Business Ethics BUSI 1314 Lecture 6 - sustainability Wim Vandekerckhove vw 01@gre. ac. uk This lecture/tutorial will enable you to: -Discuss sustainability issues by referring to key events in public debate, - critically make sense of specific sustainability projects - appreciate tensions and trade-offs between different dimensions of sustainability - give a reasonable discussion on the division of responsibilities with regard to sustainability
Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI 1314 - University of Greenwich - 2010 -2011
Lecture 6 - Sustainability 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. What is sustainability? A closer look at the assumptions Individual responsibility Market driven responsibility Political responsibility Sense-making impact • Further reading: - Marsden 2000 - Spence and Perrini 2009 Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI 1314 - University of Greenwich - 2010 -2011
1. What is sustainability? 1987 – Brundtland Report Our Common Future Concerned with: a global equity, redistributing resources towards poorer nations whilst encouraging their economic growth. http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v =B 5 Ni. TN 0 chj 0&feature=youtube_ gdata_player Sustainable development = development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. suggested that equity, growth and environmental maintenance are simultaneously possible recognised that achieving this equity and sustainable growth would require technological and social change. Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI 1314 - University of Greenwich - 2010 -2011
1. What is sustainability? (cont) Agenda 21, established at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, or "Earth Summit", in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is the blueprint for sustainability in the 21 st century. Involves: Governments, nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), industry and the general public Issues: air pollution, deforestation, biodiversity loss, health, overpopulation, poverty, energy consumption, waste production and transport issues Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI 1314 - University of Greenwich - 2010 -2011
2. A closer look at the assumptions There is a ‘capital base’ from which current and future well-being are derived economic environmental social Indicators? Tripple Bottom Line Trade-offs? Incommensurable? http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Fpuc. ONE 7 WWk&feature=you tube_gdata_player Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI 1314 - University of Greenwich - 2010 -2011
2. A closer look at the assumptions (cont) (Shively 2010) • rejection of “marginalist” perspective • concern about energy and materials use • discounting future costs is unacceptable 1. Irreversibility (can not restore natural capital) 2. Uncertainty (systems poorly understood) 3. Scale (threshold effects, large-scale damages) Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI 1314 - University of Greenwich - 2010 -2011
3. Individual responsibility What can you do? environmental -Carbon footprint -Water -Waste social -Education -Diversity -Public space economic -Poverty -Pensions -Consumption How far do you go? What are the trade-offs? Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI 1314 - University of Greenwich - 2010 -2011
‘This bank is CO 2 neutral’
4. Market driven responsibility Green energy (nuclear? ) Carbon emissions trade Business opportunities in SD Recycling industry (Kyoto and ETS) political Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI 1314 - University of Greenwich - 2010 -2011 Fair trade Micro-loans
5. Political responsibility Climate • Kyoto • Copenhagen • Nagoya, Cahun, … Social • War • Migration • Dialogue • Culture & Religion • Gender Economic • WTO • Labour standards • Education • Taxes (Tobin) • Financial system Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI 1314 - University of Greenwich - 2010 -2011
6. Sense-making impact What focus/thinking does it allow? (adapted from Shively 2010) 1. Informed by ecology, but human-focused. 2. Emphasizes ecological limits and discontinuity 3. Emphasizes conservation of critical components of natural capital stock (e. g. critical set-asides) and social capital 4. Focuses on limits to deterioration of ecological assets and management of social transformation, at all levels: local-national-global 5. Asks “what is the carrying capacity of a system? ” 6. Asks “what are appropriate measures of resilience? ” 7. Questions traditional measures of wealth. Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI 1314 - University of Greenwich - 2010 -2011
References • • • Marsden, C. (2000), ‘The new corporate citizenship of big business: Part of the solution to sustainability’, Business and Society Review 105(1), 9 -25 Shively, G. (2010), ‘Sustainability’ (Agricultural Economy Lecture 35) West Lafayette IN, Purdue University. Available from: http: //www. agecon. purdue. edu/staff/shively/COURSES/AGEC 406/reviews/lectures/index. htm (accessed 7 September 2010) Spence, L. J. and Perrini, F. (2009), ‘Practice and politics: Ethics and social responsibility in SMEs in the European union’, African Journal of Business Ethics 4, 20 -31 [serial online]. Available from: http: //www. ajobe. org/text. asp? 2009/4/2/20/63198 (accessed 28 September 2010) Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI 1314 - University of Greenwich - 2010 -2011
Coursework 2 - Essay • • Task: You must analyse an ethical issue in an organisation (choose a case from list underneath). 1. 2. 3. 4. • • Analysis means you point out the controversy, explain why the issue is controversial (why is it not straightforward right or wrong? ), identify arguments made, evaluate the arguments made (what kind of argument is it, is it a good argument? ). This means that you will be approaching the issue from more than one position (stakeholder) and you will make use of more than one ethical perspective (in identifying and evaluating the arguments made). End your essay with your personal position on the issue. Of course, you need to give arguments here as well. Referencing is necessary – but academic references are optional. Maximum 2500 words – Deadline 17 December 2010 3 pm Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI 1314 - University of Greenwich - 2010 -2011
List of Cases • • Goldman Sachs Look at Mary Gentile’s Op Ed on Market. Watch. com: "The Burden of Knowledge: The ethics of John Paulson and Goldman Sachs" • http: //www. marketwatch. com/story/goldman-sachs-and-john-paulson-the-ethics-2010 -06 -04? reflink=MW_news_stmp (accessed 28 September 2010) • • Grameen Bank Read this comment in The Guardian by Salil Tripathi on micro-credits. • http: //www. guardian. co. uk/business/2006/oct/17/businesscomment. internationalaidanddevelopment (accessed 18 October 2010) • • Arcelor Mittal See a briefing paper from a campaigning organisation on how Arcelor Mittal makes a fortune by selling emissions permits: • http: //sandbag. org. uk/files/sandbag. org. uk/The_Case_of_Arcelor. Mittal. pdf (accessed 28 September 2010) • • HTC, Vodafone, Google supply chain controversy This controversy over union busting in Taiwan is mentioned on many websites, but here is a link to one of them: • http: //goodelectronics. org/news-en/taiwanese-electronics-workers-figth-for-their-rights(accessed 18 October 2010) Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI 1314 - University of Greenwich - 2010 -2011
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