The excerpt below is from a paper of ours which will be published in the Special Issue of the Corporate Governance Journal and presented at the 2011 colloquium of EABIS, the Academy of Business in Society .
We have co-authored the paper with Isaac Mostovicz .
The paper will be published on September 5th and looks at the core values which must underpin CSR programmes if they are to be effective.
On April 20th, 2010 an explosion on the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil rig exposed the United States to an historic ecological disaster.

This episode illustrates the limits of CSR programmes currently undertaken by global businesses. The logical rules and regulations which business and government leaders created did not work to exemplify the broadly shared social values that US society deemed to [...]

Once again it’s that dreaded time of year for Americans: tax time. And the issue of tax havens has reared its ugly head quite a bit recently, both on a global level at the recent G20 summit, where world leaders agreed to name and shame countries that haven’t agreed to international reporting standards, and in the UK, where Barclays was in the news for attempting to keep details of its tax havens secret from The Guardian.
Tax havens are a major political issue. European countries particularly would like to see them more stringently regulated, but I don’t think any new international agreements will do much good. The reason? Tax havens cannot be dealt with on an international basis until they are resolved on a national basis. One only needs to look so far as the United States to see why – there are major tax havens in [...]