Business and Sustainability has three main sections. Section One looks at the global context of business and sustainability. It starts off with an overview of the topic. It looks at the sustainability challenges confronting business. Section Two is about managing sustainability. This section includes examinations of leadership, entrepreneurship, and change; strategy and execution; innovation, planning, and design; financing sustainability; cooperation, collaboration, and partnership; and next generation competencies. The final section turns towards the external environment and considers governance, sustainable consumption and production, and the future.
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Andrew Crane, Dirk Matten, Sarah Glozer, and Laura J. Spence
Business Ethics starts with a description and analysis of business ethics. The first part begins with an introduction to business ethics. Next, the text frames business ethics within the contexts of corporate responsibility, stakeholders, and citizenship. Business ethics is then evaluated using normative ethical theories. The text then looks at making decisions in business ethics using descriptive ethical theories. At the end of the first part, the text looks at managing business ethics. The second part is about contextualizing business ethics in terms of the people involved. It looks at shareholders, employees, consumers, suppliers, competitors, government, and civil society. Finally the text makes some conclusions and looks to the future.
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Christine A. Mallin
Corporate Governance is made up of four main parts. The first part looks at developments in corporate governance. The second part is concerned with owners and stakeholders. This includes an examination of family-owned firms, institutional investments, and socially responsible investment. The third part examines directors and the board structure. The fourth part is about international corporate governance; it reviews corporate governance in continental Europe, central and eastern Europe, the Asia-Pacific, South Africa, Egypt, India, and Brazil.
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Corporate Governance offers a comprehensive overview of the key principles of corporate governance that not only considers the regulations, rules, and voluntary codes, but also emphasizes cultural aspects. It draws a distinction between Western and Eastern perceptions of corporate governance and includes cases from China. Its first part covers the principles of corporate governance and looks at management; theories, philosophies, and concepts of corporate governance; the governance partnership; the regulatory framework; and models of corporate governance. The second part is about policies. It examines the governance of corporate risk, the board and business ethics, the governance of listed companies, the governance of non-listed entities, and corporate governance globally. The last part turns to practices and includes chapters considering board membership, leadership, board activities, board effectiveness, board evaluation, and the future of corporate governance.
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Michael Blowfield and Alan Murray
Corporate Social Responsibility has three parts. Part 1 looks at the meaning and origins of corporate social responsibility. This includes an introduction, the origins, and sustainable development. Corporate social responsibility in developing economies is also covered. Part 2 examines managing and implementing corporate social responsibility. It asks how corporate social responsibility is managed. It looks at governance, reporting, stakeholder engagement and responsibility reporting, socially responsible investment, and corporate social responsibility in smaller enterprises. The third part looks at the impact, critics, and the future of corporate social responsibility.
