What Ethical Corporation will be reading on the beach
Changing Business from the Inside Out: a treehugger’s guide to working in corporations
By Tim Mohin
Paperback: 262 pages, £17.50
ISBN: 1906093709
Publisher: Greenleaf Publishing
Published: July 2012
Targeted at students and young professionals, this book seeks to provide the next generation of business leaders with the essential skills and knowledge to move corporations towards environmental sustainability and social justice. Plenty of step-by-step guidance backed up with real-world case studies.
Business Ethics: a critical approach – integrating ethics across the business world
By Patrick O’Sullivan et al
Paperback: 384 pages, £39.99
ISBN: 041566358
Publisher: Routledge
Published: June 2012
This student-focused textbook provides a great tool for bringing ethical considerations into the business curriculum. By bringing ethics to life, it keeps business ethics from being side-lined. A useful read for managers and policymakers, as well as business school students.
The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Reputation
By Michael Barnett and Timothy Pollock
Hardback: 512 pages, £95
ISBN: 199596700
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: July 2012
This handbook intends to provide a critical overview of the last 20 years of research and theory around corporate responsibility. Ranging across management, sociology, finance, marketing and psychology, the contributions tackle perpetual problems of differentiation and suggest future research directions.
User Experience in the Age of Sustainability: a practitioner’s blueprint
By Kem-Laurin Kramer
Paperback: 224 pages, £18.99
ISBN: 0123877954
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Published: July 2012
Whether it’s through a smartphone subscription solution or sustainable packaging, Kaufmann seeks to show how product designers can tune into the theme of sustainability. Strong on user research methodology and techniques, this is a bold attempt to integrate green issues into the latest user experience thinking.
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Business and Public Policy: responses to environmental and social protection processes
By Jorge Rivera
Paperback: 266 pages, £25
ISBN: 1107406285
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 2012
The less regulation the better, traditional capitalists used to argue. The woeful result of unfettered markets is all too clear in contemporary economic and environmental crises. In this updated volume, Rivera reveals a theoretical framework for understanding the vital relationship between protective public policies and business compliance.
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The Virtues of Leadership: contemporary challenges for global managers
By Arménio Rego, Miguel Pina e Cunha and Steward Clegg
Hardcover: 240 pages, £22.50
ISBN-10: 199653860
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: July 2012
The job spec for modern managers seems to be changing almost by the day. In a globalised world, where multinational companies influence the lives of billions, this book acts as a rallying call for “global leaders with virtues”. Not moral perfectionists, note. Just men and women committed to being part of the solution and building a “values-based capitalism”.
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The Rise of Global Corporate Social Responsibility: mining and the spread of global norms
By Hevina Dashwood
Hardcover: 328 pages, £60
ISBN: 1107015537
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 2012
Combining insights from international relations theory with institutional approaches from organisational theory and public policy, this book shows how global CR norms are taking hold in the global mining industry. A must read for practitioners in the sector.
Ethical Lessons of the Financial Crisis
By Eileen Flynn
Paperback: 296 pages, £19.99
ISBN: 0415516757
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 2012
In the midst of the economic crisis of 2008, there was little time to reflect on how immoral conduct contributed to the sub-prime disaster. This book uses the gift of hindsight to ask that crucial question. It also looks forward in an intriguing attempt to interrogate the ethical foundations on which a future recovery must be built.