The corporation

the pathological pursuit of profit and power

As incisive as Eric Schlosser's bestselling Fast Food Nation, as rigorous as Joseph E. Stiglitz's Globalization and Its Discontents, and as scathing as Michael Moore's Stupid White Men, Joel Bakan's new book is a brilliantly argued account of the corporation's ...

What matters most

how a small group of pioneers is teaching social responsibility to big business, and why big business is listening

Under what conditions can a business hope to deliver consistent financial results, inspire employees, protect the environment, and make the world a better place? The question gets to the heart of a set of fundamental questions: What is the purpose of a business? In what ...

The triple bottom line

does it all add up?: assessing the sustainability of business and CSR

In this text leading experts examine the implications of the idea of the "triple bottom line" - the business strategy that delivers simultaneous financial, social and environmental benefits - showing what it has already achieved by stimulating change and bringing business to appreciate the importance and benefits ...

Transparencia

Una guía para que los líderes tomen decisiones difíciles, tengan credibilidad y construyan organizaciones ganadoras. Una herramienta probada para incrementar nuestra ventaja competitiva. Este libro se basa en el concepto de transparencia como la clave para ganar la confianza de los inversores, de los empleados ...

The future of philantropy

economics,ethics,and management

"Social stability across the globe requires the mobilization of human and technological resources at levels far beyond the capacity and will of governments. As we all struggle with a new definition of social solidarity, smart philanthropy, emotionally energized philanthropy, and even entrepreneurial philanthropy is now ...

Management ethics

Management Ethics is an indispensable resource and guide to the issues and debates within the ethics of management. It includes examination of: the obligations that managers have to their various stakeholders: employees, customers, shareholders, and the community how managers can meet their obligations the ethics ...

Business and society

a strategic approach to social responsibility

A brief alternative to its competitors, Business and Society combines 12 chapters with 12 cases to offer a strategic approach to social responsibility. Streamlined coverage of key topics allows undergraduate students and MBA majors to focus on only what they need to prepare for in ...

Perspectives in business ethics

Laura Hartman#s: Perspectives in Business Ethics offers a foundation in ethical thought, followed by a variety of perspectives on difficult ethical dilemmas in both the personal and professional context. This anthology encourages the reader to #critically evaluate each perspective using his or her own ...

El triunfo del Humanismo en la empresa

Carlos V, Erasmo y la naturaleza del poder

Trata de lo que habría ocurrido si, en los inicios del reinado de Carlos V, Erasmo de Rótterdam hubiera venido a España aceptando la invitación del cardenal Cisneros y manteniendo la relación fraternal con Tomás Moro. Del trabajo en equipo de esos cuatro grandes personajes ...

Códigos éticos para el mundo empresarial

La reflexión sobre la ética en la empresa ha sido prolífica desde los años setenta, coincidiendo con la reivindicación de la necesidad de pasar de las palabras a los hechos. Esta necesidad de institucionalizar y hacer operativa toda esa reflexión en la praxis empresarial se ...

Responsabilidad social de la empresa y finanzas sociales

En los tiempos que corren,dificilmente cabría apuntar hacia temas de mayor actualidad y trascendencia para los mercados financieros y para la opinión pública europea que los relacionados con las deficiencias estructurales que presenta el comportamiento ético en el ejercicio de su operativa.Preocupa,y ...

Acabarán con el capitalismo

Del escándalo de Enron a la debacle de Vivendi, del estallido de la burbuja de Internet a la crisis de confianza que atraviesan los mercados, el planeta entero vive obsesionado con la posibilidad de un desplome generalizado del sistema económico y financiero. Pero ¿quién quiere ...

Business, government and sustainable development

Keijzers provides a concise and authoritative introduction to the evolution of the collaborative stakeholder approach to sustainable development in the context of changing environmental policies. The range of sustainability objectives has now developed from relatively simple issues of environmental protection to a full array of ...

Corporateering

how corporate power steals your personal freedom...and what you can do about it

In Corporateering, Jamie Court illustrates how corporations routinely and quietly rob us of our personal freedoms, in-cluding privacy, security, the right to legal recourse, and more. In fact, "corporateering"-the act of prioritizing commercial gain over individual, social, or cultural gain-is everywhere in our lives ...

Agribusiness and society

corporate responses to environmentalism, market opportunities and public regulation

"Agribusiness & society" examines how far agribusiness corporations are responding to the opportunities and pressures resulting from emerging environmental awareness.How are they changing their R & D and business practices to develop new environmentally oriented products,services and methods of prodcution?And what can they cahnge of their own volition,and where is external direction a necessary condition of environmentally friendly innovation? These questions are explored through investigations of particualr biotech and agribusiness companies-including Monsanto,Ciba Geigy,Dole,and Chiquita-and their behaviour in locations as diverse as California,Europe,Australia,Brazil,and Central America.The authors explore how some have responded to environmental pressures by exploiting new consumer-created markets;some changed their production practices in a sustainable way;while others have complied with(or resisted) state environmental regulation,notably labelling systems and certification. Each study examines how institutional,cultural,economic,political and technological contexts shape the strategies of big business.Topics include " green ...

The corporation

the pathological pursuit of profit and power

What would the world be like if the ruling elite were insane? This isn#t a question for science fiction but a matter for social scientists. The most powerful class of institution on earth, the corporation, is by any reasonable measure hopelessly and irrevocably demented ...

Corporate integrity & accountability

The ethical and legal scandals at Enron, WorldCom, Tyco and many other businesses in the United States, Europe and Asia have shaken people's confidence in business. Corporate Integrity and Accountability seeks to address questions of corporate integrity as they arise for financial reporting, executive ...

What price the moral high ground?

ethical dilemmas in competitive environments

Financial disasters - and stories of the greedy bankers who precipitated them - seem to underscore the idea that self-interest will always trump concerns for the greater good. Indeed, this idea is supported by the prevailing theories in both economics and evolutionary biology. But is it valid ...

La ambición femenina

cómo re-conciliar trabajo y familia

La re-conciliación del trabajo y la familia es hoy una ambición común a hombres y mujeres. Superadas ya las viejas batallas feministas por el voto, la igualdad legal o el acceso a la educación el reto se plantea ahora en este frente más sutil: lo ...

La participación en el capital social como modalidad de ayuda pública a las empresas