Stories of predatory lending practices and the reckless destruction of the environment by greedy corporations dominate the news, suggesting that, in business, ethics and profit are incompatible pursuits.
This book brings together a collection of articles from eminent scholars and practitioners from India, Europe, the USA, and Australia and investigates the applicability of spiritually inspired business models in Indian and Western contexts.
Progress of corporate history since the industrial revolution has been an enormous growth in freedom of enterprise, economic prosperity, innovation, technical, and intellectual advancement but it has also been, stoking the passions of greed, a slow and sure decay of morality, and social order culminating in high unemployment and Occupy Wall Street movements.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Indian corporations following the 2013 legal mandate on corporate spending of profits for CSR.
An Introduction to Business and Management Ethics provides an introduction to some of the major challenges facing anyone concerned with standards of behaviour in organizations.
Diversity in Action: Managing Diverse Talent in a Global Economy examines one of the most important and topical issue related to diversity management, namely implementing effective strategies for managing diverse talent groups.
This book pursues an interdisciplinary approach to studying family firms as a particular type of business strongly embedded in the territories in which they are located.
Since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis the prevailing economic development model based on an assumption of unlimited resources and, therefore, unlimited growth has been increasingly put into question by academics, policy-making agencies and even industry leaders themselves.
Learn the principles and practices of ethics as applied to civil and structural engineeringThis comprehensive textbook looks at ethics through the lens of civil and structural engineering.
This collection of fascinating short reads on Daoist thought, including Chinese medicine brings together some of the most popular articles from the Scholar Sage online magazine, alongside new material from Damo Mitchell.
Antitrust or competition law is widely considered an essential part of the legal and political structures of most liberal democracies and an integral foundation of a market economy.
Dieses Buch zeigt auf, wie verschiedene Formen des unternehmerischen Engagements als bereichernde Komponenten in die Stadtentwicklung einfließen können.
By learning from inspiring individuals in the industry, finance professionals can pursue viable careers while benefiting society and upholding humanistic values.
In Zeiten von Finanzkrise, wachsender Vernetzung, Wertewandel und einer Gesellschaft, die Unternehmen, Politik und Institutionen immer mehr hinterfragt, gewinnt Transparenz zunehmend an Bedeutung.
This volume examines philanthropic practices against the backdrop of the continuities, disruptions and changes in twentieth century German socio-political relations.
This book argues that ethical business behavior can be enhanced by taking fuller account of human nature, particularly with respect to the need for creating relatively small communities within the corporation.
