About the Book
This second collection of outstanding shortlisted contributions from the Critical Management Studies (CMS) Interest Group of the Academy of Management (AOM) Dark Side" case-writing competition continues to go where other business case studies fear to tread.
There are very many case studies of business best practice when engaging with social, environmental and ethical issues. But when educators look for resources to illustrate to students the more typical examples of bad – let alone scandalous – practices of some firms, the cupboard is almost entirely bare. And yet there is a critical need for business educators to expose students and managers to such issues to understand the different multifaceted phenomena of our late capitalist era; to support critical, reflective moral development; and to reflect and understand the complexities of organizational life. To argue that such cases deal with the bad apples in an otherwise functioning system misses the point. Whether focusing on the phone-hacking scandals at national newspapers, the influence of big pharma companies on clinical trials, the Bhopal tragedy or the use of child labour in the garment industry, the problems discussed are of major importance and in many cases have been demonstrated to be common practice for particular companies. Good news they are not, but all are stimulating and present students with dilemmas and decisions to make in a myriad of ways.
Each of these 14 selected cases from 2009–2012 has been thoroughly documented, peer-reviewed and edited. They cover four continents (Asia, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania) and both business and public organizations. The industries covered range from extractive industries, the energy industry, consumer products, pulp and paper, movies, media, municipal affairs, academia, banking, and the drug industry. The book is split into three sections: 'Community and Environment'; 'Human Rights and Business'; and 'Ethics and Policy'.
Online Teaching Notes to accompany each chapter are available on request with the purchase of the book.
Table of Contents:
Section A: Community and environment
1. Shell in Ireland: A community destroyed
Sheila Killian, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick and Francis O'Donnell
2. Of gods and demons: The sacred hills of Niyamgiri and Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL)
Nimruji Jammulamadaka, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) and Sandeep Bhattacharjee, Usha Martin Academy, India
3. The dark side of light-handed regulation: Mercury Energy and the death of Folole Muliaga
Todd Bridgman, Victoria Management School, University of Wellington, New Zealand
4. San Rafael
Emmanuel Raufflet, Department of Management, HEC Montreal, Canada
Section B: Human rights and business
5. Kraft Foods Argentina: the H1N1 disparity
Susan Myrden, Maine Business School, University of Maine and Kathy Sanderson, Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University
6. When clothes for children are made by children
Guillaume Delalieux, Sciences Po Lille, France
7. The Bhopal Gas tragedy: Revisited after twenty-five years
Debapratim Purkayastha, IBS Hyderabad, India and Hadiya Faheem, IBS Hyderabad, India
8. The battle for Middle Earth: New Zealand's bid to save The Hobbit
Todd Bridgman, Victoria University of Wellington School of Management, New Zealand and Colm McLaughlin, University College Dublin School of Business
Section C: Ethics and policy
9. Ethical breaches at News of the World
Debapratim Purkayastha, IBS Hyderabad and AJ Swapna, IBS Hyderabad
10. Monkey business: The Black Eyed Peas in Halifax
Lawrence T. Corrigan and Jean Helms Mills, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada
11. Academia accommodating plagiarism? Surely not!
Belinda Luke, Queensland University of Technology Business School and Kate Kearins, Auckland University of Technology
12. Milk or wine come rain or shine: Culture and politics in a Dutch–Belgian banking group after an international takeover
Alexandra Bristow, Surrey Business School, University of Surrey
13. "Alisha in Obesity-land": Is food marketing the Mad Hatter?
Sonya A. Grier, Kogod School of Business at American University, Washington, D.C., USA and Guillaume D. Johnson, Université Paris-Dauphine, France
14. The Olivieri case: An ethical dilemma of clinical research and corporate sponsorship
Heidi Weigand and Albert J. Mills, Saint Mary's University, Canada
About the Author :
PAULINE FATIEN DIOCHON is Associate Professor of Management, Menlo College. ALBERT J. MILLS is Professor of Management, Saint Mary's University. EMMANUEL RAUFFLET is Associate Professor of Management, HEC Montréal.
