Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil

Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil

There is an invisible army of people deep inside the world's biggest and best-known companies, pushing for safer and more responsible practices. They are trying to prevent the next Rana Plaza factory collapse, the next Deepwater Horizon explosion, the next Foxconn labor abuses. Obviously, they don't always succeed.Â Christine Bader, current Director of Social Responsibility for Amazon, is one of those people. She worked for and loved BP and then-CEO John Browne's lofty rhetoric on climate change and human rights--until a string of fatal BP accidents, Browne's abrupt resignation under a cloud of scandal, and the start of Tony Hayward's tenure as chief executive, which would end with the Deepwater Horizon disaster.Â Bader's story of working deep inside the belly of the beast is unique in its details, but not in its themes: of feeling like an outsider both inside the company (accused of being a closet activist) and out (assumed to be a corporate shill); of getting mixed messages from senior management; of being frustrated with corporate life but committed to pushing for change from within. The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil is based on Bader's experience with BP and then with a United Nations effort to prevent and address human rights abuses linked to business. Using her story as its skeleton, Bader weaves in the stories of other "Corporate Idealists" working inside some of the world's biggest and best-known companies.
Country USA
Brand Routledge
Manufacturer Routledge
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781937134884
UnitCount 1
UPCs 884907572866
EANs 9781937134884
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Routledge
Manufacturer	Routledge
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781937134884
UnitCount	1
UPCs	884907572866
EANs	9781937134884
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil

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