Talking the Talk, Moral Entrapment, Creeping Commitment? Exploring Narrative Dynamics in Corporate Responsibility Standardization

Gay Moral Discourse: Talking about Identity, Sex, and Commitment

Gay men in the New York City metropolitan area were interviewed from 1990 to 1991,during theperiod of theAIDS epidemic. Usingan interviewschedule, they were asked questions about "coming out of the closet" and other identity issues: their experiences of "difference," beliefs about monogamous or "open" relationships, and their views about sex and commitment. The study's focus was on the men's "m...

Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Moral Responsibility, and Systems Thinking: Is There a Difference and the Difference it Makes

A volume on leadership would be seriously incomplete without a contribution on corporate social responsibility (CSR). The essays on CSR in the present work offer insights that are important in this new century of corporate corruption and moral challenges. I shall take up the gauntlet by asking us to think more carefully about what we mean by the term, “corporate social responsibility.” There is...

Predicting Moral Judgments of Corporate Responsibility with Formal Decision Heuristics

We address the questions (1) how moral decision-making can be formally modeled using established decision models and (2) which of these models are the most accurate in predicting moral judgments. We conducted an experiment with a comparison task in which people had to decide which of two companies behaved more fairly in dealing with the consequences of the current financial crisis. We modeled t...

Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and Leadership: Exploring the Compatible Territories

Not talking the talk

The British government said it would consult the public on its decision whether or not to block the introduction of genetically modified crops following analysis of a series of field trials which will be completed this month. But their efforts have drawn scorn from the media and opponents as Nigel Williams reports.