Format:
1 online resource (274 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781107007208
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9781107057586
Series Statement:
Business, Value Creation, and Society Series
Content:
Business ethics teaching appears to have had little impact, particularly in the light of continued malpractice and misdemeanour in the form of financial scandals, environmental disasters and adverse consequences for communities. In this timely work, Hemingway reveals fresh insights to suggest how integrity in the workplace can be encouraged
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Overview -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introducing corporate social responsibility -- What is CSR and why is it necessary? -- Who is responsible for social provision and who and what should be included? -- Part I Values and corporate social responsibility -- 1 Structural drivers of corporate social responsibility -- Business strategy and stakeholder lobbying -- Business strategy and corporate image management -- Organisational culture -- 2 Agential drivers of corporate social responsibility -- Cognitive moral development and personality characteristics -- Personal values and the possibility of altruism -- 3 Moral agency and discretion -- Employee discretion in corporate social responsibility -- Corporate moral agency or human sympathy? -- The interconnectedness of structure and agency: whose values? -- Moral myopia and muteness -- Psychological processes and the relationship with moral sensitivity -- Part II Personal values and corporate social entrepreneurship -- 4 The relationship between personal values and behaviour -- Defining personal values -- Values and personality: self-identity function -- Group survival function: self-enhancement (or individualistic) values and self-transcendent (or collectivist) values as theoretical opposites -- Different levels of personal values -- The structure of values and implications for a methodological approach -- 5 The corporate social entrepreneur -- Entrepreneurial values -- A typology of entrepreneurship -- Orientations towards CSR -- 6 Integrity and the moral character -- The relationship between virtue and value -- The importance of reflective judgement and methodological implications for behavioural ethics research -- Integrity -- Self-actualisation and self-transcendence -- Summary -- Part III Modes of moral commitment to CSR
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7 Investigating corporate social entrepreneurship -- Research aims, objectives and questions -- The research context -- Data collection -- Data analysis -- Limitations -- 8 The active corporate social entrepreneur -- 9 The concealed corporate social entrepreneur -- 10 The conformist -- 11 The disassociated -- Part IV Developing a socially responsible organisational culture -- 12 Conclusion -- Structural variation: the ad hoc nature of the company's CSR -- 13 Leveraging integrity within: some brief, practical steps -- Appendix Rokeach Values Survey -- Which of these standards of conduct would you say are most important to you? (Please tick the ones you think apply most to you) -- Which of these would you say is closest to describing your goals in life/what means most to you in life? (Please tick the ones you think apply most to you) -- References -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Hemingway, Christine A. Corporate Social Entrepreneurship New York : Cambridge University Press,c2013 ISBN 9781107007208
Language:
English
Keywords:
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