Corporate Ethics and Corporate Governance

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zimmerli, Walther Ch (Editor), Holzinger, Markus (Editor), Richter, Klaus (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Subjects: Business.; Management.; Leadership.; Ethics.; Business and Management.; Business Strategy/Leadership.

Corporations are under fire. Hardly a day goes by that executive conduct doesn’t appear as a topic – or, more accurately, as a problem – in the media. This leads to increased public pressure on corporations, many of whom are reacting and publicly assuming their corporate responsibility. This book re...

Table of Contents:

• Setting the Scene
• to Ethics
• Business Ethics
• Habits of the Heart in US-American and German Corporate Culture
• Leading Self and Others
• The Importance of Leadership in Shaping Business Values
• The Servant as Leader
• The Structure of Moral Leadership
• Why Work?
• Organizational Ethics
• Organizational Integrity — Understanding the Dimensions of Ethical and Unethical Behavior in Corporations
• Enron — Pride Comes Before the Fall
• Andersen. No Fairy Tale Ending
• How to Discover and Avoid Corruption in Companies
• Business in Society
• The Path to Corporate Responsibility
• The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits
• Pan-European Approach. A Conceptual Framework for Understanding CSR
• Corporate Social Responsibility at Volkswagen Group
• Historical Responsibility: Corporate Forms of Remembrance of National Socialist Forced Labour at the Volkswagen Plant
• Cross-cultural Sensitivities in Developing Corporate Ethical Strategies and Practices
• Global Corporate Ethics
• Transnational Actors and World Politics
• The UN Global Compact: The Challenge and the Promise
• Global Public Rules and Citizenship Rights: A New Responsibility of Private Business Firms?.