Ethics and corporate social responsibility : why giants fall / Ronald R. Sims.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Sims, Ronald R.

Contributor:

• Charles R. Anderson Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Business ethics.
• Social responsibility of business.

Physical Description:

vi, 318 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

Contents:

• Chapter 1 Ethical Business Missteps: The Former and Current State of Affairs 1
• Chapter 2 The Nature of Business and Managerial Ethics 11
• Chapter 3 Understanding Corporate Citizenship: Social Responsibility, Responsiveness, and Performance 39
• Chapter 4 A Stakeholder Approach to Socially Responsible and Ethical Behavior 71
• Chapter 5 Why Unethical Behavior Occurs in Organizations 95
• Chapter 6 Unethical Behavior in Action: Beech-Nut, E. F. Hutton, and the Case of John Gutfreund at Salomon Brothers 125
• Chapter 7 Enron: How a Failure of Leadership, Culture, and Unethical Behavior Brought a Giant to Its Knees 147
• Chapter 8 Making Sense of Stakeholder Culpability in the Enron Demise 181
• Chapter 9 Ethical Turnaround in Action: Warren Buffett at Salomon Brothers 211
• Chapter 10 Institutionalizing Ethics: A Proactive Approach to Countering Unethical Behavior 241
• Chapter 11 Developing and Maintaining Ethical Employee-Employer Relationships 271
• Chapter 12 Restoring Ethics Consciousness to the Workplace 299.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles R. Anderson Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

0275980391

OCLC:

52203237

Online:

The Charles R. Anderson Endowment Fund Home Page