Caught Red-Handed:Corporate Labor Practices and the Investigatory Media, a New Look at Corporate Social Responsibility

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Lohrman, Jessica

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2009-09-16T15:35:03Z

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2009-09-16T15:35:03Z

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2009

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Mathematics

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Firm self-regulation with regards to illegal and unethical labor practices has become a significant trend recently, as firms face possible negative exposure from the investigatory media. This paper provides a theoretical analysis of the determinants corporate labor practices and the role played by the investigatory media in firm selfregulation. The model finds that firms, when facing a media investigation, are no more likely to use unethical labor regardless of how cost effective it is. Instead, the firm is actually driven towards certain labor choices based upon the parameters of the investigatory media’s profitability. This communicates the importance of outside monitoring bodies on the road towards improved global labor standards.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/1423

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en_US

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Caught Red-Handed:Corporate Labor Practices and the Investigatory Media, a New Look at Corporate Social Responsibility

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Honors thesis

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