Business Ethics for a Material World - An Ecological Approach to Object Stewardship

This book argues that managers must be stewards of workplace objects, from coffee to nitrogen oxides, to run sustainable and responsible businesses.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The singularization of everything; 2. Singularization schema; 3. The power of negative thinking; 4. Three failures in regulated markets; 5. Person, place, and product; 6. Ecological value; 7. Putting responsibility to work; 8. Materiality for business ethics.

About the author

Ryan Burg is Assistant Professor of Management at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He holds a joint Ph.D. in Business Ethics and Sociology from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, and his dissertation was a finalist for the Social Issues in Management Dissertation award. Professor Burg is also a co-founder of the Responsible Endowments Coalition, a national organization that supports the responsible investment movement on college and university campuses.

Summary

This interdisciplinary work, drawing on business ethics, social theory, and management, proposes a new ethic of stewardship for a global economy. Burg argues that, by tracing the path of objects through the global economy, managers can align ethics, sustainability, and governance with a global formulation of responsibility.

Product details

• Authors: Ryan Burg, Ryan (Bucknell University Burg
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781107183018
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18301-8
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Business, Value Creation, and Society; Business, Value Creation, and; Business, Value Creation, and Society; Business, Value Creation, and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Business ethics & social responsibility, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Business ethics and social responsibility