by Kenneth J McPhail and Carol A Adams This article critically analyses the human rights discourse of thirty Fortune 500 companies in the mining, pharmaceutical and chemical industries at two key points in the recent evolution of the UN’s business and human rights agenda. Methodology We draw on Fairclough (1992) and Mashaw (2007) in a critical […]
Corporate Respect for Human Rights: meaning, scope and the shifting order of discourse
Posted on May 17, 2016 · Leave a Comment
The changing portrayal of the employment of women in British banks’ and retail companies’ corporate annual reports
Posted on May 11, 2016 · Leave a Comment
by Carol A Adams and George Harte This paper examines disclosure with respect to gender and employment in the corporate annual reports of major British banking and retail companies during the period 1935-1993. Setting the disclosures in the social, political and economic context of six distinct periods, the authors suggest that the position of women […]
Exploring metaphors of capitals and the framing of multiple capitals: challenges and opportunities for IR
Posted on August 17, 2015 · Leave a Comment
by Andrea Coulson, Carol A Adams, Michael Nugent and Kathryn Haynes published in the Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of the metaphor of capital, and to chart the development of the multiple capitals concept in the International <IR> Framework and consider how it might develop […]
Equal opportunity for women in the workplace: A study of corporate disclosure
Posted on May 30, 2015 · Leave a Comment
This study published by the ACCA and authored by Kate Grosser, Carol Adams and Jeremy Moon compares research findings on how a sample of the largest companies in the UK, Australia and the US have publicly reported on equal opportunities for women in the workplace. It examines the different regulatory and voluntary frameworks relating to […]
Internal organisational factors influencing corporate social and ethical reporting
Posted on January 5, 2015 · Leave a Comment
by Carol A Adams. This article has been cited over 1,000 times and is in the top ten most cited articles published in the Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal in its 30 years. Executive summary/Abstract Prior empirical research into factors which are influential in determining the extent and nature of corporate social reporting has primarily been […]
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