Dr Marco Cristiano Petrassi, lawyer at SZA LLP expert in the area of corporate and commercial law, contributes to today’s guest post: "To do business by acting ethically and to be ethical without renouncing profit," this is the oxymoron of Benefit Companies. As a result of the spreading worldwide of the American movement B-Corps, the Benefit Companies … Continue reading Guest Post: Does Charles Dickens still have great expectations? The Benefit Companies and some lost opportunities
Author: Costantino Grasso
Assistant Professor in Law at Coventry University
Guest Post: The UK’s voluntary Living Wage and its contribution to building a better economy and ethical business
Dr Andrea Werner, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Management Leadership & Organisations of the Middlesex University Business School, contributes to today’s guest post: In 2017, nearly 5 million people in the UK earned less than two-thirds than the poverty threshold of two-thirds of median hourly wage, an indication that despite low unemployment figures a significant proportion of the UK … Continue reading Guest Post: The UK’s voluntary Living Wage and its contribution to building a better economy and ethical business
Guest Post: Investigating allegations against celebrities: New standards for media corporations? The decision of the High Court in Richard v BBC
We are pleased to welcome back Dr Steve Foster, Principal Lecturer in Law at Coventry University Law School, who contributes the following guest post: Introduction In a long-awaited judgment on celebrity privacy and press freedom, in Richard v BBC [2018] EWHC 1837 (Ch), the High Court awarded over £200.000 in damages against the BBC for their … Continue reading Guest Post: Investigating allegations against celebrities: New standards for media corporations? The decision of the High Court in Richard v BBC
Guest Post: Legal changes and paradigm shifts: what we need to get the benefits of whistleblowing
Greg Lawton, patient & medicines safety, data protection and healthcare policy consultant, contributes to today’s guest post. Greg, who worked for Boots between 2006 and 2015 and in his final role was part of the manpower planning team that assessed staffing levels in the company's pharmacies, resigned in 2015 after he took his concerns about … Continue reading Guest Post: Legal changes and paradigm shifts: what we need to get the benefits of whistleblowing
Guest Post: An overview of recent studies on gender diversity in the boardroom
Dr Aspasia Pastra, Researcher at the World Maritime University of Malmö and Research Associate at the Hellenic Observatory of Corporate Governance, contributes to today’s guest post: A plethora of empirical research on corporate governance continues to study the gender diversity in the boardroom and the differences of women from male corporate directors in the effectiveness … Continue reading Guest Post: An overview of recent studies on gender diversity in the boardroom
Challenges and advantages of robotic nursing care: a social and ethical analysis
Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and science that includes, inter alia, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer science. This emerging field of technological advancement deals with the connection of perception to action and where that connection is to be "intelligent," then artificial intelligence (AI) plays a fundamental role in robotics. Robotic technology has … Continue reading Challenges and advantages of robotic nursing care: a social and ethical analysis
Guest Post: The media, corporate responsibility and TV reality shows
Dr Steve Foster, Principal Lecturer in Law at Coventry University Law School, contributes to today’s guest post: Although corporate social responsibility is usually linked with large profit-making commercial entities, it should not be forgotten that the private media are subject to various legal and ethical duties whilst carrying out their business operations. In the United … Continue reading Guest Post: The media, corporate responsibility and TV reality shows
Mary Inman on Whistleblower Protection Law and Reward Programs (video)
It was a great privilege to have Mary Inman, who is a partner in Constantine Cannon's London Office specialized in representing whistleblowers worldwide, as a guest lecturer within my Corporate Governance and Globalization module at the University of East London. As I have recently mentioned in the article that focused on the Cambridge Analytica Scandal, … Continue reading Mary Inman on Whistleblower Protection Law and Reward Programs (video)