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Business and Society: Ethics, Sustainability, and Stakeholder Management
Introducing important and diverse stakeholder management and ethical frameworks for considering and protecting critical stakeholder interests, this book's coverage of ethics and the stakeholder model is balanced by a discussion of corporate governance and other issues shaping business today.
First published April 28, 2002
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June 17, 2021
Had this as a text book for one of my subjects. Found it helpful but also frustrating and judging and contradictory. Got the impression the author does not like the way current business works and some of the stakeholders who have a say. Some of this may be just a poor update but when my dad reads some of it and his gut feel was that it was overly pro business it seems a worry.
October 2, 2011
Easy to read and understand textbook, language clear and simple enough so that it could even be used in a college prep High School. Took me about 3 weeks to read it cover to cover -- VERY long. There is some repetition but mostly in the attempt to build mental schema so it's ok; as in, 'remember where we talked about this, well lets take it a bit further and see how it might apply to that.'Covers a lot of topics.
It starts out with what it calls the "stakeholder" paradigm, i.e., all the people (employees, customers, stockholders, local community, etc) who feel they have some sort of stake in the business' activities -- what lawyers might refer to as implied social contract holders, and how it really doesn't pay to piss any of these folks off, and you do so at your own peril.
Starting about about the 75% point it turns to cases, covering everything from employment practices at Abercrombie and Fitch (only highly attractive white kids need apply) to is it ethical to pay ex white collar felons 2.5K a pop to lecture on the pitfalls of falling into temptation, when you don't pay folks who never did jail time for the speaking on the same issue.
The book is highly US centric, but includes some of the best sellers of international corporate screw ups that made the nightly news, like infant formula in 3rd world countries, the massive Union Carbide poisonings in India, etc. The book assumes students know what Enron was, and references it constantly, etc., which I'm not sure is a safe assumption, so I would start off the year by showing, "smartest guys in the room."
(The publisher sent me the teachers CD's/DVD's but I've yet to study them closely --- will comment here when I have.)
I read this because I had been asked to teach this course next semester (my phd is in anthropology with a focus on law -- contracts specifically, and business, and the department head felt I had the background necessary, but I had never taken the course so I didn't really know what it entailed).
It starts out with what it calls the "stakeholder" paradigm, i.e., all the people (employees, customers, stockholders, local community, etc) who feel they have some sort of stake in the business' activities -- what lawyers might refer to as implied social contract holders, and how it really doesn't pay to piss any of these folks off, and you do so at your own peril.
Starting about about the 75% point it turns to cases, covering everything from employment practices at Abercrombie and Fitch (only highly attractive white kids need apply) to is it ethical to pay ex white collar felons 2.5K a pop to lecture on the pitfalls of falling into temptation, when you don't pay folks who never did jail time for the speaking on the same issue.
The book is highly US centric, but includes some of the best sellers of international corporate screw ups that made the nightly news, like infant formula in 3rd world countries, the massive Union Carbide poisonings in India, etc. The book assumes students know what Enron was, and references it constantly, etc., which I'm not sure is a safe assumption, so I would start off the year by showing, "smartest guys in the room."
(The publisher sent me the teachers CD's/DVD's but I've yet to study them closely --- will comment here when I have.)
I read this because I had been asked to teach this course next semester (my phd is in anthropology with a focus on law -- contracts specifically, and business, and the department head felt I had the background necessary, but I had never taken the course so I didn't really know what it entailed).
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