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- A Better Way to Think About Business: How Personal Integrity Leads to Corporate Success
Excellence in business depends on "integrity, values and virtues" as much as profits, says philosopher Robert C. Solomon. In A Better Way to Think About Business, Solomon says that business leaders sh...
Citation: Solomon, Robert C. 1999. A Better Way to Think About Business: How Personal Integrity Leads to Corporate Success. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Areas of Interest: Labour - Employee, Leadership
- A Canadian Success Story? Gildan Activewear: T-shirts, Free Trade and Worker Rights
This report is essential reading for researchers, policy-makers and activists in Canada and elsewhere who are interested in the promotion of corporate responsibility and ensuring improvements for workers as world trade evolves....
Citation: Maquila Solidarity Network and Honduran Independent Monitoring Team (EMIH). 2003. A Canadian Success Story? Gildan Activewear: T-shirts, Free Trade and Worker Rights. Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN)
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights, Labour - Employee
- A Knight's Code of Business: How to Achieve Character and Competence in the Corporate World
This clever and insightful book reveals the depth and breadth of high moral character and competence in the corporate world. The good news is that the corporate world, by and large, is in good shape....
Citation: Gene Del Vecchio and Roderick Fong. 2003. A Knight's Code of Business: How to Achieve Character and Competence in the Corporate World Paramount Market Publishing
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct
- Beyond Integrity: A Judeo-Christian Approach to Business Ethics
This Judeo-Christian approach to business ethics offers a balanced view on a number of concrete ethical issues....
Citation: Rae, Scott B. and Kenman L. Wong. 1996. Beyond Integrity: A Judeo-Christian Approach to Business Ethics. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Spirituality
- Beyond The Bottom Line: Putting Social Responsibility To Work For Your Business And The World
Practices that benefit employees, communities, and the environment aren't just good deeds - they're good business decisions that have a direct and lasting impact on the bottom line. Moreover, consumer...
Citation: Makower, Joel. 1995. Beyond The Bottom Line: Putting Social Responsibility To Work For Your Business And The World A Touchstone Book: Touchstone
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility
- Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics
The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics provides clear, concise and highly informative definitions and explanations of the key concepts in one of the most important fields in contempo...
Citation: Werhane, Patricia H. and R. Edward Freeman, eds. 1998. Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers.
Areas of Interest: Education, Theory
- Business and Society: Corporate Strategy, Public Policy and Ethics
Business and Society: Corporate Strategy, Public Policy and Ethics, by Post, Lawrence and Weber was the first book to be published in the field of business and society and is the market leader! For ov...
Citation: Post, James E., Anne T. Lawrence and James Weber. 2001. Business and Society: Corporate Strategy, Public Policy and Ethics. 10 ed. New York: Mcgraw-Hill College.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Public Policy - Regulation
- Business Ethics
This book provides comprehensive, integrated coverage of the entire field of business ethics. It begins with an overview of today's business scene, then explores the basic tools and techniques of ethi...
Citation: DeGeorge, Richard T. 1999. Business Ethics. 5 ed: Prentice Hall.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety, Poverty, Theory
- Business Ethics – Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization
This book is the completely updated and revised 2nd edition of this successful text and boasts some new features. The new edition follows its great popularity beyond its initial European focus and bro...
Citation: D. Matten and A. Crane. 2007. Business Ethics - Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization. 2 ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Citizenship, Education, Globalization, Sustainability, Theory - Stakeholder
- Business Ethics (Basic Ethics in Action)
This book aspires to introduce the student to important ethical issues that arise in the world of business. As such, it fits into that branch of ethics referred to as Applied Professional Ethics. Busi...
Citation: Boylan, Michael. 2000. Business Ethics (Basic Ethics in Action): Prentice Hall
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Gender, Labour - Employee
- Business Ethics: A European Perspective – Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization
Business Ethics is an exciting, new student focused text which provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of European business ethics. It is the first business ethics textbooks to feature ex...
