Download or read book Zur Begr ndung Einer bernahme Ethischer Verantwortung in Unternehmen written by Marlene Speth and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Business Ethics, Corporate Ethics, grade: 2,3, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, course: Unternehmensethik, 42 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In the past few years, business ethics has emerged as a broad and important concept, universities are offering seminars, corporations are sending their managers on trainings, and an enormous literature body seems to be emerging out of nowhere. In contrast to this movement, the 'globalization bible', the novel NoLogo written by journalist Naomi Klein draws a different picture: it accuses companies and CEOs of antisocial behaviour. Consumer capitalism on the one hand and at the same time articles about sweatshops, bad working conditions, and 'famous' names like the Brent Spar platform, Sao Wiwa and Shell, and Nike sweatshops support the negative image of MNCs. In the following I would therefore like to examine why certain corporations seem to take on corporate responsibility while others, as stated in Klein's novel, act as 'the big brand bullies'. I seek to answer in this paper why business ethics as a concept is not an oxymoron (cp. Collins 1994) per se and why in the words of John L. Campbell "given the incentives for maximizing profit and shareholder value, let alone acting opportunistically, why would a corporation ever act in socially responsible ways, even at the most minimal level" (947). In general, there are three main approaches to the grounds of acting socially responsible: there are moral reasons, economic reasons and institutional reasons. First of all I would like to start by giving some theoretical basics. Subsequently moral, economic and institutional theories as an explanation for the implementation of business ethics will be examined. Because each of these three parts is considered equally important they will all be covered, but concessions need to be made due to the enormous width of the topic. I wo

Download or read book A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty written by George Lodge and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World leaders have given the reduction of global poverty top priority. And yet it persists. Indeed, in many countries whose governments lack either the desire or the ability to act, poverty has worsened. This book, a joint venture of a Harvard professor and an economist with the International Finance Corporation, argues that the solution lies in the creation of a new institution, the World Development Corporation (WDC), a partnership of multinational corporations (MNCs), international development agencies, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). In A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty, George Lodge and Craig Wilson assert that MNCs have the critical combination of capabilities required to build investment, grow economies, and create jobs in poor countries, and thus to reduce poverty. Furthermore, they can do so profitably and thus sustainably. But they lack legitimacy and risk can be high, and so a collective approach is better than one in which an individual company proceeds alone. Thus a UN-sponsored WDC, owned and managed by a dozen or so MNCs with NGO support, will make a marked difference. At a time when big business has been demonized for destroying the environment, enjoying one-sided benefits from globalization, and deceiving investors, the book argues, MNCs have much to gain from becoming more effective in reducing global poverty. This is not a call for philanthropy. Lodge and Wilson believe that corporate support for the World Development Corporation will benefit not only the world's poor but also company shareholders as a result of improved MNC legitimacy and stronger markets and profitability.

Download or read book Corporate Urban Responsibility written by Hans-Hermann Albers and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Themen Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) und nachhaltiges Wirtschaften haben sich inzwischen in den meisten Unternehmen etabliert. Angesichts des gesellschaftlichen und ökonomischen Strukturwandels, Privatisierung und begrenzter finanzieller Möglichkeiten des Staates werden Unternehmen jedoch auch zunehmend in Deutschland als engagierte Akteure für Stadtentwicklungsmodelle eingebunden. Wie beeinflusst dies Architektur und Städtebau? Hans-Hermann Albers verdeutlicht anhand von Fallbeispielen Chancen und Risiken der unternehmerischen Einflussnahme auf die Gestaltung und Nutzung städtischer Räume.

Download or read book Motivational Internalism written by Gunnar Björnsson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In thirteen new essays and an introduction, Motivational Internalism collects a structured overview of current debates about motivational internalism and examines the nature of and evidence for forms of internalism, internalism's relevance for moral psychology and moral semantics, and ways of bridging the gap between internalist and externalist positions.

Download or read book Ethical IT Innovation written by Sarah Spiekermann and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explaining how ubiquitous computing is rapidly changing our private and professional lives, Ethical IT Innovation: A Value-Based System Design Approach stands at the intersection of computer science, philosophy, and management and integrates theories and frameworks from all three domains.The book explores the latest thinking on computer ethics, inc

Download or read book Driving to Safety written by Nidhi Kalra and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Robot Ethics 2 0 written by Patrick Lin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets. (Mars is inhabited entirely by robots.) As robots slip into more domains of human life--from the operating room to the bedroom--they take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from psychological to physical. This makes it all the more urgent to study their ethical, legal, and policy impacts. To help the robotics industry and broader society, we need to not only press ahead on a wide range of issues, but also identify new ones emerging as quickly as the field is evolving. For instance, where military robots had received much attention in the past (and are still controversial today), this volume looks toward autonomous cars here as an important case study that cuts across diverse issues, from liability to psychology to trust and more. And because robotics feeds into and is fed by AI, the Internet of Things, and other cognate fields, robot ethics must also reach into those domains, too. Expanding these discussions also means listening to new voices; robot ethics is no longer the concern of a handful of scholars. Experts from different academic disciplines and geographical areas are now playing vital roles in shaping ethical, legal, and policy discussions worldwide. So, for a more complete study, the editors of this volume look beyond the usual suspects for the latest thinking. Many of the views as represented in this cutting-edge volume are provocative--but also what we need to push forward in unfamiliar territory.

