Corporate Responsibility

Activists are often unhappy with the laws governing business behavior and with their enforcement. One strategy they use to alter the behavior of corporations is to target not the laws but the corporations, hoping that they will change without being...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Viewpoint
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	CARTELS CLIMATE CHANGE COMPANY CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY CORPORATION CORPORATIONS DEREGULATION ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES FIRMS INTERMEDIATE GOODS INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES OIL PRIVATE SECTOR PRODUCERS SANCTIONS SUPPLIERS CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY BUSINESS CAPACITY STANDARD PERFORMANCE SOCIAL ISSUES ECONOMIC ISSUES POLITICAL ISSUES RULES & REGULATIONS JUDICIAL SYSTEMS HUMAN RIGHTS LOCAL COMMUNITIES ETHICAL NORMS MONITORING
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/05/4971605/corporate-responsibility http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11270

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spelling	okr-10986-112702021-04-23T14:02:54Z Corporate Responsibility World Bank CARTELS CLIMATE CHANGE COMPANY CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY CORPORATION CORPORATIONS DEREGULATION ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES FIRMS INTERMEDIATE GOODS INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES OIL PRIVATE SECTOR PRODUCERS SANCTIONS SUPPLIERS CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY BUSINESS CAPACITY STANDARD PERFORMANCE SOCIAL ISSUES ECONOMIC ISSUES POLITICAL ISSUES ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES RULES & REGULATIONS JUDICIAL SYSTEMS HUMAN RIGHTS LOCAL COMMUNITIES ETHICAL NORMS MONITORING Activists are often unhappy with the laws governing business behavior and with their enforcement. One strategy they use to alter the behavior of corporations is to target not the laws but the corporations, hoping that they will change without being legally obliged to. Sometimes firms do, because they would rather incur the costs of behaving better today than the costs of being shamed later. But how does this reputational mechanism work? Will it achieve the right standards? Which companies will it affect? And are there good reasons to prefer it to alternative ways of setting standards? 2012-08-13T14:37:05Z 2012-08-13T14:37:05Z 2004-05 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/05/4971605/corporate-responsibility http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11270 English Viewpoint: Public Policy for the Private Sector; Note No. 271 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Viewpoint Publications & Research
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topic	CARTELS CLIMATE CHANGE COMPANY CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY CORPORATION CORPORATIONS DEREGULATION ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES FIRMS INTERMEDIATE GOODS INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES OIL PRIVATE SECTOR PRODUCERS SANCTIONS SUPPLIERS CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY BUSINESS CAPACITY STANDARD PERFORMANCE SOCIAL ISSUES ECONOMIC ISSUES POLITICAL ISSUES ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES RULES & REGULATIONS JUDICIAL SYSTEMS HUMAN RIGHTS LOCAL COMMUNITIES ETHICAL NORMS MONITORING
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relation	Viewpoint: Public Policy for the Private Sector; Note No. 271
description	Activists are often unhappy with the laws governing business behavior and with their enforcement. One strategy they use to alter the behavior of corporations is to target not the laws but the corporations, hoping that they will change without being legally obliged to. Sometimes firms do, because they would rather incur the costs of behaving better today than the costs of being shamed later. But how does this reputational mechanism work? Will it achieve the right standards? Which companies will it affect? And are there good reasons to prefer it to alternative ways of setting standards?
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title	Corporate Responsibility
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url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/05/4971605/corporate-responsibility http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11270
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Corporate Responsibility

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