corporate accountability
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Corporate governance Other definitions
1 Much of the contemporary interest in corporate governance is concerned with
mitigation of the conflicts of interests between stakeholders. Ways of mitigating or preventing these conflicts of interests include the processes, customs, policies,
laws, and institutions which have an impact on the way a company is controlled. An important theme of governance is the
nature and extent of corporate accountability.
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Index of ethics articles - C
1 * corporate accountability
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United Nations Global Compact - Criticism
1 as an excuse and argument to oppose any binding international
regulation on corporate accountability, and as an entry door to increase corporate influence on
the policy discourse and the development strategies of the United
Nations.Knight
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Corporate social responsibility - Social accounting, auditing, and reporting
1 Social accounting emphasizes the
notion of corporate accountability
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Social accounting
1 Social accounting emphasises the notion
of corporate accountability
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Social accounting - Accountability vs authority enjoyed
1 In democratic systems, Gray argues, there must then be flows of
information in which those controlling the resources provide accounts to
society of their use of those resources: a system of corporate
accountability.Ibid, esp Ch 3.
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Gaza Strip - Hamas rule
1 The Israeli government uses economic means to pressure Hamas. Among other things, it caused Israeli commercial enterprises like banks and
fuel companies to stop doing business with the Gaza Strip. The role of private corporations in the relationship between Israel and the Gaza Strip is an issue that has not been extensively studied.Dana Weiss and Ronen Shamir (2011)
Corporate Accountability to Human Rights: The Case of the Gaza Strip. Harvard Human Rights
Journal, Vol. 24, 1, 155-183.
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Environmental Working Group
1 'The Environmental Working Group' (EWG) is an American environmental organization that specializes in research and advocacy in
the areas of Toxicity|toxic chemicals, Agricultural subsidy|agricultural subsidies,
public lands, and Corporate crime|corporate accountability. EWG is a non-profit
organization (501(c)(3)) whose mission, according to their website, is to use the power of public information to protect
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International Center for Technology Assessment - Other projects
1 ICTA also does a lot of work in the areas of corporate accountability and economics, trying to ensure the
observance of ethical principles as part of business practices. Thus, ICTA is a founding member of the Center for
Corporate Policy that works actively in these
areas.[http://www.corporatepolicy.org/ Center for Corporate Policy] website
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Chip Pitts - Career
1 Recent pro bono litigation in which he has been involved includes EPIC’s
successful lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security
and Transportation Security Administration against the “naked
body scanners,” as well as the Kiobel litigation to preserve the Alien Tort
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Chip Pitts - Works
1 *Human Rights Corporate Accountability Guide: From Law to Norms to Values (BLIHR
Harvard, 2008).
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Anti-globalization movement - Influences
1 Stiglitz (another Economic Sciences Nobel prize winner, formerly of the World Bank, author of Globalization
and Its Discontents) and David Korten have made arguments for
drastically improving transparency (humanities)|transparency, for debt relief, land reform, and restructuring
corporate accountability systems
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Society of Management Accountants of Canada - Activities
1 CMAs apply expertise in accounting, management and strategy to ensure
corporate accountability and help organizations maintain a long-term
competitive advantage. CMA Canada offers executive development programs, online courses, and
knowledge management publications.
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Corporate Accountability International
1 'Corporate Accountability International' (formerly INFACT) is a non-
profit organization, founded in 1977. Their campaign headquarters are in
Boston, Massachusetts and they have offices in Oakland, California, Seattle, Washington, and Bogotá, Colombia.
Currently, their most prominent campaign is [http://www.ThinkOutsideTheBottle.org
Think Outside the Bottle].
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Corporate Accountability International - History
1 Since 1977 Corporate Accountability International has waged a number of
high-profile campaigns to protect public health, the Natural
environment|environment and democracy from abuse by transnational corporations.
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Corporate Accountability International - History
1 From 1977 to 1986 the Infant Formula Campaign and Nestlé boycott|Nestlé
Boycott brought about significant reforms in the life-threatening marketing of infant formula in developing countries. The work of Corporate Accountability International and allies contributed to the passage of
the World Health Organization's International Code of Marketing of Breast-
milk Substitutes in 1981.
