Business Ethics Books

New and Published Books

1. Entrepreneurship in the Informal Economy

   Models, Approaches and Prospects for Economic Development

   Edited by Mai Thi Thanh Thai, Ekaterina Turkina

   Series: Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship

   Although entrepreneurship in the informal economy occurs outside state regulatory systems, informal commercial activities account for an estimated 30% of economic activity around the world. Informal entrepreneurship goes unmonitored despite the fact that it significantly contributes to poverty...

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
2. Eco-Innovation and Sustainability Management

   By Bart Bossink

   Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

   Sustainability is a phenomenon that must be pursued in a complex system of interrelated elements of business, society, and ecology. It is important to gain an understanding of these elements, the interplay between them, and the behavior of the system. This book explores the...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
3. Ethics and Management in the Public Sector

   By Alan Lawton, Julie Rayner, Karin Lasthuizen

   Series: Routledge Masters in Public Management

   Grappling with ethical issues is a daily challenge for those working in organizations that deliver public services. Such services are delivered through an often bewildering range of agencies and amidst this constant change, there are fears that a public service ethos, a tradition of working in the...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
4. Organizations and Working Time Standards

   A Comparison of Negotiations in Europe

   By Jens Thoemmes

   Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

   Collective bargaining between employers and trade unions has profoundly changed working conditions in companies around the globe. But why do we start work at the age of 10, 16, 18 or 24? Why do we work 6, 8, 10 or more hours a day? These questions are becoming increasingly pertinent as working...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
5. Leadership as Emotional Labour

   Management and the 'Managed Heart'

   Edited by Marian Iszatt-White

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   Even if we don’t realise it, most of us are now familiar with the idea of ‘emotional labour’; that ‘service with a smile’ which everyone from cabin crew to restaurant or call centre staff is expected to give, irrespective of what they actually feel or think. This book considers the complex ways in...

   Published September 7th 2012 by Routledge
6. Organizational Change, Leadership and Ethics

   Leading Organizations towards Sustainability

   Edited by Rune Todnem By, Bernard Burnes

   Series: Understanding Organizational Change

   Given recent financial crises and scandals, the rise of corporate social responsibility and the challenge of environmental sustainability, few would disagree that the role of ethics has taken centre stage in the management of organizations. In reality, however, organizations have found it extremely...

   Published August 15th 2012 by Routledge
7. Accounting and Distributive Justice

   By John Flower

   Series: Routledge Studies in Accounting

   Accounting and Distributive Justice challenges the basic assumptions on which the current practice of financial reporting is based. It argues that the objective of financial reporting should be to contribute to the achievement of distributive justice and not the optimal allocation of resources as...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
8. Ethics for Managers

   Philosophical Foundations & Business Realities

   By Joseph Gilbert

   This book examines issues relating to ethical decision-making in the managerial context. Managers are paid to oversee the work of others, and in the course of their work, they often make decisions that impact other people. This book is intended to help managers, and students of management, reflect...

   Published July 5th 2012 by Routledge
9. Business Ethics

   A Critical Approach: Integrating Ethics Across the Business World

   Edited by Patrick O'Sullivan, Mark Smith, Mark Esposito

   Events such as Trafigura's illegal dumping of toxic waste in Côte d’Ivoire and BP's environmentally disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have highlighted ethical issues in international business at a time when business leaders, academics and business schools were reflecting on their own...

   Published June 24th 2012 by Routledge
10. Ethics in Marketing

    International Cases and Perspectives

    By Patrick E. Murphy, Gene R. Laczniak, Andrea Prothero

    Understanding and appreciating the ethical dilemmas associated with business is an important dimension of marketing strategy. Increasingly, matters of corporate social responsibility are part of marketing's domain. Ethics in Marketing contains 20 cases that deal with a variety of ethical...

    Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge