Description
The Rise of Business Ethics
Routledge Studies in Business Ethics Series
Author: Mees Bernard
Language: EnglishSubjects for The Rise of Business Ethics:
Keywords
CSR Initiative; Young Man; Business Ethics; Case Western Reserve University; Business History; Greater Board Independence; Political Economy; West Germany; Corporate Revolution; Corporate Community Involvement; Business Philanthropy; St George’s House; CSR; Critical Management Studies; Corporate Social Responsibility; Responsible Management Education; Business Philosophy; Corporate Governance; Caux Round Table; Ethical Leadership; Caux Round Table Principles; Sustainability; Centesimus Annus; ethical behaviour; American Business Ethics; post-industrial societies; Modern Corporate Form; business scandal; Corporate Governance Reform; social responsibility; Global Compact; Big Philanthropy; Catholic Employers
Publication date: 08-2021
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 12-2019
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Hardback
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In 1973, Daniel Bell argued that corporations in post-industrial societies increasingly needed to behave in accord with widely accepted social norms, particularly in terms of ethical behavior and social responsibility. Yet widespread criticism of business behavior was not an invention of the 1960s and 70s or a product of changing commercial norms. The key feature historically has been business scandal. Understandings of how the field of business ethics has emerged are undeveloped, however.
This book is the first attempt to explain the conditions which saw a focus develop on business ethics especially in the 1960s and 70s, and how the broader field developed to encompass related notions such as corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, ethical leadership, sustainable business and responsible management education.
The Rise of Business Ethics provides an introduction and analysis of the key developments in contemporary business ethics by examining them in terms of their diachronic development ? the key thinkers, the key issues, the key institutions and how they each contributed to contemporary understandings of business ethics, governance and practice. Addressing the topic from a European as well as North American perspective, The Rise of Business Ethics will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of business ethics, business and society, business history, organization studies and political economy.
Acknowledgements
Preface
- Introduction
- The Corporate Revolution
- Religion and Philanthropy
- The Social Responsibilities of Business
- Business Philosophy
- Corporate Governance
- Ethical Leadership
- Sustainability
- Responsible Management
- Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Bernard Mees is an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia.
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