Business & Society: Ethics, Sustainability & Stakeholder Management / Edition 10

by Archie B. Carroll, Jill Brown, Ann K. Buchholtz

Overview

Gain a strong understanding of the importance of business ethics, sustainability, and stakeholder management from a strong managerial perspective with Carroll, Brown and Buchholtz s BUSINESS AND SOCIETY: ETHICS, SUSTAINABILITY, AND STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT, 10E. You will discover, first-hand, how today s most successful business decision makers both balance and protect the interests of various stakeholders, including investors, employees, consumers, the community, and the environment. You learn how strong business decisions making skills are particularly critical as businesses recover from a perilous financial period. You also examine the social, legal, political, and ethical responsibilities of a business to all external and internal groups that have a stake, or interest, in that business. In addition, BUSINESS AND SOCIETY: ETHICS, SUSTAINABILITY, AND STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT, 10E is available with MindTap, an integrated text and online learning solution that enhances understanding of course content and offers opportunities to extend learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781305959828
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	01/31/2017
Series:	MindTap Course List
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	720
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Dr. Archie B. Carroll is the Robert W. Scherer Chair of Management and Corporate Public Affairs, emeritus, and professor of management emeritus in the Terry College of Business, University of Georgia. He also served as part-time director of the Nonprofit Management and Community Service Program in the Terry College. Dr. Carroll received his undergraduate, master's and doctorate degrees from the Florida State University in Tallahassee. He is the co-author of CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY: THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE (Cambridge University Press, 2012), which won the Academy of Management, Social Issues in Management (SIM), Book of the Year in 2014. He was recognized in 2012 with the first Lifetime Achievement Award in Corporate Social Responsibility given by the Institute of Management, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Dr. Carroll has published numerous books, chapters, articles and encyclopedia entries. His research has appeared in numerous professional journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Business and Society, Journal of Management, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Business Ethics: A European Review. He has served on the editorial review boards of Business and Society, Business Ethics Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management and the Journal of Public Affairs. Professionally, he is former division chair of the Social Issues in Management (SIM) Division of the Academy of Management, a founding board member and fellow of the International Association for Business and Society (IABS) and past president of the Society for Business Ethics. He was elected fellow of the Southern Management Association in 1995 and fellow of the Academy of Management in 2005.


Dr. Jill Brown is the Hieken Professor of Business Ethics and professor of management at Bentley University. She also serves as a faculty fellow for Bentley s Hoffman Center for Business Ethics. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Georgia. Dr. Brown's research and teaching interests include ethics, corporate social responsibility, corporate governance and strategic leadership — with a focus on understanding how businesses can create both financial and social value. Dr. Brown s work has been published in the Journal of Business Ethics, Business & Society, Organization Science, Business Ethics Quarterly, the Journal of Management Studies, the Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility, Strategic Organization and Corporate Governance: An International Review. She serves as co-editor of the Business & Society journal, which is a journal dedicated to examining social issues at the intersection of business and society. Dr. Brown served for several years as section editor of the "Teaching Business Ethics" section of the Journal of Business Ethics. She is currently an associate editor for Corporate Governance: An International Review and serves on the editorial review board of Business and Society. Dr. Brown has served in many leadership capacities for the SIM (Social Issues in Management) Division at the Academy of Management, including program chair and division chair. During her term as division chair, she established several new committees to address contemporary issues, including the SIM Racial Justice and Communications Committees. She is a former representative-at-large of the International Association of Business and Society (IABS), an international organization committed to understanding relationships between business, government and society.


The late Dr. Ann K. Buchholtz was professor of leadership and ethics and research director of the Institute for Ethical Leadership in the Rutgers Business School at Rutgers University. She received her Ph.D. from the Stern School of Business at New York University. Dr. Buchholtz's research focused on the social and ethical implications of corporate governance, in particular, and the relationship of business and society, in general. Her work has appeared in Business and Society, Business Ethics Quarterly, the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Management, Organization Science, the Journal of Management Studies and Corporate Governance and International Review. She served on the editorial boards of Business and Society and Business Ethics Quarterly. Her teaching and consulting activities focused on business ethics, social issues, strategic leadership and corporate governance. Her service learning activities in the classroom received a Trailblazer Advocate of the Year award from the Domestic Violence Council of Northeast Georgia. She was also the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including Profound Effect on a Student Leader. In addition, she was named senior teaching fellow at the University of Georgia. Dr. Buchholtz served as division chair of the social issues in the management division of the Academy of Management. She also served on the board of governors of the Academy of Management and the ethics task force that designed a code of ethics for the Academy. She became the inaugural chairperson of the Academy's Ethics Adjudication Committee when the code was put into effect. In 2015, she received the Sumner Marcus Award from the SIM Division of the Academy of Management.

Table of Contents

Part I: BUSINESS, SOCIETY, AND STAKEHOLDERS. 1. The Business and Society Relationship. 2. Corporate Social Responsibility, Citizenship, and Sustainability. 3. The Stakeholder Approach to Business, Society, and Ethics. Part II: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ISSUES. 4. Corporate Governance: Foundational Issues. 5. Strategic Management and Corporate Public Affairs. 6. Risk, Issue, and Crisis Management. Part III: BUSINESS ETHICS AND LEADERSHIP 7. Business Ethics Essentials 8. Managerial and Organizational Ethics. 9. Business Ethics and Technology. 10. Ethical Issues in the Global Arena. Part IV: EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDER ISSUES. 11. Business, Government, and Regulation. 12. Business Influence on Government and Public Policy. 13. Consumer Stakeholders: Information Issues 14. Consumer Stakeholders: Product and Service Issues. 15. Sustainability and the Natural Environment. 16. Business and Community Stakeholders. Part V: INTERNAL STAKEHOLDER ISSUES. 17. Employee Stakeholders and Workplace Issues. 18. Employee Stakeholders: Privacy, Safety, and Health. 19. Employment Discrimination and Workplace Diversity Cases.