Understanding Ethics and Responsibilities in a Globalizing by Maria Cecilia Coutinho de Arruda, Boleslaw Rok

By Maria Cecilia Coutinho de Arruda, Boleslaw Rok

This ebook contemplates the ethics of accountability in a wide range of meanings, results and affects. It displays the views and reasoning of 24 authors from all continents. All chapters are unique papers provided on the 5th global ISBEE Congress, that came about in Warsaw, Poland, on the Kozminski college, on 11-14 of July, 2012. during this ebook, ethics and accountability are thought of crucial characteristics of personality, not just within the company or governmental arenas yet in any initiative, choice and job. The contributions to this e-book concentrate on a spectrum of topics, phrases and ideas, the worldwide company social obligations viewpoint masking affects, demanding situations, research, feedback, effects of vital subject matters of genuine existence, sustainability, overseas economic climate and regimes, corruption, poverty and violence, between others. The ebook is meant for teachers, researchers and execs in all continents who're devoted to Ethics, enterprise Ethics, company Social accountability, Social Innovation, and Sustainability Management.

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212f. 38. : Thick and Thin. Moral Argument at Home and Abroad. Notre Dame University Press, Notre Dame, 6th reprint 2011, p. 5. 39. To make things even more complicated but also more realistic, one has to acknowledge that different time horizons also play a significant role in what looks to be the right thing to do. Determining, for example, what is in the public interest (as opposed to what is assumed to be) will vary significantly, depending on whether short-term interests are given precedence over long-term interests.

M. Leisinger 33. : The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits. In New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1970, p. html). 34. For Fukuyama’s definition of “culture,” see Fukuyama, op. cit. note 19, p. 34. To a certain extent, normative differences are also a function of the socioeconomic stage of development: The Edelman and GlobeScan polls show significantly higher trust in the business sector and government in emerging economies such as China, India, and Brazil. 35. Even learning happens most often in a biased context: our memory is selective; we tend to remember behaviors that support our self-image and conveniently forget those that do not, and we are masters at deflecting the blame.

Die Macht. Grünewald/Schöningh, Mainz/ Würzburg, 1986, p. 56. Part II Responsibility as a Key Concept of Ethics Chapter 3 Shareholder Primacy as an Impediment to Corporate Social Responsibility David Rönnegard and N. Craig Smith Introduction The Shareholder Primacy Norm (SPN) is the part of a manager’s legal fiduciary duty that requires managers and company directors to make decisions on behalf of the corporation which further the interests of shareholders. It has been treated as a major obstacle to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) because it is said to hinder managers from considering the interests of other corporate stakeholders besides shareholders (Boatright 1994; Campbell 2007; Dodd 1932; Evan and Freeman 2003; Hinkley 2002; Phillips et al.

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