Business ethics and social responsibility Books

Book SynopsisFuture-proof yourself and your organization against known threats to privacy and online safety The subject of data ethics has never been more urgent. This is no longer an academic or niche geek issue as it has been since the inception of the internet and the world wide web. Data ethics is an issue that affects all of us now as our personal and professional lives increasingly take place online. Who controls access to the hardware, who runs the software, who can spy on us, hack us, data farm us?What are the threats that we need to mitigate against democratically, societally, and personally?How can corporations protect us and how can that help their bottom line? The Privacy Mission aims to answer these questions and summarise both the overarching concepts and principles about why data ethics is important. It offers practical solutions for companies, policy makers and individuals to push back against known threats and future proof themselves going forward.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ix Introduction xi Part I Privacy and Why We Should Care 1 Chapter 1 Our Human Rights Online 3 Chapter 2 Gamekeeper Turned Poacher 21 Chapter 3 How Did We Get Here? 39 Part II The Dark Triad 55 Chapter 4 Spooks 57 Chapter 5 Corporations 77 Chapter 6 Criminals 93 Chapter 7 Media Control 107 Chapter 8 Cyber warfare 125 Part III Solutions 137 Chapter 9 Individuals 139 Chapter 10 Corporate 153 Chapter 11 Government 171 Chapter 12 Utopia or Dystopia? 189 Notes 201 About the Author 211 Index 213

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Book Synopsis1. On Borrowed Time2. The Roots of the Circular Economy3. Gaining the Circular Advantage4. Circular Supply-Chain: ' 'Right from the Start ' '5. Recovery & Recycling: Making History of Waste6. The Product Life-Extension Business Model: Products That Are Built to Last 7. The Sharing Platform Business Model: Sweating Idle Assets8. The Product as a Service Business Model: Performance over Ownership9. Circular Business Models: Evaluation, Enablers and Ecosystems 10. Driving the Technology & Digital Edge in Circular Advantage: Ten Transformational Plays 11. Five Circular Capabilities for Driving Value 12. The Power of Policy 13. Capturing the Advantage: Getting StartedTrade Review'As Waste to Wealth shows with case studies of leading companies across industries, the circular economy model works increasingly well for our customers and for us. You have to shed your old habits and put in the initial effort to change, but it makes so much sense. We can engineer products for a longer usage, we can recoup the residual value once the economic life is over. The customer is foremost interested in the benefit of our products, so why not only sell them the benefit as a service, while we retain ownership and operate the technology. And what about you?' - Frans van Houten, CEO, Royal Philips 'Circular economy, circular responsibility, circular advantage. So simple, yet so powerful. This book is a practical contribution to future-proof your business models in an increasingly resource-constrained world. Not hard to see that in the age of transparency, citizens of this world will demand this from all companies seeking a license to operate. Time to get on with it.' - Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever 'We need to face it: in order to make our economic system really sustainable, it is inevitable that we redesign it. This book shows the steps we can make. We will need to switch from a Linear to a Circular Economy. This means much more than recycling. The Circular Economy is about new ways of creating value via innovation and new business models.' - Feike Sijbesma, CEO, Royal DSM 'Waste to Wealth captures the spirit of one of today's most significant business trends: the circular economy. Lacy and Rutqvist approach the topic in a straightforward and practical manner, underlining that the linear take-make-waste model is (or should be) on its way towards extinction. They clearly set out the need to unleash the true value and potential of materials, whether in their beginning-of-life, utilization, or end-of-initial-life phases. This approach has also inspired our work in the Carlsberg Circular Community, and I believe that any company pursuing sustainable growth can find valuable inspiration in this book.' - Jørgen Buhl Rasmussen, President & CEO, Carlsberg 'We already use more resources than the planet is capable of regenerating so we have to find ways to utilize less energy, water, materials, and resources in general. In the chemical industry we are searching for ways to close product life cycles, whether at the outset (by using renewable sources), or at the end (by using recyclable materials). We need radical innovation to develop new technologies and new business models. The circular economy is part of the solution and this book will help us to take another step in the right direction.' - Carlos Fadigas, CEO, BraskemTable of Contents1. On Borrowed Time2. The Roots of the Circular Economy3. Gaining the Circular Advantage4. Circular Supply-Chain: ' 'Right from the Start ' '5. Recovery & Recycling: Making History of Waste6. The Product Life-Extension Business Model: Products That Are Built to Last 7. The Sharing Platform Business Model: Sweating Idle Assets8. The Product as a Service Business Model: Performance over Ownership9. Circular Business Models: Evaluation, Enablers and Ecosystems 10. Driving the Technology & Digital Edge in Circular Advantage: Ten Transformational Plays 11. Five Circular Capabilities for Driving Value 12. The Power of Policy 13. Capturing the Advantage: Getting Started

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Book SynopsisIt is clinical work with the most difficult patients - those with severe narcissistic, sadomasochistic, and borderline disorders - that poses the greatest challenge to the therapist''s guiding assumptions about clinical process; indeed, such work often leads therapists to question beliefs and expectations that formerly seemed self-evident.  In Getting From Here to There: Analytic Love, Analytic Process, Sheldon Bach elaborates the holistic vision that guides him in work with just such patients.  He dwells especially on the attentive presence through which the analyst effects a meeting with patients that invites the latter''s trust in the analyst and in the therapeutic process. And he writes of love - of patient for analyst and of analyst for patient - that grows out of this mutual trust and sustains therapeutic process. For Bach, analytic therapy aims at understanding the person as a mind-body unity that manifests particular states of consciousness.ThiTrade Review"Like a sculptor who can see the form hidden within the block of stone, Sheldon Bach—most recently in his third book on narcissism…opens our eyes to the underlying structure and dynamics of narcissistic disorders. Bach’s observations and formulations are presented in an accessible, engaging and deceptively simple way, but they reflect precision of observation, clarity and sophistication of thought, deep empathy for patients, and genuine clinical wisdom. He is clearly gifted as a healer, scientist, and teacher." ---Jay Frankel, PhD“Sheldon Bach lays bare the deep structure of psychoanalytic work, the process of developing awareness in the context of affective mutuality. His beautifully precise analysis provides an ecumenical and humane perspective on our psychic struggles and grants the essential analytic action of holding the other in mind its true significance. Presented with effortless lucidity, Getting From Here to There is a profound and practically useful integration of many strands in psychoanalytic history with contemporary understandings of attachment, regulation, and trauma.” - Jessica Benjamin, Ph.D., New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy“Bach explores the complexities, the ambiguities, and the importance of love in and out of the analytic situation. Getting From Here to There is full of clinical wisdom; more importantly, it uncovers the center of the analyst's emotional life.” - Steven J. Ellman, Ph.D., President, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research"Reading Sheldon Bach's Getting From Here to There: Analytic Love, Analytic Process is an immersion into this master clinician and teacher's personal relationship with pscyhoanalysis. The gentle, rocking quality of his writing allows him to present new and far-reaching conceptualizations like a psychoanalytic lullaby, permitting the reader to relax and settle in, much as Bach's patients must. I recommend it to those in the first glow of love for psychoanalysis as well as to those who have loved it for a long, long time."- Gemma M. Ainslie, in PsycCRITIQUES, Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of BooksTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. On Being Forgotten and Forgetting Oneself. Narcissism Revisited. Working With the Challenging Patient. A Mind of One's Own. On Getting From Here to There. Confusion in the Analytic Hour. Sadomasochism in Clinical Practice and Everyday Life. Two Ways of Being. Psychoanalysis and Love.

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Book SynopsisPolice Ethics, Fourth Edition, provides an analysis of corruption in law enforcement organizations. The authors argue that the noble causeâa commitment to âœdoing something about bad peopleââis a central âœends-basedâ police ethic. This fundamental principle of police ethics can paradoxically open the way to community polarization and increased violence, however, when officers violate the law on behalf of personally held moral values. This book is about the power that police use to do their work and how it can lead police to abuse their positions at the individual and organizational levels. It provides students of policing with a realistic understanding of the kinds of problems they will confront in the practice of police work.This timely new edition offers police administrators direction for developing agency-wide corruption prevention strategies, and a re-written chapter further expands our level of understanding of corruption by covering the Model of Circumstantial Corruptibility in detail. The fourth edition also discusses critical ethical issues relating to the relationship between police departments and minority communities, including Black Lives Matter and other activist groups. In the post-Ferguson environment, this is a crucial text for students, academicians, and law enforcement professionals alike.Table of ContentsPart 1: Value-Based Decision-Making and the Ethics of Noble Cause 1. Value-Based Decision-Making: Understanding the Ethics of Noble Cause 2. Values, Hiring, and Early Organizational Experiences 3. Values and Administrative Dilemmas 4. The Social Psychology of Cops’ Values Part 2: Noble-Cause Corruption5. From Economic to Noble-Cause Corruption 6. Stress, Organizational Accountability, and the Noble Cause 7. Ethics and the Means-Ends Dilemma 8. Police Culture, Ends-Orientation, and Noble-Cause Corruption Part 3: Ethics and Police in a Time of Change9. Policing Citizens, Policing Communities: Toward an Ethic of Negotiated Order 10. The Stakes 11. Recommendations12. Conclusion: The Noble Cause

