Business Ethics category: 2278 books
Sustainable Luxury
Managing Social and Environmental Performance in Iconic Brands
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Most consumers of luxury products and services use them as status symbols – symbols of success. However, the definition of success – and the way it is perceived by others – is changing. Increasingly, consumers want the brands they use to address growing concerns that luxury products invariably...
by Christian Flick, Mathias Weber
Language: German
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Die Buchlinie "bwlBlitzmerker" beschäftigt sich mit aktuellen betriebswirtschaftlichen Themen. Dies geschieht mit dem Anspruch, dem Leser eine stark komprimierte und sehr kostengünstige digitale Buchvariante zu bieten. Somit entstehen hier regelmäßig frische und neue Impulsgeber für Prozessverbesserungen,...
Unstoppable
Transforming Your Mindset to Create Change, Accelerate Results, and Be the Best at What You Do
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Where do you fall on your organization's performance spectrum?
Unstoppable is performance-enhancing manual for those who are ready to change the world. Regardless of talent or skill set, there are four types of people in every organization: Undertakers, Caretakers, Play Makers, and Game Changers—but...
by Potter
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
This e-book is about how I was robbed of my money and my mental stability by the auto mechanic industry. My self esteem and quality of life was robbed by a few mechanics who really were only out for profits. In this ebook I share my experience and give good sound advice on what I think you as a consumer...
The Daily Grind
How Workers Navigate the Employment Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
The Daily Grind: How Workers Navigate the Employment Relationship serves as a unique core text in the fields of labor studies and sociology by considering the employment relationship from the worker’s perspective of social justice. The text focuses on the structural and institutional barriers which...
Development-Oriented Corporate Social Responsibility: Volume 2
Locally Led Initiatives in Developing Economies
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This volume provides a platform for localized perspectives on CSR in developing countries across the globe. The chapters bring local context and business to the forefront and highlight the efforts spearheaded by indigenous actors from within the developing world. They present insights from developing...
Loan Sharks
The Birth of Predatory Lending
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Predatory lending: A problem rooted in the past that continues today.
Looking for an investment return that could exceed 500 percent annually; maybe even twice that much?
Private, unregulated lending to high-risk borrowers is the answer, or at least it was in the United States for much...
Beyond Governments
Making Collective Governance Work - Lessons from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In a world characterized by globalization, governments increasingly find themselves unable to govern. Corruption is everywhere, natural resources are being exploited, the environment damaged, markets distorted, and the fight against poverty is often ineffective. Certain challenges cannot be addressed...
The Story Of Naxos
The Extraordinary Story of the Independent Record Label that Changed Classical Recording for Ever
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
In 1987, a budget classical record label was started in Hong Kong by Klaus Heymann, a German businessman who loved classical music. Swiftly, it gained a world wide reputation for reliable new digital recordings of the classics at a remarkably low price. Despite opposition from the classical record...
by Bob Massie
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
We at Patagonia, like all business people, know that long-term income has to exceed long-term expense. To do otherwise is to go bankrupt, as Ernest Hemingway described,in the usual two ways: “Gradually, then suddenly.” Today we are using the equivalent resources of one and a half planets,...
by Stacy Mitchell, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2006
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Independent businesses in the United States have been under attack in recent decades. Large chains, or "big-box" stores, have dominated...
UpSizing
The Road to Zero Emissions: More Jobs, More Income and No Pollution
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
"Zero emissions" has become a definitive term in the debate on sustainable development in the last few years. This radical book focuses on a world where the waste for one process can become the raw material for another – a cascade of materials once thought worthless supporting new products,...
Corporate Social Responsibility
A Research Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Concepts of corporate social responsibility (CSR) are widely used by businesses, professional bodies and academics, but are also widely contested. CSR is usually described as comprising three elements: environmental, economic and social, though there is no serious consensus on how to go about translating...
CSR and Sustainability
From the Margins to the Mainstream: A Textbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is steadily moving from the margins to the mainstream across the spectrum of private companies, NGOs and the public sector. It has grown from being a concept embraced by a small number of companies such as The Body Shop in the early 1990s to a widespread global...