India and Ethical business
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- How UK supermarkets are abusing workers in their supply chains
- ActionAid International, 2007
- This report discusses the supply chains that link UK supermarkets to producers in developing countries. The report argues that the structure of the supermarket supply chains has changed in recent years in ways that allow supermarkets ...
- Police abuse and forced displacement in Orissa, India
- R. Gooldland / Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, 2007
- This report reviews environmental and social aspects of plans by Utkal Alumina Industries Ltd to mine bauxite and refine alumina. The project is a joint venture between Canada’s Alcan and Hindalco. This report is designed to info...
- How can the USA promote transparency in the oil sector?
- Global Witness, 2007
- This report presents low cost, high-impact recommendations for both the United States and international oil companies to combat corruption, improve investment climates, and contribute to the development of poor nations. The report arg...
- Can a company make profits while also doing good?
- A. Karnani / Social Science Research Network, 2007
- This paper takes a critical look at the "bottom of the pyramid" proposition which argues that companies can make profits while also doing good. In particular, the paper empirically tests this proposition by examining in depth the case...
- What impact does the Global Compact have on industry in India
- T. Chahoud; J. Emmerling; D. Kolb; I. Kubina; G. Repinski; C. Schläger / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2007
- This report assesses the impact of the current the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) on industry in India. The paper dicusses the history of CSR and India and the more recent experience wit...
- A case study on Monsanto and corporate social responsibility in agricultural extension
- D. Glover / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
- This paper examines Monsanto’s Smallholder Programme (SHP) and considers the implications of the programme on corporate accountability. The intent of the paper is to evaluate how far this programme confirms or modifies convention...
- Comparing factory-based reproductive health programmes
- Business for Social Responsibility, 2006
- In developing economies, women account for a disproportionately large percentage of the workforce engaged in manufacturing for export markets. This report identifies critical health and reproductive health needs of women working in gl...
- Examining the nature of CSR in India
- A. Sood; B. Arora / United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2006
- In an attempt to better understand the actual impact of CSR in India, this paper examines past and the present corporate environmental and social behaviour in the country. The paper points out that since the mid-1990s, CSR has ...
- Unethical drug testing in developing countries
- Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2006
- This briefing paper provides an overview of known examples of unethical clinical trials for pharmaceuticals with a focus on developing countries. The study makes the following general observations : unethical trials ha...
- Labour conditions at mobile phone factories in China, India, Thailand and the Philippines
- J. Wilde; E. de Haan / Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2006
- This report looks at corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the mobile phone industry. It reports on the conditions at mobile phone factories in China, India, Thailand and the Philippines of the top five mobile phone manufacturers (...
- Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID)
- Industry and the corporate sector in India
- ESocialSciences (eSS)
- Research in Asia
- Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad, India
- University conducting research on law-related issues
- Liberty Institute, India
- Indian socio-economic research institute focussing on governance, the environment, and economics.
- Centre for Social Markets, UK
- Independent organisation dedicated to promoting social justice, human rights and sustainable development through responsible entrepreneurship and the effective use of economic institutions. CSM currently has offices in the United Kingdom and India and works through a global network of associates and specialists in diverse fields. While international in scope, CSM has a particular focus on the pr...