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Book SynopsisAudrey Tang is a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) qualified teacher, and award-winning author - The Leader's Guide to Resilience, 2021 (prev. The Leader's Guide to Mindfulness) (Pearson & FT, 2018) and Be A Great Manager - Now (Pearson, 2016)) with a focus on practical self-improvement. She is the host of the podcast 'Retrain Your Brain for Success', and The Wellbeing Lounge on NLiveRadio, presenter for Psych Back to Basics on DisruptiveTV, and resident psychologist on Channel 4's Don't Diet Lose Weight, and The Chrissy B Show (Sky) the UK's only TV programme dedicated to mental health and wellbeing. Audrey regularly offers expert comment as a psychologist through TV, Radio and published media.  A member of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA), she speaks at National and International conferences in the fields of resilience, leadership and team cohesion, is a CPD accredited trainer and FIRO-B profiler, and regularly teachTrade Review‘This is my favourite book in the series. Emotional and mental wellbeing/fitness is a priority for a lot of people and this book makes it simple to understand and provides practical and useful exercises that can be used for your own wellbeing as well as your team – whether it's a 1-2-1 client, a team of colleagues or your family – this book isn't limited to just the work environment! From understanding your starting point, setting wellbeing goals and making improvements, I love that Dr Audrey Tang provides you with a variety of tools that you can pick and choose from depending on which you feel is best for you and your team.' Robb Henderson, fitness professional, Ginger Monkey Fitness ‘In our highly pressured work life we so very often forget about wellbeing, focusing instead on goals, targets and outcomes. However, without wellbeing, productivity will always be limited. Dr Tang clearly and comprehensively outlines why we need to prioritise wellbeing as part of her three-pronged head–heart–gut model. The Leader's Guide to Wellbeing gives tangible and practical tips to improve and maintain wellbeing, backed up by current research and best practice. As a psychologist and executive coach, I will be recommending this book to my clients for years to come!' Dr Meg Arroll, Chartered Psychologist and author ‘This excellent book by Dr Tang provides busy professionals and leaders, who are not necessarily trained psychologists or organisational behaviour experts, with a concise, insightful and practical toolkit for establishing emotionally positive work environments and sustainable relations conducive to human emotional wellbeing.' Dr Mario Burghausen, Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), University of Essex ‘ The Leader's Guide to Wellbeing is an excellent conclusion to the head, heart, gut trilogy of books. Dr Tang explains the value and relevance of wellbeing in the workplace and provides deep insight and meaning to those looking to develop their skills and knowledge in this key element of leadership. By providing insight, workable diagnostic tools, exercises and practical solution strategies, Dr Tang lifts the lid on how to create a culture of wellbeing that is achievable and sustainable!' Rebekah Lightburn, People Business Partner ‘Dr Tang's third book in her Leader's Guide trilogy brings together work from different areas within psychology to offer both leaders and members of teams insights into what can affect their wellbeing at work. She packs in many practical and simple tools to help you identify where things could be improved as well as ideas about how to make those improvements happen. This book will appeal to people at different levels of organisations who want their working lives to support their overall health and wellbeing, and who want to make a real contribution to their workplace.' Dr Helen McCarthy, Clinical Psychologist and author ‘Dr Audrey Tang's book The Leader's Guide to Wellbeing comes at the right time! Audrey's lifetime of impeccable service to help leaders serve better is well depicted in this volume. Her books give readers a refreshed and renewed positive energy to move forward with zest. A must-read!' Keith Thong, UBSM, Chairman, Malaysian Book Industry Chamber; President, Malaysian Booksellers Association ‘Every leader today needs a guide like this from Audrey Tang to take you step by step through focusing on what may positively and negatively affect us. It gives us the full picture to help us understand what we value, and what we and others need at work and in life. All this is enriched by the latest research on wellbeing whilst challenging us to reflect and take action from chapter to chapter.' Samatha Amit, mindfulness coach, leadership coach, mindfulness practitioner and holistic therapist ‘As a dedicated reader of leadership literature and a firm believer in self-improvement, I was thrilled to read Dr Audrey Tang's newest book, The Leader's Guide to Wellbeing. This groundbreaking book has equipped me with the tools to become more effective, empathetic and resilient in today's fast-paced, high-stakes world. Once again, Dr Tang gives her readers a comprehensive playbook for holistic leadership by exploring the intricate intersection of head, heart and gut – all equally crucial components to becoming a well-rounded and successful leader.' Patricia J. Rullo, founder, Speak Up Talk Radio ‘Audrey Tang's writing is beautiful, clear and uplifting. Thank goodness for her inspirational and hopeful spirit! Her writing gently yet powerfully shows you that there is always a way forward and that a better life is possible.' Mark Farrelly, actor and writer ‘This book includes everything you need to know about wellbeing, something which is very close to my heart. It is full of positive ways to maintain and improve both your own mental and emotional health, as well as those you lead. I love that it covers various aspects of life, including equality and diversity, friendships and relationships and how your past experiences can affect how you approach wellbeing in your present. As always, Dr Tang's work is backed up by research and is packed with references that can provide further information. However, what I like best is that it includes lots of exercises as well as ‘fit tips' and ‘strength building exercises' which enable you to walk the walk and not just talk the talk.' Patsy Wright, Crisis Support Worker, NHS ‘I wholeheartedly recommend The Leader's Guide to Wellbeing . With a focus on addressing both burnout and the lesser-known rust out, creating a positive culture in the workplace and being packed full of exercises, this book is a must-read for any leader looking to improve their team's mental wellbeing. It offers a range of strategies and ideas, including several types of mental wellbeing rest, that can help individuals and organisations thrive. I found the book to be an invaluable resource, and I am sure others will too!' Andy Pierce, radio presenter and mental health advocate Table of ContentsPart 1 – The Compassionate Leader: Boost your emotional and mental fortitude 1. Be Kind/Being Kind is the new Cool 2. Find your Flow 3. Recharge your Relationships (with yourself and others!) Part 2 – Create a psychologically safe and healthy team 4. Where “workplace wellbeing” sessions go wrong 5. Manage the demands of emotional labour 6. Address diverse needs Part 3 – Grow well or go home 7. Sustaining progress in an uncertain future 8. The changing faces of leadership: Wellbeing for: a. Entrepreneurs/Small Business Owners b. Freelancers c. Head of the family Part 4: Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThe financial crisis focused unprecedented attention on ethics in investment banking. This book develops an ethical framework to assess and manage investment banking ethics and provides a guide to high profile concerns as well as day to day ethical challenges.Trade Review'Reynolds and Newell have produced a well-informed assessment of the multiple ethical issues that investment bankers must confront. With an insider's view of the industry as well as expertise in applied ethics, they focus on the critical differences between compliance and ethics. The result is a no-nonsense book full of practical and workable solutions to ethical problems. Ethics in Investment Banking could not be more timely, making it very clear that there is no excuse for the absence of a strong ethical foundation to investment banking.' - Lord Myners 'Whether banks, including especially investment banks, lost their moral and ethical compass, as well as vast amounts of shareholders' capital, is a fair question to ask in the wake of the financial crisis. What is clear is that sustainable returns in banking can only be achieved if banks act fairly and responsibly to their key stakeholders. This book makes an important contribution to considering this question.' - Sir Philip Hampton, Chairman, RBS 'This book needed to be written...gives an insight into what it feels like to be immersed in the complicated end of banking. Even the controversial views are informed ones. Read this book and be grateful for those who wrestle with what it means to be salt and light rather than enjoy the moral purity of the spectator.' - John Ellis, Faith in Business QuarterlyTable of ContentsForeword Introduction: Learning from Failure? Ethics in Investment Banking: Background and Context The Framework for Understanding Ethics in Investment Banking Religion and Investment Banking Ethics The Two Opposing Views of Investment Banking Ethics: Rights Vs. Duties Recent Ethical Issues in Investment Banking Clients and Ethics Internal Ethical Issues A New Code of Ethics for Investment Banking

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Book SynopsisWhat does a truly global manager need to know to lead responsibly? How does he or she define and develop the core management competencies required to accomplish this?This book uses the UN Global Compact and its ten principles as an overarching framework for understanding the complex issues facing global business managers today. Contributors from different parts of the world discuss the intersection between business and the ethical issues of our timehuman rights, labor, the environment, and anti-corruptionand, most critically, how readers can address these issues in the day-to-day running of their multinational operations.Trade ReviewClick Here to read the latest press release from Hult International Business School -- Hult International Business School * Hult International Business School *Table of ContentsForeword - Georg Kell Introduction - Joanne T. Lawrence, Paul W. Beamish Acknowledgments About the Editors About the Contributors PART I. BACKGROUND 1. Responsible Business: A Brief Perspective - Joanne T. Lawrence 2. The Business of Business Is (Responsible) Business - Danial Malan 3. The United Nations and the Transnational Corporations: How the UN Global Compact Has Changed the Debate - Andreas Rasche 4. Context and Dynamics of the UN Global Compact: An Idea Whose Time Has Come - Sandra Waddock PART II. THE TEN PRINCIPLES OF THE UN GLOBAL COMPACT 5. Human Rights as Ethical Imperatives for Business: The UN Global Compact′s Human Rights Principles - Florian Wettstein 6. Our Role as Managers in Understanding and Fulfilling the Labour Principles of the UN Global Compact - Michael J. D. Roberts 7. Embedded Sustainability and the Innovation-Producing Potential of the UN Global Compact′s Environmental Principles - David Cooperrrider, Nadya Zhexembayeva 8. The Challenges of Corruption in Business, Government, and Society - Peter Rodriguez PART III. CASE STUDIES: THE TEN PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE Human Rights Killer Coke: The Campaign Against Coca-Cola - Henry W. Lane, David T. A. Wesley Google in China - Deborah Compeau, Prahar Shah Ethics of Offshoring: Novo Nordisk and Clinical Trials in Emerging Economies - Klaus Meyer Talisman Energy Inc. - Lawrence G. Tapp, Gail Robertson Labour Netcare′s International Expansion - Saul Klein, Albert Wocke Nestle′s Nescafe Partners′ Blend: The Fairtrade Decision (A) - Niraj Dawar, Jordan Mitchell Jinjian Garment Factory: Motivating Go-Slow Workers - Tieying Huang, Junping Liang, Paul W. Beamish Textron Ltd. - Lawrence A. Beer Bayer CropScience in India (A): Against Child Labor - Charles Dhanaraj, Oana Branzei, Satyajeet Subramanian L′Oreal S.A.: Rolling Out the Global Diversity Strategy - Cara C. Maurer, Ken Mark Huxley Maquiladora - Paul W. Beamish, Jaechul Jung, Joyce Miller Staffing Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (A) - Alison Konrad, Ken Mark Environment RBC--Financing Oil Sands (A) - Michael Sider, Jana Seijts, Ramasastry Chandrasekhar Barrick Gold Corporation--Tanzania - Aloysius Newenham-Kahindi, Paul W. Beamish Host Europe: Advancing CSR and Sustainability in a Medium-Sized IT Company - Rudiger Hahn Veja: Sneakers With a Conscience - Oana Branzei, Kim Poldner Canadian Solar - Paul W. Beamish, Jordan Mitchell Scandinavian Airlines: The Green Engine Decision - Jennifer Lynes Anti-corruption Phil Chan (A) - Paul W. Beamish, Jean-Louis Schaan Medical Equipment Inc. in Saudi Arabia - Joerg Dietz, Ankur Grover, Laura Guerrero Governance Failure at Satyam - Ajai Gaur, Nisha Kohl PART IV. APPENDIXES: EXCERPTS FROM THE UN GLOBAL COMPACT WEBSITE Appendix A. The Corporate Commitment Appendix B. The Communication on Progress Report Appendix C. Leadership Blueprint: Blueprint for Corporate Sustainability Leadership Within the Global Compact Appendix D. UN Global Compact Communication on Progress and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)

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Book Synopsis The field of information ethics (IE)--a subdivision of ethics--was developed during the 1980s, originating and maturing in library science and slowly working its way into other disciplines and practical applications. Some years later, a secondary field emerged, emphasizing theoretical and philosophical concepts, with little focus on real-world applicability. The first of its kind, this comprehensive overview of IE evaluates the production, dissemination, storage, accessing and retrieval of information in an ethical context in areas including the humanities, sciences, medicine and business. A leading figure in the field, the author is concerned with misconduct (falsification, fabrication, plagiary), peer review, the law, privacy, imaging and robotics, among other matters.

