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201. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
Harry J. Van Buren III Boundary Spanning as Value- and Legitimacy-Seeking Activity
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In this paper, a framework for boundary spanning as a value- and legitimacy-seeking organizational activity is developed. Boundary spanning activity serves two functions vis-à-vis value- and legitimacy-seeking: gathering information from the external environment (and especially from stakeholder groups that provide critical resources) about norms and values and then representing the organization to external constituencies as it attempts to demonstrate compliance with such norms and values.
202. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
Marie-France Turcotte, Slavka Antonova Learning as Constitutive Dynamics of the Multistakeholder Collaborative Process: Developing an Emission Reduction Trading System in Ontario - The PERT Experience
203. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
Barbara Altman, William P. Smith, Lawrence J. Lad, Paul Miesing, Cheryl Van Deusen Teaching Business and Society Online: Pointers and Perspectives
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Universities nationwide are expanding their distance education course offerings. Business schools are following this same trend. Many forces, including technological, administrative and fiscal, will likely sustain a continued interest in distance education offerings. This workshop examined issues related to teaching Business and Society topics in an online format. All participants have designed and taught online courses. Teaching online is riddled with challenges, tradeoffs and a technology learning curve.
204. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
Gurneeta Vasudeva Strategic Alliance Approach to Stakeholder Management
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This paper argues that stakeholder alliances provide an important mechanism for strategic interaction for firm’s that are entrenched in the globalization process. Consequently the strategic motivations of multinational firms operating in the global environment provide the basis to understand the rationale and structure for stakeholder alliances and to delineate these from characteristics of inter-firm alliances.
205. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
Judith C. Clair, Sandra Waddock, Lawrence J. Lad Teaching Management Mindfully When Crisis Strikes
206. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
Robbin Derry Using Tobacco Industry Documents to Conduct an Industry Analysis
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Over 40 million pages of tobacco industry internal company documents are now available online for use by researchers. These previously inaccessible documents contain vast amounts of information valuable for the study of decisions and actions of the tobacco industry companies over the past four decades. This workshop presentation is designed to encourage IABS scholars to explore and make use of these document collections to study the tobacco industry more carefully. Several sources of grants are available to support in depth document research.
207. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
Mary-Ellen Boyle The Business School in the Community: Theorizing Current Practices, Imagining the Future
208. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
Mary J. Mallot Visual Language and Communication in Teaching
209. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
Timothy W. Edlund, Richard H. Franke Business and Society: New Developments in Journal Quality
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Socially responsible, ethical, and professional business practices are critical for effective management and good business performance. In the developing field of Business & Society, scholars need to identify appropriate journals; which was the objective of three surveys starting in 1991. With this field's growing importance, ratings rose for four journals devoted to it--Business and Society, Business Ethics Quarterly, the Journal of Business Ethics, and Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy The first journal now nearly ties the Academy of Management Review as the highest quality venue for B&S publication. Four other general management journals remain as appropriate venues, but since 1991 all but one dropped in total rating. The ratings rise of its professional journals relative to general ones suggests Business and Society is becoming a distinctive field of business.
210. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2002
William P. Smith, Lori Verstegen Ryan IABS Book Salon
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This session is based on the premise that literature represents a potentially valuable means of illustrating important concepts within the Business and Society discipline. Two cofacilitators led a discussion of two novels: Cabal (Michael Dibdin) and Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden). The books were selected because of their treatment of important themes (organizational and personal ethics, heroic virtues and the role of cultural factors). Discussion was also devoted to how literature can be used as a teaching resource.
211. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2003
Patsy Lewellyn IABS - Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands — 2003 Proceedings Program Chair's Comment
212. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2003
Vanessa Hill, Sheryl Shivers-Blackwell My Way or the Highway: Where is the Democracy in Leadership Theories and Why Should We Care?
213. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2003
David Crockett, Sonya Grier, Jacqueline A. Williams Coping with Marketplace Discrimination: An Exploration of the Experience of Black Men
214. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2003
Darlene Bay, Kim McKeage, Jeffrey McKeage And Justice for All: A Critical Examination of the State of Business Ethics Research
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This paper suggests that an ethic of care might serve as a useful alternative to the justice perspective that is the current dominant paradigm in business ethics research. As a system of personal ethics, an ethic of care has not been used for a variety of reasons, even though it may provide some distinct advantages in discussing behavior in a business environment. On the institutional level, an ethic of care may provide a better fit than the justice perspective, allowing a clearer focus on the how business, as a system, fits into the larger society.
215. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2003
Laquita C. Blockson “Wicked” Collaborations: A Possible Approach to Address Societal Issues
216. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2003
Rosa Chun The Virtue Ethical Character of Organization: Scale Development
217. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2003
Maureen Bezold Nutrition and Socioeconomic Status: An Application of Transforming Justice
218. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2003
William B. Lamb, Michael Fritz We Know We’re Mad About Enron, But What Do We Really Know About Scandals?
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Corporate scandal is a phenomenon that has rarely been studied in the management literature. Scandals can have a significant impact on the business environment and have received a high degree of attention recently in the popular press. Therefore, we propose that corporate scandals, particularly scandals related to accounting and financial wrongdoing deserve greater attention in the management literature. We offer a definition of scandal and suggest several avenues for future research that could be pursued with respect to financial and reporting scandals.
219. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2003
Paul Dunn, Ian Adamson Have Accountants Lost the Moral Right to Conduct Audits?
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Financial statement audits reduce agency costs, provide insurance to investors, and permit managers to signal their private information concerning the reliability of their firm's financial reports. However, the wake of the recent audit failures, the collapse of Arthur Anderson, independence problems when accountants provide both audit and consulting services to the same client, and investor cynicism concerning the value of audit opinions, indicate that accountants may have lost the moral right to conduct audits. We suggest that in lieu of an audit, firms should have their financial statements insured. Disclosing the level of financial statement insurance would reduce information asymmetry problems by signalling the level of financial statement reliability. Furthermore, market forces would now establish the quality of financial reporting and therefore the price of stocks.
220. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society: 2003
Duane Windsor Public Responsibility and Business Ethics: Economic and Philosophical Versions of Theory
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This paper examines the relationship between economic and philosophical theories of public responsibility and business ethics viewed in the wake of the recent corporate scandals in the U.S. An emerging economic theory subjects voluntary responsibilities and ethical choices to a financial cost-benefit analysis (whether short run profitability or long run wealth creation). Duties are defined only at law in the extreme version of such an economic theory. A philosophical theory essentially disregards financial performance outcomes to assert on other grounds (moral and legal, typically) responsibility and ethical standards for business. The strain between economic and philosophical theories is becoming more pronounced in the economic literature. This paper is a first cut at formal statement of the problem.