Smes as the Unknown Stakeholder: Entrepreneurship in the Political Arena
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself
by Michael Publishing
This book is the first of its kind – a global overview of extant research on ethics in small and medium sized enterprises. While vast amounts of corporate money, government policy and media time are directed at the social and ethical activities of large corporations, small businesses don’t generally attract the spotlight. This is wildly inappropriate, however, since upward of 90% of private businesses are small or medium sized. This book goes some way to helping us understand the social and ethi...
Experts explore the potential benefits, risks, and moral aspects of protocell technology, which creates simple forms of life from nonliving material.
Based on years of research, consulting, teaching, and first hand experience working in sustainable businesses, Sustainable Small Business Management outlines a proven process to craft and implement a profit driven strategy for sustainability, targeted primarily at the substantial market of small to medium enterprises (SMEs). With SMEs now representing 50% of business revenue and employment in the United States, this book has been written to provide a practical and proven resource to guide the d...
The Authorities - Linda K. Wong
by Les Brown, Raymond Aaron, and John Gray
Overseas Investment of Chinese Enterprises (Globethics.Net China Ethics, #9)
by Liu Baocheng and Chandni Patel
Francis O’ Donnell is an ecologist and business graduate from the Republic of Ireland. His current area of interest is the development of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). He considers culture a serious impediment to CSR’s potential to reduce social and environmental conflict in an Irish context. He is acutely aware that Multinational Corporations and national Governments often overlook stakeholder inclusiveness due to self interest. However, he argues that CSR offers those with business in...
The Etiquette Advantage in Business
by Peter Post, Anna Post, Lizzie Post, and Daniel Post Senning
Completely revised and updated, the third edition of the Posts' The Etiquette Advantage in Business is the ultimate guide professionals need to navigate everyday and unusual situations in the office-the key to professional and personal success. Today, more than ever, good manners mean good business. The Etiquette Advantage in Business offers proven, essential advice, from resolving conflicts with ease and grace to building productive relationships with colleagues at all levels; from successfull...
Demands for sustainability policies have set new challenges for business both on the individual firm level and on the level of organized business interests. This edited volume brings together economic, social, environmental, and cultural dimensions of sustainability that comprise different challenges for business processes and activities. The aim is to develop an overarching framework to the study of sustainability and business and to advance an interdisciplinary analytical perspective. The book...
There are increasingly strident calls from many sectors of society for the tourism industry, the world's largest industry, to adopt a more ethical approach to the way it does business. In particular there has been an emphasis placed on the need for a more ethical approach to the way the tourism industry interacts with consumers, the environment, with indigenous peoples, those in poverty, and those in destinations suffering human rights abuses. This book introduces students to the important topi...
Organized Outsource Business Involves a Good Administration
by Henry Hernandez