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Book SynopsisIt is widely recognized that professionals such as doctors, nurses, engineers, and teachers have duties that go far beyond those of ordinary citizens, but there is much disagreement as to why they have such duties. In Professional Ethics: A Trust-Based Approach, Terrence Kelly argues that such duties come from the unique trust that professionals must invite, develop, and honor from those they serve. Without trust, professional practice would be significantly impoverishedboth ethically and instrumentally and the autonomy enjoyed by many professions would evaporate. Professionals therefore have good reasons to be effectively trustworthy that is, to develop the virtues necessary to be responsive to the vulnerability of those they serve; and effectively communicate that responsiveness to others. Being effectively trustworthy requires a commitment by professionals as individual practitioners and as members of ethical communities committed to building a culture of trust. Such communities canTrade ReviewTerry Kelly has written a book on professional ethics that will be of great value and interest to professionals in a variety of fields, as well as to academics and the general public. The book is clear, tightly argued, and very well informed. Kelly argues for a rich and pragmatic account of trust that focuses on the responsibilities both of individual practitioners and of the profession as a whole. He advocates for an account of trust that is both instrumental and dispositional, one that makes a strong case for the view that trustworthiness is linked to authenticity, the “I/Thou” relationship, and the development of an ethical community. Kelly’s book will make a significant contribution to the applied ethics literature, and it will be of considerable practical value to those interested in building and strengthening ethics in their profession. -- Tom Buller, Illinois State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: A Puzzle About Professional Ethics Chapter Two: Vulnerability and Trust in the Professions Chapter Three: The Trustworthy Professional Chapter Four: The Profession as an Ethical Community Chapter Five: Effective Trustworthiness in the Professions Chapter Six: Conflicts of Interest Chapter Seven: The Limits to Professional Trustworthiness Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2022 Does ‘woke capitalism’ improve capitalism’s image or does it threaten the future of democracy? From Nike’s support for Colin Kaepernick, to Gillette’s engagement with the toxic masculinity debate, the 21st century has seen a sharp increase in corporations taking over public morality, a phenomenon which has come to be known as ‘woke capitalism’. Carl Rhodes takes us on a lively and fascinating history of woke capitalism – from 1950s corporate social responsibility, through 1980s neoliberalism, tracing it alongside the adoption and mutation of the term ‘woke’ from Black American culture – and brings us right up to current-day debates. By examining the political causes that woke capitalism has co-opted, and the social causes that it has not, he argues that this surreptitious extension of capitalism has serious implications for us all.Table of ContentsThe Problem With Woke Capitalism Corporate Populists The Woke Reversal Capitalism Goes Woke Shareholder Primacy A Wolf in Woke Clothing All That Glitters is Not Green The CEO Activist The Race to Wokeness Racial Capitalism/Woke Capitalism The Best a Woke Corporation Can Be The Right Hand Gives Getting Woke to Woke Capitalism

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Book SynopsisAlongside burgeoning global business, which asserts its legality, ethics and social responsibility, there exists a dark side of shadow trades manifesting various shades of legitimacy. Not only do the latter’s corrupt practices, dubious supply chains and other illicit operations run in tandem with global business, these borderless trades intersect with economic structures and contribute to systems adopted by corporations, endorsed by neoliberal capitalism, that are often condoned by governments and unwittingly sustained by consumers. In a very real sense, all of us may be implicated in shadow trades through our work, consumption and citizenship. Even before we can begin to confront and constrain shadow trades, their business models first need to be identified and analysed in all their networked complexity, interconnectivity with global business and embeddedness within the world economy. Numerous hard questions need to be raised around enabling circumstances and responsibilities of stakeholders, as well as the winners and losers resulting from business globalisation and socio-economic inequities within and between countries. Providing background, evidence and analysis on select exemplars of shadow trades, this book provides graduate students of business, plus scholars in the social sciences, together with practitioners and policymakers, consumer groups and civil society, with an indispensable resource for critical engagement. Only through knowledge gained by research and advocacy for transparency can we begin to shed light on this dark side of global business, enabling all of us to grapple with activism against and collaborative action towards undermining all shadow trades. Amos Owen Thomas was a Docent / Reader in Marketing and International Business at Stockholm University until his recent retirementTrade ReviewInternational business texts typically focus upon everyday corporate activities and the various political, legal, and cultural environments to which they must adapt. These books do consider illicit practices, such as counterfeiting, that threaten companies, as well as some ethical, social responsibility, and sustainability issues, but generally tilt toward the sunny side of global commerce. In Shadow Trades: The Dark Side of Global Business, author Amos Owen Thomas introduces readers to a wide range of much more controversial, often despicable, business conduct that flourishes on a worldwide scale. Topics include exploitation of migrants and laborers, human organ trafficking, hazardous waste transhipment, the global arms trade, money laundering, and much more. Thomas’ writing is engaging, and his chapters end with a variety of sources – research works, executive books, informational websites, and documentary videos – for further study. Shadow Trades will make a nice supplement for international business, management, and marketing classes. -- Terrence H. Witkowski, Professor of Marketing and Director, International Business Program, College of Business, California State University, USAShadow Trades takes on the existence and growth of illegal markets from a business perspective. Labour exploitation, organ transplant tourism, environmental crimes, waste transhipment, arms trafficking, money laundering, and related dark markets are examined, using available data and careful analysis of the relationships among legal and illicit markets, businesses, and government activity in alternately ignoring or facilitating this largely hidden activity. The consequences of this situation for legitimate business and broader economic development are discussed, as are the actions that might be taken to improve the contemporary situation globally. Good insights into some bad behavior, and the reasons why it continues to thrive. -- Jay S. Albanese, Professor and Criminologist, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USAThe legitimate global capitalist financial and business world lives in creative co-existence with its dark alter ego. As this book demonstrates, these shadow trades haunt capitalism and complicit government as viruses. These co-inhabit spaces with hosts such that management, healthcare and environmentalism have their converse in exploited labour, organ harvesting and waste dumping. Amos Owen Thomas is bold enough to take a fierce analytical torch to this murky admixture in a book that will become a mainstream source for business and business educators -- David Weir, Professor, York Business School, York St John University, UKThis book makes a great addition to the literature on CSR and Business Ethics, filling one of the gaps that have existed in management knowledge. I believe that there are still no credible books in this area for education and training purposes on the market. Dr Thomas’ book will certainly be a welcome addition to what we have now at business schools around the globe. -- Samuel O Idowu, Deputy CEO, Global Corporate Governance Institute, UKThis is a very important book on a subject typically ignored in management education. The author′s unique perspectives and insights make for a vital contribution to our knowledge. It is important for students and the general public to understand these challenges, so I hope the book gets some traction in academia and beyond. -- Laurence Chalip, Professor, Director, School of Sport, Recreation, and Tourism Management George Mason University, Virginia, USACompelling and original, Shadow Trades exposes the criminogenic nature of international capitalism. The spectres of fraud, violence and coercion lurk on every page. Essential reading for all scholars of critical globalization studies. -- Leo McCann, Professor of Management, University of York, UKDriving directly to the heart of crime, greed and desperation, the author explains the interactions between leading world countries and companies profiting from illegal activities to economically disadvantaged countries mired in political conflict and military rule. Shadow Trades describes how UN, laws, international conventions and interventions are circumvented by ingenious yet, corrupt means to the detriment of every living creature on this planet. -- Colleen Clarke, Professor Emeritus, Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA Author, Stealing HistoryAmos Owen Thomas addresses a fascinating collection of cross border business activities that provide a rich source of material for discussing business ethics and corporate social responsibility. By highlighting these examples of cross border activity that are either illegal or at the margins of social acceptance, the book provides a unique source for reflecting on contemporary international economic value creation with a dark side. -- Johan Lindeque, Assistant Professor of Strategy, University of Amsterdam Business School, NetherlandsProfessor Amos Owen Thomas′s book on dark trade makes a tremendous contribution to uncovering an important phenomenon of economy that has been little known. -- Tony Fang, Professor, Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University, SwedenA very interesting and novel book on the illegitimate aspects of international trade. Arguably, economic globalization has accelerated the growth in international trade globally in recent decades. But, it is assumed that globalisation fosters only legitimate trade. Hence, there is not much consideration in the international business literature about the dark side of international trade. This timely book sheds a much needed light on issues such as human trafficking, money laundering, waste management and arms trade. It provides an excellent critique of the push and pull migration theories underlying these shadow trades and illuminates our understanding of the global human resource implications of these unsavoury/disreputable trades. A must read for academics, practitioners, government official, policy makers and social activists. -- Yaw Debrah, Professor, School of Management, Swansea University, UKShadow Trades makes fascinating reading. We know the dark side of international business exists but perhaps understandably it is rarely examined objectively and analytically by academics or taught as part of university degree programmes. Dr. Thomas should be congratulated, therefore, not just for a clearly written, compelling text, but for the way he has researched and addressed this much neglected topic. The text contains a the wealth of information that will be of interest to practitioners, policy makers and all those concerned with social responsibility, as well as academics and students of international business. -- David A. Kirby, Holder of The Queen′s Award for Enterprise Promotion, UK. Former Vice President (Enterprise and Community Service), The British University in Egypt. Honorary Professor, Almaty UniversiThis book, Shadow Trades is unlike any other book on business ethics. It belongs to class of its own in several ways. First it covers several ethical topics ranging from business, medicine, human trafficking, environment, hazardous recycling, military contracting and money laundering; all in the global landscape. Second, and perhaps even more important, the writing style and easy-to-follow narrative ensures that the book will engage students and the various audiences. Third, it is an intelligent, quietly provocative book touching upon, though tangentially, on controversial social-economic issues such as imperialism, capitalism and Marxian philosophy. Fourth and finally, the skilful use of language makes the book even more appealing to serious as well as leisure readers. -- Edward E. Marandu, Professor of Marketing, Faculty of Business University of BotswanaShadow Trades is a must-read for all who are interested in gaining insights into the power and influence that access to finite, valuable resources benefits those who achieve it by any means available. Moreover, this book provides well-documented cases, including from recent Middle East history, of how various players, often foreign, take advantage of the woes that afflict developing countries to threaten lives and disrupt whole regions. -- Nabil Sultan, Visiting Professor at SERVUS, Free University of Amsterdam. Formerly Dean, College of Business Administration, A′Sharqiyah University, Oman.Shadow Trades could not come at a more opportune time - as we’re flooded with news of social and racial disparities brought to light by the pandemic, Mexico’s shelters overwhelmed by migrants hoping to cross the US border, mass school kidnappings in northern Nigeria, Indian farmers demonstrating against the new agriculture laws leaving them unprotected from the greedy private sector. Shadow Trades goes a step further to reveal many dire causes and effects of neo-colonialism and call out for action. Eye-opening, informative, a must-read for anyone who chooses not to remain ignorant, "Shadow Trades" is looking to convince us to get involved, and to persuade the government and corporations to take meaningful action and place the protection of human rights above profit. It is unfortunate that we still need this training in our humanity, and while this level of clarity can be shocking, it is perhaps necessary. -- Maria Yannakea, Stockholm Business School; Marketing Operations Manager, CBS Interactive, USADespite an increased focus on CSR and business ethics, shadow trades are thriving underneath the legitimate surface of global business. Human trafficking, resource pilfering and money laundering co-exist alongside seemingly legitimate trades, often benefiting from a symbiotic relationship. Dr Thomas’ book examines the business models of shadow trades and the complex ways in which illicit activities underpin the global economy. The murky aspects of capitalism are rarely discussed in business ethics classes, which is why Shadow Trades is an important and timely contribution to management literature. Calling for transparency and action, Shadow Trades is an invitation to scholars, practitioners and consumers to disarm the dark side of international trade. -- Robyn Belak, Stockholm Business School; Digital Marketing Manager, Stora Enso, SwedenWhat a fantastic page turner! Whether you are an academic looking for sources about the topic or whether you are passionate about ethical business I highly recommend this book. If you are a business leader I especially recommend this read, it will challenge your company’s values and culture and start some healthy boardroom conversations. I loved how Dr Thomas always had this ability of taking complex, multi-faceted topics and making them so simple and relatable to an academic, an executive keen on making a difference or an average consumer wanting to make informed, ethical choices. I particularly liked how this book emphasises the role of investigative journalism to drive accountability to businesses, governments and help consumers make informed choices. -- Maya Rigg, Maastricht School of Management; Chief Executive Officer, Elite Havens, SingaporeThis book provides a great overview on illegal practices and issues of the current business environment, which are a result of the products and services we use in our everyday life. Topics such as labour exploitation, environment degradation and money laundering (and many more) are analysed and permit to gain critical knowledge on today′s business practices. I can recommend this book to everyone who is linked to the business world (students, lecturers, managers...) as it enables you to become critical towards common business practices and to recognise and understand the shadow trades behind those. Moreover, it can be a source of inspiration for further research in this mostly undiscussed area of today′s business world. -- Jonathan Ribeiro, Copenhagen Business School; Demand Activation Assistant, Mars, GermanyTable of ContentsChapter 1: Charting the Borderless Chapter 2: Darkness Enlightened Chapter 3: Irregular Migration & Labour Exploitation Chapter 4: Transplant Tourism & Organs Acquisition Chapter 5: Resource Pilferage & Environment Degradation Chapter 6: Waste Transhipment & Hazardous Recycling Chapter 7: Arms Conveyance & Military Contracting Chapter 8: Financial Sleight & Money Laundering Chapter 9: Tracking Cross-Currents Chapter 10: Imperative of Engagement

