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Trends in Business and Economic Ethics

C. Cowton, M. Haase (eds.), Springer, 2008, ISBN: 978-3-540-79471-4

Language: English

A growing body of academic and business specialists are paying attention to ethical issues in business and economics, drawing on a wide range of different disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. This volume presents important new insights from scholars in economics, philosophy, business ethics and management studies. In addition to providing specific perspectives on particular topics, it presents strategic perspectives on the development of the field. Readers can inform themselves on developments in particular areas, such as social accountability or stakeholder governance; they will also find substantial contributions related to the interfaces of ethics and economics, economics and philosophy, business ethics and political science, and business ethics and management.

The collection is a thought-provoking contribution to the development of business and economic ethics as an increasingly important field of academic study.

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Humanism in Business

Heiko Spitzeck (Ed.), Michael Pirson, Wolfgang Amann, Shiban Khan, Ernst von Kimakowitz, Cambridge University Press, April 2009, ISBN-13: 9780521898935

Language: English

There are many books about business and society, yet very few of them question the primacy of GDP growth, profit maximization and individual utility maximization. Even developments with a humanistic touch like stakeholder participation, corporate social responsibility or corporate philanthropy serve the same goal: to foster long-term growth and profitability. Humanism in Business questions these assumptions and investigates the possibility of creating a human-centered, value-oriented society based on humanistic principles.  Among the contributors are two Nobel prize winners: Amartya Sen and Muhammad Yunus.  

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Qu'est-ce que l'éthique des affaires?

Alain Anquetil, Paris, Vrin, 'Chemins Philosophiques', novembre 2008, ISBN : 978-2-7116-2156-9

Language: French

Cet ouvrage présente quelques-unes des questions philosophiques qui ont été discutées en éthique des affaires depuis sa structuration en discipline académique au début des années 80. Il est plus particulièrement centré sur le rôle de l’entreprise dans la société. Deux textes de référence y sont également traduits et commentés : l’un est de l’économiste Milton Friedman, qui défend la thèse que la seule responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise est d’accroître ses profits ; l’autre, récent, propose les principes d’un "nouveau capitalisme" inspiré du cadre théorique dominant en éthique des affaires, la "théorie des parties prenantes".

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Corporate Governance Theory
A Comparative Analysis of Stockholder & Stakeholder Governance Models

Suleyman Gokhan Gunay, Universe Incorporated, 2008, ISBN: 978-0595528837

Language: English

What is the reason for the existence of a firm? Why can some firms generate competitive advantages based on social capital, and others cannot? What are the underlying reasons for the opportunistic behaviors that drive firms to bankruptcy as in the case of Lehman Brothers? These kinds of questions have a common answer: corporate governance. The book is expected to shed some light about the reasons of company failures in the recent global financial crisis. 

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Business en Ethiek
Spelregels voor ethisch ondernemen

Johan Verstraeten & Luc Van Liedekerke, Lannoocampus (Belgium), 2008, EAN: 9789020979244

Language: Dutch 

Bussiness en Ethiek is een pionier op het vlak van bedrijfsethiek in het Nederlandstalige taalgebied. Het meest succesvolle boek bedrijfsethiek in de lage landen. Niet enkel bruikbaar voor studenten maar voor iedereen die nadenkt over de plaats van de onderneming in onze samenleving. Volledig vernieuwde editie met aangepaste, actuele case studies die het boek tot een levendig en tastbaar geheel maken. Bedrijfsethiek blijft een zorg zoals de recente financiële crisis of schandalen bij grote bedrijven als Siemens en Volkswagen aantonen.

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Responsible Management Education

Wojciech Gasparski (editor), Academic and Professional Press Warsaw (Poland), 2008, ISBN: 978-83-61408-12-3
Language: English


The public expects specialists educated at management faculties and business schools to be skilled at organizing and running companies, enterprises, institutions, partnerships - in other words, organizations.  This applies both to business organizations and to administration, educational, and non-governmental organizations. The high organizational quality of an organization is conditioned upon the professionalism of the organizers.  Professionalism depends on the quality of management education, and that depends on the quality of the knowledge passed on by teachers. The papers collected in the present volume are the effects of the eight annual conference organized by the Business Ethics Centre (Kozminski University, Warsaw Poland). The initiative has the form of Six Principles for Responsible Management Education.  Due to the international importance of papers directly referring to the standards of Responsible Management Education, they are published in English. The other papers presented at the conference are alsoavailable on the CD forming an integral part of this publication.

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Cutting-edge Issues in Business Ethics
Continental Challenges to Tradition and Practice

Corporate Governance and Ethics
An Aristotelian Perspective

Alejo José G. Sison; New Horizons in Leadership Studies series, July 2008, ISBN-13: 9781845427467
Language: English

Corporate Governance and Ethics is an illuminating and practical reading of Aristotle’s Politics for today’s corporate directors. Corporate governance issues are discussed in a holistic fashion, using international case studies to embed the discussion in environments defined by their economic, legal and cultural systems. This accessible book will appeal to corporate directors, executives and managers; academics and students with an interest in corporate governance, leadership and ethics, corporate citizenship and corporate social responsibility; and modern readers of Aristotle’s virtue theory and politics in relation to business ethics.

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* Review from James McRitchie, Corporate Governance

Integrative Economic Ethics

Foundations of a Civilized Market Economy

Peter Ulrich, translated by James Fearns; Cambridge University Press, March 2008, ISBN-13: 9780521877961

Language: English

Integrative Economic Ethics is a highly original work that progresses through a series of rational and philosophical arguments to address foundational issues concerning the relationship between ethics and the market economy. Rather than accepting market competition as a driver of ethical behaviour, the author shows that modern economies need to develop ethical principles that guide market competition, thus moving business ethics into the realms of political theory and civic rationality.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

Readings and Cases in a Global Context

Edited by Andrew Crane, Dirk Matten and Laura Spence; Routledge, Nov. 2007, ISBN 978-0-415-42428-8 (HB) / 978-0-415-42429-5 (PB)

Language: English

Modern business is obliged to meet increasingly demanding ethical, environmental, legal, commercial and public standards as defined by wider society. Corporate Social Responsibility has therefore become an important consideration for managers at all levels, as well as one of the most vibrant areas of study and research in the field of business and management. This new book provides a comprehensive and student-centred introduction to the key themes and issues currently being addressed in CSR around the world.

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Governments and Corporate Social Responsibility

Public Policies Beyond Regulation and Voluntary Compliance

Josep M. Lozano, Laura Albareda, Tamyko Ysa, Heike Roscher and Manila Marcuccio; Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2007, ISBN 9780230525566

Language: English

This book places the analysis of CSR public policies beyond regulation and voluntary compliance and presents an analytical framework for understanding how governments develop and design CSR policies. The research analyses and compares CSR public policies in 15 European Union countries. As a result of this research the authors have defined four models of CSR public policies which exist in the European Union. The agendas of themes and instruments implemented by governments to promote CSR are analyzed from a relational perspective.

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Facilitating Leadership

Siebens Herman, Garant, 2007, ISBN 9789044120486

Language: English

Facilitating Leadership offers a practical approach to leadership. It offers an insight in different types of leadership and their ethical implications, and outlines the necessary day to day competences and possible obstacles when applying facilitating leadership. With the concept of facilitating leadership the author describes a new point of view considering leadership.

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Verantwoord Schoolmanagement

Siebens Herman, Wolters/Plantyn, 2007, ISBN 9030184647

Language: Dutch

The author shows the need for the sector of education for a framework to determine and evaluate ethically good management. By applying the insights and knowledge of business ethics to school governance and management the author launches the new subdiscipline of school ethics.

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