The Dark Side : Critical Cases on the Downside of Business (Hardcover)

1. Gray areas in the behavior of businesses1.1. Leading the team out of the hazing blues yonder: the case of the Windsor Spitfire hockey teamFrancine K. Schlosser1.2. John Hamilton’s work and eldercare dilemma. Break the silence? Sustain the silence?Rosemary A. McGowan1.3. Hugh Connerty and Hooters: what is successful entrepreneurship?Mary Godwyn1.4. Antiquorum Auctioneers: building brands on ignorance?Benoit Leleux1.5. The Lidl international career opportunity: from dream to nightmare in eight weeksMatt Bladowski and Rosemary A. McGowan2. Business and local communities2.1. Food Lion vs. the UFCW: time for a change?Paul Michael Swiercz2.2. Manipulation, placation, partnership or delegated power: can community and business really work together when surface mining comes to town?Sherry Finney2.3. The smell of power: Yves Rocher in La Gacilly, FranceEmmanuel Raufflet and Monique Le Chene2.4. Who takes responsibility for the informal settlements? Mining companies in South Africa and the challenge of local collaborationRalph Hamann3. Creating (or managing) crises3.1. The Westray mine explosionCaroline J. O’Connell and Albert J. Mills3.2. The story behind the water in Walkerton, OntarioElizabeth A. McLeod and Jean Helms Mills3.3. Dark territory: the Graniteville chlorine spillJill A. Brown and Ann K. Buchholtz4. Gray areas in the global context4.1 The dark side of water: a struggle for access and controlLatha Poonamallee and Anita Howard4.2. Mattel, Inc.: Lead-tainted toysAdenekan (Nick) Dedeke and Martin Calkins4.3 Google, Inc.: Figuring out how to deal with ChinaAnne T. Lawrence4.4. Genocide in Rwanda: Leadership, ethics and organizational ‘failure’ in a post-colonial contextBrad S. Long, Jim Grant, Albert J. Mills, Ellen Rudderham-Gaudet, and Amy Warren