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- Values-Based Multinational Management: Achieving Enterprise Sustainability through a Human Rights Strategy
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University of Notre Dame Press
summary
In this timely book, Lee Tavis and Timothy Tavis contend that the values dimension of the actions of multinational firms is becoming increasingly important, given the worldwide integration of economies and peoples. The digital revolution has broadened the reach of globalization and created an informed society that demands higher standards of behavior from the business enterprise; at the same time, multinational corporations have gained power often comparable to that of the nation state, and global society is in need of widely accepted, enduring social and ethical standards. Tavis and Tavis argue that multinational firms must embrace an ethically pro-active stance in their own long-term interests. A strategy of supporting universal human rights, often in partnership with NGOs, offers the greatest potential for success. Values-Based Multinational Management provides an agenda for practical action, with special reference to the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Global Compact. It informs and addresses the values concerns of multinational business managers. It presents its examples and analyses in a clear and concise manner and will be of use both to practitioners in the business community and students and scholars of business ethics.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. xv
- PART I: THE NEW MULTINATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
- 2. Responding to the Future
- pp. 29-51
- PART II: REDEFINING THE ROLE OF THE MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE
- PART III: FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
- 5. The Nature of Human Rights
- pp. 125-139
- 6. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- pp. 140-154
- PART IV: IMPLEMENTING A HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARD
- 7. The United Nations Global Compact
- pp. 157-175
- PART V: MANAGING THE FIRM AS A COMMUNITY
- 9. The Individual in the Organization
- pp. 217-229
- Bibliography
- pp. 299-330
Additional Information
ISBN
9780268093730
Related ISBN(s)
9780268042349
MARC Record
OCLC
763079801
Pages
368
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No