Creating food futures

trade, ethics and the environment

Eds. Cathy Rozel Farnworth, Janice Jiggins, Emyr Vaughan Thomas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A global transformation in food supply and consumption is placing our food security at risk. What changes need to be made to the ways we trade, process and purchase our food if everyone in the world ...

Ganarse la vida sin perder el alma

El autor aborda algunos problemas que se le plantean al creyente que quiere ser coherente con su fe y, al mismo tiempo, un buen profesional en el mundo de los negocios. Tiene la habilidad de convertir lo que podría ser una dificultad o un obstáculo ...

Innovation corrupted

the origins and legacy of Enron's collapse

Although much has already been written about the rise and fall of Enron, four important questions remain unanswered: What management behavior and practices led Enron down the path from truly innovative to fraudulent management? How could Enron's board of directors have failed to detect ...

Law and capitalism

what corporate crises reveal about legal systems and economic development around the world

Recent high-profile corporate scandals#such as those involving Enron in the United States, Yukos in Russia, and Livedoor in Japan#demonstrate challenges to legal regulation of business practices in capitalist economies. Setting forth a new analytic framework for understanding these problems, Law and Capitalism examines ...

Earth matters

indigenous peoples, the extractive industries and corporate social responsibility

Eds. Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh, Saleem Ali. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Indigenous peoples have historically gained little from large-scale resource development on their traditional lands, and have suffered from its negative impacts on their cultures, economies and societies. During recent decades indigenous groups and their allies have fought hard to ...

Corporate responsibility

a critical introduction

This much needed textbook examines the multiple dimensions to corporate responsibility. It creates a framework that presents a historical and interdisciplinary overview of the field; a summary of different management approaches; and a review of the key actors and trends worldwide. The authors take a ...

Desarrollo humano y formación

una responsabilidad social de las organizaciones

La capacidad y la necesidad de conocimiento del ser humano no conocen límites, y cualquier individuo puede superar los obstáculos que condicionan su proceso formativo; pero es claro que la sociedad desempeña un rol significativo en la formación de una persona. es imprescindible que sus ...

Corpocracy

how CEO's and the business roundtable hijacked the world's greatest wealt machine-and how to get it back

Shareholder control over large corporations is worryingly weak and the unrestrained hunt for profits is taking a toll on the environment and society. In "Corpocracy", corporate lawyer, venture capitalist, and shareholder activist Robert Monks reveals how corporations abuse their power and what we the people ...

Responsabilidad social de la empresa en la gestión de las Pymes

INDICE: Entender la responsabilidad social de la empresa: visión y contexto. Directrices internacionales y marco europeo de la RDE. Impulso y dirección de la RSE en España. Alcance, contexto e implicaciones de la RSE. Herramientas de gestión e indicadores.Las PYME españolas ante la RSE.

Responsabilidad social de la empresa

Buen gobierno y responsabilidad en los negocios internacionales

Este manual práctico del ICEX aspira a ofrecer a las empresas, particularmente a las pymes, información detallada sobre las tendencias actuales de la responsabilidad corporativa y del buen gobierno empresarial en el contexto de los negocios internacionales. Hoy día, la responsabilidad social de la empresa ...

Ética, economía y empresa

la dimensión moral de la economía

Desde hace ya algunos años el Grupo de Ética y Empresa del Instituto de Tecnoética- Fundación Epson se ha ido consolidando como uno de los centros de investigación y análisis de la ética económica y empresarial más significativos de España. En un entorno cultural cada ...

El corazón de las empresas

responsabilidad social corporativa y conciliación de la vida profesional y personal

El libro analiza los cambios sociales que se están produciendo y tras los cuales emergen ciudadanos más concienciados y consumidores mucho más exigentes, que obligan a las empresas a replantearse cual debe ser su compromiso social. Con una técnica narrativa muy ágil se ofrece una ...

Valores humanos en la empresa

Los cambios en las expectativas de las sociedad han atraído la atención sobre la importancia de una gestión empresarial construida sobre valores sólidos. Ken O´Donnell muestra de forma amena, a la vez que rigurosa, situaciones, ejemplos y razonamientos teóricos de la ventajas de gestionar ...

Corporate governance and accountability

Recent years have witnessed an exponential growth in corporate governance. Improvements in corporate governance practice are being orchestrated at a global level. Scandals such as Enron and Parmalat have driven home the need for constant reform. "Corporate Governance, Second edition" has been written in response ...

Revolt in the boardroom

the new rules of power in corporate America

Murray is the assistant managing editor of the Wall Street Journal and has written two books covering investing and the relationship between corporations and politics. Here he examines how CEOs, once the rock stars of the 1990s, are now being put under the microscope by ...

The debate over corporate social responsibility

Should business strive to be socially responsible, and if so, how? The Debate over Corporate Social Responsibility updates and broadens the discussion of these questions by bringing together in one volume a variety of practical and theoretical perspectives on corporate social responsibility. It is perhaps ...

The embedded corporation

corporate governance and employment relations in Japan and the United State

Is there one best way to run the modern business corporation? What is the appropriate balance between shareholders, executives, and employees? These questions are being vigorously debated as layoffs, scandals, and restructurings rattle companies around the world. The common assumption is that globalization is merging ...

Indecent disclosure

gilding the corporate lily

Indecent Disclosure: Gilding the Corporate Lily captures the concerns of the business community when misleading financial disclosures of a public corporation result in an unexpected corporate collapse. Here, the authors present four main themes underpinning the crisis in a company's financial disclosures: A company ...

Los laberintos de la responsabilidad

Los textos recopilados aquí nos invitan a explorar los múltiples laberintos que plantea la polimórfica noción de "responsabilidad", una categoría que se ha vuelto central e impresincindible en nuestro horizonte actual. Ciertamente, se impone introducirnos y avanzar por los vericuetos, a veces pobremente iluminados, de ...