Corporate Ethics and Corporate Governance

ISBN-13: 9783540708179 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 332 str.

Walter C. Zimmerli; Markus Holzinger; Klaus Richter

Opis

Corporations are under fire. Hardly a day goes by that executive conduct doesn t appear as a topic or, more accurately, as a problem in the media. This leads to increased public pressure on corporations, many of whom are reacting and publicly assuming their corporate responsibility. This book represents an introduction to and overview of the diverse aspects of the ethical challenges confronting companies today. It introduces executives, students and interested observers to the complex trends and developments in business ethics. On the one hand, this book presents industry-specific topics in ethics, and on the other provides a general, interdisciplinary survey of the ethical dimensions of management and business."

Recenzje

Aus den Rezensionen:

"Die Frage sei nicht länger ob, sondern wie Wirtschaft und Ethik vereint werden können ... so die These der drei Herausgeber in ihrer Einführung zu dem vorliegenden auf Englisch erschienenem Buch. ... Das Buch ist klar gegliedert und enthält Literaturangaben. ... Format und Bindung sind angenehm und stabil. Es ist begrüßenswert, dass zu diesem Thema, dessen Bedeutung zurzeit besonders wächst, ein so umfassendes Buch herausgegeben wurde ..." (http://www.socialnet.de/rezensionen/5255.php)

Spis treści

Walther Ch. Zimmerli, Klaus Richter, Markus Holzinger: Introduction.- Setting the Scene: Robert C. Solomon: Introduction to Ethics.- Walther Ch. Zimmerli, Michael S. Assländer: Business Ethics.- Bettina Palazzo: Habits of the Heart in US-American and German Corporate.- Leading Self and Others: Joanne B. Ciulla: The Importance of Leadership in Shaping Business Values.- Robert Greenleaf: The Servant as Leader.- James MacGregor Burns: The Structure of Moral Leadership.- Joanne B. Ciulla: Why Work?.- Organizational Ethics: Guido Palazzo: Organizational Integrity - Understanding the Dimensions of Ethical and Unethical Behavior in Corporations.- Alejo Sison: Enron. Pride Comes Before the Fall.- Alejo Sison: Andersen. No Fairy Tale Ending.- Caspar von Hauenschild: How to Discover and Avoid Corruption in Companies.- Business in Society: Simon Zadek: The Path to Corporate Responsibility.- Milton Friedman: The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits.- Dirk Matten, Jeremy Moon: Pan-European Approach. A Conceptual Framework for Understanding CSR.- Reinhold Kopp, Klaus Richter: Corporate Social Responsibility at Volkswagen Group.- Manfred Grieger: Historical Responsibility: Corporate Forms of Remembrance of National Socialist Forced Labour at the Volkswagen Plant.- Terence Jackson: Cross-cultural Sensitivities in Developing Corporate Ethical Strategies and Practices.- Global Corporate Ethics: Thomas Risse: Transnational Actors and World Politics.- Oliver F. Williams: The UN Global Compact: The Challenge and the Promise.- Andreas G. Scherer, Guido Palazzo, Dorothée Baumann: Global Public Rules and Citizenship Rights: A New Responsibility of Private Business Firms?.

O autorze

Markus Holzinger (Dr. phil.) ist Programm Manager der School of Humanities und Social Sciences an der AutoUni der Volkswagen AG und Lehrbeauftragter an der Technischen Universität Braunschweig. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Kultursoziologie, Politische Soziologie, Wissenschaftsforschung und Organisationssoziologie. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Zimmerli, Jahrgang 1945, studierte Philosophie in Yale, Göttingen und Zürich; 1996 Internationaler Humboldt-Forschungspreis, Rektor der Universität Witten-Herdecke (1999-2002), seit 2002 Präsident der AutoUni der Volkswagen AG in Wolfsburg.

Blurb

Corporations are under fire. Hardly a day goes by that executive conduct doesn’t appear as a topic – or, more accurately, as a problem – in the media. This leads to increased public pressure on corporations, many of whom are reacting and publicly assuming their corporate responsibility.

This book represents an introduction to and overview of the diverse aspects of the ethical challenges confronting companies today. It introduces executives, students and interested observers to the complex trends and developments in business ethics. On the one hand, this book presents industry-specific topics in ethics, and on the other hand it provides a general, interdisciplinary survey of the ethical dimensions of management and business.