Business ethics and social responsibility

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.

The book is the first comprehensive consideration, since the UK Cadbury Report recommended a voluntary Corporate Governance Code, of the question whether Corporate Governance Codes are the most effective way of ensuring adherence to good corporate governance principles.

Bestselling author and professor Ted Malloch calls for real financial reform to restore confidence and fairness to a broken system From Ponzi schemes to the credit crisis to the real estate bubble, the financial industry seems to have lost its way on the road to riches.

This textbook explains the effects of culture on business practices and introduces students to the cross-cultural and international dimensions of working internationally, exploring topics across both business and finance.

This book delves into a broad range of hitherto unresolved issues related to Zhuangzi's ethics, which include, but are not limited to, the fundamental question of whether Zhuangzi should be regarded as a moralist in the ordinary sense and what Zhuangzi's views on topics such as equality, moral relativism, good life, intersubjective relations, and social harmony really are.

Banking with Integrity provides rich and in-depth case studies of banks which were doing well during the financial crisis of 2007-2010.

Long before Columbus, American Indians had trading routes all across the Americas.

Top academic scholars ponder the question of ethics as it pertains to all aspects of leadership in business, government, and nonprofit organizations.

Focusing on the specific challenges of research design and exploring the opportunities of conducting research in humanitarian logistics and supply chain management, this handbook is a significant contribution to future research.

This wide-ranging book examines the new dynamics of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the impact they have had on the transformation of business corporations.

This classic study of ethics in business presents an eye-opening account of how corporate managers think the world works, and how big organizations shape moral consciousness.

This collection of fascinating short reads on Daoist thought, including Chinese medicine brings together some of the most popular articles from the Scholar Sage online magazine, alongside new material from Damo Mitchell.

Explores how values-based leaders engage employees in the pursuit of excellence and outstanding performance.

Based on the lives of 28 well-known management academics, this book describes what it means to be an intellectual shaman.

It is generally accepted that climate change is happening and that steps need to be taken to alleviate this.

This enlightening text analyses the origins of Western complaints, prevalent in the late nineteenth century, that Japan was characterised at the time by exceptionally low standards of 'commercial morality', despite a major political and economic transformation.

The weight of social responsibility in public relations (PR) has never been more pronounced.

In rapidly developing emergencies, it is vital for aid agencies to understand how to establish an agile supply chain that resists the chaos of a crisis and can cater to unknown needs.

This book highlights a number of social sustainability issues at different stages of the supply chain, and demonstrates how these issues can be addressed by adopting social sustainability practices in the manufacturing supply chain.

The topic of reputational crisis in the banking sector has receivedincreasing attention from academics and practitioners.

This practical guide is ideal both for teaching future members of the profession about their ethical responsibilities and for reinforcing ethical competence among current professionals.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of sustainability and management in India and through its insightful essays highlights the complex and multifaceted nature of sustainability as a concept.

This book examines the spectrum of green behaviors in organizational settings, focusing on the contribution that employees make through their environmental engagement.

The management of logistics and supply chain operations is of vital importance in the defence sector.

The world's population continues to grow year after year, putting pressure on all global resources.

Many production managers have de-stocked excessively large inventories, gone lean, experimented with continuous improvement processes and introduced new working practices.

Die Qualität sozialer Einrichtungen und Dienste wird durch ihre Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter geprägt; das Personal ist der Erfolgsfaktor im Sozialmanagement.

This book highlights the most critical aspects of diversity and their implications for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), examining them in a collection of conceptual and practical contributions from researchers and practitioners alike.

Scholarly interest in the areas of sustainability, stakeholder relations and corporate social responsibility (CSR) has increased considerably in recent years.

21st Century Corporate Citizenship is a practical guide to building a successful business in the modern day.

Stefan Nertinger entwickelt geeignete Methoden und Ansätze zur Integration von Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA) und Carbon Footprint (CF), um Unternehmen dabei zu unterstützen, nachhaltigen Erfolg zu erreichen.

Whilst research and innovation may allow for increasing efficiency in the pursuit of human ends, they also pose dangers, linked to the unpredictability of their development, which call for unprecedented responsibility.

To effectively deliver sustainable management in practice for Africa, we need responsible leadership.

This volume contains a selection of papers from the 21st annual 'Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics' Conference.

This book approaches the question of the relation between financial crises and earnings management from two philosophical perspectives: positivism and critical realism.