Responsible Research for Better Business

László Zsolnai is Professor and Director of the Business Ethics Center at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. He is the Chairman of the Business Ethics Faculty Group of the CEMS − The Global Alliance in Management Education – and serves as President of the European SPES Institute in Leuven, Belgium.Mike Thompson is the Leader of People Services at Anthesis, the global sustainability services group. He was formerly a Professor of Management Practice at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) and is now a Visiting Professor at the Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria, BC, Canada. Mike is the Co-editor of The Macau Ricci Institute Journal.

• Part 1: Introduction.- Chapter 1: The Call for for Responsible Research in Business and Management.- Part 2: Methodologies for Responsible Business Research.- Chapter 2: Critical Realism: A Philosophy of Science for Responsible Business and Management Research.- Chapter 3: Identifying and Solving the Right Problem by Using Multidimensional Systems Thinking.- Chapter 4: Relational Objectivity as Responsibility in Management Research.- Chapter 5: Reflections on Standards for Responsible – and High-Quality – Research: A Call for Peace.- Chapter 6: Responsible Research and Diversity in Methods – Contributions of Mixed Methods Research for Better Business and a Better World.- Chapter 7: From Being Observed to Becoming an Active Participant: How Visual Research Methods Contribute to Producing Useful and Credible Knowledge.- Part 3: Getting Closer to Real World Business.- Chapter 8: Sustainable Value Management: Pluralistic, Multi-Criteria, and Long-term Decision Making.- Chapter 9: Responsible Research for Responsible Investment The  JUST Capital Case Study.- Chapter 10: Obstacles to Sustainable Change in Business Practice.