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Corporate Accountability International - History
1 In 1991, Corporate Accountability International commissioned the
Academy Award winning documentary, Deadly Deception|
Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons, and Our
Environment
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Corporate Accountability International - Current campaigns
1 In 1994 Corporate Accountability International launched the
Challenging Big Tobacco Campaign. In 2003, years of campaigning
culminated in the adoption of the world's first public health and
corporate accountability treaty
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Corporate Accountability International - Current campaigns
1 In 2004 Corporate Accountability International launched the Think Outside the Bottle Campaign
to promote, protect and ensure public funding for public water systems and challenge
corporations who undermine public confidence in tap water. Recently, Corporate Accountability
International’s Think Outside The Bottle Campaign has garnered international notice.
The campaign has been supported by Salt Lake City mayor Rocky Anderson, who has also begun
his own “Knock Out Bottled Water” website,
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Corporate Accountability International - Current campaigns
1 On World Water Day March 22, 2010 Corporate Accountability
International released the film Story of Bottled Water with the Story of
Stuff project.
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Corporate Accountability International - Current campaigns
1 In 2009 Corporate Accountability International launched the Value
[The] Meal Campaign challenging corporate abuse of food by the fast
food industry
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CorpWatch - Purpose
1 The group's mission is non-profit investigative research and journalism
to expose corporate malfeasance and to advocate for multinational
corporate accountability and transparency
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Mark Thomas - Biography
1 Leaving Channel 4 was a mutual decision, following a series of disputes over how far the channel would go in its broadcasting, one of which concerned the channel's reluctance to
support actions concerning corporate accountability and corporate manslaughter
(England and Wales)|corporate manslaughter laws — a cause he had campaigned for — which coincided with Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon|the Queen Mother's funeral. He declined to take part in a
proposed Celebrity Guantanamo Bay 'reality TV' show.
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One share, one vote - Other definitions
1 15 An important theme of governance is the nature and extent of corporate accountability.
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Procedure (term)
1 A Procedure is designed to describe Who, What, Where, When, and Why by means of establishing corporate
accountability in support of the implementation of a policy
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Ronald McDonald - McDonald's version
1 In 2010, the Corporate Accountability International in Boston,
Massachusetts suggested Ronald McDonald should retire due to
childhood obesity,http://wbztv.com/local/ronald.mcdonald.retirement.2.1605159.html however McDonald's CEO Jim Skinner
said there are no plans to retire Ronald McDonald.
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Ronald McDonald - McDonald's version
1 On May 18, 2011, Corporate Accountability International renewed their call to retire Ronald McDonald, by running ads in major newspapers
and launching several web pages dedicated to the retirement of the
character
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National Whistleblower Center
1 The 'National Whistleblowers Center' (NWC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, tax exempt, educational and advocacy organization,
founded and operated by the employment lawyers Kohn, Kohn and Colapinto, based in
Washington, D.C.. Since its founding in 1988, the Center has worked on whistleblower cases relating to
environmental protection, nuclear safety, and government and corporate
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National Whistleblower Center - Mission
1 Since 1988, NWC has supported whistleblowers in the courts and
before Congress, achieving victories for environmental protection, nuclear
safety, government ethics and corporate accountability
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Qualifications for professional social work - Australia
1 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is an ongoing
requirement of accredited membership of the AASW and must incorporate accountability, gaining
new knowledge and information skill development (CPD Policy 2011/12,
AASW)
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Government Accountability Project
1 A nonprofit public interest group, GAP litigates whistleblower cases, helps
expose wrongdoing to the public, and actively promotes government and
corporate accountability
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Global Exchange - Activities and programs
1 The Economic Activism for Palestine project focuses on corporate accountability for
human rights and international law violations from companies profiting from the occupation
in Palestine. The program targets corporations that are directly involved in Israeli settlement activity in the occupied
West Bank – contributing to and perpetuating the restriction of Palestinian basic rights and in the exploitation of Palestinian resources
and Labor (economics)|labor.
