Business Ethics category: 2278 books
by Ahmed Naciri
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
An effective system of corporate governance has both internal and external aspects that have to be sufficiently responsive if governance is to succeed. In this book, Ahmed Naciri examines these two core aspects or the latest buzzword in business and management theory.
Internal aspects include...
Pioneers of Critical Accounting
A Celebration of the Life of Tony Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
This book celebrates the life and work of Tony Lowe, a pioneer of critical accounting. The authors elaborate on the fact that Tony Lowe regarded accounting as a moral and political practice rather than some dry technical phenomena because it has serious social consequences. The essays in the book...
Corporate Community Involvement
A Visible Face of CSR in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
There has been tremendous growth in Corporate Community Involvement (CCI) projects of all sizes in recent years. This has been encouraged by organisations such as Business in the Community in the UK, which provides information designed to motivate businesses and government to engage in CCI. In fact,...
Shareholder Primacy and Corporate Governance
Legal Aspects, Practices and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Rising defaults in the financial market in 2007, the current widespread economic recession and debt crisis have added impetus to existing doubts about companies’ governance, and cast new light on future trends in shareholder-oriented corporate practice. Taking account of these developments in the...
Legal Regulation of Corporate Social Responsibility
A Meta-Regulation Approach of Law for Raising CSR in a Weak Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Even though Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a widely accepted concept promoted by different stakeholders, business corporations' internal strategies, known as corporate self-regulation in most of the weak economies, respond poorly to this responsibility. Major laws relating to corporate...
by Joanna Krotz
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Why Behaving Like a Girl Can Change Your Life and Grow Your Business. Business runs on male standards but women don't advance when men make the rules. It's high time women take charge, and this timely female-specific guide tells you how. As entrepreneurs, women can rely on their distinctive experiences...
Governance and Sustainability
New Challenges for States, Companies and Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Sustainability cannot be achieved without good governance. The Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 stated that governance and sustainable development are intimately tied together and the future role and architecture of institutions, from local to international levels, will...
Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship and the Common Good
International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
An exploration of the interplay between social responsibility, entrepreneurship and the common good which is organized into four sections: business and the common good; educating responsible entrepreneurs; corporate social responsibility (CSR) challenges and the common good; and CSR and entrepreneurship in emerging economies
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Welfare State
The Historical and Contemporary Role of CSR in the Mixed Economy of Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Over the past four decades many European welfare states have seen an increasing involvement of the commercial sector in their mixed economies of welfare. One aspect of this development that has yet to be fully understood in social policy analysis is the engagement of businesses to address social problems,...
Beyond the Energy–Water–Food Nexus
New Strategies for 21st-Century Growth
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Providing food, clean water and energy for a growing population is one of the greatest challenges facing public and private sector professionals. While there is widespread recognition of the complex feedback loops between energy, water and food, there has been less focus on viable solutions.
This...
Making Sustainability Matter
How to Make Materiality Drive Profit, Strategy and Communications
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Materiality is the lynch-pin that can align your sustainability initiatives with your organizational strategy – and form the basis of communications and reports that generate trust and transparency. What's more, most companies could be significantly more profitable by engaging with their most material...
Marketing and the Common Good
Essays from Notre Dame on Societal Impact
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Marketing is among the most powerful cultural forces at work in the contemporary world, affecting not merely consumer behaviour, but almost every aspect of human behaviour. While the potential for marketing both to promote and threaten societal well-being has been a perennial focus of inquiry, the...
The Interdependent Organization
The Path to a More Sustainable Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The Interdependent Organization provides its readers with a template for the development of an individualized transition plan to guide their journey toward becoming more organizationally sustainable. We as humans tend to rely on our current set of assumptions when we evaluate our actions and their...
Smart Engagement
Why, What, Who and How
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Businesses that thrive in the 21st century will be those that are smart about "engagement". These businesses are the best at adapting to changing societal concerns, expectations, risks and opportunities and they know how to generate sustainable outcomes.However, while many companies talk...