Andreas Scherer, Entries “Activism” (p. 11-12), “Anti-globalization” (p. 19-21), “Race to the Bottom” (p. 383-384), “Social Justice” (p. 423-424), Sweatshops” (p. 451-452), In: The A to Z of Corporate Social Responsibility, Wiley, London, p. 11 - 12, 2007. (Book Chapter)
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 Dorothee Baumann-Pauly, Andreas Scherer, Guido Palazzo, Global Public Rules and Citizenship Rights: A New Responsibility of Private Business Firms?, In: Corporate Ethics and Corporate Governance, Springer, Berlin, p. 309 - 326, 2007. (Book Chapter)
Economic activities require the existence of rules and their enforcement as preconditions that the market cannot generate itself. Property rights, contractual rights and obligations are minimal conditions that in modern societies are provided and enforced by the state. Without such rules, the market cannot flourish. The state thus determines regulations and delineates the sphere of private freedom, within which individual citizens and private institutions are entitled to conclude contracts amongst each other but are as well forced to abide by the contracted rules. In line of the development of modern nation states, the state has not only been the guarantor of civil rights, e.g. the right to own property, to enter into private contracts, and to engage in market activity. In its role as a democratic constitutional state it has also been the guarantor of political participation rights, the right of the citizen to take part in the processes to determine public rules and issues of public concern. Finally, in its role as a welfare state it has provided social rights for citizens, such as the right to education, to healthcare and welfare (Marshall, 1965). The combination of state-guaranteed civil, political, and social rights provided modern society with welfare, legitimacy and solidarity, thereby contributing to peacefully stabilize the community of anonymous individuals (Habermas, 2001). Following Matten and Crane (2005) we refer to this triad of rights as citizenship rights. |
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William McKinley, Andreas Scherer, Unholy Affinity? Free Trade Theory, Postmodernism, and the Multinational Enterprise, In: Internationales Management im Umbruch – Globalisierungsbedingte Einwirkungen auf Theorie und Praxis Internationaler Unternehmensführung, Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, Wiesbaden, p. 65 - 84, 2007. (Book Chapter)
Globalization can be seen as a process of worldwide interlinkage of social actions, which transcends local contexts and institutions and thus increases in importance beyond the regional level (Giddens 1990; Scherer 2003; Scherer/Palazzo 2008). This is particularly true in the case of economic activity. In globalization, doing business crosses territorially defined borders, leading to a mismatch between political control on the one hand and economic activity on the other. The congruence between the area covered by state regulation and the area where economic and social interaction actually unfold thus disappears (Zürn 1998). Under these conditions the private economy no longer develops within the rules dictated by state politics; rather, the economy is likely to dictate to politicians (Gray 1999; Höffe 1999). |
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Dorothee Baumann-Pauly, Andreas Scherer, Guido Palazzo, Global Rules and Private Actors – Towards a New Role of the Transnational Corporation in Global Governance, In: Internationales Management im Umbruch – Globalisierungsbedingte Einwirkungen auf Theorie und Praxis Internationaler Unternehmensführung, Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, Wiesbaden, p. 3 - 39, 2007. (Book Chapter)
Economic activities require the existence of rules and their enforcement as preconditions that the market cannot generate itself. Property rights, and contractual rights and obligations, are minimal prerequisites for modern societies that are provided and enforced by the state. Without such prerequisites, the market cannot flourish. The state thus determines regulations and delineates the sphere of private freedom, within which individual citizens and private institutions are entitled to conclude contracts with one another, to which the system of property and contractual rights compels obedience. In the development of modern nation states, the state has not only been the guarantor of civil rights, e. g. the right to own property, to enter into private contracts, and to engage in market activity. In its role as a democratic constitutional state, it has also been the guarantor of political participation rights, the right of the citizen to take part in the processes that determine public rules and issues of public concern. Finally, in its role as a welfare state, it has provided social rights for citizens, such as the right to education, to health care, and to other forms of welfare (Marshall 1965). The combination of state-guaranteed civil, political, and social rights has provided legitimacy, solidarity, and welfare to modern society, thereby contributing to peaceful, stable communities of anonymous individuals (Habermas 2001). Following Matten and Crane (Matten/Crane 2005) we refer to this triad of rights as citizenship rights. |
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Guido Palazzo, Andreas Scherer, Organizational Legitimacy as Deliberation: Towards a New Political Role of the Business Firm, In: Individuum und Organisation. Neue Trends eines organisationswissenschaftlichen Forschungsfeldes, Deutscher Universitätsverlag, Wiesbaden, p. 17 - 42, 2007. (Book Chapter)
Legitimacy can be understood as the conformation with social norms, values, and expectations (Oliver 1996). It is subjectively perceived and ascribed to actions or institutions by social construction (Berger/Luckman 1966). Legitimacy is vital for organizational survival as it is a precondition for the continuous flow of resources and the sustained support by the organization’s constituents (Parsons 1960; Pfeffer/Salancik 1978; Weber 1978). Persons or institutions who lose legitimacy find it difficult to enter into processes of social exchange as their partners do not rely on their compliance with social rules. |
