Códigos éticos para el mundo empresarial

La reflexión sobre la ética en la empresa ha sido prolífica desde los años setenta, coincidiendo con la reivindicación de la necesidad de pasar de las palabras a los hechos. Esta necesidad de institucionalizar y hacer operativa toda esa reflexión en la praxis empresarial se ...

Responsabilidad social de la empresa y finanzas sociales

En los tiempos que corren,dificilmente cabría apuntar hacia temas de mayor actualidad y trascendencia para los mercados financieros y para la opinión pública europea que los relacionados con las deficiencias estructurales que presenta el comportamiento ético en el ejercicio de su operativa.Preocupa,y ...

Acabarán con el capitalismo

Del escándalo de Enron a la debacle de Vivendi, del estallido de la burbuja de Internet a la crisis de confianza que atraviesan los mercados, el planeta entero vive obsesionado con la posibilidad de un desplome generalizado del sistema económico y financiero. Pero ¿quién quiere ...

Business, government and sustainable development

Keijzers provides a concise and authoritative introduction to the evolution of the collaborative stakeholder approach to sustainable development in the context of changing environmental policies. The range of sustainability objectives has now developed from relatively simple issues of environmental protection to a full array of ...

Corporateering

how corporate power steals your personal freedom...and what you can do about it

In Corporateering, Jamie Court illustrates how corporations routinely and quietly rob us of our personal freedoms, in-cluding privacy, security, the right to legal recourse, and more. In fact, "corporateering"-the act of prioritizing commercial gain over individual, social, or cultural gain-is everywhere in our lives ...

Agribusiness and society

corporate responses to environmentalism, market opportunities and public regulation

"Agribusiness & society" examines how far agribusiness corporations are responding to the opportunities and pressures resulting from emerging environmental awareness.How are they changing their R & D and business practices to develop new environmentally oriented products,services and methods of prodcution?And what can they cahnge of their own volition,and where is external direction a necessary condition of environmentally friendly innovation? These questions are explored through investigations of particualr biotech and agribusiness companies-including Monsanto,Ciba Geigy,Dole,and Chiquita-and their behaviour in locations as diverse as California,Europe,Australia,Brazil,and Central America.The authors explore how some have responded to environmental pressures by exploiting new consumer-created markets;some changed their production practices in a sustainable way;while others have complied with(or resisted) state environmental regulation,notably labelling systems and certification. Each study examines how institutional,cultural,economic,political and technological contexts shape the strategies of big business.Topics include " green ...

The corporation

the pathological pursuit of profit and power

What would the world be like if the ruling elite were insane? This isn#t a question for science fiction but a matter for social scientists. The most powerful class of institution on earth, the corporation, is by any reasonable measure hopelessly and irrevocably demented ...

Corporate integrity & accountability

The ethical and legal scandals at Enron, WorldCom, Tyco and many other businesses in the United States, Europe and Asia have shaken people's confidence in business. Corporate Integrity and Accountability seeks to address questions of corporate integrity as they arise for financial reporting, executive ...

What price the moral high ground?

ethical dilemmas in competitive environments

Financial disasters - and stories of the greedy bankers who precipitated them - seem to underscore the idea that self-interest will always trump concerns for the greater good. Indeed, this idea is supported by the prevailing theories in both economics and evolutionary biology. But is it valid ...

La ambición femenina

cómo re-conciliar trabajo y familia

La re-conciliación del trabajo y la familia es hoy una ambición común a hombres y mujeres. Superadas ya las viejas batallas feministas por el voto, la igualdad legal o el acceso a la educación el reto se plantea ahora en este frente más sutil: lo ...

El gobierno de la empresa

un enfoque alternativo

La obra subraya las limitaciones del modelo financiero de empresa, basado en la continua creación de valor para los accionistas y que ha generado efectos socioeconómicos negativos—recuérdese, por ejemplo, el caso Enron—. Como alternativa, se presenta el modelo stakeholder—también denominado comunitario, pluralista o ...

Fraud exposed

What you don't know could cost your company millions

Capital justo

la economía liberal

¿Queremos realmente vivir en un mundo así?

Una ética para secretarias y ayudantes de dirección

Moral capitalism

reconciling private interest with the public good

A guide to using the Caux Round Table Principles for Business

And why not?

morality and business

Business ethics

a european perspective.Managing corporate citizenship and sustainability in the age of globalization

Business Ethics is an exciting, new, student focused text which provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of European business ethics. It is the first business ethics textbook to feature extensive coverage of the highly topical issues of corporate citizenship, globalization and sustainability. The book ...

Hungry corporations

transnational biotech companies colonise the food chain

This work provides a detailed account of how huge agrochemical corporations have come to control the food chain, exposing their influence over governments, regulatory bodies and university research. It examines how a handful of companies have: accelerated the industrialization of agriculture and the integration of ...

Wall Street on trial

a corrupted state?

The politics of business have become the business of politics. Across the world the lesson is clear: just as too much governmental interference leads to dysfunctional economies, left to its own devices the market is incapable of adequate self-regulation. The corporate malfeasance crisis in the ...