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The book Management Education for Corporate Social Performance is
our endeavor to answer the following question: How can the academic
world develop and apply a proper concept of corporate social
performance to ensure more impact? The authors from different
cultures, countries and educational systems present a rich
diversity of insights and solutions. The book is divided into five
parts: "Introduction", "worldwide kaleidoscope of management
education for Corporate Social Performance", "the role of
management education in Corporate Social Performance", and "using
knowledge from practice and theory for responsible management
education". The book combines state-of-the-art international views,
which can inspire academia as well as corporate practices.
It is widely observed that societies are changing, and new social
issues are raising. The relationship between actors in the global
environment and in the local as well, is changing because of
financial crisis, new technological revolution, climate change,
richness reallocation and concentration. We can see that value
creation and management models in organizations are often
uncoherent with the satisfaction of needs. The ability to create
competitive advantages on a financial level seems to be
increasingly developed. This can be sustained by the clear trend
that leads companies to grow in size or create strong groups by
shifting uncertainty over the weaker part of the market and
unorganized systems and citizens. In this misalignment, empty
spaces in the economic environment are opened. These spaces are
those where the action of the public system can no longer be
effective (or where it has never been) and where, more and more,
the private interests are weak or absent. New wants are emerging in
these areas and traditional models are no longer able to answer
many of these needs. The book The Social Issue in Contemporary
Society: Relations Between Companies, Public Administrations and
People originates from a huge number of questions with the social
issue as "fil rouge". In this perspective, the book is divided in
four parts: "Introduction", "New Models and Tools for Public
Administration", "New Models for New Companies" and "New Models for
New Societies". A range of scholars that authored that book provide
us with a different point of view about the problem that is
underlined in the book title. We hope it will be a worthy
inspiration for who dream a new idea of society.
The book Contemporary Perspectives in Corporate Social Performance
and Policy - The Middle Eastern Perspective is our endeavor to
deepen the current discussion about business and institutional
activity in Middle Eastern countries and disseminate the new
perspective of the scientific inquiry in the responsibility of
various organization operating in this part of the world. The book
is divided into four parts: "Introduction", "Reality and Challenges
of Corporate Social Performance - The Middle Eastern Perspective",
"Corporate Social Responsibility in Middle Eastern countries",
"Corporate Social Performance -specific problems". There were
included some theoretical and practical contributions into the
topic of corporate social responsibility and corporate social
performance based on experiences from different countries (such as
Israel, Turkey, United Arab Emirates). We hope that this volume
will help to understand better this specific region and its
business activities.
In the book Organizational Social Irresponsibility: tools and
theoretical insights we focus both on theoretical and practical
aspects of organizational social irresponsibility and hope to
provide a contribution to the contemporary state of knowledge about
its causes and results. The book is divided into three parts: first
titled "Organizational Social Irresponsibility: Practices and
experiences", second: "The thousand faces of dark side of business"
and third: "Social, cultural and institutional dimensions". The
book is written by a range of authors from all over the world. They
provide us with examples of some irregularity in social
organizational activity. There were included some theoretical and
practical contributions into the topic of organizational social
irresponsibility, from different sectors (e.g. pharmaceutical or
manufacturing industry as well as public administration) and
various organizational processes (such as marketing, training,
innovation and knowledge management). We hope it will be a worthy
inspiration for struggling with dark sides of organizational
existence.
Corporatee Social Performance: Paradoxes- Pitfalls and Pathways to
the Better World is authored by a range of international experts
with a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives and provides a
collection of ideas, examples and solutions on CSP implementation
and problems that occur in this area of consideration. The last
decade had abundant corporate, national and international ethical
and financial scandals and crises. After this epoch of moral
catastrophes stakeholders expect that corporations which are
considered as the most powerful institutions today and which have
enormous impact on our planet's ecosystems and social networks will
take more active roles as citizens within society and in the fight
against some of the most pressing problems in the world, such as
poverty, environmental degradation, defending human rights,
corruption, and pandemic diseases. Although Corporate Social
Performance (CSP) has been a prominent concept in management
literature and in the business world in recent years ""it remains a
fact that many business leaders still only pay lip service to CSR,
or are merely reacting to peer pressure by introducing it into
their organizations."" (Bevan et al. 2004:4). So do really
companies do "well" by doing "good" or maybe" companies engage in
CSR in order to offset corporate social irresponsibility'? (Kotchen
and Moony, 2012 p.4). I hope that we would agree that companies and
CSR only by working together guarantee their own survival and we-
the society and the planet -will be much obliged (Thome, 2009 p.
3).
Corporate Social Performance - reflecting on the past and investing
in the future is aimed at filling the fundamental gap that exists
in our understanding of the drivers Corporate Social Performance,
its evolution and relationships with the existing concepts and
theories and the paradoxes that come from those connections.
