Business Ethics for a Material World

An Ecological Approach to Object Stewardship

AvRyan Burg

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Increasingly, conscientious consumers and green marketers are recognizing that material things, not firms, must be made responsible. Even so, many scholars in ethics, sustainability, and governance focus on people and organizations, ignoring the flows of things. In this book, Ryan Burg argues that material things are fundamental features of moral life, serving as both valuable instruments and guides for responsibility. Unless care is taken for these non-living entities, living things cannot be protected. Viewing the global economy as a network of material transfers, Burg argues that to facilitate object care, professionals must act as stewards. By tracing the origins and disposal of workplace objects through this material network, businesses and employees can discover the outcomes for which they are responsible, and managers can align ethics, sustainability and governance with a truly global formulation of responsibility.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-03-24
Mått:152 x 228 x 20 mm
Vikt:580 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Business, Value Creation, and Society
Antal sidor:394
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781316634004

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Ryan Burg is Assistant Professor of Management at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He holds a joint Ph.D. in Business Ethics and Sociology from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, and his dissertation was a finalist for the Social Issues in Management Dissertation award. Professor Burg is also a co-founder of the Responsible Endowments Coalition, a national organization that supports the responsible investment movement on college and university campuses.

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'Objects can help us decide who should be responsible for what'. That is the premise of this fascinating study of the tentacles of ethics and responsibility surrounding objects and how they come to be what they are. Ryan Burg offers an insightful, rich, and comprehensive analysis of the ethics surrounding objects. This fresh - and refreshing - approach to business, individual, and societal responsibilities is very compelling and should find wide readership among both scholars and practitioners.' Sandra Waddock, Galligan Chair of Strategy, Carroll School Scholar of Corporate Responsibility, Boston College Carroll School of Management

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. The singularization of everything; 2. Singularization schema; 3. The power of negative thinking; 4. Three failures in regulated markets; 5. Person, place, and product; 6. Ecological value; 7. Putting responsibility to work; 8. Materiality for business ethics.

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