Business and Society Ethics, Sustainability, and Stakeholder Management

by Carroll, Archie B.; Buchholtz, Ann K.

• ISBN13: 9780538453165
• ISBN10: 0538453168
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-01-24
• Publisher: South-Western College Pub

Summary

Learn to make strong business decisions with a better understanding of business ethics, sustainability and stakeholder management from a strong managerial perspective. BUSINESS AND SOCIETY: ETHICS, SUSTAINABILITY, AND STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT, 8E demonstrates how the most successful business decision makers balance and protect the interests of various stakeholders, including investors, employees, the community, and the environment -- particularly as business recovers from a perilous financial period. The authors effectively balance strong coverage of ethics and the stakeholder model with a new focus on one of business's most recent, urgent mandates: sustainability. Coverage highlights the connection between business and the natural, social, and financial environments, illustrating how all three must be maintained in balance to sustain current and future generations. New actual business cases, real applications and today's latest business examples present you with specific business challenges that test your values and require you to focus your reasoning skills for ongoing success in today's workplace.

Table of Contents

Business, Society, and Stakeholders

The Business and Society Relationship

Corporate Citizenship: Social Responsibility, Responsiveness, and Performance

The Stakeholder Approach to Business, Society, and Ethics

Corporate Governance and Strategic Management Issues

Corporate Governance: Foundational Issues

Strategic Management and Corporate Public Affairs

Issues Management and Crisis Management

Business Ethics and Management

Business Ethics Fundamentals

Personal and Organizational Ethics

Business Ethics and Technology

Ethical Issues in the Global Arena

External Stakeholder Issues

Business, Government, and Regulation

Business Influence on Government and Public Policy

Consumer Stakeholders: Information Issues and Responses

Consumer Stakeholders: Product and Service Issues

The Natural Environment as Stakeholder

Business and Community Stakeholders

Internal Stakeholder Issues

Employee Stakeholders and Workplace Issues

Employee Stakeholders: Privacy, Safety, and Health

Employment Discrimination and Affirmative Action

Case TOC

Wal-Mart: The Main Street Merchant of Doom

The Body Shop: Pursuing Social and Environmental Change

The Body Shop's Reputation is Tarnished

The Body Shop International PLC (1998-2010)

The Benefit Corporation: Making a Difference While Making Money

The Waiter Rule: What Makes for a Good CEO?

Using Ex-Cons to Teach Business Ethics

To Hire or Not to Hire

The Travel Expense Billing Controversy and the False Claims Act

Phantom Expenses

Family Business

Should Businesses Hire Undocumented Workers?

The High Cost of High Tech Foods

Something's Rotten in Hondo

Nike, Inc. and Sweatshops

Coke and Pepsi in India: Issues, Ethics, and Crisis Management

Chiquita: An Excruciating Dilemma Between Life and Law

Astroturf Lobbying

Goldman Sachs and Greece

DTC: The Pill-Pushing Debate

Big Pharma's Marketing Tactics

Firestone and Ford: The Tire Tread Separation Tragedy

McDonald's: the Coffee Spill Heard 'Round the World

The Betaseron Decision (A)

The Hudson River Cleanup and GE

The BP Oil Spill and Mental Health

New Belgium Brewery: Building a Business on Sustainability

Safety? What Safety?

Felony Franks û Home of the Misdemeanor Wiener

Goodbye, Indiana û Hello, Mexico: the Whirlpool Plant Closing

A Moral Dilemma: Head Versus Heart

Wal-Mart and Its Associates: Efficient Operator or Neglectful Employer?

The Case of the Fired Waitress

After-Effects of After-Hours Activities: The Case of Peter Oiler

Is Hiring on the Basis of "Looks" Justified or Discriminatory?

The Case of Judy

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