Moreover the volume aims at shedding the light on most important
pitfalls that may occur while CSP application in business practice.
The last but not least reason for its publishing is to show
Corporate Social Performance as a significant pathway to the better
world, that, as I hope, will be the inspiration for the readers.
This book is authored by a range of international experts and
scientists from all over the world with a diversity of professional
and cultural backgrounds what hopefully will give the readers the
opportunity to understand the CSP concept from different
perspectives.
The book Academic Social Responsibility - Sine Qua Non for
Corporate Social Performance is our endeavor to disseminate the
awareness of the significance of responsible (especially
management) education not only for academic stakeholders, but for
the whole society. It is an interesting combination of theories,
studies, recognitions, and experiences gained by authors from
different countries, institutions, who function in various
institutional and cultural conditions. The book is divided into
"Introduction" and three parts: "Towards the Socially Responsible
University", "Socially Responsible Education for Enterprise
Development", "Human Voice in Responsible Management Education".
The authors present fresh concepts for socially responsible
university, their impact on real business performance as well as
discussions on specific issues when implementing academic social
responsibility in practice.
Corporate Social Performance In The Age Of Irresponsibility - Cross
National Perspective is authored by a range of international
experts with a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives and
provides a collection of ideas, examples and solutions on CSP
implementation in the time of irresponsibility. Although Corporate
Social Performance (CSP) has become important part of the
management agenda of many enterprises and many companies adding
socially responsible statements to their websites and mission
statements some firms behave irresponsibly while at the same time
acting positively on some dimensions- "corporate social
irresponsibility (CSI) and responsibility can exist at the same
time in the same firm." (Gonzalez-Perez, 2011). This volume is
aimed at presenting Corporate Social Performance concept from
distinct cultural perspectives with the reference to responsible
and irresponsible practices of various entities from different
parts of the world.
This book presents our set of insights and solutions for more
effectively integrating corporate social responsibility into
management education. Internationally acclaimed authors critically
review this multifaceted process in a variety of countries. The
book is divided into several sections. After the introduction,
three parts delve deep on the following aspects: "Values, Ethics
and Spirituality in Management Education", "Embedding CSR in
Management Education", and "University Social Responsibility". This
book combines theoretical considerations and state-of-the-art,
practical advice. The purpose of this book is to ensure graduates
pay enough attention to CSR, become more interested in it, trigger
a desire for action and feel well equipped to implement tailored
initiatives. Future business leaders and managers ought to become
change agents who can more easily cope with the complexities CSR
entails.
This book aims at catalyzing our learning from the COVID-19 crisis.
Numerous studies have emerged confirming that during the COVID-19
pandemic, crisis management has been far from holistic. Progress
previously made towards sustainability has in many cases been
reversed and global inequality has grown. This volume scrutinizes
the crucial role of businesses in the lived experience of the
COVID-19 pandemic and calls for a new goal system in business,
establishing human dignity as the ultimate outcome of sound
business. Part of the Humanism in Business Series, this book brings
together a group of international experts to consolidate the
lessons to be learnt from the pandemic and how it was handled. It
explores the foundations of the crisis, before focusing on selected
sectors and regions for analysis and, finally, drawing conclusions
according to the principles of humanistic crisis management. It
will be of great interest to scholars and students of business
ethics, as well as policy-makers, professionals and all those who
practice humanistic management.
The outset of the 21st century was replete with numerous corruption
scandals and a financial crisis, which spawned inquiry into the
goals, stances, and curricula of business schools. Such concerns
were bolstered by a seeming ethical disorientation by many
businesses and businesspeople. Rather than developing business
students who are skilled in creating codes of ethics, business
schools should aim to develop educational models for future
business leaders with ethical substance. The Handbook of Research
on Teaching Ethics in Business and Management Education is an
examination of the inattention of business schools to moral
education. This reference addresses lessons learned from the most
recent business corruption scandals and financial crises, and also
questions what we re teaching now and what should be considered in
educating future business leaders to cope with the challenges of
leading with integrity in the global environment. The book is a
comprehensive collection of research from experts in the field of
business education and information ethics.
In a modern world in which one can observe managerial and
investors' behaviors characterized by high risk, short term
orientation, moral hazard and speculation, there is a need to form
a new ethical paradigm to drive a more ethical oriented education
and a substantial change to norms regulating markets and business
behavior to sensitize investors and financial practitioners, so
that humanity can evolve in a sustainable way. Therefore the main
question we are striving to answer throughout the book
Organizational Social Irresponsibility: individual behaviors and
organizational practices is the following: Do individual behaviors
influence organizational socially irresponsible practices? Each
separate chapter aims to find an answer to the above question. The
book is divided into three parts: first: "The dark side of
organizational behaviors", second: "Individual skills and the
workplace" and third: "Organizational politics, practices and
tools. This book is authored by a range of authors from all over
the world. They provide us with several theoretical and practical
contributions into the topic of organizational social
irresponsibility and individual behavior, facing different aspects
(e.g. workplace wellness, decision?making, diversity management).
