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Virtual Servants: Stereotyping Female Front-Office Employees on the Internet
(2005)
This article focuses on the service providers of the future: virtual assistants on the Internet. Recent technological developments, supported by intensive
research on artificial intelligence, have enabled corporations to ...
Exploring the Effects of Union-NGO Relationships on Corporate Responsibility: The Case of the Swedish Clean Clothes Campaign
(Springer, 2006)
In the current era, governments are playing smaller roles in regulating workers’ rights internationally, and transnational corporations (TNCs), non-governmental organisations (NGOs) involved in the struggle for workers’ ...
CSR in Electrification of Rural Africa
(2005)
Multinational corporations (MNCs) are beginning to explore low-income markets in
Africa in search of legitimacy and growth opportunities. This paper examines the CSR
(corporate social responsibility) aspects of this trend ...
Transnational Governance of Workers' Rights: Outlining a Research Agenda
(Springer, 2008)
In twentieth century Europe and the USA, industrial relations, labour, and workers’
rights issues have been handled through collective bargaining and industrial
agreements between firms and unions, with varying degrees ...
The Processes of Defining Corporate Responsibility: A Study of Swedish Garment Retailers' Responsibility
(Wiley InterScience, 2008)
Despite extensive research on corporate responsibility, little research exists on how the
inter-organisational processes of defining corporate responsibility develop. In this paper,
we present a framework based on ...
Post-Partnership Strategies for Defining Corporate Responsibility: The Business Social Compliance Initiative
(Springer, 2007)
While cross-sectoral partnerships are frequently presented as a way to achieve sustainable development, some corporations that first tried using the strategy are now changing direction. Growing tired of what are, in their ...
Web Woman: The On-line Construction of Corporate and Gender Images
(2004)
One of the many interesting applications of information technology is 'business on the net' and, within this trend, the appearance of virtual females whose job it is to assist customers by giving advice and delivering ...
Evaluating Strategies for Negotiating Workers' Rights in Transnational Corporations: The Effects of Codes of Conduct and Global Agreements on Workplace Democracy
(Springer, 2007)
Following the offshoring of production to developing countries by transnational corporations (TNCs), unions and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have criticised working conditions at TNCs’ offshore factories. This has ...