Business : Business Ethics

In Infectious Greed, two leading financial experts offer a powerful new explanation of why the corporate scandals happened-and propose market-driven reforms that don't just “patch” the system but fix it for generations to come. Discover how the system came to provide massive incentives for malfeasance by CEOs, boards, auditors, analysts, and investment houses-and learn how those “bad” incentives can be replaced by even more powerful incentives for integrity. more...

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Published in association with the UK Chapter of the Academy of International Business (AIB), this ninth volume in the AIB series focuses on the new challenges and developments in the field of international business. The book successfully brings together an integrated set of research concepts and results to present some contrasting views about how international business is adjusting to the challenges and opportunities that the 21st century presents. more...

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The social expectations of corporations within a globalised economic environment is challenging our traditional conception of the proper commercial function. This text delimits their emergent roles and responsibilities under international law. more...

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Through creative use of examples, case studies and exercises from organizations worldwide, this book demonstrates the many levels at which globalization impacts on contemporary businesses, society and organizations and elucidates the ways in which different globalization trends and factors interrelate. Each chapter: opens with a short and current case which introduces the key concepts covered in that chapter; provides an overview of chapter objectives to allow the student to navigate easily; illustrates the chapter concepts with useful boxed examples; concludes with a review of the key chapter concepts learnt; provides a series of review and discussion questions; offers 'Global Enterprise Project' assignments for applying course concepts to the same company, and gives up-to-date references from many sources to direct student's further reading. Students will have access to a companion website which includes further additional material in support of each chapter of the book. more...

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This book seeks to contribute to a more adequate coalescence of ethics and business with innovative models for such coalescence, for the mutual benefit of business ethicists, professors teaching in the undergraduate and MBA classroom, corporate executives, and businesspeople. While each of the contributions in this collection is distinct, each invites us to examine our own mind sets about corporate responsibility and the future of free enterprise as Western multinational corporations expand into a global economy. The world has become a a villagea (TM) and what were once thought of as externalities can no longer be dismissed as not part of the decision equation in business ventures. The alleged separation of business from ethics can no longer be a viable approach, if it ever was, as companies move into alien cultures and affect, both positively and sometimes questionably, traditional, non-western and nonindustrial mores of local communities. Globalization has challenged our parochial management thinking. This collection of essays helps to refocus our conceptual work about commerce and business practices in this new century of global enterprise. more...

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