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Dorothee Baumann-Pauly, Andreas Scherer, The Role of the Transnational Corporation in the Process of Legalization: Insights from Economics and Corporate Social Responsibility, In: Law and Legalization in Transnational Relations, Oxford, p. 202 - 225, 2007. (Book Chapter)
The analysis of global governance processes, referring to rule making and rule enforcement on a global scale, clearly demonstrates that the formulation of rules is no longer a task managed by the state alone (see, e.g. Braithwaite and Drahos 2000; Brozus et al. 2003; Günther 2001; Kingsbury 2003; Shelton 2000; Zürn 1998). Rather, in recent years, civil society groups as well as TNCs increasingly participate in the formulation and implementation of rules in policy areas that were once the sole responsibility of the state or international organizations (Matten and Crane 2005). Rule making activities of TNCs and civil society groups include, e.g. protecting human rights (Breining-Kaufmann 2004; Kinley and Tadaki 2004; Campbell and Miller 2004; Cragg 2005), implementing social and environmental standards (Christmann 2004; Scherer and Smid 2000), or involvement in peace-keeping activities (Fort and Schipani 2002). Such activities indicate the shift in global business regulation from state-centric towards new multilateral and non-territorial modes of regulation with non-state actors involved (Braithwaite and Drahos 2000). |
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Dorothee Baumann-Pauly, Andreas Scherer, Corporate Citizenship: Herausforderung für die Unternehmenskommunikation, In: Handbuch Unternehmenskommunikation, Gabler, Wiesbaden, p. 858 - 873, 2007. (Book Chapter)
„Corporate Citizenship“ ist in den vergangenen Jahren zum Schlagwort für unternehmerische Verantwortung avanciert. Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt die Herausforderungen auf, die sich im Zuge eines Engagements als Corporate Citizen an die Unternehmung stellen. Die Art und Weise der Unternehmenskommunikation spielt bei der Umsetzung von Corporate Citizenship eine wesentliche Rolle. Besonders geeignet erscheint das Kommunikationsinstrument des Unternehmensdialogs. Dies wird anhand einer Fallstudie des Sportartikelherstellers Nike verdeutlicht, an der sich zeigen lässt, welche Formen der Unternehmenskommunikation auf dem Weg zur Legitimierung unternehmerischen Handelns ergriffen werden. |
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Special Issue on “The Philosophical Foundations of Knowledge Management: Consequences for Organization Theory and Practice”, Edited by: Andreas Scherer, J.-C. Spender, Organization, 2007. (Edited Scientific Work)
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Jeremie Mattout, C Philips, Jean Daunizeau, K J Friston, Bayesian inversion for induced responses, In: Statistical Parametric Mapping, United Kingdom, p. 377 - 390, 2007. (Book Chapter)
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Jeremie Mattout, C Philips, Jean Daunizeau, K J Friston, Bayesian inversion of EEG models, In: Statistical Parametric Mapping, United Kingdom, p. 367 - 375, 2007. (Book Chapter)
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Saad Jbabdi, P Bellec, Toro R, Jean Daunizeau, Melanie Pelegrini-Issac, Habib Benali, Accurate anisotropic fast marching for diffusion-based geodesic tractography, Int. J. Biomed. Imag., 2007. (Journal Article)
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K J Friston, L M Harrison, Jean Daunizeau, S J Kiebel, C Philips, Nelson Trujillo-Barreto, R N Henson, Jeremie Mattout, Multiple sparse priors for the M/EEG inverse problem, Neuroimage, Vol. 39, 2007. (Journal Article)
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S J Kiebel, Jean Daunizeau, C Philips, K J Friston, Variational Bayesian inversion of the equivalent current dipole model in EEG/MEG, Neuroimage, Vol. 39, 2007. (Journal Article)
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Jean Daunizeau, K J Friston, A mesostate-space model for EEG and MEG, Neuroimage, Vol. 38, 2007. (Journal Article)
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Jean Daunizeau, Christophe Grova, Guillaume Marrelec, Jeremie Mattout, Saad Jbabdi, Melanie Pelegrini-Issac, Jean-Marc Lina, Habib Benali, Symmetrical event-related EEG/fMRI information fusion in a variational Bayesian framework, Neuroimage, Vol. 3, 2007. (Journal Article)
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Zeitschrift für KMU und Entrepreneurship (ZfKE), Edited by: T Volery, U Fueglistaller, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 2007. (Edited Scientific Work)
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Isabelle Kern, Sybille Sachs, Edwin Rühli, Stakeholder relations and maintaining the licence to operate: a comparative case study of the Swiss telecommunications industry, Corporate Governance, Vol. 7 (4), 2007. (Journal Article)
In the research project “Good practices of stakeholder view” three firms in the Swiss telecommunications industry were analysed in order to compare their stakeholder involvement. This paper seeks to illustrate how these three firms, namely Swisscom, Sunrise, and Orange, dealt with a particular problem all of them faced: the deployment of antennas for mobile telephony that in some cases was strongly opposed by the population. Thereby, the “Telco” firms were challenged as societal institutions and had to defend their licence to operate. The three firms chose different strategies to deal with the problem. |
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Urs Meister, Elektrizitätsmarkt: Wettbewerb und Entflechtung des „Swiss Grid“: Der Rückzug der Kantone als wichtiger Schritt in der Liberalisierung des Strommarkts, 2007. (Studies and Reports Commissionned)
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H Gintis, S Bowles, Ernst Fehr, Explaining altrusitic behaviour in humans, In: The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, p. 605 - 619, 2007. (Book Chapter)
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Stephan Nüesch, The economics of superstars and celebrities, Dt. Univ.-Verl., Wiesbaden, 2007. (Book/Research Monograph)
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