Business ethics and social responsibility

'Corporate purpose' has become a battleground for stakeholders' competing desires.

During the last 30 years, finance has increased not only its share of economic activity but also of people's aspirations.

Did Chinese mysticism vanish after its first appearance in ancient Taoist philosophy, to surface only after a thousand years had passed, when the Chinese had adapted Buddhism to their own culture?

Highlighting the motivations of B Corp entrepreneurs in Chile, this book explores the phenomenon behind for-profit organisations that are committed to social and ecological sustainability as well as human welfare.

Should business strive to be socially responsible, and if so, how?

This book investigates the value orientation of ecologically conscious business.

Investors are placing increased emphasis on capital allocation methods to achieve their desired social, environmental and financial objectives, and are targeting investments that not only facilitate economic growth in countries around the world but also do good in terms of aiding human development - from cleaner environments to safer products and better employment practices.

This book explores the mechanisms and significance of China's private economy participating in poverty alleviation.

Since the financial crisis of 2007/2008, a renewed discussion on the ethics and finance is being examined from different dimensions - finance for good society, responsible finance, ethical finance, financial crimes, and financial repression.

This book explores the current state of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) from an international perspective, the goal being to share ideas and visions for a sustainable future and to provide useful guidelines for academics, practitioners and policymakers in the context of the 2030 "e;Agenda for Sustainable Development"e; released by the United Nations.

This edited book frames a new ethos of management that cares for society, future generations and nature whilst also serving the interests of business and the wider community.

Taoism for Beginners is a practical guide to applying the key notions, concepts and beliefs underlying Taoism's various branches and schools.

Cultures and moral expectations differ around the globe, and so the management of corporate responsibilities has become increasingly complex.

Today's solutions are social and technical.

Als erfolgreiche Führungskraft muss man kein Ausbeuter und Abzocker sein.

This book focuses on the role of corporations in the transition towards an economy that works more in line with ecological limits.

Instances of wrongdoing in and by organizations have featured heavily in news headlines in recent years.

Der Begriff der Produktivität findet täglich Verwendung, um die eigene Leistung zu bewerten.

This second edition of Ronald Duska's 2007 book Contemporary Reflections in Business Ethics contains many of the fine articles in the original edition as well as 20 new entries, and two papers that have not been previously published.

The Disruption Continuum explores the profound and ongoing forces that drive societal transformation in our era of relentless technological change.

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you would be breaching a law or policy if you help a person in need?

This book expands on the New Testament leadership principles introduced in Volume 1 and draws connections to the contemporary organizational leadership literature.

The SAGE Handbook of Marketing Ethics draws together an exhaustive overview of research into marketing's many ethical conundrums, while also promoting more optimistic perspectives on the ways in which ethics underpins organizational practices.

This study aims to reconstruct the activities of enterprises and individuals over two decades in one developing country (Hungary), within and across four politico-economic domains (agriculture, infrastructure/construction, commerce, and manufacturing), from the initial Stalinist obsession with heavy industry (Volume 1: Creating the Theft Economy, 1945-1957) through later reforms paying greater attention to profitable farming and the provision of abundant consumer goods (Volume 2: From Chaos to Contradiction, 1957-1972, forthcoming 2023).

Doing good is no longer a luxury or a 'nice to have', it's a necessity.

The principal aim of Corporate Crisis Recovery: Managing Organizational Deviance, Reputation, and Risk is to complement and expand criminological discourse on the concept of the social license to operate as a means of influencing the behaviour of corporations.

Humans and human wellbeing depend on the natural resources provided by Planet Earth, and they depend on the solidarity between human beings.

How do you keep your employees engaged, creative, innovative, and productive?

This volume takes a hard look at the soft practice of corporate governance.

For the Chinese, the destiny of each individual and the cosmos have always been inextricably linked, and for two thousand years the Yijing, or the Book of Change, has exercised the best minds in the Orient.

The global community is at a critical moment in its pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); crises are threatening decades of development gains, further delaying the urgent transition to greener, more inclusive economies, and throwing progress on the SDGs even further off track.

This book lays the groundwork for a relational theory of the firm as a network of stakeholder resources and interests.

This textbook not only provides the student with a solid foundation in ethics, but introduces students to the most important themes relevant to business today.

Profound global crises call for innovative approaches to navigate change successfully.

Responsibility is political.

In recent years events such as a global pandemic, huge technological changes, and war in Europe have demonstrated how organizations manage risk is more important than ever.

This book examines the design and implementation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities in rural areas, based on collaboration between well-known corporates and an international research organization.

This book presents the latest developments in optimization and optimal control models; exact, approximate and hybrid methods; and their applications in lean and green supply chains.

This book provides a new way of understanding Japanese management by focusing on the relationship between Japanese companies and their social practices.