Showing papers by "Christine Parker published in 2002"

The Open Corporation: Effective Self-regulation and Democracy

Abstract: The Open Corporation, originally published in 2002, set out a blueprint for effective corporate self-regulation, offering practical strategies for managers, stakeholders and regulators to build successful self-regulation management systems. Christine Parker examined the conditions under which corporate self-regulation of social and legal responsibilities were likely to be effective, covering a wide range of areas - from consumer protection to sexual harassment to environmental compliance. Focusing on the features that make self-regulation or compliance management systems effective, Parker argued that law and regulators needed to focus much more on 'meta-regulating' corporate self-regulation if democratic control over corporate action was to be established.

The Open Corporation

Abstract: The Open Corporation, originally published in 2002, set out a blueprint for effective corporate self-regulation, offering practical strategies for managers, stakeholders and regulators to build successful self-regulation management systems. Christine Parker examined the conditions under which corporate self-regulation of social and legal responsibilities were likely to be effective, covering a wide range of areas - from consumer protection to sexual harassment to environmental compliance. Focusing on the features that make self-regulation or compliance management systems effective, Parker argued that law and regulators needed to focus much more on 'meta-regulating' corporate self-regulation if democratic control over corporate action was to be established.

The Open Corporation

Abstract: The Open Corporation, originally published in 2002, set out a blueprint for effective corporate self-regulation, offering practical strategies for managers, stakeholders and regulators to build successful self-regulation management systems. Christine Parker examined the conditions under which corporate self-regulation of social and legal responsibilities were likely to be effective, covering a wide range of areas - from consumer protection to sexual harassment to environmental compliance. Focusing on the features that make self-regulation or compliance management systems effective, Parker argued that law and regulators needed to focus much more on 'meta-regulating' corporate self-regulation if democratic control over corporate action was to be established.

Regulation of the Ethics of Australian Legal Practice: Autonomy and Responsiveness.

Abstract: The way in which the ethics of legal practice is regulated in Australia perpetuates a mismatch between the ethics that the public expects of lawyers, an ethic of responsiveness, and the ethics that the legal profession has traditionally adopted for itself, an ethic of autonomy. Two ways in which the regulation of the Australian legal profession can be made more responsive are suggested.

The Open Corporation: Meta-regulation: The regulation of self-regulation

Abstract: Despite the dominance of organizations in contemporary social life, law is desperately short of techniques, doctrines and institutions that adequately respond to the social features of organizational entities, their impacts on stakeholders, their internal capacity for self-management, their capacity for diffusion and avoidance of accountability (see Dan-Cohen 1986: 13-14). Lack of corporate social and legal responsibility is not just a failure of corporate management. It is also a failure of legal regulatory institutions to interact with corporate organizations to make them open and permeable. Similarly, Community action often fails to permeate the corporate shell and engage with corporation's self-governance capacity. Corporate responsibility, or citizenship, is constituted in interaction between formal regulation (through the State), informal social action (the penumbra of democracy and institutions of civil society) and corporate self-regulation. The role of corporate Citizens is to use permeable, responsible self-regulatory mechanisms (which meet all the requirements of Chapter 8) in order to determine for themselves how to instantiate regulatory responsibilities, and what values to follow within the grey areas where sufficient consensus has not yet been reached in the broader polity. The role of legal and regulatory strategies is to add the ‘triple loop’ that forces companies to evaluate and report on their own self-regulation strategies so that regulatory agencies can determine whether the ultimate Substantive objectives of regulation are being met (safe workplaces, equal opportunity, improved natural environments, sustainable development, market strength, and so on) (see Figure 9.3 for a diagrammatic representation of the triple loop).