Responsibility in World Business: Managing Harmful Side-Effects of Corporate Activity

Table of contents

• Responsibility in World Business i
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Foreword viii
• Acknowledgements x
• Contributors xii
• Abbreviations xiv
• Part I - Introduction 1
• 1: Addressing Side-Effect Harm in the Business Context: Conceptual and Practical Challenges 3
• Part II - Theoretical Discussion 15
• 2: The Idea of Double Effect – in War and Business 17
• 3: Business is Not Just War: Implications for Applying the Principle of Double Effect to Business 39
• 4: State Responsibility, Corporate Responsibility, and Complicity in Human Rights Violations 50
• 5: Reconstructing the Principle of Double Effect: Towards Fixing the Goalposts of Corporate Responsibility 82
• 6: The Principle of Double Effect, Revised for the Business Context 99
• Part III - Case-Studies 103
• 7: The Principle of Double Effect and Moral Risk: Some Case-Studies of Us Transnational Corporations 105
• 8: An Object Lesson in Balancing Business and Nature in Hong Kong: Saving the Birds of Long Valley 121
• 9: Shell in Ogoniland 138
• 10: Del Monte Kenya Limited 159
• 11: The “just War” for Profit and Power: the Bhopal Catastrophe and the Principle of Double Effect 175
• 12: Dealing with Harmful Side-Effects: Opportunities and Threats in the Emerging Polish Market 202
• 13: The Orissa Case 221
• 14: Child Labour in the Brazilian Citrus Sector: the Case of Cargill's Double Effect 245
• 15: A Commentary on the Principle of Double Effect 262
• Part IV - Conclusion 271
• 16: Towards Improved Business Practice: Implementing the Principle of Double Effect 273
• Index 279

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