Business ethics and social responsibility

Confronting Managerialism offers a scathing critique of the influence of neoclassical economics and modern finance on business school teaching and management practice.

This book illustrates the impact that a focus on environmental and social issues has on both de-risking assets and fostering innovation.

This clear and reliable introduction to Taoism (also known as Daoism) brings a fresh dimension to a tradition that has found a natural place in Western society.

Ethical finance involves financial practices that consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors affecting a borrower and/or its assets.

This edited collection uses a biblical lens to explore how to lead effectively and grow in a crisis situation.

Managing Business Ethics: Making Ethical Decisions teaches students how to navigate ethical issues they will encounter using the weight-of-reasons approach applied throughout the book.

​In dieser empirischen Studie wird erstmals umfassend mit qualitativen und quantitativen Methoden das Engagement in der Freien Wohlfahrtspflege anhand eines exemplarisch ausgewählten Spitzenverbandes und seiner Landesverbände in Berlin, Nordrhein-Westfalen und Thüringen untersucht.

Tauchen Sie ein in die tiefgründige Weisheit des Taoismus und entdecken Sie, wie die jahrtausendealten Lehren von Yin und Yang das Geheimnis eines harmonischen Lebens enthüllen können.

Ethicmentality is an innovative book.

This book offers insights into the educational dimensions of climate change and promotes measures to improve education in this context.

This book critically examines the practice and meanings of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and how the movement has facilitated a positive and somewhat unquestioned image of the global corporation.

The law shapes behavior not only by imposing sanctions, but also by producing information on how powerful entities behave.

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).

How do you make a song into a global smash hit that is guaranteed to make millions?

This book aims to bring new insights into the effectiveness of microfinance as a tool for boosting entrepreneurial activities that in turn enhance the capabilities of individuals living in extreme poverty across several dimensions of human development, especially in the current challenging times for both individuals and the microfinance industry.

Explains how energy industry firms have hedged their bets by using paradoxical strategies to cope with the uncertainty around energy prices and climate change.

This book provides, for the first time, a broad analysis of the whole range of potential conflicts in finance, based on both academic research and the views of professionals on how these issues are faced in practice.

The practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the Middle East is explored in this volume, through a unique compilation of data and perspectives from authors living and working in the region.

Wirtschaftsethik ist zu einem zentralen Diskussionsthema geworden.

Do you want to have a positive impact on the world?

In this textbook we examine the extent to which moral values play a role as productive forces for companies and the economy as a whole, and explores the effect of ethical and unethical behavior at both levels.

The book is reclaiming economics as a moral science.

`Catherine Casey has written an excellent book that provides a lucid and comprehensive critical analysis of organizations.

Goes beyond the call for more humanistic management in the aftermath of a series of corporate scandals and the recent financial crisis, and offers advice on how we can build more humanistic organizations with the help of integrity.

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.

Imke Schmidt analysiert aus theoretischer und praktischer Perspektive, welche Verantwortung Konsumenten für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung zugeschrieben werden kann.

Environmental concerns are at the forefront of governments, NGOs, businesses and organizations around the world.

This book examines the management of multiple goals in organizations especially in today's increasingly turbulent business environment.

This westerner's guide to Chinese astrology (Ba Zi) explains the basis on which charts are drawn up, how they work, and how they provide the tools to understand ourselves and our relationships with others.

Cristina Müller-Burmeister entwickelt ein Konzeptionsmodell für wesentliche Lageberichtskomponenten zur Durchführung einer normativen und empirischen Inhaltsanalyse.

In Philosophical Enactment and Bodily Cultivation in Early Daoism, Thomas Michael illuminates the formative early history of the Daodejing and the social, political, religious, and philosophical trends that indelibly marked it.

461 konkrete Beispiele und Geschichten aus diversen Branchen zeigen, wie vielfältig und spannend Arbeit ist: Es geht um Leben, positive Entwicklungen, leckeres Essen, Gesundheit, neue Berufsbilder, um menschenfreundlichen Wohlstand, Hochhausbau aus Holz und 3D-Druck aus recycelbaren Materialien, Glück, saubere Umwelt und Menschenrechte, Diversität und Biodiversität, Fachkräftegewinnung und kreativ-umgedrehte Bewerbung.

This book provides innovative solutions to fundamental problems in finance, such as the valuation of bond and equity, the pricing of debt, equity and total asset, the determination of optimal capital structure, etc.

This book reviews dominant crisis communication theories, which according to many scholars are either too narrow or broad for practical application to all types of reputational crises.

Braithwaite's argument against punitive justice systems and for restorative justice systems establishes that there are good theoretical and empirical grounds for anticipating that well designed restorative justice processes will restore victims, offenders, and communities better than existing criminal justice practices.

The forces behind an economic and political crisis in the makingA problem of twelve arises when a small number of institutions acquire the means to exert outsized influence over the politics and economy of a nation.

This book provides a unique perspective into the mindset of psychology and cybersecurity.

The essential guide to creating an organization ofhigh integrity and superior performance With the high-profile corporate scandals that have taken place in recent years, corporate ethics are more important to a business than ever before.

This book questions whether temples and Daoism are two independent aspects of modern Chinese religion or if they are indissolubly linked.

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.

What will you do when your AI misbehaves?

Despite the strenuous efforts to give women equal status in the workplace over the last few decades, tension between the sexes in the workplace remains as rampant as ever: during exit interviews many women, often leaving to start their own businesses, cite feeling undervalued or unappreciated at the office.

Contemporary management studies usually focus on positive and desirable solutions that increase the organizational effectiveness and performance.