Corporate environmentalism in a global economy

by Halina Szejnwald Brown

"Brown and her colleagues present a probing analysis of how multinational corporations, their local joint venture partners, and developing countries negotiate and ultimately reconcile sets of potentially competing values: development, equity, and independence on the one hand, and environment, health, and safety on the other. Case studies of three facilities recently established in India and Thailand by Du Pont Agrichemical, Occidental Chemical, and Xerox form the backdrop for the analysis. These three cases reveal the critical role of host-country development policies, corporate culture,...

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