Business Ethics category: 2278 books
Profiting from Integrity
How CEOs Can Deliver Superior Profitability and Be Relevant to Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
The case for a pro-integrity approach to business is due to endemic corruption, inadequacy of compliance and irrelevance of corporate social responsibility. It is demonstrated empirically that there is a direct causal relationship between companies operating with heightened integrity and their resultant...
by David Y. Choi, Edmund Gray
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
A new brand of entrepreneurs has arrived on the business scene, carrying with them a whole new set of values. They possess a sense of mission – to be socially responsible, protect the planet, and do the right thing for all of their stakeholders. Rather than focus exclusively on financial gain, they...
Business and Human Rights
Dilemmas and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The end of the Cold War and the virtual disappearance of communism have completely altered the world economy. The supply chains of supermarkets and consumer goods industries have spread ever more widely and deeply into Asia, Africa and South America, while oil, mining and financial companies, among...
by Professor Guler Aras, Professor David Crowther
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This volume examines the word that's on everybody's lips in business, in government and in society - sustainability. There are of course many aspects of sustainability which might be considered to reflect Brundtland's three pillars of economic, environmental and social sustainability. Others of course...
Greening the Boardroom
Corporate Governance and Business Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
On a world scale, the implicit deal between corporation and community is undergoing a revolution in the period 1990–2000. For the first time, corporate boardrooms are having to confront the environmental challenge not as a peripheral issue around "public relations", but as a core issue...
Social Intrapreneurism and All That Jazz
How Business Innovators are Helping to Build a More Sustainable World
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In response to the world’s rapidly growing social, economic and environmental challenges, a growing wave of "social intrapreneurs" are harnessing the power of large companies to create new business solutions to address societal problems. Social Intrapreneurism and All That Jazz reveals...
Case Studies in Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability
The oikos collection Vol. 2
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
In 2008, Ashoka launched the "Changemaker Campus Initiative" which applies Ashoka's rigorous criteria to select and support universities as they develop and implement a comprehensive social entrepreneurship plan. Through the lessons learned from this network, and with input from its broader...
by Mark Trexler, Laura Kosloff
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book will help business executives to (1) rethink their perceptions of climate risk (2) evaluate whether their company is effectively positioned, and (3) make informed and prudent business decisions about climate change risk in an environment rife with policy uncertainty.Business risk associated...
Africapitalism
Sustainable Business and Development in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Using theory, empirical research, and case studies, this book explores the changing nature of business in Africa and how businesses can actively contribute to the development of Africa. It uses (and critically analyses) the concept of Africapitalism – a management philosophy and movement which seeks...
Greening Chinese Business
Barriers, Trends and Opportunities for Environmental Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Environmental regulation in China is not really different from that in the rest of the world, except that environmental authorities are relatively new and less established. In order to understand why corporate environmental performance has hardly improved despite the existing regulatory framework,...
Future First
How Successful Leaders Turn Innovation Challenges into New Value Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Future First is a practical guide for any business leader who wants to build, expand, or reinvent their company by finding new value in global challenges. Traditional companies often view issues like income equality, global warming, and resource scarcity as "problems." By contrast, future...
Natural Corporate Management
From the Big Bang to Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This groundbreaking new book by business scholar William C. Frederick presents an innovative, exciting – even revolutionary – view of corporate management and the challenges it confronts in today's world. The author proposes a management paradigm shift transforming the way corporations do business....
Learning to Read the Signs
Reclaiming Pragmatism for the Practice of Sustainable Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The PathFinder Lab Journal Field Notebook (Appendix III) is available here.
It's not what we know, but how we learn. This is the key that Learning to Read the Signs uses in order to evaluate and apply ideas and facts to one's organization life. The book asks the reader to go back to and reclaim...
Business and the Natural Environment
A Research Overview
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
The fields of corporate environmentalism, green business and corporate sustainability have grown significantly over the past twenty-five years, such that the academic research domains of business decision-making, accounting, organizational behaviour, and the protection of the natural environment have...