Values-Based Multinational Management: Achieving Enterprise Sustainability through a Human Rights Strategy » (1st Edition)

In this timely book, Lee A. Tavis and Timothy M. Tavis contend that the values dimension of the actions of multinational firms is becoming increasingly important, given the worldwide integration of economies and peoples. Tavis and Tavis argue that it is in their own long-term interests for multinational firms to embrace an ethically pro-active stance. A strategy of supporting universal human rights, often in partnership with NGOs, offers the greatest potential for success.

Foreword Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xv

Part I The New Multinational Environment 1

1 Global Integration: Its Driving Force and Pervasive Impact 3

2 Responding to the Future 29

Part II Redefining the Role of the Multinational Enterprise 53

3 Assessing the Appropriate Role of the Enterprise 55

4 Partnering with Nongovernmental Organizations 101

Part III Foundations of Human Rights 123

5 The Nature of Human Rights 125

6 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 140

Part IV Implementing a Human Rights Standard 155

7 The United Nations Global Compact 157

8 Implementing the Global Compact at Novartis 176

Part V Managing the Firm as a Community 215

9 The Individual in the Organization 217

10 The Person and the Enterprise: Management Models 230

Epilogue 257

Notes 261

Bibliography 299

Index 331