European Business Ethics Casebook

European Business Ethics Casebook
Author: Wim Dubbink
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2011-01-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9048189667

Business cases are at the heart of business ethics as a discipline. Analysis and reflection on the morality of business often is triggered by concrete cases. After four introductory chapters into recent developments within business ethics and the value of case analysis, the present volume offers extensive description of eight recent European cases, mainly stemming from The Netherlands and Belgium and all of them with a clear moral impact. Among them are the Lernout and Hauspie speech technology disaster, Heineken struggle with the promotion girls selling beer in Cambodia, cartels in the Dutch construction industry, the pharmaceutical industry and the Aids crisis, and Unilever allegedly making use of child labour in the cotton industry in India. The book will be of interest to researchers as well as teachers of undergraduate and graduate courses in Business Ethics, Business in Society, Management and Organisation Theory and Strategic Management. It will also be useful for business practitioners eager to learn about business ethics by means of cases.

Moral Leadership in Action

Moral Leadership in Action
Author: Heidi von Weltzien Hoivik
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1843767503

This comprehensive volume . . . is particularly suited to teachers and students within the higher education sector having an interest in business and management ethics. Economic Outlook and Business Review The theme of this book is moral leadership in action as it manifests itself implicitly and explicitly in European business organizations. We understand leadership as interplay among people at all levels within organizations and also within the economic system by which people are bound together through particular forms of interaction. The contributions collected in this volume mirror the plurality of approaches we find in the theoretical writings of academics in different European countries. The additional business cases from six different nations show how leaders actually have adopted and integrated working with values in their own organizations, i.e. how they put moral leadership into action. While the selected papers are not meant to be representative of each country, particular economic and cultural traditions are apparent in both thinking and managing moral leadership. The contributors, by presenting this emerging multicultural pattern of Europe, contribute to a better and more knowledgeable understanding of how European business leaders pursue their goals. Managers, students and teachers in business, ethics and leadership studies will find this volume an indispensable guide to the unique contributions of European leadership scholars.

Business Ethics

Business Ethics
Author: Alan R. Malachowski
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415184625

European Business

European Business
Author: Neil Harris
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 365
Release: 1999-11-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 134915007X

European Business 2nd edition explores the interaction between European business and their environment using up-to-date case studies. Drawing upon a range of disciplines including economics, organizational behaviour, finance and business strategy, it explores how and why modern businesses behave as they do, and how and why the business environment is changing. A central themem of this substantially updated second edition is the position of Europe within the global economy. Also comprehensively examined is the developing nature of the European Union and the movement towards market economies in Central and Eastern Europe.

The Palgrave International Handbook of Alternative Education

The Palgrave International Handbook of Alternative Education
Author: Helen E. Lees
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2016-08-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137412917

This state-of-the-art, comprehensive Handbook fully explores the field of alternative education on an international scale. Alternatives to mainstream schooling and education are becoming increasingly recognised as pertinent and urgent for better understanding what really works in successfully educating children and adults today, especially in light of the increased performance driven and managerially organised economic modelling of education that dominates. For too long we have wondered what “exactly” education done otherwise might look like and here we meet individual examples as well as seeing what alternative education is when a collection becomes greater than the sum of parts. The Handbook profiles numerous empirical examples from around the world of education being done in innovative and excitingly democratic and autonomous ways from Forest Schools and Home Education through to new technologies, neuroscience and the importance of solitude. The book also sets out important theoretical perspectives to inform us why seeing education through an alternative lens is useful as well as urgently needed. Global in its perspective and definitive in content, this one-stop volume will be an indispensable reference resource for a wide range of academics, students and researchers in the fields of Education, Education Policy, Sociology and Philosophy as well as educational practitioners.

Handbook on Ethics and Marketing

Handbook on Ethics and Marketing
Author: Alexander Nill
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2015-06-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1781003432

Exploring both the theoretical and the applied aspects of the role ethics plays in marketing, this Handbook analyzes key issues in order to advance our understanding and provide an overview of the state of the art in this vital field.

Principles of Contemporary Corporate Governance

Principles of Contemporary Corporate Governance
Author: Jean Jacques du Plessis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2024-06-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1009287389

Now in its fifth edition, Principles of Contemporary Corporate Governance offers a comprehensive introduction to the rules and regulations of corporate governance systems. It takes an inclusive stakeholder approach to examine how companies apply corporate governance principles in the private sector.

Business Students Focus on Ethics

Business Students Focus on Ethics
Author: Wojciech W. Gasparski
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2017-11-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351326422

The study of business ethics seeks to understand business institutions, practices and activities in light of normative behavior. The ethical concern is for the rightness or wrongness of human action. Business Students Focus on Ethics brings together essays written by twenty-five MA and MBA students from seven countries in Europe, North and South America, and the Pacific Rim. Collectively, they give us an applied business ethics framework, one with international dimensions.Business Students Focus on Ethics achieves a number of objectives: it recognizes ethics as legitimate content in graduate level studies in business world wide; seriously examines specific ethical concerns by young managers; and reflects on these concerns from across cultural and geographic borders. It also demonstrates the quality of their analysis and recommendations.The essays in this volume are arranged into four interrelated groups. The first group, "Praxiological and Ethical Framework," examines issues of human action from both the theory of human action (i.e., praxiological) and ethical dimensions. The section group of essays, "Social Issues-Compensation and Labor," discuss applications of praxiological and ethical principles in relation to the ethical responsibilities of business. The third group discusses "Ethical Issues in Health Care" from three different cultural perspectives. The fourth group is a series of "Corporate Case Studies." This volume may be seen as a companion to Volume 5 of the Praxiology series, Human Action in Business and will be of interest to business people, economists, policy makers, social scientists and students of philosophy and ethics.

Europe in the Global Competition

Europe in the Global Competition
Author: Sabine Urban
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3663100065

Die Globalisierung der Märkte zwingt Europa nicht nur zu einer intensiven Auseinandersetzung mit den daraus erwachsenden Problemen, sondern auch zur Ausgestaltung geeigneter Wettbewerbsstrategien, um im Kampf um Marktvorteile bestehen zu können. Namhafte Experten aus Wissenschaft und Praxis analysieren in diesem Buch Stärken und Schwächen der Europäischen Union und diskutieren ihre Rolle im globalen Wettbewerb aus unterschiedlichen Blickrichtungen. Es werden u.a. folgende Themen behandelt: - Europa im globalen Wettbewerb - Interkulturelles Management zwischen Universalismus und Relativismus - Das Konzept der Marktwirtschaft und das Prinzip der Gemeinschaft (