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Ethics and corporate social responsibility : why giants fall
Title:
Ethics and corporate social responsibility : why giants fall
Author:
Sims, Ronald R.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.
Physical Description:
vi, 318 pages ; 25 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Ethical business missteps: the former and current state of affairs -- The nature of business and managerial ethics -- Understanding corporate citizenship: social responsibility, responsiveness, and performance -- A stakeholder approach to socially responsible and ethical behavior -- Why unethical behavior occurs in organizations -- Unethical behavior in action: Beech-Nut, E.F. Hutton, and the Case of John Gutfreund at Salomon Brothers -- Enron: how a failure of leadership, culture, and unethical behavior brought a giant to its knees -- Making sense of stakeholder culpability in the Enron demise -- Ethical turnaround in action: Warren Buffett at Salomon Brothers -- Institutionalizing ethics: a proactive approach to countering unethical behavior -- Developing and maintaining ethical employee-employer relationships -- Restoring ethics consciousness to the workplace.
ISBN:
9780275980399
Format :
Book