Values and Stakeholders in an Era of Social Responsibility : Cut-Throat Competition?

"Assuming a pro-business viewpoint, this book criticizes sustainability and responsibility as it appears in the reports of corporations. It launches an appeal to the representatives of SMEs around the world to make accountability happen in government organizations and monopolies."--Publisher description Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 List of Figures, Tables and Questionnaires......Page 12 Acknowledgements......Page 14 List of Abbreviations......Page 16 Talking responsibility with my barista......Page 18 Sustainability report: balance sheet or bull sheet?......Page 21 Preview......Page 22 PART I: DEVELOPING A CSR PROCESS FRAMEWORK......Page 28 Linux? Microsoft ignores it......Page 30 The external effects of McDonald's......Page 32 BAe Systems' weapons......Page 34 Total's Club Med......Page 36 Nike: disclosure and diversity......Page 37 The yoke of Fiat......Page 39 Holcim's breathing cement......Page 41 Monnalisa's caring for China......Page 42 Novartis and Médecins Sans Frontières......Page 44 Sanofi Aventis for Africa?......Page 45 The ethics governance of Siemens......Page 46 Conclusion......Page 48 CSR is not philanthropy......Page 49 Living on the margins......Page 50 The four noble truths of CSR......Page 51 Topology of responsibility......Page 53 Not against thieves......Page 56 A ‘weak' theory of CSR......Page 60 Subway blues......Page 61 Is there CSR outside Porter and Kramer?......Page 62 CSR doppelgänger: irresponsibility......Page 63 Kristijan Krkac's concept of 'Lying by Default'......Page 64 The anesthetic of positive reporting......Page 65 Irresponsibility is important......Page 66 The Figure in the Carpet: deriving a framework from the database......Page 67 Questioning the stakeholder approach......Page 69 In praise of competition......Page 71 Highway system......Page 72 Gas station owner-operators......Page 74 Monopolist air carrier......Page 75 Closed-shop recruitment by political parties......Page 76 The value of the unknown stakeholder......Page 78 Questionnaire tool box......Page 79 Relevance......Page 81 Doubt and vulnerability......Page 82 Regional electoral communication......Page 83 The European Central Bank......Page 84 ICT pundits......Page 85 7 Implementation......Page 88 An enthusiasm for technicalities......Page 89 From strategy to tactics......Page 90 Citizen security system......Page 91 We have met the enemy, and he is us......Page 92 8 Everyman's Decision-Making: Micro-Ethics......Page 95 The organizational model......Page 96 More on the media......Page 98 Ethics revealed......Page 99 Ostrich ethics......Page 100 Conclusion......Page 101 9 Who's Afraid of the Policy Analyst?......Page 103 The sorrows of the young CSR executive......Page 104 The USDIME framework, CSR standards, and integrated reporting......Page 105 Finding what was expected by the corporation......Page 108 Finding what was expected by the values......Page 111 Towards an open source community of CSR rating......Page 113 Conclusion......Page 114 USDIME Framework Course Work......Page 115 PART II: FROM CSR TO POLITICS: THE COMPETITIVE DIVIDE......Page 134 11 The Neighborhood Bullies......Page 136 The consumer and the telephone monopolist......Page 137 The irresponsibility of the freeway company......Page 139 The irresponsibility of banks......Page 141 The power company report......Page 143 The unbearable communication of the water company......Page 145 Reforming paternalism in the media......Page 146 The name of the euro: the National Central Bank......Page 148 Conclusion......Page 150 Case study: applying the USDIME to a sample of European banks......Page 151 12 The Profits of Non-Profit......Page 157 Philanthropy does not mean responsibility......Page 158 The Jesuits' accountability......Page 159 The American Cancer Society: no need for indicators......Page 160 Professor Jeffrey Sachs' recipe for international aid......Page 161 The Vatican's accountability: the Devil's tail......Page 162 Accounting for the industrialists' association......Page 163 Case study: a comparative analysis of research institutions......Page 164 13 The Autarky of Public Administration......Page 170 Turning back the brain drain......Page 171 The accounts of the courts......Page 172 Shylock industrial policy......Page 174 Dirigistic milk pricing......Page 175 Micro health services......Page 176 Public sector accounts......Page 177 Case study: reverse engineering in the police force accounts......Page 178 Supra-national bodies......Page 185 Primary elections......Page 186 Budgetary shortcuts......Page 187 The value of politics......Page 188 Case study: if you do not measure it, you did not do it......Page 189 Work evasion exists......Page 196 Work evasion is pandemic......Page 199 There is a competitive divide among workers......Page 200 From CSR to politics: interdisciplinary work and anti-politics......Page 205 Stakeholders of what? The cost of non-government......Page 207 'Communicating vessels'......Page 209 16 What Is To Be Done? Developing a Political Agenda for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises......Page 211 The ghost of competition......Page 213 Partitioning the workforce......Page 218 Small is not beautiful, but it is useful......Page 220 The status of SMEs in the political arena......Page 221 SMEs as collective actors and full-field economic and social stakeholders......Page 223 Global professional support for sustainability......Page 228 A CSR framework for individual SMEs......Page 231 An inter-cultural perspective on economic and social competition......Page 236 Values and Stakeholders: separating the beautiful from the useful......Page 237 Farewell......Page 240 Bibliography......Page 242 Index......Page 251 Starting with corporate social responsibility (CSR) and analyzing what it is, what it is not, and what he'd like it to be, Paolo D'Anselmi extends CSR to all organizations in the economy (private and public) and develops the concept of 'accounting for work' as a duty for everybody within society. Critical of sustainability and responsibility as it appears in the CSR reports of corporations, he analyses these reports presenting them as cases in capsule form to help demonstrate that responsibility is for all organizations and how being subject to competition is a key driver of accountability. Building on this analysis, the author presents a solution that is more relevant to business in the form of a process framework formed of four values: unknown stakeholder, disclosure, implementation and micro-ethics

Assuming a pro-business viewpoint, this book criticizes sustainability and responsibility as it appears in the reports of corporations. It launches an appeal to the representatives of SMEs around the world to make accountability happen in government organizations and monopolies.