Transnationals and Corporate Responsibility

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Byron Kaldis ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Responsibility

Corporate Responsibility

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Archie B. Carroll ◽  
Kenneth J. Lipartito ◽  
James E. Post ◽  
Patricia H. Werhane ◽  
Kenneth E. Goodpaster
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Responsibility

Deforestation and Haze in Malaysia: Status of Corporate Responsibility and Law Governance

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanim Kamaruddin ◽  
Rasyikah Md Khalid ◽  
Dina Imam Supaat ◽  
Syahirah Abdul Shukor ◽  
Normawati Hashim
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Responsibility

Understanding Deviance in a World of Standards

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Organizational Conditions ◽  
Structure And Agency ◽  
Single Person ◽  
Different Types

Standards have become widespread regulatory tools that promote global trade, innovation, efficiency, and quality. They contribute significantly to the creation of safe, reliable, and high-quality services and technologies to ensure human health, environmental protection, or information security. Yet intentional deviations from standards by organizations are often reported in many sectors, which can either contribute to or challenge the measures of safety and quality they are designed to safeguard. Why then, despite all potential consequences, do organizations choose to deviate from standards in one way or another? This book uses structuration theory—covering aspects of both structure and agency—to explore the organizational conditions and contradictions under which different types of deviance occur. It also provides empirical explanations for deviance in organizations that go beyond an understanding of individual misbehaviour where mainly a single person is held responsible. Case studies of software developing organizations illustrate insightful generalizations on standards as a mechanism of sensemaking, resource allocation, and sanctioning, and provide ground to rethink corporate responsibility when deviating from standards in the ‘audit society’.

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