Ethical Corporation’s guide to what’s jumping off the bookshelves
Practicing Sustainability
Hardback: 224 pages, £22.95
ISBN: 1461443482
Publisher: Springer
Published: September 2012
This compilation of essays on the theme of sustainability is a triumph of variety. Contributors range from poets and pastors to entrepreneurs and educators. Each offers their unique insight into what sustainability means to them, both in principle and practice. A worthy effort and branching out the sustainability debate.
How Much is Enough? Money and the good life
By Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky
Hardback: 256 pages, £20
ISBN: 1846144486
Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: June 2012
After decades of uncontested dominance, the mantra of ever-greater wealth creation as the driving goal for modern society is finally being questioned. This timely book re-evaluates what constitutes a “good life” and argues for a return to the idea of economics as a “moral science”. An important analysis.
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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 text book provides a great tool for bringing ethical considerations into the business curriculum. Doing so, it keeps business ethics from being side-lined. Useful for managers and policymakers, as well as business school students.
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Corporate Social Responsibility: a research handbook
By Kathryn Haynes, Alan Murray and Jess Dillard (eds)
Hardcover: 368 pages, £95
ISBN: 041578171X
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 2012
This research handbook addresses some key areas of contention, theory and practice within CSR. Striking a neat balance between academia and business, this is one of those tomes that should find its way onto the bookshelves of researchers and practitioners alike.
The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Reputation
By Michael Barnett and Timothy Pollock (eds)
Hardback: 512 pages, £95
ISBN: 0199596700
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, there’s plenty here to challenge both scholars and students.
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Economies of Recycling: the global transformation of materials, values and social relations
By Catherine Alexander and Joshua Reno (eds)
Paperback: 312 pages, £19.99
ISBN: 1780321943
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: August 2012
For some, recycling is a big business; for others a moralised way of engaging with the world. Either way, it’s grown into a huge global trade. This ethnographic analysis of global recycling unpicks not just the economics of the industry, but the new social relations and identities that it is creating. You’ll never look at rubbish the same again.
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The Quest for Sustainable Business: an epic journey in search of corporate sustainability
By Wayne Visser
Paperback: 256 pages, £25
ISBN: 906093761
Publisher: Greenleaf
Published: July 2012
Most books on corporate sustainability are written from the comfort of an office desk. Admirably – and energetically – Visser trots the globe to see how his subject matter plays out in different cultural settings.
The Economics of Enough: how to run the economy as if the future matters
By Diane Coyle
Paperback: 360 pages, £12.95
ISBN: 0691156293
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: September 2012
Economic policy and consumer behaviour have one major commonality: they focus on the “now”. Coyle presents a compelling case for a more future-orientated approach. She admits it won’t be easy. This book provides a powerful salvo to a vital public debate that needs to happen.
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