help with assignment

IndianSummer

er... i need a little help for an assignment i am doing as part of my mba course.

i would like to know the names of some top companies which have got into fuckups with government and/or organizations like greenpeace/uno regarding issues of CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY.


off the top of my head, i could think of oil companies which have caused major oil spills, companies like gillete which got into issues with wwf and peta for testing their blades on furry animals, even tobacco companies which have had lawsuits slapped against them for being peddlers of lung cancer etc etc.


but i need SPECIFIC examples, like XYZ company got penalized by so and so organization/government for such and such offence.

all contributions welcome and gratefully accepted.

rival.

this could be a good read for you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill

the exxon oil spill in alaska.

polaris

http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2007/112007/mokhiber.html

dirt

Not sure if this page cites specific example, but S/O was the first thing I thought of to prevent what you're examining.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes-Oxley_Act

IndianSummer

singularity wrote:

this could be a good read for you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill

the exxon oil spill in alaska.

thanks very much,... top example/.

IndianSummer

polaris wrote:

http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2007/112007/mokhiber.html

wow thanks.. very informative site.

IndianSummer

dirt wrote:

Not sure if this page cites specific example, but S/O was the first thing I thought of to prevent what you're examining.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes-Oxley_Act

this isnt easy reading... i have marked the webpage.
thanks.. it could be useful.

Phantom Pain

ENRON

Not sure if that qualifies ?

Indian Summer

I assign you to change your name. Thief.

LightYears55

look into chiquita brands international
go thru the sec archive and look at their 2/12/2008, 99.1 filing. lots of information there...

Lizard

Indian Summer wrote:

I assign you to change your name. Thief.

I thought you posted this.........

gotta read closely nowadays!!!

Vedd Hedd

check Bayer and Nestle

IndianSummer

Indian Summer wrote:

I assign you to change your name. Thief.

we have had this convo before. people even wished me by mistake when you got married.

yours is with a blank space and mine isnt. i chose this name since i come from india. i didnt steal it from yours. when i signed up, little id i know that there was already another indiansummer, with a blank, in the forum.

HushBull

About every large corporation is guilty of these sorts of grievances.

Jeanie

Why don't you check out the bastards at James Hardie? Seeing as they've denied and ignored their responsibilities only to be found guilty and then charmingly screwed people over for the compensation they were ordered to pay only to then shut up shop here and flee overseas to further avoid their responsibilities.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22833043-2,00.html

And if they don't do it for you what about Rio Tinto?
What they've done in New Guinea well, it's just mind boggling really, although I think they've been slithering their way out of it for quite some time.

http://www.business-humanrights.org/Categories/Lawlawsuits/Lawsuitsregulatoryaction/LawsuitsSelectedcases/RioTintolawsuitrePapuaNewGuinea

IndianSummer

thanks Jeanie, both organizations seem to have violated CSR obligations.

muppet

Might be a bit old but IG Farben and their relationship with the Nazis sounds like a good example. Pretty disturbing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben

Jeanie

IndianSummer wrote:

thanks Jeanie, both organizations seem to have violated CSR obligations.

You're welcome.

Although both have been found guilty I'm not sure that either will ever actually be held accountable.

IndianSummer

muppet wrote:

Might be a bit old but IG Farben and their relationship with the Nazis sounds like a good example. Pretty disturbing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben

thanks but this probably wont do. too old.

Lesbelges

I believer at some point BP had an Oil pumping station in the North Sea which either had depleted all the oil in the area or they decided it was of no use to them. So BP decided they would just destroy the pilars it was standing upon and let it sink into the sea. Greenpeace climbed on the structure and stayed there until BP decided to let the oil station intact.

PJSerf

Ford has faced numerous penalties for the Ford Pinto in the 70s. And also the whole Firestone tire flap in the late 90s/early 2000s