Citation: A. Crane and D. Matten. 2004. Business Ethics: A European Perspective - Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Globalization, Sustainability, Theory, Theory - Stakeholder
- Business Ethics: Case Studies and Selected Readings
This text provides real-life examples of ethical dilemmas, poor ethical choices, and wise ethical decisions from the newspapers, business journals and the author's experiences as a consultant and boar...
Citation: Jennings, Marianne Moody. 1998. Business Ethics: Case Studies and Selected Readings. 3 ed: South-Western Educational Publishing.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Corruption, Education, Environment & Business, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety, Leadership, Theory - Shareholder, Theory - Stakeholder
- Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases
This book provides readers with a clear, straightforward writing style, an abundance of examples, detailed real-life cases, and current data and statistics. It aims to 1) introduce ethical concepts th...
Citation: Velasquez, Manuel G. 2001. Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases. Boston: Pearson Education Inc.
Areas of Interest: Education, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Theory
- Business Ethics: Policies and Persons
This comprehensive collection presents a case-method approach to teaching business ethics. It contains a wide range of individual, managerial, and corporate cases, many with an international perspecti...
Citation: Kenneth E Goodpaster, Laura L Nash and Henri-Claude de Bettignies. 2005. Business Ethics: Policies and Persons 4ed: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
Areas of Interest: Education, Human Rights, Labour, Resource Extraction
- Business Ethics: The State of the Art
In a world in which daily reports of questionable business practices, from insider trading to environmental pollution, dominate the headlines, the need to understand the large issues of how business a...
Citation: Freeman, R. Edward. 1992. Business Ethics: The State of the Art: Oxford University Press.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Leadership
- Business in Ethical Focus: An Anthology
Business in Ethical Focus is a compilation of classical and contemporary essays on business ethics. Approximately 50 essays are organized into five units: Corporate Social Responsibility; Rights and O...
Citation: Allhoff, Fritz and Anand J.Vaidya, eds. 2008. Business in Ethical Focus: An Anthology. Peterborough: Broadview Press.
Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues, Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Theory
- Business in Government and Society: Ethical, International Decision-Making
This practical book illustrates, in an easy-to-read format, how to make ethical decisions. It employs a “hands-on,” international approach unique to this market. Complete, structured ethical decision-...
Citation: Frederick Maidment and William Eldridge. 1999. Business in Government and Society: Ethical, International Decision-Making: Prentice Hall.
Areas of Interest: Environment & Business, Globalization, Leadership, Public Policy
- Business: Its Legal, Ethical, and Global Environment
Offering the best preparation for future managers, teaches you how to understand and apply legal and ethical concepts to real business. Going further than simply introducing you to the legal environme...
Citation: Jennings, Marianne Moody. 1996. Business: Its Legal, Ethical, and Global Environment 4th Bk&CD ed: South-Western Pub.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Economic - Environmental, Education, Environment & Business, Globalization, Labour - Employee, Public Policy - Regulation, Sustainability
- Can Ethics Be Taught?: Perspectives, Challenges, and Approaches at the Harvard Business School
When business, government, and other professions fail to meet their responsibilities, it is most often not from an inadequacy of tools, techniques, and theory but from an absence of vision and a failu...
Citation: Thomas R. Piper, Mary C. Gentile and Sharon Daloz Parks. 1993. Can Ethics Be Taught?: Perspectives, Challenges, and Approaches at the Harvard Business School: Harvard Business School Press.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Leadership
- Canada and Missions for Peace: Lessons from Nicaragua, Cambodia, and Somalia
The end of the Cold War was to usher in a new era of international peace and security. Instead, new types of conflicts have emerged and the international community has had to react quickly. New threat...
Citation: Gregory Wirick; Lloyd Axworthy; Robert Miller. 1999. Canada and Missions for Peace: Lessons from Nicaragua, Cambodia, and Somalia: IDRC Books.
