Business Ethics category: 2278 books
Making Markets More Inclusive
Lessons from CARE and the Future of Sustainability in Agricultural Value Chain Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Most studies of doing business at the "bottom of the economic pyramid" focus on viewing the poor as consumers, as micro-entrepreneurs, or as potential employees of local companies. Almost no analysis focuses on the poor as primary producers of agricultural commodities a striking omission...
Global Business in Local Culture
The Impact of Embedded Multinational Enterprises
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2018
This book examines the impact of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on local economies, and presents selected case studies of MNEs operating in low income countries. By balancing external social and environmental costs against its corresponding benefits, the book demonstrates that MNEs can have a positive...
Pathways to Systemic Change
Inspiring Stories and a New Set of Variables for Understanding Social Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The world’s social, ecological and economic
problems are so complex and diverse that there
will never be a “one-size-fits-all” model for
social innovation. The very nature of social
innovation as a new, better way of solving
social problems means that it is not even in the
interest...
Unfolding Stakeholder Thinking 2
Relationships, Communication, Reporting and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book is the companion to "Unfolding Stakeholder Thinking: Theory, Responsibility and Engagement", which examined many emerging theoretical and normative issues and was released to acclaim in October 2002. "Unfolding Stakeholder Thinking 2" collects a series of essays by leading...
Eco-industrial Strategies
Unleashing Synergy between Economic Development and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Old-style manufacturing, embodied in industrial parks that litter the landscape, may soon become dinosaurs of industrial development. These "Jurassic Parks" of the past will be replaced by new eco-industrial parks (EIPs) that link manufacturers more closely together into an industrial ecosystem...
Sustainable Governance in Hybrid Organizations
An International Case Study of Water Companies
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In Sustainable Governance in Hybrid Organizations the author Linne Marie Lauesen explores how businesses that have succeeded in conducting sustainable governance, manage and govern their sustainable performance: in other words, how they manage to be economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable....
Sustainable Banking
The Greening of Finance
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This comprehensive addition to the debate on sustainable development has been produced in order to take a global pulse on how the financial services sector is responding to the growing challenge of shareholder and stakeholder expectations on social and environmental performance. In the opinion of...
Behavioural Risks in Corporate Governance
Regulatory Intervention as a Risk Management Mechanism
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Recent cases of corporate failures, including the fixing of LIBOR rates and money laundering issues in the banking industry, highlight how behavioural issues on the part of company directors are significant contributory factors in corporate governance and the success or failure of companies. This...
by Dale H. Ferdinand
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Dale H. Ferdinand has spent the majority of his professional life working on Wall Street in the sales and financial services industry. He quickly rose through the ranks and became one of the top producers among the new blood of the Wall Street elite. Financially Lit, was created to teach you how to...
by Charles H. "Chuck" Hood
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2011
This is a two-part story. The first part documents Wal-Mart's ruthless and greedy business actions, all of which led to the filing of a $40 million lawsuit against them. The second part deals with the great lengths to which Wal-Mart will go to destroy any company with the "guts and courage" to file a...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book provides a combination of case studies and current action research describing how businesses and civil society organizations are working to alleviate poverty in local and global communities. It intends to provide conceptual and research rationales for why management education and management...
The 9.17% solution:
Inside the dark side of work
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
BOTH A NOVEL AND A BUSINESS BOOK This book has two parts. The first is a novel set in the company Summit, a very large consulting firm trying to recover from a devastating and very public scandal. It has become a pariah, the new tobacco. The best people have fled and it draws in those who are looking...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
‘Biodiversity’ at its simplest, refers to the variety of species inhabiting Planet Earth. It is essential to the well-being of the planet. There is now a scientific consensus around the current ongoing crisis in biodiversity arising from both climate change and human activities. Experts believe...
Restructuring Capitalism
Materialism and Spiritualism in Business
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The main theme of this book is that, within contemporary capitalist societies a materialist outlook informed by science has triumphed creating the lack of a spiritual dimension to give meaning and purpose to the activities that are necessary for a capitalist society to function effectively. Capitalist...