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International Businesses and the Challenges of Poverty in the Developing World

Case Studies on Global Responsibilities and Practices

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Editors:
  1. Frederick Bird

    1. Concordia University in Montreal, Canada

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  2. Stewart W. Herman

    1. Concordia College, Moorhead, USA
      University of Chicago Divinity School, USA

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About this book

We live in a globally interconnected but economically divided world where internationally linked businesses can play a significant role in helping and/or obstructing the development of impoverished countries. Through a series of case studies, this volume examines what can be learned, both positively and critically, from the experiences of selected internationally connected firms in Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, Vietnam, Guyana, and the Nunavik region of northern Canada. This book begins with a set of reflections on the strategies firms might adopt so that they develop both their own assets as well as those of the areas in which they operate. A team of more than two dozen researchers from the developed and developing countries conducted the research on which the essays on this and subsequent volumes are based. Dr Frederick Bird from Concordia University in Montreal directed the overall research project.

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Frederick Bird, Stewart W. Herman
    Pages 1-13

  3. Ethical Reflections on the Challenges Facing International Businesses in Developing Areas

    • Frederick Bird
    Pages 14-33

  4. Wealth and Poverty in the Niger Delta: A Study of the Experiences of Shell in Nigeria

    • Frederick Bird
    Pages 34-63

  5. A Political and Economic History of Ghana, 1957–2003

    • Bill Buenar Puplampu
    Pages 64-74

  6. Capacity Building, Asset Development and Corporate Values: A Study of Three International Firms in Ghana

    • Bill Buenar Puplampu
    Pages 75-97

  7. A Political and Economic History of Uganda, 1962–2002

    • Samuel Sejjaaka
    Pages 98-110

  8. From Seed to Leaf: British American Tobacco and Supplier Relations in Uganda

    • Samuel Sejjaaka
    Pages 111-123

  9. Seeking a Better Connection: Mobile Telecommunications Network and Social Responsibility in Uganda

    • Ida Mutoigo, Samuel Sejjaaka
    Pages 124-138

  10. A Short Economic History of Vietnam, 1945–1986

    • Stewart W. Herman
    Pages 139-151

  11. Forming Social Capital from the Bottom Up: The Emergent Private Sector in Vietnam, 1986–2002

    • Stewart W. Herman
    Pages 152-163

  12. Developing Social Capital through Human Resources: ‘Vietsani’ and the Future of Western Management

    • Stewart W. Herman
    Pages 164-180

  13. Forestry, Gold Mining and Amerindians: The Troubling Example of Samling in Guyana

    • Gail Whiteman
    Pages 181-205

  14. The Raglan Mine and Nunavik Inuit

    • Frederick Bird, Robert Nixon
    Pages 206-223

  15. International Trade as a Vehicle for Reducing Poverty: The Body Shop’s Community Trade Programme

    • Frederick Bird
    Pages 224-237

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 238-247
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Concordia University in Montreal, Canada

    Frederick Bird

  • Concordia College, Moorhead, USA

    Stewart W. Herman

  • University of Chicago Divinity School, USA

    Stewart W. Herman

About the editors

IDA MUTOIGO is Team Leader for East and Southern Africa for the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee ROBERT NIXON is a Partner in Universalia Management Group BILL BUENAR PUPLAMPU is Senior Lecturer at the School of Administration, University of Ghana SAMUEL SEJJAAKA is a Senior Lecturer at the Makerere University Business School, Uganda GAIL WHITEMAN is Assistant Professor of Business-Society Management, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, the Netherlands

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: International Businesses and the Challenges of Poverty in the Developing World

  • Book Subtitle: Case Studies on Global Responsibilities and Practices

  • Editors: Frederick Bird, Stewart W. Herman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230522503

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-2128-4Published: 19 April 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51533-2Published: 19 April 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-52250-3Published: 22 January 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 247

  • Topics: International Business, Business Ethics, International Economics, Development Aid

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