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Book SynopsisBe inspired to transform your business to change the world.Do you ever wonder how successful businesses can be used as a force for good? Do you sometimes feel conflicted by the principles of capitalism? Do you wish to change the world around you whilst doing what you love?In this book, Gaurav Sinha, world-class businessman and entrepreneur, founder of Insignia in 2003, outlines the economics of empathy for life and for business. He offers actionable solutions to maintaining a successful trade in a changing global landscape where conscience, ethics, and authenticity are high on the agenda.The world is changing, perceptions are shifting, consumers are evolving, and this book will ensure your business keeps up.Trade ReviewGaurav Sinha’s manifesto to rethink business motivated by compassion has the potential to create a more peaceful, just, sustainable and joyful world -- Deepak ChopraThis book is the product of a sharp business brain and a warm, welcoming heart - a powerful combination that will inspire the reader to live a better life at work and play -- Richard Kilgarriff Founder & Editorial Director BookomiReading this book will make you feel a bit better about the world and your business, even before putting Sinha's ideas into practice. * Financial Times *Part memoir, part meditation and musings, Compassion Inc outlines how you can be an “altruistic aesthete”, someone who likes the good stuff but also likes to give back. * Vogue India *

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Book Synopsis The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility explores the meanings, practices, and impact of corporate social and environmental responsibility across a range of transnational corporations and geographical locations (Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa, the UK, and the USA). The contributors examine the expectations, frictions and contradictions the CSR movement is generating and addressing key issues such as the introduction of new forms of management, control, and discipline through ethical and environmental governance or the extent to which corporate responsibility challenges existing patterns of inequality rather than generating new geographies of inclusion and exclusion.Trade Review “Each chapter in this important book, in one way or another, interrogates the slippery and shady partnerships forming between transnational corporations, international development agencies, and NGOs to further augment and implement CSR programmes…If you think critically about corporations, add this to your collection.” · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute “This is an insightful and original compilation of research on the novel ways in which 'market and society', and underlying dynamics of accumulation and sociality, get entangled and transformed through contemporary corporate practice. The wide range of empirical terrain traversed – in terms of the chapters' diverse ideational, social and regional settings – sets the stage for an illuminating comparative inquiry, on a timely topic of wider importance.” · Jens Kjaerulff, Aalborg University “This volume deals with what I would consider to be one of the most important issues of our time: the “ethical turn” of global capitalism, what it means, and what its possible effects might be.” · Andrea Muehlebach, University of TorontoTable of Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: Towards an Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility Catherine Dolan and Dinah Rajak Chapter 1. Theatres of Virtue: Collaboration Consensus and the Social Life of Corporate Social Responsibility Dinah Rajak Chapter 2. Virtuous Language in Industry and Academy Stuart Kirsch Chapter 3. Re-siting Corporate Responsibility: The Making of South Africa's Avon Entrepreneurs Catherine Dolan and Mary Johnstone-Louis Chapter 4. Power, Inequality and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Politics of Ethical Compliance in the South Indian Garment Industry Geert De Neve Chapter 5. Detachment as a Corporate Ethic: Materialising CSR in the Diamond Supply Chain Jamie Cross Chapter 6. Disconnect Development: Imagining Partnership and Experiencing Detachment in Chevron’s Borderlands Katy Gardner Chapter 7. Subcontracting as Corporate Social Responsibility in the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline José-María Muñoz and Philip Burnham Chapter 8. Collective Contradictions of Corporate Environmental Conservation Rebecca Hardin Chapter 9. Engineering Responsibility: Environmental Mitigation and the Limits of Commensuration in a Chilean Mining Project Fabiana Li Chapter 10. Global Concepts in Local Contexts: CSR as ‘Anti-politics Machine’ in the Extractive Sector in Ghana and Peru Johanna Sydow Afterword: Big Men and Business: Morality, Debt and the Corporation: A Perspective Robert J. Foster Index

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The latest volume of Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations addresses a range of contemporary issues in applied and professional ethics and explores the unique role of organizational ethics in creating and sustaining a pluralistic, free enterprise economy. It is ideally suited to researchers, postgraduates and professionals whose interests include such key issues as tax avoidance, global justice, information sharing and corporate privacy.

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Book SynopsisThe ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Corporate executives immersed in the turbulent markets of today face a world not of clear cut moral dilemmas such as right or wrong, or good or evil, but instead must confront large corporate grey areas of lesser good, lesser evil, less true, less unfair, and less unjust. Often these choices become almost indistinguishable.; Corporate Ethics for Turbulent Markets: Executive Response to Market Challenges sets out a universal moral foundation of corporate executive ethics. Its chapters attempt to extend the discussion on human dignity to its practical applications, map out strategic approaches for responding to current turbulent markets, and drill moral skills for taming and tapping current turbulent markets. The book features modern techniques of critical thinking, moral reasoning, moral judgment, and moral justification, and charts how to uphold stakeholder rights and duties and understand corporate moral responsibilities. Written as a guide for corporate executives who strive daily not only to be legal in all they decide, choose and do, but to also be ethical, moral, and even spiritual, the book provides skills and insights that are urgently needed to fathom and capitalize upon in the turbulent markets of today.Trade ReviewMascarenhas (business ethics, Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur) proposes strategies for corporate ethics in terms of moral agencies as processes of corporate deliberations, moral reasoning, moral judgment calls and their justifications, moral choices, decisions and implementation, and moral consequences as outputs. Intended for corporate leaders, each chapter is energized by several contemporary business cases that reflect global, international, national, and local real-time market problems and require innovative business management skills. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *Table of ContentsPROLOGUE. Corporate Ethical Response to Turbulent Markets; CHAPTER 1. The Ethics of Dignity of the Human Person; CHAPTER 2. The Ethics of Corporate Executive Virtues; CHAPTER 3. The Ethics of Corporate Trusting Relations; CHAPTER 4. The Ethics of Corporate Ethical and Moral Charismatic Leadership; CHAPTER 5. The Ethics of Corporate Critical Thinking; CHAPTER 6. The Ethics of Corporate Stakeholder Rights and Duties; CHAPTER 7. The Ethics of Corporate Moral Reasoning, Moral Judgment, and Moral Justification; CHAPTER 8. The Ethics of Corporate Legal, Ethical, Moral, and Spiritual (LEMS) Responsibility; EPILOGUE. Corporate Cosmic Spirituality for Today

