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What is Corporate Codes of Conduct

Chapter 10
Handbook of Research on Global Indicators of Economic and Political Convergence
This concept of codes of conduct particularly emerged in the 1990s which saw a proliferation of corporate codes of conduct and an increased emphasis on corporate responsibility. This was a result of economic developments in the 1980s, which saw a major shift away from the social democratic and Keynesian interventionism of the post war period in the North, and from import substituting industrialization and statism in the South.
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Can Codes of Ethical Conduct Work?: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Privatised Corporate Governance in a World of Political and Economic Convergence
Shefali Virkar (University of Oxford, UK)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 31
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0215-9.ch010
Abstract
Most recently, the world has witnessed a spectacular increase in the size and number of Transnational Corporations (TNCs); an explosion that has resulted in the overseas practices of such companies coming under intense scrutiny, and in the realisation that governments often lack the resources necessary to ensure TNC compliance to international standards in key areas such as labour rights, environmental pollution, and social justice. Against the backdrop of significant failure in national- and international-level attempts to administer Transnational Corporations, this research chapter will examine the effectiveness of codes of ethical corporate conduct devised to enhance the regulation of corporate behaviour. The research presented herein focuses on the conceptualisation of such regulatory mechanisms, and their relationship to the larger corpus of corporate social, commercial, and ethical strategic interactions; evaluating their effectiveness as instruments of privatised governance through the particular examination of corporate stakeholder behaviour and recent examples of global best practice.
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