Understanding Ethics and Responsibilities in a Globalizing World

✍ Scribed by Maria Cecilia Coutinho de Arruda, Boleslaw Rok (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 302
• Series: The International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics Book Series 5
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Ethics and Responsibilities....Pages 3-14
Corporate Leadership in Times of Public Distrust....Pages 15-40
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
Shareholder Primacy as an Impediment to Corporate Social Responsibility....Pages 43-57
From “Free-Floating Responsibility” to Self-Responsibility CSR as Theoretical and Practical Context for Ethics....Pages 59-81
Erosion of Sovereign Control: Deliberation, ‘We-Reasoning,’ and the Legitimacy of Norms and Standards in a Globalized World....Pages 83-101
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Morality as an Index of Mental Health of the Organization: Building a Model of Healthy Leadership....Pages 105-122
Do You Believe in Life After Work? A Noninstrumental Defense of Work–Life Balance....Pages 123-134
Sustaining the Sustainable: Creating the Culture of Sustainability....Pages 135-145
Towards Re-theorizing the Firm in Pursuit of Well-Being and Social Justice....Pages 147-167
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
CSR’s New Challenge: Corporate Political Advocacy....Pages 171-187
Countries in Transition: Ethics Is Not the Key in Their Success. Analysis of Chilean Experience....Pages 189-199
Economic Inequality as an Obstacle to Development....Pages 201-225
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
Social Responsibility as a Matter of Justice: A Proposal to Expand Business Ethics Education....Pages 229-246
Sustainability, Justice, and Virtue....Pages 247-255
Moral Reasoning and Learning Outcomes in Undergraduate Business Education: A Cross-Cultural Exploration....Pages 257-281
Efforts and Achievements of Two Decades of Business Ethics Teaching and Research in Africa with a Special Reference to Kenya....Pages 283-296
Conclusion: The Future for Responsibility....Pages 297-308

✦ Subjects

Ethics; Business Strategy/Leadership