Download or read book The Myth of the Ethical Consumer Hardback with DVD written by Timothy M. Devinney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A no-holds-barred examination of 'ethical' consumerism.

Download or read book Morality and the Market Routledge Revivals written by N. Craig Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can businesses abandon the axiom that the customer is always right when consumers start questioning the ethics of business practices? Professor Craig Smith examines the theory and practice of ethical purchase behaviour, a crucial mechanism for ensuring social responsibility in business. He explains how and why consumers have used their purchasing power to influence corporate policies and practices. He argues the case for the social control of business, drawing on perspectives from marketing, economics, politics, sociology, and business policy. He concludes that the market may act as an arbiter of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ business practice. Dr Smith considers the practical aspects of ethical purchase behaviour, focusing on consumer boycotts as a specific form of this consumer behaviour, and explains how boycotted businesses should respond. This title, first published in 1990, is ideal for both business students and those who have a business of their own.

Download or read book 2003 written by Dan Diner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book CSR 2 0 written by Wayne Visser and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the evolution and current state of corporate social responsibility (CSR), using a five-stage maturity model: defensive, charitable, promotional, strategic and transformative CSR. The first four stages are dubbed CSR 1.0 and characterise most current CSR practice, while the fifth stage is named CSR 2.0 (also transformative or systemic CSR) and describes emergent and future CSR practices. Reasons are given why CSR 1.0 approaches have failed to have any significant impact on the most serious global social, environmental and ethical challenges. The emergent CSR 2.0 will then be explored in detail by elaborating on five principles underlying the new approach, including: creativity, scalability, responsiveness, glocality and circularity. A four-part DNA Model is also introduced, covering value creation, good governance, societal contribution and ecological integrity, which provides the basis for defining and measuring CSR 2.0. Finally, a 70-question CSR 2.0 self-assessment diagnostic tool developed by the author is presented, with sample data to show how the tool can be used for future research and practitioner application.

Download or read book Rethinking Reprogenetics written by Inmaculada de Melo-Martin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprogenetic technologies, which combine the power of reproductive techniques with the tools of genetic science and technology, promise prospective parents a remarkable degree of control to pick and choose the likely characteristics of their offspring. Not only can they select embryos with or without particular genetically-related diseases and disabilities but also choose embryos with non-disease related traits such as sex. Prominent authors such as Agar, Buchanan, DeGrazia, Green, Harris, Robertson, Savulescu, and Silver have flocked to the banner of reprogenetics. For them, increased reproductive choice and reduced suffering through the elimination of genetic disease and disability are just the first step. They advocate use of these technologies to create beings who enjoy longer and healthier lives, possess greater intellectual capacities, and are capable of more refined emotional experiences. Indeed, Harris and Savulescu in particular take reprogenetic technologies to be so valuable to human beings that they have insisted that their use is not only morally permissible but morally required. Rethinking Reprogenetics challenges this mainstream view with a contextualised, gender-attentive philosophical perspective. De Melo-Martín demonstrates that you do not have to be a Luddite, social conservative, or religious zealot to resist the siren song of reprogenetics. Pointing out the flawed nature of the arguments put forward by the technologies' proponents, Rethinking Reprogenetics reveals the problematic nature of the assumptions underpinning current evaluations of these technologies and offers a framework for a more critical and sceptical assessment.

