Business Ethics category: 2278 books
The Business of Bees
An Integrated Approach to Bee Decline and Corporate Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Our bee populations are under threat. Over the past 60 years, they have lost much of their natural habitat and are under assault from pesticides and intensive farming. We rely on bees and other insects to pollinate our fruit and vegetables and, without them, our environment and economy will be in...
Business and Society in the Middle East
Exploring Responsible Business Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This book discusses the unique relationship between societies and businesses in the Mediterranean region, with contributions from public figures and academics from Middle Eastern and Arab societies, as well as from North America and Europe. This blend of expertise and knowledge focuses on common business...
Sustainability Decoded
How to Unlock Profit Through the Value Chain
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The value chain is the tried and true foundation of any profitable business.Sustainability Decoded is a no-nonsense business book that shows you how to increase profits by integrating sustainability into your company's value chain. This practical guide provides innovative tools and approaches for...
Putting the Poor First
How Base-of-the-Pyramid Ventures Can Learn from Development Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In order to make progress toward the UN Millennium Development Goals – and particularly in terms of poverty alleviation – business has a pivotal role to play: in terms of core business; purchasing products from the poor; employing them; and selling them affordable services and products. Serving...
Business Gems
The Softer Values of Success
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2012
Hall of Fame Speaker Bob Danzig has spoken to over a million people and is frequently asked the same questions: “How do the values you speak about hold up in the hard-nosed world of business? Are you taken seriously when you're perceived as being spirit driven? Bob’s answers often surprise the...
by Megumi Suto, Hitoshi Takehara
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This book explores the linkages between the evolution of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate financing and governance in Japan since the late 2000s. Since the 1990s, increasing economic and financial globalization has steadily eroded the Japanese style of business based on relationships...
Post-Materialist Business
Spiritual Value-Orientation in Renewing Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Post-Materialist Business presents a spiritual-based approach to business and management. It uses pluralistic view of spirituality and provides a number of inspiring cases of alternative organizations which go beyond the materialistic mindset of business and serve the common good of society, nature, and future generations.
by David Thorpe
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Sustainable Transport Fuels Business Briefing explains, for a global business audience, the latest developments in the world of sustainable transport. Not the vehicles or modes of transport themselves, but their means of propulsion.New technologies and players are coming and going with bewildering...
Hybrid Organizations
New Business Models for Environmental Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book offers a glimpse into the future. The companies it describes are pioneers, the first-movers in market shifts that will eventually become mainstream. These "hybrid organizations" – or what others call "values-driven" or "mission-driven" organizations – operate...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Over the last decade, we have been witnessing a dramatic contrast between the CEO as a superhero and CEO as an antihero. The new challenge in business education is to develop responsible global leaders. Relatively little is known, however, about how management educators can prepare future leaders to...
The Business of Sustainable Mobility
From Vision to Reality
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In many parts of the world, there is a crisis of mobility. The choices we have made over the past 200 years on modes and technologies of transport have brought us unprecedented global interaction and in many respects increased personal freedom. However, all this mobility has come at a cost to society,...
Risky Business in China
A Guide to Due Diligence
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Risk is a major reason that companies fail in, or fail to enter, China. Packed with case studies, this unique book demonstrates how correctly applied due diligence can not only reduce business risk in China, but also provide excellent business intelligence to support negotiations and business relationships.
by Jonathan Chenoweth, Juliet Bird
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
A renewed commitment to improved provision of water and sanitation emerged in the 2002 Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development. Although many of the statements in the Declaration were vaguely worded, making it hard to measure progress or success, the Plan of Implementation of the Summit,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Globally, nearly 70 billion animals are farmed annually for meat, milk and eggs. Two-thirds of these are farmed intensively. The views held by food companies on animal stewardship, and the management practices and processes that they adopt are, therefore, of critical importance in determining the...