: Walther Ch Zimmerli, Markus Holzinger, Klaus Richter
: Walther C. Zimmerli, Klaus Richter, Markus Holzinger
: Corporate Ethics and Corporate Governance
: Springer-Verlag
: 9783540708186
: 1
: CHF 151.60
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: Management
: English
: 328
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This book represents an introduction to and overview of the diverse facets of the ethical challenges confronting companies today. It introduces executives, students and interested observers to the complex trends and developments in business ethics. Coverage presents industry-specific topics in ethics. The book also provides a general, interdisciplinary survey of the ethical dimensions of management and business.
Table of Contents5
Introduction8
Setting the Scene16
Introduction to Ethics17
Business Ethics43
Habits of the Heart in US-American and German Corporate Culture61
Leading Self and Others70
The Importance of Leadership in Shaping Business Values71
The Servant as Leader82
The Structure of Moral Leadership89
Why Work?97
Organizational Ethics113
Organizational Integrity – Understanding the Dimensions of Ethical and Unethical Behavior in Corporations114
Enron – Pride Comes Before the Fall130
Andersen. No Fairy Tale Ending138
How to Discover and Avoid Corruption in Companies149
Business in Society157
The Path to Corporate Responsibility158
The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits172
Pan-European Approach. A Conceptual Framework for Understanding CSR178
Corporate Social Responsibility at Volkswagen Group199
Historical Responsibility: Corporate Forms of Remembrance of National Socialist Forced Labour at the Volkswagen Plant209
Cross-cultural Sensitivities in Developing Corporate Ethical Strategies and Practices227
Global Corporate Ethics246
Transnational Actors and World Politics247
The UN Global Compact: The Challenge and the Promise283
Global Public Rules and Citizenship Rights: A New Responsibility of Private Business Firms?305
List of Contributors323