We hope it will be useful for both business and academia and it
will help to shape reflective, socially responsible managers of the
future.
Successful businesses are built on trust. Employees and colleagues
need to trust one another and they need to deserve and receive
trust from customers and suppliers. Anti-Corruption provides
resources for building trust through the implementation of
comprehensive guidelines on how to professionalize ethics and
anti-corruption education worldwide in a variety of classroom
settings. It is written and tested by highly experienced program
directors, deans and professors, in how to adopt, adapt and develop
best teaching practice. It highlights successful patterns, details
illustrative case studies and offers clear, hands-on
recommendations. Anti-Corruption enables business schools,
management-related academic institutions, and Executive Training
Programs to embed curriculum change quickly to achieve positive
outcomes. It enables degree programs and executive education
programs to achieve global standards that will be widely followed.
Successful businesses are built on trust. Employees and colleagues
need to trust one another and they need to deserve and receive
trust from customers and suppliers. Anti-Corruption provides
resources for building trust through the implementation of
comprehensive guidelines on how to professionalize ethics and
anti-corruption education worldwide in a variety of classroom
settings. It is written and tested by highly experienced program
directors, deans and professors, in how to adopt, adapt and develop
best teaching practice. It highlights successful patterns, details
illustrative case studies and offers clear, hands-on
recommendations. Anti-Corruption enables business schools,
management-related academic institutions, and Executive Training
Programs to embed curriculum change quickly to achieve positive
outcomes. It enables degree programs and executive education
programs to achieve global standards that will be widely followed.
Recent examples of corporate, national and international ethical
and financial scandals and crises have created a need to bolster
the ethical acumen of managers through business education
imperatives. This topical book forms an important part of the
debate on the development of ethical business leaders and provides
empirically grounded, theoretical insights for rethinking business
curricula requisite for understanding and meaningfully confronting
an ethical vacuum that sometimes exists in business. "Management
Education for Integrity" explains how curricula should be
streamlined and rejuvenated to ensure a high level of integrity in
management education, providing numerous examples of new tools,
teaching methods, integrity sensitization and development exercises
and ethical management education assessment approaches. Chapters
include: fostering integrity in business curricula; a critique of
ethics education in management; measuring best practices in
management education for integrity capacity; encouraging moral
engagement in business ethics courses; management education for
behavioral integrity; and scenario-based approach as a teaching
tool to promote integrity awareness.
The book Mastering Anti-Corruption - The Practitioners' View is
aimed at presenting different ways and modes of mastering
anti-corruption in selected countries. By showing examples and
cases the authors of particular chapters would like to emphasize
the necessity of implementing solutions that will help to prevent
corruption at all or at least will diminish its negative effects on
business and human beings. The book is divided into four parts:
"Introduction", "Anti-Corruption as a Topic in Practice - national
and international perspective", "Anti-Corruption as a Topic in
Practice - organizational perspective" and "Anti- Corruption as a
Topic in Practice - ethical perspective". Authors of this book
presented a wide range of issues and topics covering the problem of
preventing and fighting the corruption around the world. Hopefully
the cases will constitute a good practice for countries and nations
facing the problem of corruption and will be an inspiration for
further research as well as practical applications in this area.
The book Mastering Anti-Corruption - The Practitioners' View is
aimed at presenting different ways and modes of mastering
anti-corruption in selected countries. By showing examples and
cases the authors of particular chapters would like to emphasize
the necessity of implementing solutions that will help to prevent
corruption at all or at least will diminish its negative effects on
business and human beings. The book is divided into four parts:
"Introduction", "Anti-Corruption as a Topic in Practice - national
and international perspective", "Anti-Corruption as a Topic in
Practice - organizational perspective" and "Anti- Corruption as a
Topic in Practice - ethical perspective". Authors of this book
presented a wide range of issues and topics covering the problem of
preventing and fighting the corruption around the world. Hopefully
the cases will constitute a good practice for countries and nations
facing the problem of corruption and will be an inspiration for
further research as well as practical applications in this area.
