The dark side. 2 : critical cases on the downside of business / edited by Pauline Fatien Diochon, Emmanuel Raufflet and Albert J. Mills.

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Introduction: Dark side cases: challenging the "bright side" bias of mainstream management education -- Section A. Community and environment -- Shell in Ireland: a community destroyed -- Of gods and demons: the sacred hills of Niyamgiri and Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) -- The dark side of light-handed regulation: Mercury Energy and the death of Folole Muliaga -- San Rafael -- Section B. Human rights and business -- Kraft Foods Argentina: the H₁N₁ disparity -- When clothes for children are made by children -- The Bhopal Gas tragedy: revisited after twenty-five years -- The battle for Middle Earth: New Zealand's bid to save The Hobbit -- Section C. Ethics and policy -- Ethical breaches at News of the World -- Monkey business: the Black Eyed Peas in Halifax -- Academia accommodating plagiarism? Surely not! -- Milk or wine come rain or shine: culture and politics in a Dutch-Belgian banking group after an international takeover -- "Alisha in Obesity-land": is food marketing the Mad Hatter? -- The Olivieri case: an ethical dilemma of clinical research and corporate sponsorship.

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."

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