Areas of Interest: Development, Public Policy
- Canadian Issues in Environmental Ethics
Is it possible to design a forest policy that satisfies ethical and environmental concerns and is acceptable to business, labour and First Nations representatives? What is the best path through the ta...
Citation: Wesley Cragg, Allan Greenbaum and Alex Wellington, eds. 1997. Canadian Issues in Environmental Ethics. Peterborough: Broadview Press.
Areas of Interest: Economic - Environmental, Gender, Human Rights, Indigenous People, Resource Extraction
- Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business
Bestselling author and green business guru John Elkington offers indispensable reading for astute CEOs preparing to navigate the new agenda of sustainable business practice....
Citation: Elkington, John. 1998. Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business New Society Publishers
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Environment & Business, Sustainability
- Case Studies in Business Ethics
This collection of quality cases and essays on business ethics addresses some of the most pertinent ethical issues in today's business environment. It goes well beyond matters of fraud and public rela...
Citation: Thomas Donaldson and Al Gini. 1995. Case Studies in Business Ethics. 4 ed: Prentice Hall.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility
- Case Studies in Business, Society, and Ethics
A collection of 35 original and reprinted contemporary cases that focus on ethical and social issues surrounding business. Readers will be made aware of situations that require moral reflection, judgm...
Citation: Beauchamp, Tom L. 1997. Case Studies in Business, Society, and Ethics. 4 ed: Prentice Hall.
Areas of Interest: Public Policy
- Challenges for European Management in a Global Context – Experiences from Britain and Germany
This book provides cutting edge research and knowledge and an academic study of the impact of globalization in different areas affecting management and how management is responding....
Citation: Geppert, Mike, Dirk Matten, and Karen Williams, eds. 2002. Challenges for European Management in a Global Context - Experiences from Britain and Germany. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Globalization
- Character Is Destiny: The Value of Personal Ethics in Everyday Life
As Russell Gough implies, the fact that people are lapping up books on personal ethics, virtue, and character is best understood as a long-overdue reaction to the two dominant schools of pop psycholog...
Citation: Gough, Russell W. 1997. Character Is Destiny: The Value of Personal Ethics in Everyday Life: Crown Forum.
Areas of Interest: Education, Theory
- Clever As Serpents: Business Ethics and Office Politics
Authors Jim Grote and John McGeeney examine life in the comtemporary marketplace reflecting a wide breadth of experience as they couple the insights of philosopher Rene Girard with the likes of Aristo...
Citation: Jim Grote and John McGeeney. 1997. Clever As Serpents: Business Ethics and Office Politics: Liturgical Press.
Areas of Interest: Leadership
- Common Interest, Common Good: Creating Value Through Business and Social Sector Partnerships
With funding for nonprofits shrinking and global markets shaky, our business and social sectors are both confronting an increasingly uncertain future. Many organizations are searching for innovative s...
Citation: Sagawa, Shirley and Eli Segal. 1999. Common Interest, Common Good: Creating Value Through Business and Social Sector Partnerships. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct
- Concepts and Cases in Nursing Ethics
Concepts and Cases in Nursing Ethics maps the ethical landscape of contemporary nursing. The book is the product of a collaboration between philosopher-ethicist Michael Yeo, nurse-ethicist Anne Moor...
Citation: Concepts and Cases in Nursing Ethics. 1996. edited by A. Moorhouse and M. Yeo: Broadview Press.
Areas of Interest: Health - Healthcare
- Conducting Law and Society Research: Reflections on Methods and Practices
Through interviews with many of the most noteworthy authors in Law and Society, Conducting Law and Society Research takes students and scholars behind the scenes of empirical scholarship, showing the messy reality of research methods....
Citation: Halliday, Simon and Patrick Schmidt, eds. 2009. Conducting Law and Society Research: Reflections on Methods and Practices.Cambridge Studies in Law and Society Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Areas of Interest: Corruption, Education, Globalization, Public Policy
- Conscience and Corporate Culture (Foundations of Business Ethics)
Conscience and Corporate Culture advances the constructive dialogue on a moral conscience for corporations. Written for educators in the field of business ethics and practicing corporate executives, t...
