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Abstract: In last few years Corporate Social Responsability became a hot issue everywhere. As a defensive answer to globalization, I argue MNEs are triyng to harmonize social behavior in order to acomplish international labour standards, mainly in labour and gender. The paper will consider comparative analysis in multinationals social behavior in Brazil and Mexico.

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Abstract: This article considers the ramifications of current efforts to internationalize the regulation of corporate social responsibility. The primary focus will be on the development by the United Nations of its “Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises With Regard to Human Rights.” The Norms evidence an increasing taste, at the international level, for a shift from a private to a public law basis for corporate regulation. This Article first briefly describes the traditional domestic context of the debates about the so-called “corporate social responsibility” and its relation to basic issues of corporate governance. In Part II, this Article turns to the international law and human rights contexts in which the Norms were conceived. Part III moves to a critical analysis of the Norms themselves in this context of regulatory conflict. The Norms point to potential far reaching changes in global consensus with significant ramifications for American domestic corporate law. Part IV places the Norms in a broader context. It analyzes the Norms, not as substance, but as symptom of two great fundamental changes in the allocation of governance power in a global setting. The Article ends with a consideration of the possible collision between the methodology of the Norms and the principle of democratic governance that forms the basis of a public policy of corporate and state organization, and the convergence of governance norms for states and non-state entities.

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Abstract: This paper presents an interpretive study of the discourses of corporate social responsibility by leading Chinese companies and global companies operating in China though content analysis of corporate websites. It identifies trends towards both convergence and divergence in the conceptualization and practices of CSR as a result of the tension between the globalizing trend and the local social and cultural contexts in China.

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Abstract: Despite the transnational corporation’s vital role in the global political economy and the controversy this position has fueled, critical rhetorical scholars have done curiously little in the way of theorizing how these institutions rhetorically construct and maintain the legitimacy of their power. Building upon rhetorical conceptions of the audience, this essay theorizes the material limits of pledges of corporate social responsibility (CSR). It argues that with strategic inclusion and exclusion of particular audiences, the corporation is able to simultaneously evade its critics, enhance its image, and increase the legitimacy of its participation in ever- widening areas of public concern. Monsanto Comapny's pledge is examined.

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Abstract: The ability to raise equity capital from external sources enabled corporations to achieve unprecedented productivity through massive collectivization in production and intensification of technological innovation. The development of multidivisional structures in the 1920s consolidated the position of the corporation as an organization form. By the 1960s, the modern diversified corporation emerged as the dominant form of wealth creation in the global economy. In spite of the central role of modern corporations in the global economy, conditions of corporate and financial market development are not yet well understood. Our exploration of securities development focuses specifically on the role of bureaucracy as a central determinant of agency costs born by shareholders. We explore the association between bureaucratic performance and corporate development, we first review the literature on legal origin and the development of rational-legal state bureaucracy in the rise of modern capitalism in the West. We then examine why rationalization of public administration strengthens government’s effectiveness in producing, motivating and sustaining institutional elements favorable to the development of modern corporations (Greif 2005). We use the World Bank Governance data set to test our hypothesis positing a positive causal connection between state bureaucratic effectiveness and the development of modern corporations.

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