Business ethics and sustainability
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TextPublication details: New York Routledge 2022 Description: xviii, 195 pISBN: 9780367650605Subject(s): Sustainability | Business Ethics | Business - Environmental AspectsDDC classification: 174.4 Summary: Book Description
This book equips readers with the knowledge, insights and key capabilities to understand and practice business activities from ethical and sustainable vantage points.
In our interconnected global business environment, the impacts of business activities are under increased ethical scrutiny from a wide range of stakeholders. Written from an international perspective, this book introduces the theory and practice of ethical and sustainable business, focusing in particular on eco-environmental sustainability, intergenerational responsibilities, current disruptive technologies, and intercultural values of the business community and consumers. Written by an expert author who also brings to the fore non-Western concepts and themes, this book:
features positive case studies, as well as transferrable and applicable key insights from such cases;
highlights the importance of taking cultural differences into account;
takes a transdisciplinary approach which considers findings from research fields including conceptual and empirical business ethics, behavioral economics, ecological economics, environmental ethics, and the philosophy of culture;
weaves in pedagogical features throughout, including up-to-date case studies, study questions, thought experiments, links to popular movies, and key takeaways.
Written in an accessible and student-friendly manner, this book will be of great interest to students of business ethics, environmental ethics, applied ethics, and sustainable development, as well as business practitioners striving toward ethical, sustainable, and responsible business practice.
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Table of Contents
1. Business and Ethics: Contradiction and Success Story
2. Ethics and Business: Down the Philosophical Rabbit Hole
3. Normative Ethical Foundations of Business Ethics: The Big Five
4. Sustainability and Organizations’ Environmental Responsibility: Trash and Treasures
5. Ethical Stakeholder Analysis and Ethical SWOT Analysis
6. Disruptive Technologies and Business Ethics
7. Business Ethics in Media, Marketing, Advertising, and Fashion
8. Intercultural Business Ethics and Sustainability
9. Systemic Issues
10. Conclusion
Book Description
This book equips readers with the knowledge, insights and key capabilities to understand and practice business activities from ethical and sustainable vantage points.
In our interconnected global business environment, the impacts of business activities are under increased ethical scrutiny from a wide range of stakeholders. Written from an international perspective, this book introduces the theory and practice of ethical and sustainable business, focusing in particular on eco-environmental sustainability, intergenerational responsibilities, current disruptive technologies, and intercultural values of the business community and consumers. Written by an expert author who also brings to the fore non-Western concepts and themes, this book:
features positive case studies, as well as transferrable and applicable key insights from such cases;
highlights the importance of taking cultural differences into account;
takes a transdisciplinary approach which considers findings from research fields including conceptual and empirical business ethics, behavioral economics, ecological economics, environmental ethics, and the philosophy of culture;
weaves in pedagogical features throughout, including up-to-date case studies, study questions, thought experiments, links to popular movies, and key takeaways.
Written in an accessible and student-friendly manner, this book will be of great interest to students of business ethics, environmental ethics, applied ethics, and sustainable development, as well as business practitioners striving toward ethical, sustainable, and responsible business practice.
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