Special Collection:
"Wal-Mart & Ethics"

Here are some resources related to Wal-Mart, which is perhaps the most ethically interesting company on the planet. Critics are legion; but then, so are fans.

Links:

• Criticism of Wal-Mart (at Wikipedia) [Wiki-warning!]
• Wal-Mart's Global Ethics Office
• Wal-Mart. Good. Works. (Wal-Mart's charitable foundation)
• Wake Up Wal-Mart
• Wal-Mart Watch

Articles:

• It’s time for Jack Layton to take the Wal-Mart test
• Is it Ethical to Shop at Wal-Mart? (Markkula Center for Applied Ethics)
• Current Google News Results for"Wal-Mart Ethics"
• "Forget the World Bank: Try Wal-Mart"
• Walmart.nwanews.com (recent news about Wal-Mart from a handful of newspapers in northwest Arkansas)
• Wal-Mart and Employee Health Insurance (from the Becker-Posner Blog)

From the Business Ethics Blog:

• Wal-Mart's New Policy on Shoplifting (July 13, 2006)
• Still More on Wal-Mart and Organics (May 18, 2006)
• Update: Wal-Mart & Organic Foods (May 12, 2006)
• Wal-Mart & Brokeback (April 06, 2006)
• Wal-Mart & CSR (April 05, 2006)
• Wal-Mart Goes Organic!? (March 29, 2006)
• Saying Nice Things About Wal-Mart ( March 28, 2006)
• Wal-Mart Seeking Ethics Director (March 09, 2006)
• Update: Wal-Mart & the Morning After Pill (March 05, 2006)
• Wal-Mart & the Morning After Pill (February 15, 2006)
• Wal-Mart & Its Effect on Supply Chains (January 24, 2006)
• Hiding Unethical Behaviour Behind Unethical Behaviour?! (January 11, 2006)
• Fuel for the Wal-Mart Fire (December 08, 2005)
• Wal-Mart Movie (December 05, 2005)
  

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