. This thesis will demonstrate how legal and policy-making institutions in the African Union (AU) can add a regional accountability layer and strengthen solutions within the continent, including …
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Expectations gaps in the roles of independent directors: evidence from Saudi Arabia
… regulatory codes of conduct to enhance corporate accountability to the wider investment community. Given that independent directors (IDs), as a key mechanism of corporate governance, are expected to ensure managers perform to safeguard their shareholders’ interests, this thesis focuses …
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Applicability of traditional dispute resolution mechanisms in community-based oil and gas disputes: the case of the Turkana community of Kenya.
… can promote equitable conflict resolution, corporate accountability, and sustainable development in in their extractive sectors.
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The effectiveness of audit committees : an analysis of governance mechanisms as surrogates for effectiveness
… audit committee as a key component of effective corporate governance. These recommendations emphasise the importance of structure and processes in an effective audit committee. It is therefore important to consider if these structures and processes are effective in promoting corporate …
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Multisector Mitigation of Plastic Pollution: Approaches from Biology, Policy, Law and Industry
… marine animals and characterize government and corporate responses to plastic pollution. My overarching goal is to use these results to inform stakeholders of gaps or mismatches in plastics governance and chart a path toward global plastics sustainability. In Chapter 1, I investigate plastic …
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