Integral Ecology and Sustainable Business PDF Download

Author: Ove Jakobsen
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1787144631
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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This collection addresses the relationship between business, the natural environment, ethics and spirituality with insights from economists, business scholars, philosophers, lawyers, theologians and practitioners globally. The contributions offer new and invigorating approaches to sustainable business practices and sustainability leadership.

Author: Anna Bajo Sanjuán
Publisher: Universidad Pontificia Comillas
ISBN: 8484682722
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : es
Pages : 146

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En este trabajo, los autores apuntan al corazón de un problema, cuyos síntomas más evidentes son los escándalos financieros y la crisis económica que padecemos. Si esto preocupa al ciudadano común, más debiera preocupar a otros agentes sociales especialmente concernidos. Partiendo de una investigación exhaustiva sobre los estudios de Management en España, los autores constatan, no sólo la insuficiencia de la formación reglada en materias de Ética, Sostenibilidad, Gobierno Corporativo y Responsabilidad Social de la Empresa, sino también, la pervivencia de un modelo de gestión anclado en un paradigma de empresa poco acorde a los retos de los tiempos que vivimos.

Author: Esther Valbuena García
Publisher: ESIC Editorial
ISBN: 8418944048
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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This book is aimed at students, teachers and researchers, and those responsible for the ethical and sustainable management of organizations; it helps to identify, understand and expand on some relevant aspects related to ethical management of companies and institutions. As a whole, it is a work that invites reflection and defines the main deontological and ethical problems which organizations face in a globalized, technological and interconnected world. The book sets out to facilitate the analysis of fundamental ethical issues that underlie business decision making. It is also a detailed manual on how sustainability should be managed today, addressing the latest sustainability trends, which encompass comprehensive environmental, social and economic plans. In short, this book prepares readers to develop an exhaustive sustainability master plan.

Author: Howard R. Bowen
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609382064
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) expresses a fundamental morality in the way a company behaves toward society. It follows ethical behavior toward stakeholders and recognizes the spirit of the legal and regulatory environment. The idea of CSR gained momentum in the late 1950s and 1960s with the expansion of large conglomerate corporations and became a popular subject in the 1980s with R. Edward Freeman's Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach and the many key works of Archie B. Carroll, Peter F. Drucker, and others. In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008–2010, CSR has again become a focus for evaluating corporate behavior. First published in 1953, Howard R. Bowen’s Social Responsibilities of the Businessman was the first comprehensive discussion of business ethics and social responsibility. It created a foundation by which business executives and academics could consider the subjects as part of strategic planning and managerial decision-making. Though written in another era, it is regularly and increasingly cited because of its relevance to the current ethical issues of business operations in the United States. Many experts believe it to be the seminal book on corporate social responsibility. This new edition of the book includes an introduction by Jean-Pascal Gond, Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility at Cass Business School, City University of London, and a foreword by Peter Geoffrey Bowen, Daniels College of Business, University of Denver, who is Howard R. Bowen's eldest son.

Author: Luigino Bruni
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039108961
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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This volume has a double purpose. First of all, it follows an Italian tradition of thought that began in the 15th and 16th centuries as Civic Humanism and continued up until the golden period of Italian Enlightenment as represented by the Schools of Milan and Naples. Its main contribution to the history of economic thought is its conception of the market as a place centered on the principle of reciprocity and civil virtues. This book explains why the civil approach to economics disappeared from cultural debates, scientific enquiries and the public arena at the end of the 18th century, only to surface again in more recent times. Secondly, the book draws attention to a new reading of the whole of economic reality. Indeed, the civil economy in one sense is mainly a cultural perspective from which it is possible to interpret the entire economic discourse. If a theory is considered as substantially a point of view on reality, then this cultural perspective can also set the basis for a diverse economic theory. Where does the key element of such diversity lie? It lies in the attempt to integrate within the economic system the three basic principles of any social order: the principle of exchange of equivalents, the principle of redistribution and the principle of reciprocity. Though this book draws on the history of economic ideas, it focuses on the present day from an ancient perspective in order to find convincing answers to the new questions arising in the era of globalization.

Author: Daniella Tilbury
Publisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9782831708232
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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The book is based on the exchange of professional experiences which featured in an IUCN CEC workshop in August 2002. Practitioners from around the world shared their models of good practice and explored the challenges involved in engaging people in sustainability. The difficulties facing practitioners vary between country and context but some challenges are universal: A lack of clarity in communicating what is meant by sustainable development; An ambition to educate everyone to bring about a global citizenship; Social, organisational or institutional factors constrain change to sustainable development, yet there is an emphasis on formal education, and community educators do not receive the same support; A lack of balance in addressing the integration of environmental, social and economic dimensions leading to an interpretation that ESD is mainly about environment and conservation issues; New learning (rather than teaching) approaches are called for to promote more debate in society. Yet, few are trained or experienced in these new approaches. Practitioners need support to explore new ways of promoting learning. [Foreword, ed].

