Business ethics and social responsibility

This book brings together works written by academics from all over the world on all aspects of business history: accounting history, management history, economic history, audit history, tax history, financial history, and professional history.

The legitimate and illegitimate use of incentives in society todayIncentives can be found everywhere-in schools, businesses, factories, and government-influencing people's choices about almost everything, from financial decisions and tobacco use to exercise and child rearing.

It can be argued that Corporate Social Responsibility has been universally accepted and is gradually being incorporated into the planning and activities of all organisations around the world.

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 provides a consistent model to understand leadership as a dynamic combination of vision, action, mobilization, and change.

As environmental legislation grows more stringent in response to the escalating climate crisis, some of the world's largest corporations have adopted fraudulent mechanisms to keep their margins of profit, and achieve improper competitive advantage.

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

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This edited book aims to ignite both an academic and practitioner-oriented discussion regarding the question how the business and government sector can adapt to today's fast-changing climate.

Development needs to meet the UN SDG have primarily been financed through private sector financing, conventional public sector funding and philanthropic commitment.

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 advocates a holistic reform of the current monetary and financial system dealing with the issues of money creation, central banks, loans, stock markets, tax justice, pension security and the international monetary system - "e;Bretton Woods II"e;.

Households in the UK each generate around one tonne of waste per year, and the successful management and disposal of this waste is becoming an increasingly important issue.

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"e;This book is about the management of social capital processes as they are accomplished-understood, experienced and shaped-by owner-managers.

This book addresses the rising concept of 21st century societal marketing which entails that marketers should fulfill the needs of their target group in ways that enhance the well-being of a society as a whole.

This textbook takes a new approach to economics by taking into account behavioral sciences and ethics.

Shortlisted for the Business Book Awards 2022From Donald Trump's outrageous tweets to the impact of the GRU (Russia's military intelligence agency) on foreign elections, through to echo chambers and amplification by bots and networks - the negative side of social media is becoming ever more apparent.

The definitive expert guide to ethical brand practice from the prestigious Medinge Group, Brands with a Conscience dissects the philosophies underpinning sustainable brands to arrive at a set of eight clear guiding attributes which can be used as the foundation of a strategy for responsible growth.

This volume is a selection of papers from the 20th annual 'Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics' Conference.

This edition of Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting includes articles from a distinguished group of authors.

This book explores financial crime and corruption in Romanian society based on a community pulse study.

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

Dieser Band legt dar, wie Compliance in der Sportbranche gelebt wird und wie sie theoretisch einzuordnen ist.

Transparency is generally seen as a corporate priority and a central attribute for promoting business growth and social morality.

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.

Advice on the unique challenges of managing a volunteer workforce.

Twenty-seven international scholars and business leaders analyse the challenges facing business ethics in China: the role of different ethical traditions, the creation of ethical corporate cultures, corruption and the lack of confidence, consumption patterns and income distribution, globalization, WTO and information technology, to name a few.

Der Band untersucht, inwieweit moralisch gutes oder schlechtes Handeln organisiert werden kann.

This book provides an overview of legitimacy-related challenges at hybrid organizations and demonstrates legitimacy's importance for the strategic development of organizations.

This award-winning book comprises multiple finance and ethics case studies.

Good governance is key to the sustainability of organizations and improving quality of life for all.

This book explores whether there is reason to be against entrepreneurship.

This book presents a new approach to corporate responsibility based on the concept of coherency, permitting better understanding and management of the conflicting forces that strive to create value across the stakeholder spectrum.

Untangling the tentacles of colonialism is not an easy task, theoretically or in practice.

This book represents the first systematic qualitative analysis of a new type of collective anti-corruption initiatives.

Research on gender and leadership has historically been dominated by the Global North, where there tend to be more woman leaders than in the Global South.

This book explores the concepts of sustainability and governance in relation to the governance of corporations - hence the ubiquity of the term corporate governance - and other bodies.

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

This book explores sustainable wealth management and the challenges that arise for asset managers in times of ecological crises and climate change.

Educating Social Entrepreneurs: From Business Plan Formulation to Implementation appears at a time of unprecedented environmental disasters, natural resources depletion, and significant failure of governments and global businesses to attend to worldwide social problems.