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Book SynopsisIn The Battle to Do Good, former McDonald's executive Bob Langert takes readers on a behind-the-scenes eye witness account of the mega brand's battle to address numerous societal hot-button issues, such as packaging, waste, recycling, obesity, deforestation, and animal welfare. From the late 80s, McDonald's landed smack in the middle of one contentious issue after another, often locking horns with powerful NGOs such as Greenpeace, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and Corporate Accountability. This sudden shift from being the beloved Golden Arches since opening its doors in 1955, to the demon of many societal ills, caught McDonald's off guard. Langert chronicles the highs and lows that McDonald's experienced in turbulent times and how its sustainability journey evolved from playing defense to strategically solving issues with unlikely partners, including a whirling dervish, autistic animal scientist, and avid environmentalists from the World Wildlife Fund and Conservation International. Packed with first-hand anecdotes, interviews with key McDonald's executives and NGO leaders, and scores of lessons learned, The Battle to Do Good is a sustainability page turner that provides unique insights and guidance on how to successfully navigate and manage today's societal issues to make the business stronger, more relevant, and more profitable.Trade Review"The Battle to Do Good: Inside McDonald’s Sustainability Journey is a must-read even for those who are cynical about the business of corporate social responsibility." -- The Economist"If you're interested in the changing consumer marketplace and how societal demands will directly impact how you run cattle at home on the ranch, this book is definitely a page turner worth reading. It's insightful, honest and really gives a glimpse at the changing dynamics of retailers, supplier and consumer relationships." -- BEEF Magazine"Bob is a terrific storyteller - and man, does he have stories: battling with Greenpeace and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals; collaborating with Environmental Defense Fund and World Wildlife Fund; engaging Dr. Temple Grandin, the animal welfare guru; enlisting big suppliers like Smithfield and Cargill; convening the beef industry to define sustainable beef; and getting buy-in from an ever-changing cast of McDonald's executives... His remarkable story is not just a great read about an enviable career, but a hero's journey through the history of sustainable business and what it takes to be a leader, sometimes against the greatest of odds." -- Joel Makower"A 'sustainability page-turner' is not a description one often finds associated with books in the usually heavy-going world of corporate responsibility. In the case of The Battle to do Good: inside McDonald's sustainability journey, just published in hardback by Emerald Publishing, the marketing claim rings true." -- Corporate CitizenshipLangert, who led McDonald's corporate social responsibility and sustainability efforts for 25 years, describes the company's experiences with sustainability issues and various battles with activists related to these issues, including climate change, animal rights, obesity, sourcing practices, deforestation, waste, a sustainable supply chain, values, Happy Meal toys, pesticides, the Amazon rainforest, sustainable beef, and making a difference, to provide insight into what to do and not to do in times of crisis and when dealing with activists and advocates. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *Table of ContentsIntroduction. From Defense to Offense Chapter 1. The Battle Against Waste Chapter 2. The Battle for Farm Animals Chapter 3. The Battle of Extremism: McCruelty Chapter 4. The Battle to Be Proactive Chapter 5. The Battle of the Waistline and Brand Health Chapter 6. The Battle for a Sustainable Supply Chain Chapter 7. The Battle for Values Chapter 8. The Battle Goes to the Board Room Chapter 9. The Battle for the Amazon Rainforest Chapter 10. The Battle to Make a Pig’s Life Better Chapter 11. The Battle for Better Beef Chapter 12. The Battle to Lead Both Business and Society

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Book SynopsisAs seen on THE ONE SHOW, and heard on WOMAN'S HOUR and THE ZOE BALL BREAKFAST SHOW on Radio 2'Challenges all the things we thought we knew about business.' Sam Baker__________How we live, buy and sell is changing, and it's changing for good. Rebuild is a vital guide to how we reset post-pandemic and build back better.Retail and brand expert Mary Portas argues that over the past thirty years the business of what we buy has been dominated by the biggest, fastest and cheapest. But those values no longer resonate. We've come to realize that more doesn't equal better.We are all ready to put people and planet before profit. This 'Kindness Economy' is a new value system where in order to thrive businesses must understand the fundamental role they play in the fabric of our lives. Because we don't just want to buy from brands - we want to buy into them.Full of expert insight and invaluable advice, Rebuild is about resetting the dial. It gives businesspeople pause for thought about how to make money, as well as the practical tools to build back post-pandemic. And it speaks to anyone who votes with the pound in their pocket - all of us who, with social progress in mind, want to spend our money differently and better._________'Doesn't lecture or scold, but brings people with her on a journey to a better place.' Irish Times'Mary Portas is a woman on a mission.' Forbes

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking guide for the next generation of business leaders, founders, and innovators, this book unveils 50 innovative strategies to revolutionize consumer behavior to achieve the triple win: for people, the planet and universal prosperity. How can we transform impulsive buying into meaningful action-taking, empowering people to navigate the consequences of economic growth? Essential reading for business leaders dedicated to making a significant difference, this book is a blueprint for a brighter, more sustainable world. Elena V. Amber is a founder, doctoral researcher, and award-winning author with 15+ years of global business and startup expertise. Her doctoral research merges behavioral psychology and economics with neuroscience to examine factors impacting sustainable consumption at the nexus with impulsive buying behavior.

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Book SynopsisThe ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set an ambitious agenda for global problem-solving and create a framework to achieve it through the power of partnerships. Goal 17 points to the central importance of partnerships, networks, and multi-stakeholder collaborations for bringing together a broad range of actors to accomplish the first 16 goals. Only through such partnerships can the distributed knowledge, resources and capacity of government agencies, private enterprises, political activists, local communities, and international NGOs be effectively combined to produce the major breakthroughs in sustainability that the SDGs envision. Co-Creation for Sustainability sets out a strategy of partnership, with an emphasis on how global goals can be translated into local action. Co-creation brings multiple parties together—including citizens—to collaboratively engage in innovative problem-solving. The book explains this strategy and describes how to foster the conditions necessary for its success. It details how leaders can spur co-creation and manage and overcome its practical challenges. Written to inspire public and private changemakers to find fundamental solutions to the pressing challenges that confront our social and natural environment, Co-creation for Sustainability: The UN SDGs and the Power of Partnerships provides intellectual resources and practical advice relevant for those who aspire to harness the talents, energy and perspectives of different sectors to build the momentum we need to realize a sustainable future.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Co-creating the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Chapter 2. The Key Role of Local Governance in Achieving the SDGs Chapter 3. Co-creation is the Answer Chapter 4. Translating Global Goals to Local Contexts Chapter 5. Building Co-creation Platforms Chapter 6. Convening, Empowering and Integrating Relevant and Affected Actors Chapter 7. Initiating, Designing and Diffusing Co-created Innovation Chapter 8. Co-creating SDGs through Experimentation and Prototyping Chapter 9. Funding and Financing Local Co-creation Projects Chapter 10. Implementing Solutions Based on Collaborative Adaptation Chapter 11. Evaluating Processes, Outputs and Outcomes to Learn and Improve Chapter 12. Ensuring Accountable Co-creation of the SDGs Chapter 13. Leading Local Co-creation of SDG Solutions Chapter 14. Challenges to the Co-creation of the SDGs and the Way Forward

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Book SynopsisThe impact of individual appearance on career success, either positive or negative, often remains unspoken or even unconscious within the world of work. Appearance has been shown to influence decisions regarding renumeration, recruitment and promotion through biases such as size and gender discrimination. For women especially, there appears to be a delicate balance between achieving the right look and being perceived as professional. Such issues require a critical examination of the relationship between appearance and careers. Through a sharp intersectional lens honed by experts from across the globe, The Emerald Handbook of Appearance in the Workplace focuses on both internal and external influences that may complicate issues of workplace appearance and further impact the development and progression of individuals’ occupations. Thoughtfully structured to consider both theoretical and applied points of view, chapters examine topics such as body art, hair textures, lookism and ageism across a variety of industry sectors and levels of employment. The first of its kind in addressing appearance and careers with varying approaches and across a diverse range of concepts, this Handbook provides an essential overview of the unspoken impact that personal presentation and assumptions can have on how employees are perceived and ultimately progress in their careers.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Adelina Broadbridge Chapter 1. Appearance as Carnal Capital and Symbolic Violence: An Intersectional Approach; Mustafa Özbilgin, Marios Samdanis, and Pelin Arsezen Chapter 2. Is Curly Hair Viewed as Professional? Examining Hair Bias Against White Women with Curly Hair; Joy V. Peluchette and Katherine A. Karl Chapter 3. Examining Hair Choices of Black Women in Academia; Katherine A. Karl, Joy V. Peluchette, and Gail Dawson Chapter 4. Body Weight Discrimination Against Women in Customer-Facing Roles: A Systematic Literature Review; Sharon Grant, Toby Mizzi, and Elly O’loghlen Chapter 5. Ageism, Sexism, and Appearance: Navigating Workplace Discrimination in Later Life; Laura Hurd Chapter 6. The Price of ‘Extra Layers’: British Muslim Women’s Work and Career; Sajia Ferdous Chapter 7. Dress Codes in a “Singular They” World: Gender Nonbinary Identity and Expression and Employer Appearance Policies; Todd Brower Chapter 8. Dressing to Be(Come) a Business School Dean: Autoethnographic Accounts; Gina Grandy, Sharon Mavin, and Elise Gagnon Chapter 9. Appearance Matters: Appearance Management in Political Careers; Minita Sanghvi and Nancy Hodges Chapter 10. Status Effects of Attractiveness at Work; Tonya K. Frevert, Tarya Bardwell, and Lisa Slattery Walker Chapter 11. Lookism Knows No Age: Aesthetic Labour in Women’s Careers; Marjut Jyrkinen, Mira Karjalainen, and Linda McKie Chapter 12. Appearance Discrimination In Hiring: Challenges and Dilemmas for Managers in the United States; Bahaudin G. Mujtaba , Frank J. Cavico , and Tipakorn Senathip Chapter 13. Legislating Against Lookism in Australia; Chris Warhurst, Richard Hall, and Diane Van Den Broek Chapter 14. Appearance in the Workplace: Impact on Career Development; Peter Waring Chapter 15. Advising Clients on Appearance: Ethical Tensions and Positive Conversations; Julia Yates Chapter 16. The Visibility of Invisibility: Exploring Criminal History Appearance and Implications to Careers; Nicole C. Jones Young and Kemi S. Anazodo Chapter 17. The Impact of Workers’ Tattoos and Piercings on Employment: Suggestions for Pragmatic Career Planning; Leonidas Efthymiou, Yianna Orphanidou, and Achilleas Karayiannis Chapter 18. A Tattooed Workforce – Still a Liability?; Beth Wood and Adelina Broadbridge Chapter 19. Tattoos and The Social Psychology of Stigma: Implications for Career Development; Terence Chia and Andrew R. Timming Conclusion; Adelina Broadbridge

