Business ethics and social responsibility

This volume explores the value of business integrity and ethics as a "e;best practice"e; model in business strategy.

This book examines the criticism that modern business schools face and how these obstacles have evolved throughout history.

This book challenges the traditional models of modern economy, business education and management, which are devoted to the concepts of scarcity, competition, growth and yield.

This book investigates how businesses can adapt their executive and fiscal practices to adopt an ethical, equal-opportunity approach.

Wei Yen explores how differences in world views between Eastern and Western thought and culture have on management and leadership behaviors.

This second edition demonstrates that there are more conditions and actors prevalent in the economy than are considered today, and builds a balanced view of responsibility that would not be shunned by corporate executives.

This book reconstructs major paradigms in the history of economic ethics up to, and including, the present day.

This book analyses how socially responsible investments as well as the rising importance of Islamic finance are linked to the shift towards renewable energy.

This book investigates how human rights law can be applied to corporate entities.

This book examines the various ways in which co-production can contribute to the creation, design, and delivery of public services, namely by engaging the expertise of users and their networks, by promoting public services that are better targeted and more responsive to users, by cutting costs against the background of austerity in public finance, by creating a synergy between government and civil society that will impact positively on social capital, and by addressing the challenges resulting from growing democratic and citizenship deficits.

This book is primarily intended to serve as a research-based textbook on sustainable supply chains for graduate programs in Business, Management, Industrial Engineering, and Industrial Ecology, but it should also be of interest for researchers in the broader sustainable supply chain space, whether from the operations management and industrial engineering side or more from the industrial ecology and life-cycle assessment side.

Thisbook presents and deconstructs the existing explanations for the differentialcareer development of qualified men and women.

This book proposes several commonly used interval-valued solution concepts of interval-valued cooperative games with transferable utility.

Thisbook provides a multidisciplinary approach to Corporate Social Responsibility.

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

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

This book provides a comprehensive and multi-facettedanalysis of the current state of social-responsibility education in various Europeancountries.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of corporate social responsibility and its development in Africa.

This book develops a comprehensive framework for creating sustainable new business approaches on a massive scale.

This book discusses the risks of information concealment in the context of major natural or industrial disasters - offering detailed descriptions and analyses of some 25 historical cases (Three Mile Island nuclear accident, Bhopal disaster, Challenger Space Shuttle explosion, Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster, Enron's bankruptcy, Subprime mortgage crisis, Worldwide Spanish flu and SARS outbreaks, etc.

This insightful management book introduces an inspirational new ethics-oriented approach to business and leadership for current and future leaders.

This book presents initiatives that were launched or are currently being pursued in the name of CSR, and showcases how different dimensions of CSR, sustainability, ethics and governance can help to solve global challenges.

Responsible research and innovation (RRI) is a governance framework promoted by influential policy makers such as the European Commission and academics from the fields of science and technology studies and management.

Public management is undoubtedly an acknowledged area of management science, but with meager empirical research.

This book addresses the ability of market-based instruments to improve the sustainable provision of environmental services.

This is a seminal book for anyone who wants to understand, shape or study the communication surrounding sustainability in their interactions with colleagues, employees, supply chain partners and external stakeholders.

This volume of selected articles was released in light of the new economic, social and environmental challenges Europe and the United States have been faced with following the end of the Cold War and in the evolving era of globalization.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility, gathering contributions by authors from various countries, cultures and political systems.

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.

This book addresses the following question: What is a sustainable society, and how can higher education help us to develop toward it?

This book takes the concept of social audit and lifts it beyond the role of functioning largely as a management tool.

This book introduces readers to the concepts of sustainability and philosophy of slowness for the management of public entities such as cities or regions.

This book presents innovative research on various aspects of sustainability in the field of operations management and illustrates the potential of sustainability thinking and practice to improve operations performance and thereby meet customer needs.

This book explores the current state of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in 24 European nations, examining the state of the development and practice of CSR and sustainability for organizations in these countries.

This book deals with the limitations of economic and financial accounting as an appropriate instrument to reflect the real value created or destroyed by an organization.

This book introduces the integrated management concept of "e;Sustainable Value Creation"e;, which delivers sustainability 'inside-out' from the core business.

This book integrates socially responsible investment into modern portfolio theory from a multi-criteria perspective.

This book analyzes the determinants and effectiveness of corporate governance in an integrated model drawing on contingency theory and employing structural equation modeling (SEM).

This book deals with the role of international standards for corporate governance in the context of corporate social responsibility.

This book is a concise and authoritative reference work and dictionary in the field of corporate social responsibility, sustainability, business ethics and corporate governance.

This book provides evidence on the relevance of environmental and social factors in decision making.

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

This book covers key discussions involving major US and European multinational companies (MNCs) that source products from suppliers in developing countries.

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The present work will discuss relevant theoretical frameworks and applications pertaining to enabling resilience within the risk, crisis and disaster management domain.

Demands for sustainability policies have set new challenges for business both on the individual firm level and on the level of organized business interests.

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.

Although every country is distinguished by its history, culture and language as well as its unique economic, environmental and social conditions, it can be expected that international operating companies will exhibit common patterns since sustainability challenges do not stop at national borders.

What are Responsible Tourism and Corporate Social Responsibility?

This book examines the growing trend of recognition and practices of CSR in private enterprises in developing countries.