Author: Fernando Navarro García
Publisher: ESIC Editorial
ISBN: 8411920208
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : es
Pages : 48

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La RSC, la sostenibilidad o los criterios ASG (todos ellos están enfocados a factores ambientales, sociales y de buena gobernanza) ya no son una moda pasajera y, desde la implantación de la Agenda 2030, los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible y la creciente regulación legal y convencional de informes no financieros (derechos humanos, medioambiente, transparencia y buen gobierno), la tendencia no ha hecho más que reforzar la idea de que la ética no solo es necesaria para las sociedades y rentable para las empresas, sino que, además, debe acreditarse para que las declaraciones no sean un mero greenwashing o pura cosmética. El auge del compliance o cumplimiento normativo y la existencia de numerosas certificaciones, auditorías y regulaciones en materia de sostenibilidad son la prueba de ello. Esta tercera edición totalmente actualizada aúna aspectos teóricos sobre la ética de las organizaciones (responsabilidad y libertad, coherencia, dilemas, relaciones con grupos de interés, etc.) con elementos prácticos relacionados con los diferentes ejes de intervención de la RSC y la sostenibilidad: códigos de conducta, comités de RSC, memorias de sostenibilidad, informes no financieros, certificaciones, normas de referencia, lucha contra la corrupción, inversiones ASG o diligencia debida en materia de derechos humanos. Índice: Parte I: TEORÍA DE LA RSC: De la Ética a la RSC y la sostenibilidad.- La responsabilidad social de las organizaciones.- Los grupos de interés o stakeholders.- Transparencia y comunicación externa de la RSC- Parte II: PRÁCTICA DE LA RSC: CONVENCIONES, NORMAS Y CERTIFICACIONES.- El impulso político de la RS en España y Europa.- Regulación en materia de derechos humanos.- Regulación en materia sociolaboral.- Regulación en materia medioambiental.- Regulación generalista en materia de RSC y sotenibilidad.- Parte III: ÁMBITOS ESPECIALES DE RSC.- Del marketing social al comercio justo.- La responsabilidad social de las ONG y sus alianzas con empresas.- Desarrollo sostenible, desarrollo humano y lucha contra la corrupción.- Inversión socialmente responsable (ISF), fondos éticos y solidarios.- Conclusiones: hacia una geopolítica socialmente responsable y sostenible.- Bibliografía.

Author: Horacio Martínez Herrera
Publisher: ECOE EDICIONES
ISBN: 9586487059
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : es
Pages : 214

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Este libro presenta desde una perspectiva ética la responsabilidad social empresarial y la define como el compromiso auditable de las empresas con los valores éticos que dan un sentido humano a su empeño por el desarrollo sostenible buscando una estrategia de negocios que integre el crecimiento económico con el bienestar social y la protección ambiental. Presenta seis valores éticos que sirven de marco para las prácticas de responsabilidad social empresarial: respeto por la dignidad y derechos de las personas, justicia en el mercado globalizado, solidaridad buscando el bienestar social, responsabilidad en el trabajo por el desarrollo sostenible, honestidad en la comunicación e integridad de la cultura organizacional. Es una guía para la formación en valores de los estudiantes de administración de empresas, de los gerentes y demás implicados en la gestión empresarial. Expresa de una manera concisa y clara la aplicación de los valores éticos al mundo empresarial del siglo XXI. -Ecoe Ediciones-.

Author: V. Kasturi Rangan
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Author: Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher: Routledge Studies in Social Enterprise & Social Innovation
ISBN: 9780367675714
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In the absence of a widely accepted and common definition of social enterprise (SE), a large research project, the International Comparative Social Enterprise Models (ICSEM) Project, was carried out over a five-year period; it involved more than 200 researchers from 55 countries and relied on bottom-up approaches to capture the SE phenomenon. This strategy made it possible to take into account and give legitimacy to locally embedded approaches, thus resulting in an analysis encompassing a wide diversity of social enterprises, while simultaneously allowing for the identification of major SE models to delineate the field on common grounds at the international level. These SE models reveal or confirm an overall trend towards new ways of sharing the responsibility for the common good in today's economies and societies. We tend to consider as good news the fact that social enterprises actually stem from all parts of the economy. Indeed, societies are facing many complex challenges at all levels, from the local to the global level. The diversity and internal variety of SE models are a sign of a broadly shared willingness to develop appropriate although sometimes embryonic--responses to these challenges, on the basis of innovative economic/business models driven by a social mission. In spite of their weaknesses, social enterprises may be seen as advocates for and vehicles of the general interest across the whole economy. Of course, the debate about privatisation, deregulation and globalised market competition--all factors that may hinder efforts in the search for the common good-has to be addressed as well. The second of a series of four ICSEM books, Social Enterprise in Latin America will serve as a key reference and resource for teachers, researchers, students, experts, policy makers, journalists and other categories of people who want to acquire a broad understanding of the phenomena of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship as they emerge and develop across the world.