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Book SynopsisOver the past two decades, increasing attention has been paid to the concept of business diplomacy. This is becoming more important for multinational corporations (MNCs) as they deal with an increasingly demanding and dynamic international business arena. Despite the growing literature on this phenomenon, there is no sound theory-based business diplomacy model that can help to understand MNCs' relationship-building activities in the global society and provide a normative, moral guide for MNCs on how to conduct business diplomacy successfully. In Business Diplomacy by Multinational Corporations, Huub Ruël turns to Catholic Social Thought (CST), an intellectual tradition extending back 2000 years that promotes the key principles of human dignity, the common good, solidarity and subsidiarity. According to CST, a business is a community of people and its purpose is to serve the common good. This clearly diverges from the dominant shareholder view of business and CST provides a basis for a normative business diplomacy model. This in turn provides a clear, distinctive instrument for MNCs to reflect on their purpose and role in the global society while also guiding and directing their relationship-building actions with other actors in the global society. This book is essential reading for researchers studying ethics and morality from an international business viewpoint.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Multinational Corporations in a Dynamic International Business Arena Chapter 3. Business Diplomacy: A Review of the Literature and a Definition Chapter 4. Catholic Social Thought (CST) as a Source for a Business Diplomacy Model Chapter 5. Toward a CST-based Model of Business Diplomacy Chapter 6. Discussion and Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAttaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Quality Education focuses on Sustainable Development Goal number four (SDG4): Quality Education for All. Examining family businesses in Australia, USA, Austria and Algeria, each case study presents a unique perspective from their respective country, analysing how SDG4 translates into ensuring inclusive, equitable quality education, and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all. The case studies presented generate insights and key takeaways into the role of family businesses in providing quality education for all. The United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are 17 Goals pledged by 193 nations in 2015 which would help engender an improved, fairer, and more sustainable world – one in which ‘no one is left behind’. The SDGs are a call to action, to develop innovative solutions to the most complex, societal, and environmental global challenges. In Family Businesses on a Mission, series editors Naomi Birdthistle and Rob Hales bring together international case studies to illustrate how family businesses can attain the UN 2030 SDGs. Accessible to those working in the field beyond academia – such as family business practitioners, family business owners, government and policymakers, members of NGOs, business associations and philanthropic centres – the book series equally appeals to those with a general interest in entrepreneurship and business. Table of ContentsChapter 1. The Sustainable Development Goals - SDG#4 Quality Education; Rob Hales and Naomi Birdthistle Chapter 2. Family businesses and their contribution to the world; Naomi Birdthistle and Rob Hales Chapter 3. USA – 4th Street Market, Santa Ana, California: Urban Renewal and Sustainable Change in Education; Patrick Fuery and Kelli Fuery Chapter 4. ALGERIA – Likoul: Quality education for all; Sofiane Baba, Amina I. Wazoumi, and Samuel Bradley Chapter 5. Austria – HOLLU: Quality education and life-long learning of employees; Anita Zehrer, Simon Meinschad, and Bernd Kirschner Chapter 6. AUSTRALIA – When Family Businesses Solve Social Problems - The Case of the McPherson Family; Tafadzwa Leroy Machirori

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Book SynopsisEcofeminism is defined as a unique academic discipline, theoretical framework, and political and philosophical movement centred around both environmental and feminist concerns. With a special focus on education and underrepresented geographical locations, Ecofeminism on the Edge: Theory and Practice is an inclusive collection of theories, discourses, art, identities, and practices related to this discipline. Expert contributors collaborate with junior scholars and early-stage researchers to demonstrate the compatibilities between different generations, academic backgrounds, political views, and gender perspectives for a holistic, globally conscious approach to ecofeminism and ecofeminist studies. Chapters focus on regions not yet represented in this discipline as well as emerging educational practices to provide a truly inclusive approach to the many creative solutions ecofeminism offers. Topics explored include promoting ecofeminisms plural as potential solutions for environmental and social crises, gender inequality, labour issues, and capitalism. An interdisciplinary approach to an interdisciplinary field, Ecofeminism on the Edge: Theory and Practice understands ecofeminism as a connective point between issues of gender and the environment, one with strong solutional potential for two distinct, yet often interconnected, fields.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Ecofeminism-Introduction; Goran Đurđević and Suzana Marjanić Part I: Ecofem-Theories and discourses Chapter 2. Humans and the More-Than-Human World: Political Solidarity against Eco-Social Opression; Tara Kalaputi Chapter 3. The Portal Audience: Ecofeminizam on Social Networks; Sandra Iršević Chapter 4. Ecofeminist Voices from Southeastern Europe; Goran Đurđević and Suzana Marjanić Chapter 5. The Ecofeminist capacities of Slavic Gymnastics for Women; Magdalena Bogusławska Chapter 6. Writing “For” The Cows: Ecofeminism, Anthropology And Disciplinarity; Sarah Czerny Part II: Ecofem-Art Chapter 7. Herbal magic in South Slavic Oral lyric songs; Ana Vukmanović Chapter 8. Fisherman Plunk's Supper: A Feminist-Vegan Reading of a Fairy Tale; Lada Čale Feldman Chapter 9. Searching for "A Green Place" in a World of "Fire And Blood": An (Eco)Feminist Reading of The Mad Max: Fury Road; Marija Geiger Zeman, Mirela Holy, and Brigita Miloš Chapter 10. Agnes Varda: How do we embody the World: When we are not exploiting it?; Nataša Govedić Chapter 11. An Ecofeminist Approach to Paula Rego’s Dog Women; Barbara Martinović Chapter 12. Queer Island Feminism in Magda Dulčić’s Comics; Jadranka Ryle Part III: Ecofem-Practices Chapter 13. The Space Between Motherhood and Mother-Earth: An Ecofeminist Analysis of the Post-Development Model in Bolivia; Maryse Helbert Chapter 14. Women’s Lives and Agriculture In Rural Nigeria: An Ecofeminist Analysis; Joy Ogbemudia and Karen Vollum – Dix; Chapter 15. Ecofeminising Law: Some Notions towards Rethinking Law for Equity and Sustainability; Clara Esteve Jordà Chapter 16. All the Women Living Inside Me; Bénédicte Meillon Chapter 17. Ecofeminism for a Just and Sustainable Transition'; Ariel Salleh

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Book SynopsisThe ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Sustainable Cities and Communities focuses on Sustainable Development Goal number eleven (SDG#11): making human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. Examining family businesses in the Republic of Ireland, Germany, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, and Australia, each case study presents a unique perspective from their respective country, analysing how SDG#11 translates into creating and maintaining liveable home environments for all. The case studies presented generate insights and key takeaways into the role of family businesses in developing and encouraging sustainable practices that have a positive effect on every member of their community. The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are 17 Goals pledged by 193 nations in 2015 which would help engender an improved, fairer, and more sustainable world – one in which ‘no one is left behind’. The SDGs are a call to action, to develop innovative solutions to the most complex, societal, and environmental global challenges. In Family Businesses on a Mission, series editors Naomi Birdthistle and Rob Hales bring together international case studies to illustrate how family businesses can attain the UN 2030 SDGs. Accessible to those working in the field beyond academia – such as family business practitioners, family business owners, government and policymakers, members of NGOs, business associations, and philanthropic centres – this book series appeals equally to those with a general interest in entrepreneurship and business.Table of ContentsChapter 1. The Sustainable Development Goals – SDG#11 Sustainable Cities and Communities; Rob Hales and Naomi Birdthistle Chapter 2. What it means to be a Family Business Today; Naomi Birdthistle and Rob Hales Chapter 3. IQUTECH –Ireland’s largest Returns Management Company; Ivona Ravlikj and Mark O’Sullivan Chapter 4. Germany: DINZLER Kaffeerösterei AG, strong in regional sustainability; Markus Pillmayer Chapter 5. USA: Wolf Connection and Inclusive, Safe Spaces for All; Patrick Fuery and Kelli Fuery Chapter 6. United Arab Emirates: The Family Business of the Shehada brothers; Jacinta Dsilva, Jasmina Locke, and Poh Yen Ng Chapter 7. Australia: Hickinbotham Homes and Sustainable Cities and Communities; Rob Hales

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Book SynopsisBuilding on the award-winning success of the first edition, Integrated Management offers Initiatives we would want to achieve regardless of their proven positive impacts on a single bottom line, as they are practices that benefit the environment and society in dynamic ways that for too long have been overlooked.

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection builds on the ethical questions reminiscent of those raised by early fiction writing in relation to robotics, and AI's position within human endeavour. The chapters recognise the dangers as well as the applications which are appropriate and helpful.

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Book SynopsisManagement and leadership roles in business and professions entail a wide range of ethical issues and challenges. The authors of the papers in this volume consider angles such as the nature of licence to operate, whether management attracts any kind of moral exceptionalism, and the ethics of passion' at work.

