China and Ethical business
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- Ethical cultures in large business organizations in Brazil, Russia, India, and China
- 2011
- This study focuses on comparison of perceptions of ethical business cultures in large business organisations from four largest emerging economies, referred to as the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), and from the US. The study...
- The growing debate around GM Crops and the future of food and farming
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- The debate over genetically-modified (GM) crops is one of the most controversial and fiercely contested of recent times. While media coverage often focuses on disagreements between the United States and Europe, perhaps the main battle...
- Trade unions and labour laws around the world
- Baker and McKenzie, 2010
- This book looks at the current state of works councils and trade unions for 33 countries around the world. Topics include: collective bargaining unfair labour practices trade union employe...
- Encouraging Asian pension funds to work towards a responsible future
- The Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia, 2009
- Asia's pension funds are among the largest and fastest growing pools of capital in the region and their influence in the capital markets will continue to grow, especially as asset allocations diversify. The integration of environmenta...
- Indigenous Chinese firms: success story?
- World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2009
- China offers an interesting, but unfortunately neglected, case study of international entrepreneurship. This paper empirically investigates the early international entrepreneurship of indigenous Chinese firms using data on 3,948 firms...
- Social impact of global cotton cultivation: assessing gaps in research
- International Cotton Advisory Committee, 2008
- This paper reviews and categorises the most significant social science studies of labour and social impacts in cotton cultivation in ten focus countries, identified as the largest producers by volume. It identifies and evaluates the k...
- How inclusive is modern agri-food business?
- B. Vorley (ed); F. Proctor (ed) / Regoverning Markets Programme, 2008
- This report brings together issues discussed at an international conference on “Inclusive Business in Agrifood Markets: Evidence to Action in 2008. The conference sought to answer the following questions: ...
- How to improve labour standards in sportswear industry?
- Play Fair 2008 Campaign, 2008
- Across the global sportswear industry, workers manufacturing sports apparel, footwear and soccer balls face poor working conditions and substantial violation of rights. This report which brought to focus the sports workers’ prob...
- Chinese business community reaping benefits of globalisation
- A. Mamman; K. Liu / Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2008
- Since the 1980s China is one of the few countries that has embraced and benefited from economic globalisation. Much of what has been reported about the impact of globalisation is based on macroeconomic and social analyses, often negle...
- Assessing the reproductive health of women working in China
- Asia Monitor Resource Center, 2007
- After new China was founded, a social welfare system was put in place based on the administrative separation of city and country. Under this system, the reproductive health and rights of women workers in the cities were protected thro...
- Factory Improvement Training (FIT 5)
- Multi-supplier training programme
- Institute of Contemporary Observation (ICO)
- Labour development and corporate social responsibility in China
- The China Business Council for Sustainable Development (CBCSD)
- Coalition of leading Chinese and foreign enterprises registered and operating in China
- Environment-oriented Enterprises Consultancy Zhejiang
Chinese environment and development consultancy based in Zhejiang
- SynTao
- CSR information and consultancy service in China
- Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM)
- Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) is a non-government organization (NGO) based in Hong Kong, China, founded in June 2005 by students, and later joined by other cultural and labour activists. SACOM's main goal is to monitor and campaign against corporate misbehavior that violates worker's rights, health, safety, welfare, and dignity in China.
- The Responsible Supply Chain Association (RSCA)
- The Responsible Supply Chain Association (RSCA) is an industry-wide and professional body for the promotion of social responsibilities, which is directly under the administration of China National Textile and Apparel Council (CNTAC). It is composed of enterprises, companies, buyers, retailers and other interested parties within the entire textile supply chain, with an aim at utilising resources an...
