Business ethics and social responsibility

There are four core themes developed in this book which deal with critical issues, models, theories and frameworks.

At first glance, accountability and innovation seem to contradict one another.

This book introduces the research agenda of relational economics as a political economy for the governance of local and global economic transactions in modern societies.

A comprehensive overview of the causes, processes and consequences of wrongdoing and misconduct across all levels of an organization.

Business schools have been criticized for several things, such as lacking relevance, a too weak ethics orientation, dated paradigms, or commercialization.

This book aims to bridge the gap between general CEO research, which is traditionally focused on positive aspects of leadership, and lesser understood research into CEO misconduct and crime.

*** Distinguished Winner for the Responsible Research in Management Award ***Negotiation and decision-making expert Max Bazerman explores how we can make more ethical choices by aspiring to be better, not perfect.

Decisions made by the food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical, gun, and automobile industries have a greater impact on today's health than the decisions of scientists and policymakers.

Individuals are generally considered morally responsible for their actions.

This book presents discussions with corporate practitioners on several topics around sustainability.

This is the first in a two volume study of Corporate Social Responsibility and corporate behaviour from around the world, taking in viewpoints from five continents and over ten countries.

This book seeks to explain the nature of discrimination and exclusion and why these are so prevalent in our societies.

Maximizing the Triple Bottom Line through Spiritual Leadership draws on the emerging fields of workplace spirituality and spiritual leadership to teach leaders and their constituencies how to develop business models that address issues of ethical leadership, employee well-being, sustainability, and social responsibility without sacrificing profitability, growth, and other metrics of performance excellence.

It is hard to overstate the importance of the leader-member exchange relationship.

This book gathers original, empirical and conceptual papers that address the complex challenges of conducting responsible research in the business and management professions.

The author of this book asserts that an absence of ethical leadership and unethical practices were the reasons for major global business scandals such as Enron, Satyam, Lehman Brothers, and WorldCom.

Most people know what management is but often people have vague ideas about Manageralism.

This book examines the development and adoption of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Polish businesses and social and environmental organizations, and analyzes the corresponding impact at the strategic and operational level in these fields.

Black Women in Management identifies some of the differences and/or similarities that exist between these women's career choices and progression and explores how they address socio-cultural and gendered expectations of domestic, social and caring commitments as career women living and working in two urban cities - one African, the other European.

This book examines the challenges faced by seven multinational companies - Intel, Lenovo, Samsung Electronics, ZTE, BMW Hyundai Motor Company, Mahindra and Mahindra - in their endeavour to contribute to the economic, environmental and social development of Asia.

This edited collection hinges on the idea that marketing serves as the catalyst for capitalism and, in light of this, embracing a humanistic marketing approach holds the potential to foster a more humane form of capitalism.

This book explores how the distinctive "e;Quaker"e; approach to responsible business is based on honesty, truth and integrity.

Economic development is a priority for all nation-states, whether developing or developed.

Capitalism has been an unprecedented engine of wealth creation for many centuries, leading to sustained productivity gains and long-term growth and lifting an increasing proportion of humanity out of poverty.

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

Business ethics as a discipline has been evolving rapidly, and indeed needs to evolve constantly.

Driven to the Brink is a collection of short stories about corporate disasters and how inadequate governance and flawed culture caused a massive destruction of shareholder value.

Is your company using its talent to create social value?

This book raises questions about a hallmark mechanism of corporate governance - the use of codes of practice.

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you would be breaching a law or policy if you help a person in need?

Management by Ethics (MBE) is a reformation studyof the renowned paradigm, management by objectives (MBO), by Peter Drucker.

In a field dominated by books that focus exclusively on the perspective of business in large corporations or that assume that business has a moral deficiency in need of reform, Al Gini and Alexei Marcoux offers students and business people alike a concise guide to what everyone ought to do when doing business.

The most important classical text of Chinese Medicine, The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Chinese Medicine is often seen as daunting by students who are faced with a variety of different translations, of which some may not be reliable.

In this pioneering monograph based upon extensive primary research, Gottschalk and Hamerton explore and evaluate the developing global field of internal investigations within complex organizations.

Develops a new perspective on the firm and business leadership whereby companies serve society, not just their shareholders.

This book uses Kant's idea of imperfect duty to extend the theory of the firm.

The tourism industry is dynamic, constantly changing, and is particularly sensitive to shocks and external factors that are beyond the control of managers.

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

This book investigates the various meanings of forgetting and their ethical dimension in the Daoist classic Zhuangzi.

There is an urgent need for the repositioning of organization design in today's fast-moving technological, social and political environments.

Explores the nature of corporate personhood and how it affects the rights, powers, and influence of corporations in society.

This book discusses the successful integration of values, ergonomy and risk management to achieve corporate strategic goals.

Assuming a pro-business viewpoint, this book criticizes sustainability and responsibility as it appears in the reports of corporations.

Written by an expert team, the Dictionary of Corruption is a comprehensive resource for students, academics, practitioners and professionals.