Corporate Social Responsibility & Business Ethics Books

New and Published Books

1. Innovating for Sustainability

   Green Entrepreneurship in Personal Mobility

   By Luca Berchicci

   Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

   One of the challenges met by green entrepreneurs and product developers who have tried to develop more sustainable products is that efforts to have better products in environmental terms do not always translate into effective business cases. The purpose of this book is a better understanding of the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Zeronauts

   Breaking the Sustainability Barrier

   By John Elkington

   A world of 9 billion people by mid-century will demand fundamental changes in our mindsets, behaviors, cultures, and overarching paradigm. Just as our species broke the Sound Barrier during the 1940s and 1950s, a new breed of innovator, entrepreneur, and investor is lining up to break the...

   Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
3. Creating a Sustainable Economy

   An Institutional and Evolutionary Approach to Environmental Policy

   Edited by Gerardo Marletto

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   This book is designed for those scholars, students, policy-makers – or just curious readers – who are looking for heterodox thinking on the issue of environmental economics and policy. Contributions to this book draw on multiple streams of institutional and evolutionary economics and help build an...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
4. Reforming Capitalism

   The Scientific Worldview and Business

   By Rogene Buchholz

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Ethics

   This book examines the role that the traditional understanding of science plays in how we understand the capitalistic system and how it informs business and business school education. Science serves many purposes in business organizations; it is much more than just a method to gain knowledge about...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
5. Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and Organizations

   Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation

   Edited by Karen Golden-Biddle, Jane E. Dutton

   Series: Series in Organization and Management

   How can application of a positive lens to understanding social change and organizations enrich and elaborate theory and practice? This is the core question that inspired this book. It is a question that brought together a diverse and talented group of researchers interested in change and...

   Published March 11th 2012 by Routledge Academic
6. Superior Customer Value

   Strategies for Winning and Retaining Customers, Third Edition

   By Art Weinstein

   A customer-centric culture provides focus and direction for the organization, ensuring that exceptional value will be offered to customers — this, in turn, results in enhanced market performance. Unfortunately, caught up in the daily economic and competitive pressures of running complex and...

   Published February 23rd 2012 by CRC Press
7. Understanding the Social Dimension of Sustainability

   Edited by Jesse Dillard, Veronica Dujon, Mary C. King

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

   The imperative of the twenty-first century is sustainability: to raise the living standards of the world's poor and to achieve and maintain high levels of social health among the affluent nations while simultaneously reducing and reversing the environmental damage wrought by human activity....

   Published February 2nd 2012 by Routledge
8. Ethics in Marketing

   International Cases and Perspectives

   By Patrick E. Murphy, Gene R. Laczniak, Andrea Prothero

   Understanding and appreciating the ethical dilemmas associated with business is an important dimension of marketing strategy. Increasingly, matters of corporate social responsibility are part of marketing's domain. Ethics in Marketing contains 20 cases that deal with a variety of ethical...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
9. Business Regulation and Non-State Actors

   Whose Standards? Whose Development?

   Edited by Peter Utting, Darryl Reed, Ananya Reed

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   This volume assesses the achievements and limitations of a new set of non-state or multistakeholder institutions that are concerned with improving the social and environmental record of business, and holding corporations to account. It does so from a perspective that aims to address two limitations...

   Published January 23rd 2012 by Routledge
10. Regulating Corporate Human Rights Violations

    Humanizing Business

    By Surya Deva

    Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

    Despite the continuous addition of regulatory initiatives concerning corporate human rights responsibilities, what we witness more often than not is a situation of corporate impunity for human rights abuses. The Bhopal gas leak – examined as a site of human rights violations rather than as a mass...

    Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge