Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Why Giants Fall

Subjects:

• Business » Business Ethics
• Business » Management
• Business » Organizational Behavior

Reviews:

• Sims believes that ethics in business can be restored by establishing a culture of doing the right thing, creating a climate for whistle-blowing, providing a forum for dialogue and good moral conversation, getting leadership commitment, recognizing unethical behavior, and institutionalizing good ethical behavior....Sims's book is well referenced with occasional tables showing corporate time lines, theories, and stakeholders. Recommended. Business professors, undergraduate and graduate students, and practitioners.
  —Choice March 2004
• Seeking to enhance our understanding of the causes of ethical debacles in an era when such missteps can often lead to corporate bankruptcies or worse, the author offers practical solutions for mitigating damage and preventing such problems from happening in the first place.
  —Business Horizons September/October 2004

Table of Contents:

• Ethical Business Missteps: The Former and Current State of Affairs
• The Nature of Business and Managerial Ethics
• Understanding Corporate Citizenship: Social Responsibility, Responsiveness, and Performance
• A Stakeholder Approach to Socially Responsible and Ethical Behavior
• Why Unethical Behavior Occurs in Organizations
• Unethical Behavior in Action: Beech-Nut, E.F. Hutton and the Case of John Gutfreund at Salomon Brothers
• Enron: How Failure of Leadership, Culture and Unethical Behavior Brought a Giant To Its Knees
• Making Sense of Stakeholder' Culpability in the Enron Demise
• Ethical Turnaround in Action: Warren Buffett at Salomon Brothers
• Institutionalizing Ethics: A Proactive Approach to Countering Unethical Behavior
• Developing and Maintaining Ethical Employee-Employer Relationships
• Restoring Ethics Consciousness to the Workplace