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Book SynopsisA lot of controversy exists around the contribution of the mining industry and the territorial development of the regions where it operates. Despite the boom in mineral prices, there are still many communities that do not show development. At the macroeconomic level, countries with a mining industry receive income from mining taxes and royalties, however, at the micro level this greater income is not reflected in the closing of socio-economic gaps and the well-being of the population. Cesar Saenz presents the Social Management Model Canvas (SMMC), describing the rationale of how an extractive company can create and deliver social value for communities around and beyond the sphere of influence. The SMMC can best be described through nine basic building blocks - the social value proposition; defining the community; social channels; relationship with the community; key social resources; key social activities; key social partners; social investment structure and social benefits. Companies can map the existing social management model to visualize, understand and communicate the level of responsiveness of the model, whilst using the canvas to explore new social management improvements to get a social license to operate. Communities require companies and governments to address their needs such as education, employment, health service, among others. Combining all these elements in a social management model helps companies consider all the variables when designing and implementing strategies that meet both business and community needs.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Corporate Social Management Canvas Chapter 2. Defining community Chapter 3. Social Value proposition Chapter 4. Social channels Chapter 5. Relationship with the community Chapter 6. Chapter Key Social Resources Chapter 7. Key social activities Chapter 8. Key Partners Chapter 9. Social investment structure Chapter 10. Social benefits Part II Implementation of the social management Canvas Case study: Chevron Nigeria Case Case Study: Quellaveco Project Case study: The Tintaya copper mine Case: Mining company in Peru Case study: Electric generation Case: Hydroelectric power plant in the Philippines Case study: Mines and wines, Xstrata Coal Beltana Mine

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Book SynopsisA ‘new spirit of hospitality’ beckons planetary provenances of leisure and pleasure, to promote tourism destinations through the digitization and cinematic advertising of tourist experience. While releasing identities, populations, and environments from their geographical and political isolation, this new spirit may rob them of their ability to communicate cultural diversity on their own terms. Such changes also affect the professionals who produce aesthetic renditions of other people’s home territories as tourist destinations, often feeding into domestic perceptions of homemaking, with various good and bad consequences for the design of sustainable planetary futures. Through methodological elaborations on case studies, Tzanelli explains that we have entered a new era of tourism and hospitality mobilities dominated by crises of cultural representation and host presence. Triggered by the urge to renovate concept design, the crisis leads to a proliferation of what is just, true, and real, with various consequences for those interest groups involved in the production of truthfulness, justice and reality in hospitality and tourism. The Tourism Security-Safety and Post Conflict Destinations series provides an insightful guide for policy makers, specialists and social scientists interested in the future of tourism in a society where uncertainness, anxiety and fear prevail.Trade ReviewTzanelli disturbs the normative premises on which much tourism and hospitality research are predicated to make space for imaginations whereby the represented can manage their representations, and destination design is co-developed with more just digital technologies. -- Dorina-Maria Buda, Nottingham Trend Business School, UKTzanelli goes beyond the co-ordinates of contemporary cultural theory to contextualise a new “atmospheric” ethos in tourism markets. All of this grounded in a Marxist appreciation of the relation of space to labour and, perhaps the most innovative focus of the book, on the notion of worldmaking borrowed from Hollinshead and deployed here to organise the appearances (another mode of spirit, etymologically justified in Marx’s terminology) of tourism in case studies. As cases, however, these studies are saturated in an astute appreciation of theoretical confluence, from Derridean spectres and hospitality to Hardt and Negri’s Empire, to Boltanski and Chiapello, Žižek, Sewell, that guy Hutnyk and the classics – Hegel, Nietzsche, Arendt. The book narrates a necessary movement from crisis to justice, designing places for care and reviving a new hospitality in an always open-ended inquiry. It will allow you to travel to your own conclusions, taking or leaving the many stops on the way as possible swelling-places or refreshment. Theoretical tourism has rarely been done with such vigour. A fabulous, fun, and flagrantly phantasmagoric read. -- John Hutnyk, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Travels to Post-Truth Worlds Chapter 1. Representation, Presence and Public Culture Chapter 2. From Cultural Worldmaking to Structural Technomorphism in Zorba the Greek Tourism Chapter 3. From Borat Post-Tourism to Market Post-Truth: Kazakhstan’s New Spirit of (In)Hospitality Chapter 4. Spirited Edgeworks: Breaking Bad’s (In)Hospitable Worlds of Soft Crime Conclusion. Undoing the Cinematic Tourist Provenance, Designing Viable Futures

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Book SynopsisThe term financial inclusion describes an individual’s ability to obtain effective and inexpensive financial products and services that match their demands, whilst extending to include businesses access to finances to enable planning for long-term goals or unpredictable emergencies. This allows micro, small, and medium-sized businesses to access financial products on a sustainable basis for a reasonable price. Financial Inclusion Across Asia provides thought-provoking studies centred around Asia and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Some of the many topics discussed in this collection include financial inclusion in under-served markets, financial inclusion products and services, financial inclusion for sustainable and responsible business, micro, small, and medium-sized business practices. The chapter authors consider Artificial Intelligence, Block Chain and Robotics in financial inclusion for businesses, and financial inclusion in the Industrial Revolution (IR) 4.0. This collection of studies is useful for social scientists, students, academicians, academic institutions, policymakers, and other related stakeholders. It is also appropriate for practitioners or financial sector stakeholders to discover potential business opportunities of financial inclusion products and services, allowing them to strategically incorporate the SDGs.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Women Financial Inclusion and Financial Literacy: Bibliometrics Analysis; Wang Fengwen and Muhammad Ali Chapter 2. Unlocking the Power of Technology: A New Era of Financial Inclusion in the Industrial Revolution 4.0; Komal Akram Khan Chapter 3. Financial Inclusion and COVID-19: Opportunities and Challenges; Zou Yanting and Muhammad Ali Chapter 4. Unlocking Human Perspective: The Psychological Ripple Effects of Financial Inclusion on Asian Communities and Future Avenues; Tehzeeb Sakina Amir and Rabia Sabri Chapter 5. Significance of Fin-Tech for Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs): Anatomical Linkages of Fin-Tech with Value Chain of MFIs and Its Implications; Muhammad Faisal Sultan, Asim Rafiq, Rais Ahmad, and Muhammad Asim Chapter 6. Artificial Intelligence, Digital Finance and Financial Inclusion: A Conceptual Framework; Zou Yanting and Muhammad Ali Chapter 7. Mobile Banking in the Context of Developing Asian Countries: A Thorough Perspective Based on Customer’s Intention, Benefits, Challenges and Security Issues; Muhammad Faisal Sultan, Muhammad Nawaz Tunio, Aamir Firoz Shamsi, and Imamuddin Chapter 8. Empowering Communities: Enhancing Financial Literacy and Inclusion Across Asia; Noman Ahsan and Maiyra Ahmed Chapter 9. Fin-Tech an Opportunity or Opportunity Missed by Developing Sides of the World: An Especial Emphasize on Fintech Use and Prospects in Pakistan; Muhammad Faisal Sultan, Muhammad Asim, Raza Ali Khan, and Sadia Shaikh Chapter 10. A Bibliometric Review of Financial Inclusion in Asia; Chen YingTing and Muhammad Ali

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Book SynopsisVolume 21 of Research in Occupational Stress and Well Being focuses on stress and well-being as it pertains to strategic management and decision-making. In the past few decades, the strategic leadership of firms has been faced with unprecedented challenges in terms of technological changes, economic and political crises, and radical shifts in the workplace owing to health crises. These events have highlighted the need to understand the consequences of stress as a factor impacting strategic decisions. At the same time, firms are increasingly realizing the need to account for the stress and well-being of their employees, their customers, and their communities as factors influencing the ability of their businesses to flourish in a sustainable manner. Chapters in this volume cover a range of topics including: How stress and well-being can influence the decision-making and effectiveness of higher management teams. How organizational changes such as mergers/acquisitions or downsizing might impact the stress and well-being of both leaders and followers. Strategic initiatives that might directly or indirectly promote the well-being of organizational members or customers. CEO mental health and its consequences for strategy and organizational effectiveness. Strategic decision-making in times of crisis. Highlighting how both leader and follower stress and well-being can serve as antecedents and consequences of strategic actions and initiatives, or even be a core concern of strategic plans, Stress and Well-Being at the Strategic Level spotlights the importance of stress and well-being for organizations, their leaders, and the individuals who are impacted by their decisions.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Firm Stress, Adaptive Responses, and Unpredictable, Resource-Depleting External Shocks: Leveraging Conservation of Resources Theory and Dynamic Capabilities; Erin Bass, Ivana Milosevic, and Sarah E. DeArmond Chapter 2. The Reciprocal Relationship between M&A Strategic Decision-making and Well-Being; Kris Irwin and Chris H. Willis Chapter 3. Work-Nonwork Policies and Practices: The Strategic Opportunity to Consider Organizational Boundary Management Systems; Haley R. Cobb and Bradley J. Brummel Chapter 4. Publicly Invulnerable, Privately Lonely: How the Unique Individual and Structural Characteristics of Their Organizational Role Contribute to CEO Lonelinees; Sarah Wright, Anthony Silard, and Alaric Bourgoin Chapter 5. Cracking the CEO's Brain on Risk: Exploring the Interplay between CEO Cognition and Affect Intensity in Organizational Decision-Making and its Outcomes; Steven J. Hyde and Cameron J. Borgholthaus Chapter 6. Sentiment Analysis for Organizational Research; Chapman J. Lindgren, Wei Wang, Siddarth K. Upadhyay, and Vladimer B. Kobayashi Chapter 7. Leader Energy Driving Personal and Firm-Level Wellness: Lessons from 20 Years of the Leadership Pulse; Theresa M. Welbourne

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Book SynopsisResearch in Ethical Issues in Organizations (REIO) is a double-blind, peer-reviewed series that publishes rigorous academic research into organizational ethics from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives including, but not limited to, business management, philosophy, sociology, psychology, religion, accounting, and marketing. In this volume, War, Peace and Organizational Ethics, expert contributors draw upon philosophers such as Aristotle, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Emmanuel Levinas in order to explore how the ethics of war and peace resonate with organizational ethics. The topics covered include: the role of business in the “War on Terror”; the ethics of robot decision-making in military contexts; the use of force in UN peacekeeping missions; John Wooden’s conception of moral leadership; the implementation of meaningful change in relation to well-being in and outside of work; unethical pro-organizational behaviour; forsaking Aristotle’s Mean and pursuing the extreme. Ideally suited for researchers and professionals, this book poses questions that go to the very heart of the role organizations play in greater social conflicts, as well as the role that conflict plays in shaping organizations.Table of ContentsIntroduction. War, Peace and Organizational Ethics; Michael Schwartz and Howard Harris Chapter 1. Levinas and Business Ethics in the ‘War on Terror’; Peter McGhee Chapter 2. The Ten Commandments of Working Robots in Organizations: From History to the Future of Robot Ethics, Legislation, and Management; Issam Kouatli, Rayan Kouatly and Abir Zaarour Chapter 3. Closing the Gap between Promises and Outcomes: How moral frameworks can guide the realisation of United Nations deployment objectives; Charuka Ekanayake Chapter 4. Visualizing Success: The Wisdom of John Wooden; Jim Wishloff Chapter 5. Rushing fools and wise women: Tales for organisations aiming to improve lives; Cécile Rozuel Chapter 6. Strong identification, Weak ideology, Organizational culture or all: Unethical Pro-Organizational Behaviour in India; Pratima Verma and Siddharth Mohapatra Chapter 7. Forsaking the Mean for the Extreme: A Response to Provis; Michael Schwartz and Debra R. Comer

