新作坊 Humanity Innovation and Social Practice

Corporate governance, workers' participation and CSR: the way to a good company

摘要：

Enterprises and investors nowadays typically go beyond national borders. After a decade in which the interests of shareholders in increasing their profits were all that seemed to count, more and more transnational enterprises have come to recognise that they have to be socially responsible in the wide sense if they are not to lose legitimacy. This introductory article considers the link between tried and tested forms of interest representation and the demands for a more socially responsible corporate governance of transnational enterprises in the context of the new financial capitalism and globalisation. Currently, workers participate in decision making on the basis of existing European participation rights and they are involved in developing new kinds of agreement on social responsibility at the global level. These international framework agreements (IFAs) are increasingly forming part of the contemporary understanding of what constitutes a good company.