Corporate Accountability (38)
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Campus Sweatshop Protests Spread 
- Country wide student rallies urge stronger conduct codes for factories that make clothing bearing university logos. Meetings and rallies at most major U.S. universities.
- http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/sweatshops/campus/usatoday021799.html
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Corporate Watch - An online magazine and resource center designed to provide activists, journalists, students, teachers and policy makers with an array of tools to investigate and analyze corporate activity. Documents the social, political, economic and environmental impac
- http://www.corpwatch.org/
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Boycott Action News - Co-op America's "tell it like it is" information about corporations that need to be made more accountable. - http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/boycotts/    Adbusters Organization - Creative, counter revolution in progress in Canada but about the world. Visual activism about corporate operations. - http://www.adbusters.org/main/index.html Airline On-Time Statistics - U.S. Bureau of Transportation figures on airline's tardinesses. - http://www.bts.gov/programs/airline_information/ Corporate Social Accountability Handbook - An unofficial international standard for social accountability initiated by CEPAA (now Social Accountability International) and provided by Ellipson Ltd, a consulting service linked with sustainability. [Document is 17 pages in size] - http://www.ellipson.com/files/ebooks/CSAM_handbook.pdf Hands-On Corporate Research Guide - Step-by-step interactive guide to researching corporations on the Internet. - http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=945 Corporate Governance - Facilitates the movement to enhance wealth creation by transforming corporations into more democratic entities through shareholder activism and empowering boards of directors. - http://www.corpgov.net/ Corporate Culpability - C.M.V.Clarkson, Law Professor at University of Leicester has published numerous scholarly papers on corporate accountability. This is one of them. - http://webjcli.ncl.ac.uk/1998/issue2/clarkson2.html News for McDonald's Franchisees - News, links and articles concerning the impact of poor or questionable management of McDonald's on its franchisees around the world. - http://www.licenseenews.com/ Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) - Provides information, tools, training and advisory services to make corporate social responsibility an integral part of business operations and strategies. - http://www.bsr.org/ C-SPAN: Corporate Accountability - Highlights recent video and news pertaining to accounting reform, SEC and FTC actions and Congressional oversight, and related issues. - http://www.c-span.org/homepage.asp?Cat=Current_Event&Code=CORP_ACCT&ShowVidNum=6&Rot_Cat_CD=Corp_Acct&Rot_HT=&Rot_WD= European Corporate Governance Institute - Non-Profit Network for European and Comparative Corporate Governance Issues. - http://www.ecgi.org/ Corporate America: The Land of the Greed - Personal commentary by Evan Stair on the effects of corporate values on small town life. - http://www.goinside.com/98/8/greed.html The MacBride Principles - Principles of conduct for firms doing business in Northern Ireland. - http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/links/macbride.html Watered Stock Pyramid Analysis - Links to articles by Bill Parish about Citicorp, Cisco Systems and Microsoft printing stock with abandon. - http://www.billparish.com/journalists.html One Market, Under God - Thomas Frank, 35, contends that behind the go- go stock market and the feel-good atmosphere, the American economy that bloomed in the 1990's is sick, and that the divide between rich and poor has widened. To read this NY Times interview of him, requires f - http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/21/business/21ANTI.html What is the OECD? - Paper on overarching issues affecting corporate accountability. Discusses the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. - http://www.flyingfish.org.uk/articles/oecd/tears.htm Ethical Performance - Newsletter for professionals concerned with corporate social responsibility or for investors. Covers Europe, Americas and Asia Pacific regions. - http://www.ethicalperformance.com/ Business in the Community - A movement of businesses committed to continually improving their positive impact on society through corporate social responsibility. - http://www.bitc.org.uk Initiative Against Economic Globalization PRAGUE 2000 - Aims to help citizens' democratic rights to publicly demonstrate in order to bring accountability to bear upon large, multinational corporations. - http://inpeg.ecn.cz/ The Fair Labor Association - Nonprofit network which gets major footwear and clothing manufacturers to agree to disclose specific factory names, where in the world their products are manufactured. - http://www.fairlabor.org/ Better Business Bureau of Mainland British Columbia - Regional example of BBB that focuses on ethical matters of business members for the public. - http://www.bbbvan.org/ CSR Europe - European business reference point for social responsibility issues. Includes case studies, publications, current activities and databank search. - http://www.csreurope.org Profit vs. Social Responsibility - Cyber College asks students to calculate the costs / benefits of socially responsible business decisions. - http://www.cybercollege.com/profits.htm Australian Ethical & Green Shareholders' Groups - Descriptions and contact information for several Australian nonprofits whose aims are to make corporations accountable. - http://www.ethical.shares.green.net.au Ending the Wall Street Walk: Why Corporate Governance Now? - Although published several years ago, James McRitchie's report presents certain minimum standards with specific corporate examples of "doing what's right." - http://www.corpgov.net/forums/commentary/ending.html Max Havelaar Switzerland - Swiss firm promoting and enabling fair trade actions. - http://www.maxhavelaar.ch Loka Institute - Begun in 1987, enables information and organizing about worldwide concerns with science, technology and society. Genetic engineering by corporations, for example, has been a focus here. - http://www.loka.org/pages/lokainfo.htm The International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF) - ILRF, founded in 1986, is a nonprofit action and advocacy organization focused on human rights necessary for life and dignity Excellent information but graphics and frames may not load well. - http://www.laborrights.org/ International Corporate Environmental Reports - Corporate Accountability vis a vis the environment. English link, site name, Milieujaarverslagen. - http://www.enviroreporting.com/ Essential Action - Site for alerting and organizing efforts in corporate accountability. - http://www.essentialaction.org/ Corporate Accountability Project - Researching Corporations section provides links to numerous resources to investigate publicly traded corporations. - http://www.corporations.org/research.html Anti-Scofflaw Regulation - This proposal would prevent the federal government from entering into contracts with companies that are chronic violators of consumer, environmental, labor, tax, antitrust and employment laws. - http://www.essentialaction.org/anti-scofflaw CERES Principles - Formerly the Valdez Principles, the CERES Principles for environmentally sound business practices were drafted by the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies. - http://www.ceres.org/ As You Sow - Organization promoting corporate accountability - holding corporations accountable for complying with consumer, workplace and environmental laws. - http://www.asyousow.org |
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