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Ethical marketing recovery strategies for BP and Toyota after crises

BP and Toyota have been in the news due to serious failures, which created significant safety risk and ultimately resulted in deaths as well as significant environmental damage in the case of BP with the exposition on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. In both cases there were internal failures.

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Religious accommodation in the workplace under Title VII

As the diversity within businesses increases at an alarming pace with the entire world transforming into a global village, employers, employees and legislators are all concerned about accommodating religious beliefs and observances.

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Ethical standards for nonprofit organizations and corporate responsibility

Introduction century ago, corporate social responsibility was an idea whose time had not yet come, and companies were free to treat their employees as badly as they could get away with and cause nearly unregulated environmental damage.

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Escalating commitment and disruptive innovation in Polaroid's bankruptcy

What Caused Polaroid's Bankruptcy in 2001? In 2001 Polaroid filed for bankruptcy. The circumstances surrounding the bankruptcy indicate several potential reasons, including poor management decision making and escalating commitment.

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The Securities Exchange Commission and Public Companies Accounting Oversight Board

"The Commission" refers to the Securities Exchange Commission, which is the primary governing body for financial markets.

~9 min read

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The disconnect between Enron's stated and underlying corporate values

It has been nearly a generation since the Enron scandal unfolded and yet the reverberations and post-mortems as it relates to the course of events that brought down Enron (not to mention Arthur Andersen) still resonate to this very day.

~8 min read

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Sustainability consultancy industry analysis using Porter's five forces

Sustainability reporting can be considered to be in its infancy, however the practices are developing quickly because of the need for organizations to understand their relationship to the environment in terms of externalities that are produce in operations, as well as social factors that affect…

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Nike's sweatshop labor practices and corporate social responsibility

In the 1990s, Nike faced accusations of using sweatshops in Indonesia and other cheap labor countries in Asia to manufacture its products. As depicted in the video, workers were subjected to utterly inhuman conditions that denied them their dignity as human beings.

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Ethical decision-making and personal values in organizational leadership

A focus on ethical decision making is vitally important for the organizational leader of today and in the future. In accordance with ethical standards, every person in an organization is responsible to those whom his or her actions directly affect.

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The American Psychological Association's ethical principles and core values

The core values and ethical principles are a fundamental feature of any organization or profession. The purpose of ethical principles and core values is to facilitate the presence of guiding standards that are conducive to promoting honesty and integrity.

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