Business ethics and social responsibility

Managers wrestle daily with emotional leadership challenges because emotions and relationships influence organizational energy, commitment, and financial results.

This book focuses on environmental and social factors in international supply chains and industry networks.

Since the early 1980s there has been an explosion of auditing activity in the United Kingdom and North America.

This book presents an ethical theory for financial transactions that underpins the stability of modern economies.

Social marketing has become an indispensable tool for all types of organizations worldwide.

The teaching and practices of the ancient Daoist tradition of Da Xuan have been kept secret for generations.

No Contest stands as the definitive critique of competition.

No boardroom in any industry is safe from new market threats in this time of rapid technological growth.

As global concerns around the environment, climate, and sustainability are moving to the forefront of consumer choices and business values, how organizations report on sustainability has become more crucial than ever before.

How are aesthetics and ethics related to the practical realities of the global fashion industry?

Thisbook addresses innovation management and product development in the cruisetourism industry.

The last financial crisis revealed a gap between business practice and ethics.

Given the influential role that business professionals now play in society, high-quality education is essential.

How beauty leads to better jobs, better wages, and better spousesMost of us know there is a payoff to looking good, and in the quest for beauty we spend countless hours and billions of dollars on personal grooming, cosmetics, and plastic surgery.

Now with SAGE Publishing, Business Ethics: Best Practices for Designing and Managing Ethical Organizations, Second Edition focuses on how to create organizations of high integrity and superior performance.

America's culture is moving in a new and dangerous direction, as it becomes more accepting and tolerant of dishonesty and financial abuse.

Our rapidly expanding genetic knowledge today points toward a near future in which the elements of humanity closest to our moral core may themselves be produced, manipulated, commodified, and exchanged.

The definitive guide to understanding Taoism no matter your background or faith Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is the second most translated book in the world, and the practice of religious Taoism is on the rise in China, where adherents currently number in the hundreds of millions.

This book examines the practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Latin America, with a particular focus on Brazil.

The idea of luxury has secured a place in contemporary western culture, and the term is now part of common parlance in both established and emerging economies.

The Fengdao kejie or "e;Rules and Precepts for Worshiping the Dao"e; dates from the early seventh century and is a key text of medieval Daoist priesthood and monasticism, which was first formally organized in the sixth century.

Companies are increasingly facing intense pressures to address stakeholder demands from every direction: consumers want socially responsible products; employees want meaningful work; investors now screen on environmental, social, and governance criteria; "e;clicktivists"e; create social media storms over company missteps.

An optimistic call to action for business leaders and decision makers everywhere In his second book the face of British Business' Lord Digby Jones shows us why profit isn't a dirty word it's what you do with it that counts.

This Handbook forms part of  wider research in responsibility, ethics and legitimacy of corporations.

The idea of luxury has secured a place in contemporary western culture, and the term is now part of common parlance in both established and emerging economies.

This book aims to be a comprehensive resource for crafting strategies to help private companies navigate and thrive in unpredictable and challenging operational landscapes.

This collection of case studies in public management bridges the gap between mainstream CSR - confined to the for-profit corporations -and the vast bodies of workers and organizations that make up government and its public administration.

Since September 11, 2001, long-standing debates over the nature and proper extent of executive power have assumed a fresh urgency.

Japanese management styles and their relationship to Japanese business success have been aridly studied and analysed in the West, but rarely do Western observers understand fully the importance of cultural and historical factors in the Japanese economic miracle.

Predatory lending: A problem rooted in the past that continues today.

Over the past few years there has been a surge of interest in discussing how business schools help students learn about "e;anti corruption"e;-how it develops and is directly linked to the practices of businesses today.

This book responds to key issues in strategic management control by studying the interplay between ethics, social and environmental performance and governance.

This book offers new and challenging approaches to business ethics that successfully link theory and practice thereby overcoming lacunae and inadequacies in much of the literature concerning ethics and governance, a theme that recurs with remarkable frequency in the history of business ethics as an academic discipline.

This book contains an Open Access chapter.

Practitioners of policy analysis will better understand the tools of their trade, and the broader contexts in which analysis contributes.

Aims to increase awareness about the specific circumstances of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) diversity.

Presents a bold new way of thinking about the economy based on provisions rather than property.

This book adopts a cross-jurisdictional perspective to consider contemporary corporate whistleblowing issues from an ethical theoretical perspective, regulatory perspective, and practical perspective.

In recent years, the term 'transparency' has emerged as one of the most popular and keenly-touted concepts around.

More than fifty years after the civil rights movement, there are still glaring racial inequities all across the United States.