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Bottled water - Bottled water versus tap water
1 The Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, and World Wildlife Fund have urged their
supporters to consume less bottled water. Anti-bottled-water-campaigns and organizations, such as Corporate Accountability International, typically argue that bottled water is no better than tap water, and emphasize the
detrimental environmental side-effects of disposable plastic bottles.
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Tort reform - Disputed issues
1 They contend that limitations on punitive damages and other
restrictions on plaintiff's traditional rights will reduce corporate
accountability
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Frances Moore Lappé - Biography
1 In 2009 she joined the advisory board of Corporate Accountability
International|Corporate Accountability International's Value
the Meal campaign.
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Q’orianka Kilcher - Activism
1 Kilcher recently launched her own youth-driven human rights and environmental organization
On-q Initiative,[http://peru-youth4truth.bbnow.org/ Peru Youth 4 Truth] to connect young Hollywood with youth activist leaders and projects from around the world in
support of environmental sustainability, corporate accountability, and basic human
rights. Through her production company, IQ-Films, Kilcher is producing several cause-driven
documentaries and youth-programming projects.
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Corporate responsibility - Accounting, auditing and reporting
1 Social accounting emphasizes the notion of corporate accountability. Crowther defines
social accounting as an approach to reporting a firm’s activities which stresses the need for the identification of socially relevant behavior, the determination of
those to whom the company is accountable for its social performance and the
development of appropriate measures and reporting techniques.
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Amazon Watch
1 'Amazon Watch' is a nonprofit organizationhttp://www.amazonwatch.org
Founded in 1996,' based in Oakland, California. It works to protect the rainforest
and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. It partners with
indigenous and environmental organizations in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Brazil in campaigns for human rights, corporate
accountability and the preservation of the Amazon's ecological systems.
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John McKay (politician) - Corporate Accountability of Mining, Oil and Gas Corporations in Developing Countries Act - Bill C-300
1 Bill C- 300, also cited as the Corporate Accountability of Mining,
Oil and Gas Corporations in Developing Countries Act, has the
stated purpose of promoting environmental best practices and to ensure the protection and promotion
of international human rights standards in respect of the mining,
oil or gas activities of Canadian corporations in developing countries
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John McKay (politician) - Corporate Accountability of Mining, Oil and Gas Corporations in Developing Countries Act - Bill C-300
1 King, Ogilvy Renault LLP, [http://www.globe-net.com/articles/2010/april/29/csr-in-the-mining-
sector---an-environmental-law-perspective-on-bill-c-300.aspx?sub=11 CSR in the Mining Sector - An environmental law perspective on Bill C-
300]BDO Dunwoody Weekly CEO/Business Leader Poll - [http://www.compas.ca/data/100322-MiningEthicsBill-PB.pdf Compas
Survey on C-300]Fraser Institute - [http://www.fraserinstitute.org/newsandevents/commentaries/7332.asp
“Private member’s bill unfairly targets Canadian mining industry”] However, Bill C-300 is also supported by a wide array of public
academics, and NGOs both internationally and within Canada.http://www.johnmckaymp.on.ca/newsshow.asp?int_id=80590
Supporters of the Bill include (but are not limited to): Amnesty International, the Halifax Initiative, Make Poverty History, MiningWatch Canada, Africa Files, World Vision, The North-South Institute, Canadian
Labour Congress, Development and Peace (Canada), Ecojustice Canada, Rights and Democracy, Social Justice Committee of Montreal, and
Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability
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Karen Silkwood - Death
1 PBS Frontline (U.S. TV series)|Frontline produced the program, Nuclear Reaction, which included aspects of the Silkwood story. Its
website for the program includes The Karen Silkwood Story, as printed in
1995 in Los Alamos Science. The PBS program covered the risks of Nuclear
power|nuclear energy and raised questions about corporate
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Aitken Spence - Corporate sustainability
1 Aitken Spence's sustainability framework is rated platinum and has been ranked 2nd in the STING Corporate Accountability Index
2012, where corporate accountability performance of 63 corporate entities of Sri
Lanka—LMD 50 companies, 9 SOEs on compulsory basis—were analyzed. STING Consultants have also recognized Aitken
Spence's Integrated Sustainability Policy as ‘Best in Class for Policy Coverage’ in 2011
and 2012.
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