This book presents our set of insights and solutions for more
effectively integrating corporate social responsibility into
management education. Internationally acclaimed authors critically
review this multifaceted process in a variety of countries. The
book is divided into several sections. After the introduction,
three parts delve deep on the following aspects: "Values, Ethics
and Spirituality in Management Education", "Embedding CSR in
Management Education", and "University Social Responsibility". This
book combines theoretical considerations and state-of-the-art,
practical advice. The purpose of this book is to ensure graduates
pay enough attention to CSR, become more interested in it, trigger
a desire for action and feel well equipped to implement tailored
initiatives. Future business leaders and managers ought to become
change agents who can more easily cope with the complexities CSR
entails.
It is widely observed that societies are changing, and new social
issues are raising. The relationship between actors in the global
environment and in the local as well, is changing because of
financial crisis, new technological revolution, climate change,
richness reallocation and concentration. We can see that value
creation and management models in organizations are often
uncoherent with the satisfaction of needs. The ability to create
competitive advantages on a financial level seems to be
increasingly developed. This can be sustained by the clear trend
that leads companies to grow in size or create strong groups by
shifting uncertainty over the weaker part of the market and
unorganized systems and citizens. In this misalignment, empty
spaces in the economic environment are opened. These spaces are
those where the action of the public system can no longer be
effective (or where it has never been) and where, more and more,
the private interests are weak or absent. New wants are emerging in
these areas and traditional models are no longer able to answer
many of these needs. The book The Social Issue in Contemporary
Society: Relations Between Companies, Public Administrations and
People originates from a huge number of questions with the social
issue as "fil rouge". In this perspective, the book is divided in
four parts: "Introduction", "New Models and Tools for Public
Administration", "New Models for New Companies" and "New Models for
New Societies". A range of scholars that authored that book provide
us with a different point of view about the problem that is
underlined in the book title. We hope it will be a worthy
inspiration for who dream a new idea of society.
In the book Organizational Social Irresponsibility: tools and
theoretical insights we focus both on theoretical and practical
aspects of organizational social irresponsibility and hope to
provide a contribution to the contemporary state of knowledge about
its causes and results. The book is divided into three parts: first
titled "Organizational Social Irresponsibility: Practices and
experiences", second: "The thousand faces of dark side of business"
and third: "Social, cultural and institutional dimensions". The
book is written by a range of authors from all over the world. They
provide us with examples of some irregularity in social
organizational activity. There were included some theoretical and
practical contributions into the topic of organizational social
irresponsibility, from different sectors (e.g. pharmaceutical or
manufacturing industry as well as public administration) and
various organizational processes (such as marketing, training,
innovation and knowledge management). We hope it will be a worthy
inspiration for struggling with dark sides of organizational
existence.
In a modern world in which one can observe managerial and
investors' behaviors characterized by high risk, short term
orientation, moral hazard and speculation, there is a need to form
a new ethical paradigm to drive a more ethical oriented education
and a substantial change to norms regulating markets and business
behavior to sensitize investors and financial practitioners, so
that humanity can evolve in a sustainable way. Therefore the main
question we are striving to answer throughout the book
Organizational Social Irresponsibility: individual behaviors and
organizational practices is the following: Do individual behaviors
influence organizational socially irresponsible practices? Each
separate chapter aims to find an answer to the above question. The
book is divided into three parts: first: "The dark side of
organizational behaviors", second: "Individual skills and the
workplace" and third: "Organizational politics, practices and
tools. This book is authored by a range of authors from all over
the world. They provide us with several theoretical and practical
contributions into the topic of organizational social
irresponsibility and individual behavior, facing different aspects
(e.g. workplace wellness, decision?making, diversity management).
We hope it will be useful for both business and academia and it
will help to shape reflective, socially responsible managers of the
future.
The book Management Education for Corporate Social Performance is
our endeavor to answer the following question: How can the academic
world develop and apply a proper concept of corporate social
performance to ensure more impact? The authors from different
cultures, countries and educational systems present a rich
diversity of insights and solutions. The book is divided into five
parts: "Introduction", "worldwide kaleidoscope of management
education for Corporate Social Performance", "the role of
management education in Corporate Social Performance", and "using
knowledge from practice and theory for responsible management
education". The book combines state-of-the-art international views,
which can inspire academia as well as corporate practices.
The book Academic Social Responsibility - Sine Qua Non for
Corporate Social Performance is our endeavor to disseminate the
awareness of the significance of responsible (especially
management) education not only for academic stakeholders, but for
the whole society. It is an interesting combination of theories,
studies, recognitions, and experiences gained by authors from
different countries, institutions, who function in various
institutional and cultural conditions. The book is divided into
"Introduction" and three parts: "Towards the Socially Responsible
University", "Socially Responsible Education for Enterprise
Development", "Human Voice in Responsible Management Education".
The authors present fresh concepts for socially responsible
university, their impact on real business performance as well as
discussions on specific issues when implementing academic social
responsibility in practice.
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