Corporate Social Entrepreneurship

Integrity Within
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-107-00720-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 271 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 552 g

Reihe: Business, Value Creation, and Society

Business ethics teaching appears to have had little impact, particularly in the light of continued malpractice and misdemeanour in the form of financial scandals, environmental disasters and adverse consequences for communities. This timely book directly addresses a central question: is it that the existence of an ethical or an unethical climate influences behaviour, or, does the presence or absence of a moral character and personal values have the greatest influence on behaviour at work? Drawing on an empirically derived study and over thirty years of experience in both the public and private sectors, Hemingway proposes four modes of individual moral commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability: the Active Corporate Social Entrepreneur, the Concealed Corporate Social Entrepreneur, the Conformist and the Disassociated. The discovery of the corporate social entrepreneur offers students and scholars a critical, alternative and optimistic perspective for the future of ethical business.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hemingway, Christine

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wirtschaftsethik, Unternehmensethik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Jeremy Moon; Preface; Introducing corporate social responsibility; Part I. Values and Corporate Social Responsibility: 1. Structural drivers of corporate social responsibility; 2. Agential drivers of corporate social responsibility; 3. Moral agency and discretion: duty or disengagement?; Part II. Personal Values and Corporate Social Entrepreneurship: 4. The relationship between personal values and behaviour; 5. The corporate social entrepreneur; 6. Integrity and the moral character; Part III. Modes of Moral Commitment to CSR: 7. Investigating corporate social entrepreneurship; 8. The active corporate social entrepreneur; 9. The concealed corporate social entrepreneur; 10. The conformist; 11. The disassociated; Part IV. Developing a Socially Responsible Organisational Culture: 12. Conclusion: ad-hoc CSR cannot be sustainable; 13. Leveraging integrity within: some brief, practical steps; Appendix: Rokeach Values Survey; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Hemingway, Christine
Christine A. Hemingway is an ex-corporate executive turned academic, having spent over a decade in blue-chip industrial management, followed by 14 years as an academic. She has over 30 years' experience working in public and private sector organisations. Currently, she is Visiting Fellow at the Nottingham University Business School (UK). Prior to this, she was a Brand Manager in a wide range of different industries, predominantly in fast moving consumer goods, and latterly was European Marketing Manager with Allied Domecq. She has taught social entrepreneurship at the University of Nottingham and strategic management and marketing at the University of Hull. Her research interests are in the psychological drivers of corporate social responsibility (CSR): business ethics, as well as management and organisational behaviour. Her research centres on moral psychology and social responsibility as a subjective state.