International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics Book Series – serie

This book contemplates the ethics of responsibility in a large range of meanings, consequences and impacts. The book is intended for academics, researchers and professionals in all continents who are dedicated to Ethics, Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Innovation, and Sustainability Management.

This book contemplates the ethics of responsibility in a large range of meanings, consequences and impacts. The book is intended for academics, researchers and professionals in all continents who are dedicated to Ethics, Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Innovation, and Sustainability Management.

This project drew together the work of scholars in five regions across the globe and is the first time that such a global perspective has been attempted.This book is aimed at academics working in the area of international trade or development economics particularly those who have an interest in the ethical dimensions of trade.

This book is the first of its kind – a global overview of extant research on ethics in small and medium sized enterprises. Anyone with an interest in ethics and small and medium sized enterprises should find this an inspiring book which paves the way for future research.

This project drew together the work of scholars in five regions across the globe and is the first time that such a global perspective has been attempted.This book is aimed at academics working in the area of international trade or development economics particularly those who have an interest in the ethical dimensions of trade.

This book is the first of its kind – a global overview of extant research on ethics in small and medium sized enterprises. While vast amounts of corporate money, government policy and media time are directed at the social and ethical activities of large corporations, small businesses don’t generally attract the spotlight. This is wildly inappropriate, however, since upward of 90% of private businesses are small or medium sized. This book goes some way to helping us understand the social and ethical contribution of this majority organizational form. The first section of the book is a global round-up of research on ethics in small and medium sized enterprises from major regions of the world. In the second section smaller scale research projects from a variety of countries present both empirical and theoretical advances in the area. Anyone with an interest in ethics and small and medium sized enterprises should find this an inspiring book which paves the way for future research.

This case book provides examples of multi-stakeholder partnerships that aim to create sustainable enterprises for both the for-profit sectors and for individuals who live in conditions of poverty. Ideal for teaching, after a brief introduction to the case method, the cases are presented as descriptions with no comments or criticisms.

The book takes a holistic approach to sustainability. Acknowledging the Brundtland definition, that sustainable development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, the book is specifically concerned with the ethics of contemporary social and environmental sustainability activity and thinking. It is concerned with the role of institutions–both local and global in achieving sustainability initiatives. All twelve chapters extend sustainability–conceptually, empirically and theoretically, and in doing so provide insights into linking local and global sustainability. The book refocuses sustainability as a series of interwoven and dynamic relationships, backed by just ethical decision-making, which begin locally, and reach out to impact the global level.