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Understanding Ethics and Responsibilities in a Globalizing World

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This book contemplates the ethics of responsibility in a large range of meanings, consequences and impacts. It reflects the perspectives and reasoning of 24 authors from all continents. All chapters are original papers presented at the Fifth World ISBEE Congress, that took place in Warsaw, Poland, at the Kozminski University, on 11-14 of July, 2012. In this book, ethics and responsibility are considered essential traits of character, not only in the business or governmental arenas but in any initiative, decision and activity. The contributions to this book focus on a spectrum of themes, terms and concepts, the global corporate social responsibilities perspective covering impacts, challenges, analysis, criticism, consequences of important topics of real life, sustainability, international economy and regimes, corruption, poverty and violence, among others. The book is intended for academics, researchers and professionals in all continents who are dedicated to Ethics, Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Innovation, and Sustainability Management.

List of contents

Ethics and responsibilities; Maria Cecilia Coutinho de Arruda, Boleslaw Rok.- Keynote Speech Corporate Leadership in Times of Public Distrust. Klaus M. Leisinger .- Part I - Responsibility as a key concept of ethicsShareholder Primacy as an Impediment to Corporate Social Responsibility; David Rönnegard, N. Craig Smith.- From "Free-floating Responsibility" to self-responsibility CSR as theoretical and practical context for ethics; Imre Ungvári Zrínyi.- Beyond the grip of the sovereign: Deliberation, 'We-reasoning' and the Legitimacy of Norms and Standards in a Globalized World; Juljan Krause, Markus Scholz.- Part II - Healthy, fair and sustainable business cultures Morality as An Index of Mental Health of the Organisation: Building a model of healthy Leadership; Julia Bulatova.- Do you Believe in Life after Work? A Non-instrumental Defense of Work-Life Balance; Karolina Lewestam, Paulina Bednarz - Luczewska.- Sustaining The Sustainable: Creating The Culture of Sustainability; Maria Cecilia Coutinho de Arruda, Marilena Lino de Almeida Lavorato.- Towards Re-Theorizing the firm in pursuit of well-being and social justice; Ganesh Nathan.- Part III - Business engaging in politics CSR's new challenge: corporate political advocacy; Dorothea Baur, Florian Wettstein.- Countries in Transition: Ethics is not the Key on their success. Analysis of Chilean Experience; Jorge Mendoza, Orlando de la Vega.- Economic Inequality As An Obstacle to Development; Ulyana Shtybel, Elena Artemenko.- Part IV - Business ethics education Social Responsibility as a Matter of Justice: A Proposal to Expand Business Ethics Education; Francis J. Schweigert.- Sustainability, Justice and Virtue; Howard Harris.- Moral Reasoning and Learning Outcomes in Undergraduate Business Education: A Cross-Cultural Exploration; Jessica McManus Warnell, Maria Cecilia Coutinho de Arruda, Cheng Wang.- Effort & Achievement of Two Decades of Business Ethics Teaching and Research inAfrica with a special reference to Kenya; Christine W. Gichure.- Conclusion The Future for Responsibility; Boleslaw Rok. Maria Cecilia Coutinho de Arruda.

Summary

This book contemplates the ethics of responsibility in a large range of meanings, consequences and impacts. It reflects the perspectives and reasoning of 24 authors from all continents. All chapters are original papers presented at the Fifth World ISBEE Congress, that took place in Warsaw, Poland, at the Kozminski University, on 11-14 of July, 2012. In this book, ethics and responsibility are considered essential traits of character, not only in the business or governmental arenas but in any initiative, decision and activity. The contributions to this book focus on a spectrum of themes, terms and concepts, the global corporate social responsibilities perspective covering impacts, challenges, analysis, criticism, consequences of  important topics of real life, sustainability, international economy and regimes, corruption, poverty and violence, among others. The book is intended for academics, researchers and professionals in all continents who are dedicated to Ethics, Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Innovation, and Sustainability Management.

Product details

Assisted by Mari Cecilia Coutinho de Arruda (Editor), Maria Cecilia Coutinho de Arruda (Editor), Maria Cecilia Coutinho de Arruda (Editor), ROK (Editor), Rok (Editor), Boleslaw Rok (Editor)
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.2018
 
EAN 9783319794471
ISBN 978-3-31-979447-1
No. of pages 308
Dimensions 155 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
Weight 486 g
Illustrations VIII, 308 p. 8 illus.
Series The International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics Book Series
The International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics Book Series
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works

Management, B, Strategisches Management, Ethics, Leadership, Business Strategy/Leadership, business strategy, Religion and Philosophy, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics

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