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 ...

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 ...

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

¿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

Capital justo

la economía liberal

Pese a las recientes convulsiones que agitan el mundo, el triunfo del libre mercado global parece definitivo, y es esencial aprender a convivir con él. Partiendo de esa premisa, CAPITAL JUSTO analiza las tendencias económicas actuales buscando la respuesta a una pregunta: ¿cómo conseguir un ...

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 ...

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 ...

Corporate collapse

accounting, regulatory and ethical failure

This revised edition of Clarke, Dean and Oliver#s provocative book tells why accounting has failed to deliver the truth about a company#s state of affairs or to give warning of its drift towards failure. Well- known corporate collapses from the 1960s to the ...

The recurrent crisis in corporate governance

Since the mid-1980s two crises have overtaken governance of the American corporation - the loss of competitiveness in the 1980s and the loss of investor trust in financial management in the late 1990s. This book proposes specific changes in conduct to resolve these crises, principally by ...

Standars and audits for ethics management systems

the European perspective

Today?s management is faced with the new task of implementing and dealing with standardised ethics management systems and values programs. It is a widely accepted fact that these have to be designed individually and firm specific, if they are to be a success. On ...

Gangs of America

the rise of corporate power and the disabling of democracy

Through a series of fascinating stories populated by colorful personalities, Gangs of America details the rise of corporate power in America. Driven to answer the central question of how corporations got more rights than people, Ted Nace delves deep into the origins of this institution ...

Enron:anatomy of greed

the unshredded truth from an Enron insider

Brian Cruver was a first-hand witness to the disturbing, surreal and hilarious moments of Enron's long dance with death. When he first entered Enron's office complex, 'the Death Star', he was the epitome of the classic Enron employee: young, brash, obscenely overpaid and ...

Financial fineprint

uncovering a company´s true value

To make money in today#s tough market, investors have to make deliberate, well-researched choices. To do this requires not only having the right information, but also knowing how to decode it. With their obscuring tactics, companies won#t help you any. So be advised ...