Gebundenes Buch

The Global Corporation

Sustainable, Effective and Ethical Practices, A Case Book

Herausgeber: Hartman, Laura P.; Werhane, Patricia H.

Beschreibung

The text is comprised of a series of case studies focusing on specific instances of corporate best practices. The companies in this study are not perfect companies. Many of them have a "past" that includes questionable practices. But these are companies that work to foster trust both inside the company and in their relationships with customers, suppliers, shareholders and the communities in which they operate., The study will not be merely a descriptive iteration of good corporate conduct, however. Rather, in the last chapter focuses on and extract the frameworks embedded in corporate decision-making that incorporate and integrate ethics as one of the key components in the decision process. The text will include case narratives presenting specific examples of "best practices" of leading companies, devoting one chapter to each case. The book concludes with a careful examination of how and in what ways programs a particular company has in place (including mission and values statements, codes, ethics and compliance programs, stories of company heroes, etc.) respond to issues or challenges when they arise. The processes that helped that company to avoid a crisis and to achieve some positive ethical outcomes are outlined. The book concludes with analysis of frameworks for corporate and managerial ethical decision-making, frameworks that help to establish models for best practices. These frameworks will be such that they can be generalized to other corporate situations and replicated by other companies in their search for excellence or the avoidance of misconduct.

Autor

Laura P. Hartman is a Professor of Business Ethics and Legal Studies in the Management Department at DePaul University's College of Commerce and also serves as Research Director of DePaul's Institute for Business and Professional Ethics. She has served as the Gourlay Professor at the Melbourne Business School/Trinity College at the University of Melbourne (2007-2008), as an invited professor at INSEAD (France), HEC (France), the Université Paul Cezanne Aix Marseille III and at the Grenoble Graduate School of Business, among other European universities. Patricia H. Werhane is the Peter and Adeline Ruffin Chair of Business Ethics and Senior Fellow at the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics in the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia and also hold a joint appointment as the Callista Wicklander Chair of Business Ethics and Director, Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, at DePaul University. She has been a Rockefeller Fellow at Dartmouth College, an Arthur Andersen Fellow at the Judge Institute, Cambridge University, and Erskine Visiting Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. She is the founding editor of Business Ethics Quarterly.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1017g
• ISBN-13: 9780415801614
• ISBN-10: 0415801613
• Artikelnr.: 26054517