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Book SynopsisBusiness and NGOs are seen by many to be locked in a perpetual war of values and ideologies. What this book demonstrates is that the war has moved on. Many companies are now engaging with their stakeholders – even those with which they have traditionally had antagonistic relationships – as part of their strategies for improved social and environmental performance. With contributions from an outstanding and diverse group of experts from business, consultancy, research institutes, NGOs and academia, Terms for Endearment investigates the how and why of these new collaborations and provides concrete examples of business working with stakeholder pressure for sustainable development. The book forcibly argues the notion of organizations of civil society setting the standards for business behaviour in the 21st century. For those companies that choose not to pursue high standards of social and environmental performance, confrontation with NGOs must be expected, with negative consequences for sales, costs and social capital, i.e. the bottom line. Terms for Endearment therefore presents business with both a threat and opportunity as we move closer to establishing a social basis for global economic activity.Trade ReviewTerms for Endearment is useful for the essential task of achieving a better understanding of where power lies and what drives NGOs, businesses and the political process. - Caspar Henderson, The Ecologist || Reading this book will not guarantee you success. But it will give you a better insight into the dynamics at work. Partnership, dialogue, and engagement are the sexy words of the moment, and good fodder for a future library of books to follow. - Suzannah Lansdell, Elements (The Environment Council, UK) || ... it provides meaty evidence of the evolving relationship between businesses and the societies in which they operate. Informative and well-argued. - Community Affairs Briefing || The contributing editor should be commended highly for his contributions ... I find the text informative and the writing very accessible ... it should be a library source for societal, environmental and ethical accounting and management courses. - Social and Environmental Accounting || With increased attention being paid to both corporate responsibility and global civil society, a collection that examines the interaction between the two is particularly timely. Terms for Endearment should be notable for both practitioners and analysts of business/NGO relations. - Environment magazine || With contributions form a diverse group of experts from business, consultancy, research institutes, NGOs and academia, Terms for Endearment investigates the how and why of these new collaborations and provides concrete examples of business working with stakeholder pressure for sustainable development [and] therefore presents business with both a threat and opportunity as we move closer to establishing a social basis for global economic activity. - Connections – UNED Forum Quarterly Newsletter || ... the book is a must-read for those who champion corporate responsibility and wish to truly engage with stakeholders. - Sustain magazine || Terms for Endearment is an interesting and groundbreaking book, bringing new voices to the debate on the future of business. - Scottish Environmental Protection AgencyTable of ContentsForeword Anita Roddick, Founder and Co-Chair, The Body Shop International; Founder, New Academy of Business, UK Foreword Georg Kell, Senior Officer, Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General Foreword Kumi Naidoo, President, CIVICUS Introduction: Working with stakeholder pressure for sustainable development Jem Bendell, New Academy of Business, UK Part 1: Driving factors for business–NGO engagement1. Globalisation and the new politics of sustainable development Peter Newell, Institute of Development Studies, UK 2. Making it legit: new ways of generating corporate legitimacy in a global economy Cheryl Rodgers, University of Portsmouth, UK 3. Web wars: business, NGOs and governments in an Internet-connected world John Bray, Control Risks Group, UK Part 2: Examples from industry sectors4. Planting the seeds of change: business-NGO relations and tropical deforestation David F. Murphy and Jem Bendell, New Academy of Business, UK 5. Shades of green: mining, NGOs and the pursuit of negotiating power Saleem H. Ali, MIT, USA 6. A no win-win situation? GMOs, NGOs and sustainable development Jem Bendell, New Academy of Business, UK 7. The listening banks: the development of relations with NGOs Mike Lachowicz, SERM Rating Agency Ltd, UK Part 3: Organisations' experiences 8. Meeting social and environmental objectives through partnership: the experience of Unilever Anne Weir, Unilever, UK 9. Working non-"STOP" for sustainable development: case study of a Canadian environmental NGO's relationships with businesses since 1970 Marie-France Turcotte, Concordia University, Canada 10. Bridging troubled waters: the Marine Stewardship Council Simon Heap, INTRAC, UK, and Penny Fowler, Trade Policy Advisor, Oxfam UK Part 4: Seeking and managing collaboration11. Partners for sustainability John Elkington and Shelly Fennell, SustainAbility Ltd, UK 12. Culture clash and mediation: exploring the cultural dynamics of business-NGO collaboration Andy Crane, Cardiff Business School, UK 13. The art of collaboration: emerging business-NGO relations in Asia Christopher C. Plante, The Asia Foundation, USA, and Jem Bendell, New Academy of Business, UK Part 5: Concepts14. Complementary resources: the win-win rationale for partnership with NGOs Steve Waddell, Organizational Futures, USA 15. Thinking partners: business, NGOs and the partnership concept David F. Murphy and Gill Coleman, New Academy of Business, UK 16. Change the rules! Business–NGO relations and structuration theory Uwe Schneidewind and Holger Petersen, University of Oldenburg, Germany Part 6: Future directions17. New frontiers: emerging NGO activities to strengthen transparency and accountability in business Rob Lake, Traidcraft, UK, and Jem Bendell, New Academy of Business, UK 18. Civil regulation: a new form of democratic governance for the global economy? Jem Bendell, New Academy of Business, UK

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be human-centric? The Convergence is here. Each day the human race becomes more connected and interdependent. There is no longer a choice in the matter. There is no turning back. All aspects of human life are rapidly converging at an intersection of people, business, and environment. With potential for either a historic integration or catastrophic collision, leaders have two clear choices: remain committed to profits above all else; or shift to a human-centric approach that embraces this convergence. Author Deborah Westphal, a leader in future-focused strategy, leverages her experiences working with some of the world’s most innovative business leaders, to show how the interests of people (as human beings, not customers), overlap with those of companies in ways never before seen. Convergence charts the path forward for those leaders―particularly in business―who seek to shift to a human-centric mental model. This approach addresses realities from our converging world not necessarily related to a company’s business operations, often integrating a tangible response with a change in the company’s core values. Simply put, to be human-centric prioritizes the success of people and redefines success for a company. “Westphal’s Convergence is a call to action to create the future of humanity rather than stand by. Her words of wisdom and lessons shared cannot be more timely than in this very moment when humanity is in crisis. In the midst of COVID-19, environmental disaster, and ever accelerating technological change, Convergence makes the case for authentic leadership and challenges us to rethink our primary purposes of doing business: to serve humanity.” — Diana Rau, Chief Experience Officer & Cofounder, twine.nyc Forbes 30 Under 30Trade Review“Deborah Westphal shines a new light on how vital human connections are to the convergence of society’s tectonic shifts. This book brings a fresh perspective to understanding the impact trust serves as the bedrock to our globally infused human-centric endeavor. A must-read for serious leaders seeking to build sustainable business roadmaps to the future.”—Dr. Marsha Ershaghi Hames, Partner, Tapestry Network

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Book SynopsisContrary to the notion that leaders contribute to positive behaviour within organisations, this book reflects growing interest in the ‘dark side’ of leadership: the unethical and immoral personalities that can reside in positions of power. Drawing on empirical and theoretical analysis, the author examines immorality within leadership and the underlying causes behind this behaviour. Focusing on the impact of institutional pressures, this book analyses how such behaviour is influenced by internal and external factors. By employing a theoretical framework, the author seeks to demonstrate that institutions either compel leaders to be ethical and moral, or in contrast, they actually provide legitimacy for immoral actions. An insightful and thought-provoking read, The Dark Side of Leadership will be of interest to those studying leadership, HRM, and business ethics, as well as social psychology scholars.Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a clear process for managers, professionals, and future leaders to help discover their personal meaning in life and apply it to their work. The author uses research outcomes and theories to refute the contemporary philosophy that stresses following an individual’s passion alone when choosing a particular job or career. Instead, she recommends employing a personal meaning-oriented approach to life and work, and then becoming passionate about one’s work organically.The book also highlights the positive outcomes to organizations and societies when individuals engage with finding meaning in work, focusing on physical and emotional health and satisfaction. The author provides numerous examples of leaders who have aligned their personal meaning and organizational mission, also known as “meaning-mission fit,” and the relationship of this alignment to their emotional well-being. Together, the research, theory, and evidence in this book equip leaders and managers with an inspiring model to find their own meaning-mission fit, as well as create opportunities for the employees to do the same.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. What is Meaning-Mission Fit?- Chapter 3. The Experience of Meaning-Mission Fit.- Chapter 4. The Benefits of Meaning-Mission Fit.- Chapter 5. The Experience of Mis-Fit.- Chapter 6. The Process of Attaining Meaning-Mission Fit.- Chapter 7. The Meaning Enactment Process.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisTechnology has made human lives incomparably better. Civilization as we know it would utterly collapse without it. However, if not properly managed, technology can and will be systematically abused and misuse and thereby become one of the biggest threats to humankind. This open access book applies proactive crisis management to the management of technology organizations to make them more sustainable and socially responsible for the betterment of humankind. It forecasts the unintended consequences of technology and offers methods to counteract it.Table of ContentsCh 1: Threats of Imaginable and Unimaginable Proportions.- Ch 2: Beyond the Hype.- Ch 3: Pluses and Minuses.- Ch 4: Technological Messes.- Ch 5: Managing Tech.- Ch 6: The Socially Responsible Tech Company.- Ch 7: The Moral Underpinnings of Technology.- Epilogue: The Future of Technology.

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