Business ethics and social responsibility

Gender and Tourism: Challenges and Entrepreneurial Opportunities adopts a multi-disciplinary approach, building on a historically informed, future-focused research agenda that accounts for the needs and concerns of contemporary policy makers and practitioners in the tourism field.

Experimentierfreude ist gewöhnlich keine Eigenschaft, die bei Managern geschätzt wird, und doch kommt nur so Neues zu Stande.

This book explores the current state of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in 24 European nations, examining the state of the development and practice of CSR and sustainability for organizations in these countries.

Feminist critique has yet to deconstruct the new 'superwoman' ideal: the modern woman who can and must have everything, but who, in reality, is never good enough.

Based on an extensive national survey of workers and four separate industry-specific surveys, Generations and Work will examine and provide answers to the most common issues and problems of multi generational work by assessing differences and commonalities between and among generations.

This book provides a transnational African perspective on business management concerns and business ethics by examining the concepts of responsible business practices and sustainability across sub-Saharan Africa.

Over the last years, "e;Creating Shared Value"e; has become a much discussed concept in business practice as well as in management theory and especially in the context of corporate social responsibility.

Dieses Buch zeigt, welche Rolle Corporate Social Responsibility aus Sicht dieser Akteure spielt.

Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting publishes high-quality research and cases which focus on the professional responsibilities of accountants and how they deal with the ethical issues they face.

Vital Breath of the Dao is a fully illustrated guide to the historical background, practical application, underlying principles and techniques of Qigong, a way of physical and spiritual cultivation, and a way of life.

We might think sustainable management is a new idea, created in the 1960s by enlightened modern scientists.

Globalization has been a key force in the development of business in recent decades.

This book reviews and presents antitrust law compliance programmes from different angles.

This book explores the key issues of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and reporting as applied to sports organizations, with particular attention to the Italian environment.

This book suggests that normative ethics should be developed as a social science, and that this will improve its reputation in business and society.

This book examines the principles and procedures implemented by Moses for developing leaders.

This book explores national and transnational companies' Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities in times and settings in which they are confronted with economic and social challenges and analyzes these situations, ranging from the financial crisis to fourth generation sustainability.

We are currently witnessing the emergence of a 'third culture', driven by unprecedented developments that are changing the playing field.

Anhand einer quantitativen Primärdatenerhebung weist Friedrich Völker nach, dass Familienunternehmen ihre CSR-Aktivitäten so auf unternehmensgrößenabhängige Faktoren einstellen, dass sie einen möglichst großen strategischen Nutzen daraus ziehen.

Advances in Group Processes publishes theoretical analyses, reviews, and theory based empirical chapters on group phenomena.

Explains how artificial intelligence is pushing the limits of the law and how we must respond.

With a focus on Asian traditions, this book examines varieties of thought and self-transformative practice that do not fit neatly on one side or another of the standard Western division between philosophy and religion.

This handbook integrates the best leadership and followership theories and practices between the Global North-West (countries of Western individualistic cultures in Europe, North America, Australia and Oceana) and the Global South-East (countries of Eastern collectivistic cultures in Asia, Africa, South America, and South-East Asian and Oceana).

An analysis of foundational issues concerning the relationship between ethics and the market economy.

The accumulated wisdom of a beloved business professor's signature course Who are we, and who am I?

Engineering begins with a design problem: how to make occupants of vehicles safer, settle on an inter-face for an x-ray machine or create more legible road signs.

This book focuses mainly on strategic decision making at a global level, which is rarely considered in approaches to sustainability.

This book shows how the Bhagavad Gita (part of the great Indian epic - the Mahabharata) can be approached as a powerful tool for change management and as a catalyst for organizational transformation.

This enlightening and inspiring book shows both accomplished and aspiring leaders how to harness Buddhist philosophies to practice more effective and sustainable leadership.

High-profile case studies provide compliance professionals with a deep, holistic understanding of modern-day money laundering to better detect and deter itMoney laundering is a serious crime that presents a heightened, yet underrated, global threat.

This book is a comprehensive review and empirical study on women capacity building, leadership characteristics, talent management and women challenges in crises era from an aviation perspective.

Assembling original contributions, this book is a pioneering attempt to address the Euro-American esoteric reception and appropriation of China.

With the changing expectations of consumers, employees and regulators, being best in the world is no longer enough.

This professional book examines the concept of engaged leadership.

Managing Corporate Impacts uses simple frameworks to demonstrate why and how today''s corporations co-create enduring value with multiple stakeholders simultaneously.

An expert on business strategy offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes balance the competing demands of profitability and employment with sustainability.

How can you use data in a way that protects individual privacy but still provides useful and meaningful analytics?

Why do people struggle so much with debt?

The 2012-2013 economic crisis in the Republic of Cyprus is commonly attributed to a number of factors, including the exposure of Cypriot banks to over leveraged local property companies; the knock-on effect of the Greek government debt crisis; and international credit rating agencies downgrading the Cypriot government's bond credit status.

This book aims to go beyond merely confrontational or complementary treatments of the relationship between market participation and business ethics.

This book does not present a single philosophical approach to taxation and ethics, but instead demonstrates the divergence in opinions and approaches using a framework consisting of three broad categories: tax policy and design of tax law; ethical standards for tax advisors and taxpayers; and tax law enforcement.

The Dark Triad: Psychopaths, Narcissists, and Machiavellians in the Workplace offers an incisive examination of the underlying forces behind much of today's institutional dysfunction.

West Point is the ideal laboratory for studying the dynamics of character, honor, and leadership: first, it operates a comprehensive honor education and enforcement program that has been subjected to rigorous Congressional scrutiny; second, it builds all of its academic, athletic, and military programs on this bedrock of honor.

Much has been written about leadership during the last eighty years, but little attention has been paid to leadership's ethical dimension.

Designed to promote reflection and 'better practices' among the prospective volunteers and organizers of travel-for-service experiences, International Volunteer Tourism provides narratives on short-term international volunteering in Central America written by North American organizers, student participants and Central American partners.

Billionaires are an ultra-elite social class whose numbers are growing alongside their obscene wealth while others struggle, suffer or even die.