Citation: Goodpaster, Ke E. 2006. Conscience and Corporate Culture (Foundations of Business Ethics), Foundations of Business Ethics: Wiley-Blackwell.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership
- Consumer Moral Leadership
This book shares a collection of novel ways to re-conceptualize and envision the moral imperatives of consumption, thereby providing invigorating insights for future dialogue and intellectual and social action....
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Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues, Leadership
- Contemporary Moral Issues
Trusted and respected throughout five editions, Contemporary Moral Issues provides students with a probing view of today's ethical landscape. Compiled from a Canadian perspective, and incorporating co...
Citation: Cragg, Wesley and Christine Koggel eds. 2004. Contemporary Moral Issues. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson
Areas of Interest: Education, Theory
- Cookin' the Book$: Say Pasta la Vista to Corporate Accounting Tricks and Fraud
Cookin' the Book$ is a humorous, yet enlightening tale of a corporate chef’s wise advice to his son. ; It tells readers how to discover the cookin’ secrets of corporate accounting that can turn into f...
Citation: Silver, Don. 2002. Cookin' the Book$: Say Pasta la Vista to Corporate Accounting Tricks and Fraud: Los Angeles: Adams-Hall Publishing
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Leadership
- Corporate Social Responsibility – A Legal Analysis
Corporations now face greater scrutiny regarding their environmental, social, and economic activities. Accounting firms and consultancies use increasingly sophisticated tools to verify corporate under...
Citation: Michael Kerr, Richard Janda and Chip Pitts. 2009. Corporate Social Responsibility -- A Legal Analysis Edited by C. Pitts: LexisNexis Canada.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, SRI/Responsible Investment
- Corporate Social Responsibility – Three Volume Set
This three volume collection provides students and researchers with the historically most important of the classic articles in CSR, as well as the best of the contemporary and trendsetting work in thi...
Citation: (eds.), A. Crane and D. Matten. 2007. Corporate Social Responsibility - Three Volume Set. London: SAGE Library in Business and Management, London (Sage)
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Globalization, Theory
- Corporate Social Responsibility: Readings and Cases in Global Context
Modern business is obliged to meet increasingly demanding ethical, environmental, legal, commercial, and public standards as defined by wider society. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) 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 important new book provides a comprehensive and student-centred introduction to the key themes and issues currently being addressed in CSR around the world....
Citation: Crane, Andrew, Dirk Matten, and Laura J. Spence, eds. 2008. Corporate Social Responsibility: Readings and Cases in Global Context. London: Routledge.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Auditing, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic - Environmental, Education, Theory, Theory - Stakeholder
- Corporations and Citizenship
Advance praise: 'This book offer a comprehensive, authoritative and thought provoking discussion of corporate citizenship, but it does more than explore a key theme in contemporary society. It reflect...
Citation: A. Crane, D. Matten and J. Moon. 2008. Corporations and Citizenship. Edited by R. E. F. S. L. H. D. Wheeler, Business, Value Creation, and Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Public Policy, Theory - Stakeholder
- Creating a Mission That Makes a Difference
Looks at how to write a mission statement that delivers a powerful message. Shows how to make the statement one of concrete, practical utility, not just inspirational value. Provides a useful Mission...
Citation: Carver, John. 1996. Creating a Mission That Makes a Difference: Jossey-Bass.
Areas of Interest: Leadership
- Creative Accounting and the Cross-Eyed Javelin Thrower
Creative accounting, as highlighted in the best selling books of Terry Smith and Ian Griffiths, was one of the key themes in corporate finance in the 1980s. The control of creative accounting has been a major issue of the 1990s. This book looks at the regulatory response to creative accounting and the role olf the Financial Reporting Review Panel, under Sir David Tweedie, in policing company accounts. The book is about the contest for the control of creative accounting, a contest in which Sir David Tweedie describes the Financial Reporting Review Panel as 'like a cross-eyed javelin thrower at the Olympic Games'....