Download or read book Zur Begr ndung einer bernahme ethischer Verantwortung in Unternehmen written by Marlene Speth and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Business Ethics, Corporate Ethics, grade: 2,3, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, course: Unternehmensethik, language: English, abstract: In the past few years, business ethics has emerged as a broad and important concept, universities are offering seminars, corporations are sending their managers on trainings, and an enormous literature body seems to be emerging out of nowhere. In contrast to this movement, the ‘globalization bible’, the novel NoLogo written by journalist Naomi Klein draws a different picture: it accuses companies and CEOs of antisocial behaviour. Consumer capitalism on the one hand and at the same time articles about sweatshops, bad working conditions, and ‘famous’ names like the Brent Spar platform, Sao Wiwa and Shell, and Nike sweatshops support the negative image of MNCs. In the following I would therefore like to examine why certain corporations seem to take on corporate responsibility while others, as stated in Klein’s novel, act as ‘the big brand bullies’. I seek to answer in this paper why business ethics as a concept is not an oxymoron (cp. Collins 1994) per se and why in the words of John L. Campbell “given the incentives for maximizing profit and shareholder value, let alone acting opportunistically, why would a corporation ever act in socially responsible ways, even at the most minimal level” (947). In general, there are three main approaches to the grounds of acting socially responsible: there are moral reasons, economic reasons and institutional reasons. First of all I would like to start by giving some theoretical basics. Subsequently moral, economic and institutional theories as an explanation for the implementation of business ethics will be examined. Because each of these three parts is considered equally important they will all be covered, but concessions need to be made due to the enormous width of the topic. I would then like to come up with a diagnosis and possible topics to ‘walk the talk’ and finally draw a conclusion.

Download or read book Verflechtungsgeschichten written by Mirja Lecke and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2016 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der Band versammelt Beiträge eines internationalen Autorenkreises zu kulturellen und politischen Kontakten und Konflikten im modernen Osteuropa. In interdisziplinär angelegten Studien werden Wahrnehmungsmuster und gegenseitige Projektionen unter den Nachbarländern Polen, Litauen, Russland, Weißrussland und der Ukraine, aber auch von Deutschland beleuchtet. Neben neuen Lektüren literarischer Klassiker stehen Verflechtungen und Verstrickungen in Philosophie und Ideologie im Fokus. Ein weiterer Block ist aktuellen und historischen Fragen zu Recht, Staat und Politik in diesem Teil Europas gewidmet.

Download or read book Fundamental Moral Theology written by Franz Böckle and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fifteen years since the Second Vatican Council, no aspect of theology has undergone such thorough scrutiny as that of moral theology. Furthermore, the discussions have not been the exclusive concern of churchmen. Theologians have entered into dialogue with everyone who is in any way preoccupied with the need to improve social order. Thus the insights of all the human and social sciences have been brought to bear in the task of reassessment and restructuring. This book presents a comprehensive scheme of moral theology which is relevant to the moral and intellectual climate of the latter decades of the twentieth century.

Download or read book The Different Modes of Existence written by Étienne Souriau and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What relation is there between the existence of a work of art and that of a living being? Between the existence of an atom and that of a value like solidarity? These questions become our own each time a reality—whether it is a piece of music, someone we love, or a fictional character—is established and begins to take on an importance in our lives. Like William James or Gilles Deleuze, Souriau methodically defends the thesis of an existential pluralism. There are indeed different manners of existing and even different degrees or intensities of existence: from pure phenomena to objectivized things, by way of the virtual and the “super-existent,” to which works of art and the intellect, and even morality, bear witness. Existence is polyphonic, and, as a result, the world is considerably enriched and enlarged. Beyond all that exists in the ordinary sense of the term, it is necessary to allow for all sorts of virtual and ephemeral states, transitional realms, and barely begun realities, still in the making, all of which constitute so many “inter-worlds.”

Download or read book Mediated Scandals written by Mark Ludwig and published by Herbert von Halem Verlag. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In jüngerer Zeit ist eine Zunahme der medialen Berichterstattung über Skandale zu beobachten. Die begleitenden zahlreichen, teilweise aufgeheizten Debatten um die Art und Weise der medialen Skandalberichterstattung – erinnert sei etwa an die Fälle Strauss-Kahn, Wulff, Kachelmann oder Hoeneß – haben gezeigt, dass Skandale ein gesellschaftlich virulentes, jedoch nicht einfach zu greifendes Phänomen darstellen. Skandalberichterstattung kann sich einerseits als gesellschaftlich hochrelevant erweisen, als mit ihr auf Missstände, Werte- oder Normverletzungen aufmerksam gemacht und Diskurse über grundlegende Werte und Normen in Gang gesetzt werden können. Andererseits kann eine Häufung von Skandalberichten sowie eine Zuspitzung und Personalisierung in der journalistischen Aufbereitung von Skandalen gleichfalls zu unerwünschten Auswirkungen auf Einzelpersonen (wie zum Beispiel nicht gerechtfertigte Reputationsschäden) und möglicherweise auch zu negativen gesellschaftlichen Effekten (wie zum Beispiel Vertrauensverluste in die Arbeit von Medien, Politik und anderer gesellschaftliche Teilbereiche) führen. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden im vorliegenden Themenband grundlegende Aspekte der Thematik sowie aktuelle Studien und Sichtaufweisen auf die Thematik aus kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Perspektive vorgestellt. Der Band setzt seinen Schwerpunkt auf die bisher in der Forschung eher wenig beachteten Effekte von Skandalberichterstattung sowie deren Gründe und Genese.