Business Ethics: Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization

Höfundar: Andrew Crane; Dirk Matten; Sarah Glozer; Laura Spence (Útgáfa: 5)
Business Ethics: Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization

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Now in its fifth edition, this lively and engaging text tackles one of the most pressing issues facing businesses today: how to be a good corporate citizen in a complex multiple-stakeholder world. Written from a truly international perspective, Business Ethics explains the ethical challenges faced by businesses in different parts of the globe, and provides the tools and concepts necessary to understand and deal with ethical problems effectively wherever you are in the world.

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Útgefandi
Oxford University Press Academic UK
ISBN
9780192554888
Print ISBN
9780198810070
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
5
Höfundar
Andrew Crane; Dirk Matten; Sarah Glozer; Laura Spence
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2019-06-27
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

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  • Cover
  • Halftitle
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Outline Contents
  • Detailed Contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • List of feature boxes
  • How to use this book
  • Guide to the book
  • Guide to the online resources
  • Acknowledgements
  • Editorial advisory panel
  • Part A Understanding Business Ethics
  • 1 Introducing Business Ethics
  • What is business ethics?
  • Why is business ethics important?
  • Business ethics in different organizational contexts
  • Globalization: a key context for business ethics?
  • Sustainability: a key goal for business ethics?
  • Summary
  • 2 Framing Business Ethics: Corporate Responsibility, Stakeholders, and Citizenship
  • Towards a framework for business ethics
  • What is a corporation?
  • Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
  • Stakeholder theory of the firm
  • Corporate citizenship—the firm as a political actor
  • Summary
  • 3 Evaluating Business Ethics: Normative Ethical Theories
  • Introduction
  • The role of ethical theory
  • Normative ethical theories and religion
  • Western modernist ethical theories
  • Alternative perspectives on ethical theory
  • Summary
  • 4 Making Decisions in Business Ethics: Descriptive Ethical Theories
  • Introduction
  • What is an ethical decision?
  • Models of ethical decision-making
  • Individual influences on ethical decision-making
  • Situational influences on decision-making
  • Summary
  • 5 Managing Business Ethics: Tools and Techniques of Business Ethics Management
  • Introduction
  • What is business ethics management?
  • Setting standards of ethical behaviour: designing and implementing codes of ethics
  • Managing stakeholder relations
  • Assessing ethical performance
  • Organizing for business ethics management
  • Summary
  • Part B Contextualizing Business Ethics: The COrporate Citizen and Its Stakeholders
  • 6 Shareholders and Business Ethics
  • Introduction: reassessing the importance of shareholders as stakeholders
  • Shareholders as stakeholders: understanding corporate governance
  • Ethical issues in corporate governance
  • Shareholders and globalization
  • Shareholders as citizens of the corporation
  • Shareholding for sustainability
  • Summary
  • 7 Employees and Business Ethics
  • Introduction
  • Employees and other workers as stakeholders
  • Ethical issues in the employment relationship
  • Employing people worldwide: the ethical challenges of globalization
  • The corporate citizen and employee relations
  • Towards sustainable employment
  • Summary
  • 8 Consumers and Business Ethics
  • Introduction
  • Consumers as stakeholders
  • Ethical issues, marketing, and the consumer
  • Globalization and consumers: the ethical challenges of the global marketplace
  • Consumers and corporate citizenship: consumer sovereignty and the politics of purchasing
  • Sustainable consumption
  • Summary
  • 9 Suppliers, Competitors, and Business Ethics
  • Introduction
  • Suppliers and competitors as stakeholders
  • Ethical issues and suppliers
  • Ethical issues and competitors
  • Globalization, suppliers, and competitors: the ethical challenges of global business networks
  • The corporate citizen in business-to-business relationships: ethical sourcing and fair trade
  • Sustainability and business relationships: towards industrial ecosystems?
  • Summary
  • 10 Civil Society and Business Ethics
  • Introduction
  • Civil society organizations as stakeholders
  • Ethical issues and CSOs
  • Globalization and civil society organizations
  • Corporate citizenship and civil society: charity, collaboration, enterprise, or regulation?
  • Civil society, business, and sustainability
  • Summary
  • 11 Government, Regulation, and Business Ethics
  • Introduction
  • Government as a stakeholder
  • Ethical issues in the relationship between business and government
  • Globalization and business–government relations
  • Corporate citizenship and regulation: business as key player in the regulatory game
  • Governments, business, and sustainability
  • Summary
  • 12 Conclusions and Future Perspectives
  • Introduction
  • The nature and scope of business ethics
  • Globalization as a context for business ethics
  • Sustainability as a goal for business ethics
  • Corporate citizenship and business ethics
  • The contribution of normative ethical theories to business ethics
  • Influences on ethical decision-making
  • The role of management tools in business ethics
  • The role of different stakeholder constituencies in business ethics
  • Trade-offs and conflicts between different stakeholder groups
  • Summary
  • References
  • Subject index
  • Name index
  • Countries and regions index
  • Companies, organizations, and brands index