Routledge Studies in Business Ethics
About the Book Series
Business ethics is a site of contestation, both in theory and practice. For some it serves as a salve for the worst effects of capitalism, giving businesses the means self-regulate away from entrenched tendencies of malfeasance and exploitation. For others business ethics is a more personal matter, concerning the way that individuals can effectively wade through the moral quagmires that characterise so many dimensions of business life. Business ethics has also been conceived of as a fig leaf designed to allow business-as-usual to continue while covering over the less savoury practices so as to create an appearance of righteousness.
Across these and other approaches, what remains critical is to ensure that the ethics of business is the subject of incisive questioning, critical research, and diverse theoretical development. It is through such scholarly inquiry that the increasingly powerful purview of corporations and business activity can be interrogated, understood and, ultimately, reformulated. This series contributes to that goal by publishing the latest research and thinking across the broad terrain that characterised business ethics.
The series welcomes contributions in areas including: corporate social responsibility; critical approaches to business ethics; ethics and corporate governance; ethics and diversity; feminist ethics; globalization and business ethics; philosophical traditions of business ethics; postcolonialism and the ethics of business; production and supply chain ethics; resistance, political activism and ethics; sustainability, environmentalism and climate change; the ethics of corporate misconduct; the politics of business ethics; and worker’s rights.
Approaches to Corporate Social Responsibility: Knowledge, Values, and Actions
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefan Markovic, Adam Lindgreen, Nikolina Koporcic, Milena Micevski
December 18, 2024
Following recent growth of ethical consumerism, customers and other stakeholders increasingly pressure organizations to be socially responsible and minimize their negative impact on the environment. Accordingly, a plethora of firms have integrated corporate social responsibility (CSR) at the center...
Ethical Decision-Making in Management: Perspectives of the Philosopher, the Sociologist and the Manager
1st Edition
By Matej Drašček, Dana Mesner Andolšek, Adriana Rejc Buhovac
November 29, 2024
Moral pragmatism has been largely ignored in Business Ethics, despite its natural attraction and the fact that it is prominent in philosophy and socio-economic theories. The main premise of the book is that the complexity of today’s business world does not permit a grand ethical theory, ...
Morality Management and Situation Ethics: Metatheory and Practice
1st Edition
By Jan Franciszek Jacko
November 26, 2024
This book presents the philosophical assumptions of situation ethics to show the practice of morality management that follows from them. This research comprises theoretical and applied aspects: It is an investigation into metaethics that encompasses strategic and quality management problems. With ...
Work as a Calling: From Meaningful Work to Good Work
1st Edition
By Garrett W. Potts
January 29, 2024
Amidst the exponentially growing interest in "work as a calling," contemporary discussions have taken an individualistic turn away from the earlier prosocial character that once marked this orientation to work. Now, discussions about "work as a calling" mostly prioritize personal fulfilment via the...
Disturbing Business Ethics: Emmanuel Levinas and the Politics of Organization
1st Edition
By Carl Rhodes
June 02, 2020
21st century Western neoliberalism has seen the transformation of self-interest from an economic imperative to a centrally constitutive part of dominant modes of subjective existence. Against this celebration of competitive individualism, Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophy stands as a haunting reminder ...
Ethics and Morality in Consumption: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Deirdre Shaw, Michal Carrington, Andreas Chatzidakis
June 08, 2018
Ethical consumerism is on the rise. No longer bound to the counter-cultural fringes, ethical concerns and practices are reaching into the mainstream of society and being adopted by everyday consumers – from considering carbon miles to purchasing free-range eggs to making renewable energy choices. ...
Reforming Capitalism: The Scientific Worldview and Business
1st Edition
By Rogene Buchholz
May 22, 2017
This book examines the role that the traditional understanding of science plays in how we understand the capitalistic system and how it informs business and business school education. Science serves many purposes in business organizations; it is much more than just a method to gain knowledge about ...
Workers' Rights and Labor Compliance in Global Supply Chains: Is a Social Label the Answer?
1st Edition
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By Jennifer Bair, Doug Miller, Marsha Dickson
August 03, 2016
This book provides insight into the potential for the market to protect and improve labour standards and working conditions in global apparel supply chains. It examines the possibilities and limitations of market approaches to securing social compliance in global manufacturing industries. It does ...
Individuals, Groups, and Business Ethics
1st Edition
By Chris Provis
July 27, 2016
Corporate social responsibility has become a heavily discussed topic in business ethics. Identifying some generally accepted moral principles as a basis for discussion, Individuals, Groups, and Business Ethics examines ethical dimensions of our relationships with families, friends and workmates, ...
Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation
1st Edition
By Kenneth Amaeshi, Paul Nnodim, Osuji Onyeka
September 03, 2015
Despite its recent popularity in literature, theory, and practice, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) remains a vague concept that struggles to define itself beyond the confines of corporate philanthropy or sustainability. In some circles, it is a response to the present and anticipated climate ...
Leadership for Environmental Sustainability
1st Edition
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By Benjamin W. Redekop
August 15, 2011
As the first book in the field of leadership studies to approach sustainability as a multi-faceted leadership challenge, Leadership for Environmental Sustainability will help to set the terms of the discussion on this topic among students, scholars, and practitioners of leadership for years to come...
Organizational Transformation for Sustainability: An Integral Metatheory
1st Edition
By Mark Edwards
January 06, 2011
During the 21st century organizations will undergo a level of radical and global change that has rarely been seen before. This transformation will come as a result of the environmental, social and economic challenges that now confront organisations in all their activities. But are our ...