Business Ethics for a Material World

Business Ethics for a Material World
Author: Ryan Burg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2018-03-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1316872807

Increasingly, conscientious consumers and green marketers are recognizing that material things, not firms, must be made responsible. Even so, many scholars in ethics, sustainability, and governance focus on people and organizations, ignoring the flows of things. In this book, Ryan Burg argues that material things are fundamental features of moral life, serving as both valuable instruments and guides for responsibility. Unless care is taken for these non-living entities, living things cannot be protected. Viewing the global economy as a network of material transfers, Burg argues that to facilitate object care, professionals must act as stewards. By tracing the origins and disposal of workplace objects through this material network, businesses and employees can discover the outcomes for which they are responsible, and managers can align ethics, sustainability and governance with a truly global formulation of responsibility.

Business Ethics for a Material World

Business Ethics for a Material World
Author: Ryan Burg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2018-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107183014

This book argues that managers must be stewards of workplace objects, from coffee to nitrogen oxides, to run sustainable and responsible businesses.

Understanding Business Ethics

Understanding Business Ethics
Author: Peter A. Stanwick
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 997
Release: 2015-09-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1506303250

Filled with real-world case studies and examples of ethical dilemmas, Understanding Business Ethics, Third Edition prepares students and managers alike to make ethical decisions in today’s complex, global environment. Bestselling authors Peter A. Stanwick and Sarah D. Stanwick explain the fundamental importance of ethical leadership, decision making, and strategic planning while examining emerging trends in business ethics such as the developing world, human rights, environmental sustainability, and technology. In addition to presenting information related to the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the text’s 26 real-world cases profile a variety of industries, countries, and ethical issues in a way that is relevant and meaningful to students’ lives. The Third Edition features new cases from well-known companies such as Disney and General Motors, new coverage of emerging topics such as big data and social media, expanded coverage of corporate social responsibility, and more. Using an applied approach, this text helps students understand why and how business ethics really do matter!

The Juridification of Business Ethics

The Juridification of Business Ethics
Author: Bart Jansen
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2023-09-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3031399080

This book provides a theory of the juridification of business ethics. Ethical codes pop up everywhere in the business world and increasingly resemble the code of law. A focus on compliance rather than reflection becomes the norm. Legal perspectives replace ethical perspectives, turning ethicists into lawyers without a law degree. This juridification of business ethics conceals a diminishing trust in ethics, as legal reasoning substitutes philosophical thinking. By appealing to the critical study of law, Bart Jansen advocates for a renewed focus on the ethical side of business. This book shows the importance of a good balance between law and ethics in business and is of great interest to both academics and professionals.

Aesthetics and Business Ethics

Aesthetics and Business Ethics
Author: Daryl Koehn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2013-09-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9400770707

Ludwig Wittgenstein famously said, “Ethics is aesthetics.” It is unclear what such a claim might mean and whether it is true. This book explores contentious issues arising at the interface of ethics and aesthetics. The contributions reflect on the status of aesthetic en ethical judgments, the relation of aesthetic beauty and ethical goodness and art and character development. The book further considers the potential role art could play in ethical analysis and in the classroom and explores in what respects aesthetics and ethics might be intertwined and even mutually supportive.

Business Ethics in the Global Market

Business Ethics in the Global Market
Author: Tibor R. Machan
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press Publi
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

What special problems arise for managers and employees of companies when they do business in countries and cultures other than their own? The essays in this book identify universal principles of business ethics and spell out minimal legal and ethical absolutes in foreign trade. They examine human rights and analyze the cross-cultural aspects of two sexual harassment cases filed against Mitsubishi in America.

Business Ethics

Business Ethics
Author: W. Michael Hoffman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 784
Release: 2014-01-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118722779

The fifth edition of Business Ethics addresses current, intriguing, often complex issues in corporate morality through 53 readings and 30 pertinent case studies. Now significantly updated, it includes new leading articles, related current cases, and mini-cases based on MBA student dilemmas. Addresses a broad range of the most current, intriguing, often complex issues and cases in corporate morality Provides impartial, point-counterpoint presentations of different perspectives on the most important and highly contended issues of business ethics Updated and significant case studies are included to reinforce student learning Now contains mini-cases based on actual MBA student dilemmas Each author has substantial experience in teaching, writing, and conducting research in the field

Visible Hands

Visible Hands
Author: Jette Steen Knudsen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2017-11-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107104904

This book offers a new framework for analysing government policies relating to corporate social responsibility (CSR) in multinational corporations: direct and indirect policies for CSR. It is a must read for scholars and graduate students in CSR, sustainability, political economy and economic sociology, as well as policymakers and consultants in international development and trade.

Climate Activism

Climate Activism
Author: Annika Skoglund
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2022-10-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108482643

What is activism? The answer is, typically, that it is a form of opposition, often expressed on the streets. Skoglund and Böhm argue differently. They identify forms of 'insider activism' within corporations, state agencies and villages, showing how people seek to transform society by working within the system, rather than outright opposing it. Using extensive empirical data, Skoglund and Böhm analyze the transformation of climate activism in a rapidly changing political landscape, arguing that it is time to think beyond the tensions between activism and enterprise. They trace the everyday renewable energy actions of a growing 'epistemic community' of climate activists who are dispersed across organizational boundaries and domains. This book is testament to a new way of understanding activism as an organizational force that brings about the transition towards sustainability across business and society and is of interest to social science scholars of business, renewable energy and sustainable development.