Business and Society

Business and Society
Author: Anne T. Lawrence
Publisher: McGraw-Hill College
Total Pages: 535
Release: 2004-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780072986211

Business and Society: Stakeholder Relations, Ethics and Public Policy by Lawrence/Weber/Post, has continued through several successive author teams to be the market-leader in its field. For over thirty years, Business and Society has been updated and reinvented in response to society’s relationship to business. Business and Society, 11e highlights why government regulation is sometimes required as well as new models of business-community collaboration. Business and Society, 11e is a book with a point of view. Lawrence, Weber and Post believe that businesses have social (as well as economic) responsibilities to society; that business and government both have important roles to play in the modern economy; and that ethics and integrity are essential to personal fulfillment and to business success. The book is designed to be easily modularized; an instructor who wishes to focus on a particular portion of the material may select individual chapters or cases to be packaged in a Primis custom product.

Ethics, Economics and Politics

Ethics, Economics and Politics
Author: Ian Malcolm David Little
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2002
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780199268726

This book studies the interfaces of ethics, economics, and politics. Public policy issues involve all three of these subjects. Although it may be seen as suggesting the nucleus of a joint university course, the book is accessible to and should interest all those concerned with political decisions. Any such decision needs a criterion for judging whether one action or outcome is better than another. Even a dictator must to some extent be concerned about the economic welfare of the citizens;and a democratic government more so. But how is a person's economic welfare to be judged? Furthermore, any political decision affects the economic welfare of different people differently. How then is the welfare of a community to be judged? This is an ethical question. Underlying any coherent public policy there must be a relevant moral code.

Society on the Edge

Society on the Edge
Author: Philippe Fontaine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781108732192

The social sciences underwent rapid development in postwar America. Problems once framed in social terms gradually became redefined as individual with regards to scope and remedy, with economics and psychology winning influence over the other social sciences. By the 1970s, both economics and psychology had spread their intellectual remits wide: psychology's concepts suffused everyday language, while economists entered a myriad of policy debates. Psychology and economics contributed to, and benefited from, a conception of society that was increasingly skeptical of social explanations and interventions. Sociology, in particular, lost intellectual and policy ground to its peers, even regarding 'social problems' that the discipline long considered its settled domain. The book's ten chapters explore this shift, each refracted through a single 'problem': the family, crime, urban concerns, education, discrimination, poverty, addiction, war, and mental health, examining the effects an increasingly individualized lens has had on the way we see these problems.

Gun Violence in American Society

Gun Violence in American Society
Author: Lisa A. Eargle
Publisher: UPA
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2015-11-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0761867058

Gun Violence In American Society: Crime, Justice, and Public Policy provides an in-depth, multidisciplinary investigation into one of society’s major social, public health and political concerns—death, injury, and destruction from the use of firearms. Contributors employ a variety of theoretical, methodological, and data analysis frameworks to address different gun violence issues. They explore how gun violence is created and perpetuated in society, as well as the various forms and social contexts in which it appears. The impacts of gun violence on different social groups, communities, and social institutions are also delineated. Moreover, possible solutions to gun violence are presented.

Limitations on Ocean Cruises

Limitations on Ocean Cruises
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1967
Genre: Cruise ships
ISBN:

Committee Serial No. 90-57. Considers S. 2360 and similar H.R. 12639, to amend the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 to allow U.S. passenger ships to provide passenger, cargo and mail service year round and on routes previously off limits for passenger ships.

Stakeholder Theory

Stakeholder Theory
Author: Abe J. Zakhem
Publisher:
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This valuable collection of essential articles from the most prominent authors in the field serves as the standard reference source for research into stakeholder theory--the dominant framework for analyzing ethical issues within the field of business ethics.

Conflicts of Interest

Conflicts of Interest
Author: Don A. Moore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2005-04-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 113944459X

This collection explores the subject of conflicts of interest. It investigates how to manage conflicts of interest, how they can affect well-meaning professionals, and how they can limit the effectiveness of corporate boards, undermine professional ethics, and corrupt expert opinion. Legal and policy responses are considered, some of which (e.g. disclosure) are shown to backfire and even fail. The results offer a sobering prognosis for professional ethics and for anyone who relies on professionals who have conflicts of interest. The contributors are leading authorities on the subject in the fields of law, medicine, management, public policy, and psychology. The nuances of the problems posed by conflicts of interest will be highlighted for readers in an effort to demonstrate the many ways that structuring incentives can affect decision making and organizations' financial well-being.