Quakers, Business and Corporate Responsibility Lessons and Cases for Responsible Management /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Burton, Nicholas (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Turnbull, Richard (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance,
• Θέματα: Social responsibility of business.; Spirituality.; Family-owned business enterprises.; Business-Religious aspects.; Business ethics.; Corporate Social Responsibility.; Family Business.; Faith, Spirituality and Business.; Business Ethics.

This book explores how the distinctive "Quaker" approach to responsible business is based on honesty, truth and integrity. It analyzes how networks, family and succession are at its heart, and how much this approach offers to current debates on corporate social responsibility, as well as t...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part 1: The spirit of Quaker responsible business
• Chapter 1: Transforming contemporary Businesses:the Impact of Quaker principles and insights on business in a volatile world
• Chapter 2: Towards a set of Quaker business values
• Chapter 3: Cadbury's ethics and the spirit of Corporate Social Responsibility
• Part 2: An uneasy relationship with the State
• Chapter 4: Quaker Employer Conference of 1918
• Chapter 5: Honey I shrunk the state
• Chapter 6: Quakers, free trade and social responsibility
• Chapter 7: The Quakers and the joint stock company: uneasy bedfellows
• Part 3: Complicated Quakers
• Chapter 8: Thomas Jefferson's complicated Friends
• Chapter 9: John Bellers (1654-1725)-A veritable phenomenon in the history of political economy'.