Citation: McBarnet, Doreen and Chris Whelan. 2000. Creative Accounting and the Cross-Eyed Javelin Thrower. London: John Wiley & Sons.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Auditing, Corporate Governance, Education, Public Policy - Regulation
- Crime, compliance and control
Law is a double-edged sword. It is not just an instrument for implementing social policy, social control, and social rights, but an instrument, in the hands of those with the motivation, power and economic resources to wield it, for undermining them. This topical volume presents seminal socio-legal essays encompassing a diverse range of issues, including criminal justice, tax avoidance and corporate finance, to fully explore the topics of crime, compliance and control....
Citation: McBarnet, Doreen. 2004. Crime, Compliance and Control: Aldershot: Ashgate.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Auditing, Corporate Governance - Transparency, Economic - Social, Human Rights, Public Policy - Regulation
- Criminal Justice
Criminal justice is often described as a "system" or integrated set of processes forming part of one overarching, coherent social practice. For others, criminal justice is best seen as a diverse array...
Citation: Lacey, Nicola, ed. Criminal Justice, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Areas of Interest: Public Policy - Regulation
- Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right
How should you respond if you are offered an opportunity at work solely because of your race or gender? ; ; What should you do if a single parent on your staff is falling behind in his or her work?...
Citation: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. 1997. Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right 1ed: Harvard Business School Press.
Areas of Interest: Leadership
- Earth Matters: Indigenous Peoples, the Extractives Industries and Corporate Social Responsibility
In undertaking an in-depth analysis of CSR and indigenous peoples in the extractive industries, the book seeks to answer the following questions. What is the nature and extent of CSR initiatives in the extractive industries and how should they be understood? What motivates companies to pursue CSR policies and activities? How do specific political, social and legal contexts shape corporate behaviour? What is the relationship between indigenous political action and CSR? How and to what extent can corporations be held accountable for their policies and actions? Can CSR help bring about a fundamental change in the distribution of benefits and costs from large-scale resource exploitation and, if so, under what conditions can this occur?...
Citation: O'Faircheallaigh, Ciaran and Saleem Ali, eds. 2008. Earth Matters: Indigenous Peoples, the Extractives Industries and Corporate Social Responsibility. Sheffield, U.K.: Greenleaf Publishing.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Indigenous People, Public Policy - Regulation, Resource Extraction
- Eighty Exemplary Ethics Statements
Eighty Exemplary Ethics Statements presents and comments on exemplary ethics statements from leading corporations and organizations worldwide. Patrick E. Murphy offers seven principles to follow in de...
Citation: Murphy, Patrick E. 1997. Eighty Exemplary Ethics Statements: University of Notre Dame Press
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance
- Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society
As a field of study, business ethics aims to specify the principles under which businesses must operate to behave ethically. Thus business ethics focuses on such issues as those that have recently att...
Citation: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, edited by R. W. Kolbe. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 2008.
Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, Gender, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Theory
- Ethical Issues: : Perspectives for Canadians
The long-awaited new edition of Ethical Issues updates Eldon Soifer's highly respected applied ethics anthology. The text introduces students to many of the central ethical issues. These include anima...
Citation: Soifer, Eldon, ed. 2009. Ethical Issues: Perspectives for Canadians. Peterborough: Broadview Press.
Areas of Interest: Education
- Ethical Theory and Business
This book presents a comprehensive anthology of readings, legal perspectives, and cases in ethics in business. Contrasting business ethics approaches, Regulation of business, Performance Monitoring. G...
Citation: Tom L. Beauchamp and Norman E. Bowie. 1996. Ethical Theory and Business. 5 ed: Prentice Hall.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Globalization, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Theory, Theory - Shareholder, Theory - Stakeholder
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