Business Ethics category: 2278 books
Practical Wisdom in Management
Business Across Spiritual Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Practical Wisdom in Management is the first in-depth case-study book to explore how practical wisdom from spiritual and philosophical traditions inspires corporate culture and leadership. The outcome of the Practical Wisdom Initiative, between The Academy of Business in Society (ABIS) and Yale University...
The Business Bible
10 New Commandments for Bringing Spirituality & Ethical Values into the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Rabbi Wayne Dosick gives us tools to solve both the major moral dilemmas and the day-to-day questions of life at work. He offers ten new commandments that can transform our work and work environment into places for accomplishment and satisfaction, honesty and integrity, decency and dignity—and success....
by Dennis AuBuchon
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2005
This book presents the definition of integrity, discusses the characteristics and includes information about various segments of society such as education, job integrity, integrity in the news, personal and real estate among others. The book brings the subject of integrity to the individual level...
Regulating Corporate Human Rights Violations
Humanizing Business
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Despite the continuous addition of regulatory initiatives concerning corporate human rights responsibilities, what we witness more often than not is a situation of corporate impunity for human rights abuses. The Bhopal gas leak – examined as a site of human rights violations rather than as a mass...
by William C. Frederick
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2018
Here is the story of Corporate Social Responsibility---what it means, where it came from, where it is going, what it requires of business. Told in an eyewitness, I-was-there style by a pioneer of the study of CSR in the nation's business schools, it takes the reader through a half century of corporate...
Taking Down the Lion
The Triumphant Rise and Tragic Fall of Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
As the widely-admired CEO of Tyco International, Dennis Kozlowski grew a little-known New Hampshire conglomerate into a global giant. In a stunning series of events, Kozlowski suddenly lost his job along with his favored public status when he was indicted by legendary Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau—it...
How to be Profitable and Moral
A Rational Egoist Approach to Business
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
A basic dilemma confronting today’s manager is how to be both profitable and moral. Making profits through immoral means—such as deceiving investors or customers—is unsustainable. Likewise, remaining moral while losing money will cause a business to fail. According to conventional morality,...
China 2020
How Western Business Can—and Should—Influence Social and Political Change in the Coming Decade
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Chinese society is plagued by many problems that have a direct impact on its current and future business and political environment-worker rights, product safety, Internet freedom, and the rule of law. Drawing on knowledge gained through personal interviews, documentary sources, and almost two decades...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
The behavior of managers-such as the rewards they obtain for poor performance, the role of boards of directors in monitoring managers, and the regulatory framework covering the corporate governance mechanisms that are put in place to ensure managers' accountability to shareholder and other stakeholders-has...
Economic Imperatives and Ethical Values in Global Business
The South African Experience and International Codes Today
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
religious values at the office door. Apartheid was an evil, and business had great power in South Africa. Where there is power, there is also responsibil ity. I prayed about this long and hard. I pushed the companies as much as I thought I could. There were advances and there were setbacks, but...
Case Studies in Sustainability Management and Strategy
The oikos collection
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
With the rapidly growing importance of sustainability and corporate responsibility in a globalised world, management schools are increasingly integrating long-term economic, environmental and social issues into their teaching and research. Climate change, poverty, labour standards and human rights...
On Moral Business
Classical and Contemporary Resources for Ethics in Economic Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 1995
This broad-ranging reader collects key biblical, classical, cross-cultural, and contemporary texts on how faith, especially Christianity, has shaped economic life in the past and how it can continue to do so in our emerging global civilization. The readings assembled here -- drawn from historical,...
Slow Fashion
Aesthetics Meets Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Slow Fashion offers creatives, entrepreneurs, and ethical consumers alike a glimpse into the innovative world of the eco-concept store movement, sustainable design, and business that puts people, livelihoods, and sustainability central to everything they do.Safia Minney argues that the future of...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Over the last years, “Creating Shared Value” has become a much discussed concept in business practice as well as in management theory and especially in the context of corporate social responsibility. This book offers a contribution to the current academic discussions on the well-received article...