Practicing business with a conscience leaves no sector untouched. It trickles into how we treat our employees; approach our work in general; address stakeholders; engage in accounting, financial, and production management practices; implement and manage information technology; communicate on a direct and indirect basis; and market what we stand for. Business has encountered an interesting evolution in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, with social media as a catalyst aiding greater understanding and improvement regarding the critical value of soft skills, workplace diversity, change readiness, moral responsibility, sustainable awareness, and a general socially responsible mindset. This amalgamate spirit of business as we envision it in both the near and far future has found its way in all segments of business education, research, and practice.
Adhering to the global trend of increased responsibility and evoking a constructive change in the narrative of business, this Research Companion serves as a critical reference work for business scholars and practitioners in various settings. It brings together contributing scholars from multiple business areas, from a variety of cultures and locations of the world, in order to achieve the compilation of a reference work that will find an expansive appeal. Including insights from the broad business spectrum ranging from internal managerial practices to strategic applications, including international sensitivity, this volume highlights the urgency for increased awareness in business decision-making on all fronts.
It will be of great value to researchers, academics, practitioners, and students in the fields of corporate social responsibility, business ethics, leadership, organizational studies, and entrepreneurship.
PART I: Leadership and Organizational Behavior with a Conscience
1. Conscious Leadership: Considering Internal and External Stakeholders
Joan Marques
2. Responsible Leadership under Oneness: Conscious Parts and Conscientious Wholes
Duysal Aşkun Çelik, Alex Fong
3. Inspiring Soft Skills as a Conscious Choice
Debra Dean
4. Business Without Conscience
Clive R. Boddy, Benedict Sheehy, Brendon Murphy
5. A Human-Centered Approach to Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace
Alentina Vardanyan
6. Nurturing Workplace Diversity with a Conscience: A Path toward Inclusion and Excellence for African Americans
Shona G. Smith, Ariane Froidevaux
7. Advancing Workplace Diversity: Weathering the Storm to Create a Path toward Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Lisa T. Toler
8. An Eastern Approach to Moral Development
Ravi Subramaniam
9. The role of religious common good traditions in fostering humanistic leadership
George Gotsis, Aikaterini Grimani
10. Light and Shadow: A Biblical Juxtaposition of Toxic and Ethical Leadership
Joseph Dominick Martinez, Meghan N. Rivers, and W. David Winner
PART II: Strategic and International Management with a Conscience
11. Conscious Value Creation in Global Value Chains
Anoosha Makka
12. Finding Unity in Diversity: Conscience in Business Literature and Practice
Christiane Molina
13. Responsible Innovation Principles
Isaac Wanasika
14. Disentangling the Professional and Political in the (Post)Modern Workplace
Sean Eddington, Caitlyn Jarvis
15. Segmenting Mixed Markets: A Model and Evidence from Microfinance
Sarah E. Wolfolds
16. How Mexican Companies Contribute to Human Development
Anabella Davila
17. Advancing Socially Responsible Strategies Through Earned Social Media
Catalin Pavel, Greg R. Bell
18. Supporting Business Ethics and Sustainability: A Relational Perspective on Conscience
Sheldene Simola
19. Exploring Business Conscience
Thomas Anyanje Senaji, Victor Senaji Anyanje, Jacqueline Rose Anyango
20. Open Collaboration and Digital Technologies in the Context of Environmental Innovations
Luis Francisco Miranda, Claudio Cruz Cázares, Vanessa Pertuz, Minna Saunila
21. Adult-Learning Motivations, Hindrances, and Aspirational HRD Effectiveness Based on Cooperative Learning Models
Meghan N. Rivers, W. David Winner
22. Reflective teaching in the virtual workplace in higher education: The strategy for the development of conscious lean educational leadership in India
Moitreyee Paul, Lalatendu Kesari Jena
PART III: Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship
23. Internal and External Qualities Needed to Transition from Social Entrepreneurship to System Entrepreneurship
Pamela Kay Caldwell, Oluseye David Akintunde
24. Stakeholder Protection and Valuation Effects
Koushikee Dutta, Kirk Ring
25. Calculation, Responsiveness, and Conscience in CSR and Social Entrepreneurship
Duane Windsor
26. Caregiving Weighing on the Conscience of Business: Organizational Caregiving for the Family Caregiver
Brian Murray
27. Managing the commercial-social paradox with different forms of organizing
Susanna L. M. Chui, Nazha Gali
28. Nature, Life and Economy: The Quest for Conscience Business Practice
Anannya Deb Roy, Goutam Saha
29. The Effects of Credence Goods and Country Development on the CSP-CFP Relationship Through Revenue Mediation
Renee Pesor, Kristiina Esop, Alar Kein, Mari Kooskora
30. When Positive Psychology and CSR Collide: Emerging and Prospective Research in Positive CSR
Austin Chia, Margaret Kern
31. Narratives of Sustainable Life: In Pursuit of Conscience Business
Sharmistha Banerjee, Nagma Sahi Ansari, Anannya Deb Roy
32. When Business Means Inclusion: Social Cooperatives in Poland - Their Essence, Ethos and Practice
Agnieszka Smrokowska-Reichmann, Edyta Janus
33. Strategic and International Management with Conscience: A case of Kenya/Africa
Kennedy Muema Musyoka, Anne W. Njagi, Catherine Wanza
34. The Sensemaking of Confucian Entrepreneur on the Ambidexterity of Business
Xuanwei Cao
35. Where Business Ethics and Social Responsibility Merge
Joan Marques
Biography
Joan Marques is Professor of Management and currently serves as Dean at Woodbury University’s School of Business in Burbank, California, United States.
