Firms struggle to define, measure and manage two very critical and strategic issues within the enterprise -- innovation and culture. This paper outlines the work that we have done with firms in order to articulate these two fuzzy concepts and create a robust framework that captures them with the...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is often understood as voluntary actions firms take beyond legal compliance. However, in recent years, governments around the world have also begun to actively promote CSR, reflecting broader governance trends that embrace “soft law,” voluntary...

Disclaimers are widely used by firms to warn customers of dangers and limitations of their products, and are persuasive when the issue is important. We examine the effects of mandatory disclaimers. Speech restrictions conflict with basic economic incentives. Sellers are motivated by profit to...

How does a board of directors decide what is right? The contest over this question is frequently framed as a debate between shareholder value and stakeholder rights, between a utilitarian view of the ethics of corporate governance and a deontological one. This paper uses a case study with...

Increased international commerce between the United States and faster growing economies such as The People’s Republic of China (PRC), as well as third world economies rich in natural resources but poor in infrastructure like Nigeria, have created the potential for significant exposure to...

The purpose of this handbook is to provide a series of chapter concerning the practice of governance and of social responsibility which have been written by experts from all over the world. In doing so it is our intention to both highlight examples of practice, good and bad, and to show...

Sustainability is one of the most over-used words in business in the present time and the meanings attached to its use are so varied and vague as to render it effectively meaningless. In this chapter therefore we start by identifying an appropriate meaning for the concept before considering how...

To what extent should or must a corporation contemplate international human rights law? Following a brief discussion of the increasing influence of transnational corporations and global business transactions, as well as the growth of the international human rights system, this Article uses the...

Since at least the famous Berle-Dodds debate, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and later its more muscular and structural iteration, progressive corporate law, have been discussed without much progress. The authors consider whether the social enterprise movement, which envisions a new...

Leadership in Administration is a classic. For over half a century, it has been taught to business and sociology students. This foreword to the digital re-issue Quid Pro, LLC, stresses its relevance to political science and psychology students as well. For all, it stresses the links which Philip...