Business ethics and social responsibility

In the last decades diversity and its management has become a feature of modern and postmodern organizations.

Dialoge mit Unternehmen, die Ausübung der Stimmrechte oder das Einbringen von Resolutionen auf Aktionärsversammlungen sind Möglichkeiten für Investoren, Fortschritte im Sinne von Nachhaltigkeit anzustoßen, zu unterstützen oder sogar zu bewirken.

Volume 21 of Research in Occupational Stress and Well Being focuses on stress and well-being as it pertains to strategic management and decision-making.

This book contributes to the discussions on the role of spirituality in organizing and leading, taking a philosophically and theologically rigorous perspective.

This book discusses social entrepreneurship, especially in context of India.

Das Buch zeigt beispielhaft auf, welche Bedeutung Verantwortung und nachhaltige Innovation einnehmen können.

This book explores commercial contract law in scholarship and legal practice, suggests new research agendas and provides a forum for debate of typical issues that might benefit from further attention by scholarship and legislatures.

In this thought-provoking Volume One of the series, Managing Responsibly for Sustainable Business Development in the VUCA World, We embark on a transformative journey towards sustainable and excellent management practices.

This edited book frames a new ethos of management that cares for society, future generations and nature whilst also serving the interests of business and the wider community.

Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking explores a radical new conception of business and management.

In the COVID 19 post-pandemic era, sustainable financial systems are increasingly getting the attention they deserve, and policymakers are now moving toward investment and financing decisions based on sustainable development.

Should human organs be bought and sold?

Gone are the days when emotions had no place in business or on the management floor.

This book presents a series of empirically based case studies conducted by social change scholars from Asia-Pacific, showcasing the latest social marketing approaches geared at improving societal well-being in the region.

This edited book is at the intersection of the discussion on family-owned business, the CSR agenda and company competition in Europe.

Companies increasingly play a meaningful role in civil society and the philanthropic sector through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Philanthropy (CP).

The book is one of the first ones focussing on how organisations (civil society, corporations, and public sector ones) are contributing to sustainability.

Like an ancient river, Daoist traditions introduced from China once flowed powerfully through the Japanese religious landscape, forever altering its topography and ecology.

​Handelsunternehmen prägen und prägten das Wirtschaftsgeschehen und unsere Gesellschaft seit jeher wesentlich.

Diversity nachhaltig erfolgreich zu gestalten ist das Ziel zahlreicher AkteurInnen in Unternehmen, Bildungseinrichtungen und der Politik.

This book demonstrates that during Japan's early modern Edo period (1603-1868) an ethical code existed among the merchant class comparable to that of the well-known Bushido.

This book addresses the status quo of Corporate Social Responsibility practices and their development since 2008.

The world is changing at an unprecedented pace and organizations worldwide are finding it difficult to match their operational efficiency and sustainable development targets with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs).

More than ten years after the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, this book critically reviews the achievements, limits and next frontiers of business and human rights following the 'protect, respect, remedy' trichotomy.

Zhenwu, or the Perfected Warrior, is one of the few Chinese Deities that can rightfully claim a countrywide devotion.

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to corporate social responsibility (CSR), examining economic sciences and managements to show the complexity of the contemporary perception and development of CSR in Poland.

This book focuses on understanding values-based leadership in rules-based organizations.

This is the first of its kind in its topical coverage of the developments and prospects of Islamic finance education at Western higher education.

The book brings together perspectives on entrepreneurship research, education and practice to understand social entrepreneurship in its wider societal, political and economic context.

This book continues the discussion on the challenges that organizations face in order to implement sustainability, ethics, and effective corporate governance, all of which are important elements of "e;standing out"e; from other companies.

The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed a remarkable growth of corporate welfare programs in American industry.

This edited collection emerged from the need to know how business schools in Asia are inculcating responsible management.

Around the turn of the millennium, a young woman with outstanding academic achievements in science and mathematics applied to study engineering at a Eu- pean university.

This book provides a richly illustrated study of sustainability, innovation and entrepreneurship.

There is significant research available on critical success and failure factors of Lean Six Sigma implementation in organizations, predominantly focusing on the technical side of this performance method.

In a time when multinational corporations have become truly globalised, demands for global standards on their behaviour are increasingly difficult to dismiss.

This book provides a deep understanding of state-owned multinationals (SOMNCs) and their role in global business.

Basiert wirtschaftlicher Erfolg auf moralischem Bankrott?

This book provides a rich collection of essays discussing and showcasing the transformation of businesses around the world towards sustainability and responsibility.

This handbook integrates the best leadership and followership theories and practices between the Global North-West (countries of Western individualistic cultures in Europe, North America, Australia and Oceana) and the Global South-East (countries of Eastern collectivistic cultures in Asia, Africa, South America, and South-East Asian and Oceana).

The term financial inclusion describes an individual's ability to obtain effective and inexpensive financial products and services that match their demands, whilst extending to include businesses access to finances to enable planning for long-term goals or unpredictable emergencies.

Before we can resolve or avoid an ethical problem, we need to understand what makes something ethical.

This book examines anti-corporate activism in the United States, providing a nuanced understanding of the changing focal points of challenges to corporations.