Business ethics and social responsibility

Evolving stories of governance and change are being written into the emerging custom and practice of all kinds of organizations today, whether they are global or domestic, startup or blue chip, corporate or government agency.

Nei Gong is the practice leading to attainment of real internal skill and transformation, and the philosophical art of change that runs through all Daoist practice.

Edited by two renowned specialists in CSR in the Middle East, this book features contributions from leading CSR scholars in the region.

Four years after the debacle, the term 'Enron' has earned its place in the everyday vocabulary of business ethics.

Der Band untersucht die besonderen ethischen Probleme, die die Entwicklung autonom „handelnder“ und „kommunizierender“ medialer Systeme aufwirft.

The Profit Motive offers a legal and economic defense of shareholder capitalism against proponents of corporate social responsibility.

Through its many subsidiaries, the megacorporations Alphabet, Google''s parent company, is fundamentally transforming our experience of the past, present and future.

While emerging market economies do not have a mature market structure yet, there is a need for research on corporate governance practices in these economies from different perspectives, including corporate social responsibility.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

Globalization and technological innovation have greatly enhanced the free mobility of currencies, commodities, services, information, jobs and people; yet this can also cause gaps in regional development and create uneven wealth in minority economies.

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.

Providing a timely contribution to the ongoing questions surrounding topics which are by definition subject to varying stakeholder interpretations, this book addresses "e;the missing link"e; between theoretical CSR concepts and everyday management practice.

This book applies the latest studies on Kantian ethics to show how a business can maintain economic success and moral integrity.

Medienwirksame Vorfälle wie der „UNICEF-Skandal“ im Jahr 2007 stellen eine zunehmende Gefahr für das Vertrauen der Öffentlichkeit gegenüber dem gemeinnützigen Sektor dar.

Winner of the Bronze 2021 AXIOM Business Book Award in the category of Philanthropy / Nonprofit / Sustainability.

Managers of multinational organizations are struggling to win the strategic competition for the hearts and minds of external stakeholders.

Explores the deep, internal work necessary for the effective practice of tai chi*; Reveals the Taoist principles that gave birth to the Yang-style tai chi forms*; Shows how tai chi can circulate powerful healing energies through the bodyTaoist adepts developed tai chi as both a martial art and a way to cultivate their physical body, energy body, and spirit body.

This book brings together thought leadership from academia and leading figures in asset management in key global jurisdictions, to pool together insights regarding the transformative visions and challenges for modern investment management, as well as best practices that realise the policy objectives in regulation and soft law.

This book aims to spur critical thought on the various dimensions and impacts of "e;responsibility"e; for organizations, including companies, institutions, and governments, while considering international differences and similarities, as well as global challenges.

The book explores how the influence by the corporate sector in the economic interactions globally leads to the international governance framework pertaining to CSR, that is primarily based on soft law attributes.

The image of modern corporations has been shaped by a profits over people approach, but we are at a point where business must take the lead in healing the crises of our time.

The 2012-2013 economic crisis in the Republic of Cyprus is commonly attributed to a number of factors, including the exposure of Cypriot banks to over leveraged local property companies; the knock-on effect of the Greek government debt crisis; and international credit rating agencies downgrading the Cypriot government's bond credit status.

The first book in English to apply ancient Japanese Shinto traditions to daily spiritual fulfillment.

This book brings together the work of researchers in Eastern and Western Europe, who analyze competitiveness, social exclusion and sustainability from a range of perspectives.

In times of constant change, adaptive leadership is critical.

An analysis of foundational issues concerning the relationship between ethics and the market economy.

In this book, Hoyk and Hersey describe 45 "e;unethical traps"e; into which any one of us can fall.

This book explores the way that culture and societal values impact the economies of eight European countries, focussing on businesses and their organisation and management processes.

This book reveals the secrets of Yamato Transport's success in maintaining and extending its leadership in Japan's domestic parcel delivery market.

Esta publicación presenta los métodos más eficaces para reconocer y analizar aquellos elementos de las actividades, productos o servicios de una organización que pueden tener un impacto significativo sobre el medio ambiente.

Die Macht der Konzerne wächst – in der Schweiz und weltweit.

Ethical failures are rooted in leadership failure, the lack of a corporate culture in which ethical concerns have been integrated, and unresponsiveness to key organizational stakeholders.

What are we to make of the power that corporations wield over people in modern society?

This book explores research that contributes to the current literature on the Oil and Gas Sector by analysing the multiple discourses that experts use to examine social investment.

This book discusses dignity in the organizational context.

This book attempts to clarify the social responsibility of business along global supply chains beyond mere profit maximisation as famously argued by Milton Friedman.

As a response to ongoing economic, social and environmental crises, many private actors have enlarged their definition of 'value' to include environmental and social elements.

Introducing a theory of workplace dignity into the field of management studies, this innovative new book presents an alternative paradigm based on principles of human dignity which is integrated into a theoretical approach to the topic.

Blending the deep traditions of Jewish humanism with modern philosophical expressions, this book argues that Jewish values are not fixed propositions embedded in written form that can be easily handed off from one generation to the next.

Buddhism and Taoism remain vibrant and prominent in Singapore's religious landscape.

The book considers how to make the methodology of business ethics more scientific, especially its normative branch.

Amidst concerns about unethical practice in the business world, this book focuses on moral human agency in ''strategy as practice''.

Sustainability, the environment, corporate accountability, social justice, integration - these are the buzzwords of our century.