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Author: Christian Christiansen Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191004367 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 288
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Today, an increasing number of researchers, citizens, politicians, civil organizations, activists, and corporations are concerned with questions such as: Can the financial rationality of firms be constrained by social concerns? Can the market be reformed 'from within'? Starting in the post-Civil War period of American industrialization, the book traces the emergence of ideas about reforming businesses in the American context, and the ideological and intellectual disputes about these ideas. This book offers a new historical, critical, and in-depth understanding of ideas that have today become increasingly widespread in debates about: corporate social responsibility, corporate philanthropy, corporate citizenship, social entrepreneurship, creating shared value, doing business and being virtuous at the same time. What underlies this discourse is the claim that corporations can change from 'within' - reforming themselves into being good citizens of society. While there has been much enthusiasm about ideas of restructuring the corporation, and the relationships between business and society, critics have argued that businesses continue to focus exclusively on making money. What neither the overly optimistic nor the overly sceptical typically takes into consideration, however, is the long history of social and humanistic business and management ideas. This book offers a new intellectual history of ideas about socialising or humanising capitalism from within, and the critiques of these ideas. It introduces the concept of 'progressive business' as an analytical category around which these competing ideas can be arranged and studied. This conceptual innovation will allow the reader to acknowledge remarkable resemblances between present day ideas of corporate social responsibility and corporate citizenship, and earlier notions of the soulful corporation, industrial betterment. This will be helpful for gaining new insight into these long-lasting debates about state, business and civil society relationships, and thus for grasping the intellectual background for present-day debates.
Author: Christian Christiansen Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0198701039 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 288
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This book offers a new intellectual history of ideas about reforming capitalism from within. Tracing the emergence of different value systems in the American context, the book offers a fresh perspective on debates about capitalism in the late 19th century and 20th century US
Author: Christian Christiansen Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191004367 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
Today, an increasing number of researchers, citizens, politicians, civil organizations, activists, and corporations are concerned with questions such as: Can the financial rationality of firms be constrained by social concerns? Can the market be reformed 'from within'? Starting in the post-Civil War period of American industrialization, the book traces the emergence of ideas about reforming businesses in the American context, and the ideological and intellectual disputes about these ideas. This book offers a new historical, critical, and in-depth understanding of ideas that have today become increasingly widespread in debates about: corporate social responsibility, corporate philanthropy, corporate citizenship, social entrepreneurship, creating shared value, doing business and being virtuous at the same time. What underlies this discourse is the claim that corporations can change from 'within' - reforming themselves into being good citizens of society. While there has been much enthusiasm about ideas of restructuring the corporation, and the relationships between business and society, critics have argued that businesses continue to focus exclusively on making money. What neither the overly optimistic nor the overly sceptical typically takes into consideration, however, is the long history of social and humanistic business and management ideas. This book offers a new intellectual history of ideas about socialising or humanising capitalism from within, and the critiques of these ideas. It introduces the concept of 'progressive business' as an analytical category around which these competing ideas can be arranged and studied. This conceptual innovation will allow the reader to acknowledge remarkable resemblances between present day ideas of corporate social responsibility and corporate citizenship, and earlier notions of the soulful corporation, industrial betterment. This will be helpful for gaining new insight into these long-lasting debates about state, business and civil society relationships, and thus for grasping the intellectual background for present-day debates.
Author: Eleanor O'Higgins Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319588044 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 320
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This book presents and analyses exemplary cases of progressive business, understood as ecologically sustainable, future-respecting and pro-social enterprise. The authors present a number of companies following progressive business practices from a range of industries including ethical and sustainable banking, artisan coffee production and distribution, pharmaceutical products, clean technology, governance in retailing, responsible hospitality and consumer goods. With case studies from around Europe such as Tridos Bank in The Netherlands, Béres Co. in Hungary, Novo Nordisk in Denmark, Lumituuli in Finland, John Lewis in the UK and Illy Café from Italy, these progressive companies have global reach and an international impact. The collected cases aim to show the best to be expected from business in the 21st century in a structured accessible way, suitable for any readers interested in innovative ways of creating forward-looking sustainable business.
Author: Callum Laing Publisher: Rethink Press ISBN: 9781781331859 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 204
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"Whatever size your business is, getting the right strategic business partnerships in place is fundamental to success. Callum has been creating partnerships for decades and in this book breaks down how anyone can follow his steps to partnership success." - Jean-Michel Wu, Chief Talent Officer at McCann WorldGroup APAC "Callum has pulled back the curtains on the mystery of creating successful partnership in his book, Progressive Partnerships - The Future of Business. Simple frameworks coupled with actionable steps show how every business person can be a small giant in their space of expertise by leveraging on other people's resources. A definite must read book." - Cheryl Liew-Chng, Creator of The 24-Hour Woman, a media and training and development firm for Women Professionals and Entrepreneurs. www.The24HourWoman.com Callum Laing has been starting, building and buying businesses for 20 years. He is a partner in the Private Equity company Unity Group, co-founder and non-exec director of The Marketing Group PLC and is the CEO of Entrevo Asia. He is based in Singapore with his family.
Author: Joanne B. Ciulla Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 178990305X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 341
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Perhaps the fundamental question in CSR is: What are the responsibilities of businesses and business leadership to society? Moreover, do the responsibilities of business change in times of social and political turmoil? The chapters in this book tackle several aspects of these questions with chapters on business and politics, the environment, technology, and immigration; along with broader questions about leadership, governance, and the very nature of CSR.
Author: David Wasieleski Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing ISBN: 1838673733 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 263
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Volume Four focuses on research drawn from work grounded in “Sustainability.” Scholars known in this discipline contribute to a 360-degree evaluation of the theory, including cross-discipline research, empirical explorations, cross-cultural studies, literature critiques, and meta-analysis projects.
Author: Joo-Cheong Tham Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing ISBN: 0522860206 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 235
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A healthy democracy relies on a healthy electoral system. Are the ways we run elections and political parties adapting to contemporary challenges and learning from international experience? Drawing together leading political scientists and legal scholars, Electoral Democracy examines pressing debates about the regulation of political finance, parties and representation in Australia. It does so by testing the system and reform proposals against three fundamental; and sometimes conflicting; values: political equality, liberty and integrity. This book will inform and provoke all who take part in and care about Australia's electoral democracy.
Author: Elspeth H. Brown Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 9780801889707 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 352
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Winner, Association of American Publishers' Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award in Business, Management and Accounting In the late nineteenth century, corporate managers began to rely on photography for everything from motion studies to employee selection to advertising. This practice gave rise to many features of modern industry familiar to us today: consulting, "scientific" approaches to business practice, illustrated advertising, and the use of applied psychology. In this imaginative study, Elspeth H. Brown examines the intersection of photography as a mass technology with corporate concerns about efficiency in the Progressive period. Discussing, among others, the work of Frederick W. Taylor, Eadweard Muybridge, Frank Gilbreth, and Lewis Hine, Brown explores this intersection through a variety of examples, including racial discrimination in hiring, the problem of photographic realism, and the gendered assumptions at work in the origins of modern marketing. She concludes that the goal uniting the various forms and applications of photographic production in that era was the increased rationalization of the modern economy through a set of interlocking managerial innovations, technologies that sought to redesign not only industrial production but the modern subject as well.
Author: Christian Christiansen
Author: Christian Christiansen
Author: Christian Christiansen
Author: Eleanor O'Higgins
Author: Callum Laing
Author: United States. Federal Communications Commission
Author: Joanne B. Ciulla
Author: Debashis Guha
Author: David Wasieleski
Author: Joo-Cheong Tham
Author: Elspeth H. Brown