Quakers, Business and Corporate Responsibility (eBook, PDF)

Lessons and Cases for Responsible Management
Redaktion: Burton, Nicholas; Turnbull, Richard

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a historical perspective on Quaker businesses for contemporary responsible business debates

Provides a unique account of how spiritual concerns influence leadership and management

Includes cases and best practices from the banking and finance, transport and consumer-goods industries

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 185
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030040345
• Artikelnr.: 54889524

Autorenporträt

Dr Nicholas Burton is a senior lecturer in Strategic Management & Corporate Responsibility at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK. Nicholas holds a PhD from Northumbria University and an MBA from Southampton University. Nicholas, a Quaker, publishes in the area of spirituality in management & law, convenes the research group at Quakers & Business, a recognised group of Quakers in Britain, and is an Associate Editor for the Academy of Management, management, spirituality and religion group. Richard is a director of the renowned Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics, based in Oxford, UK. Richard has a wide range of experience in business, the church and public life. He holds a degree in Theology and PhD in Theology from the University of Durham. Richard has authored several books including an acclaimed biography of the social reformer, Lord Shaftesbury, is a member of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The spirit of Quaker responsible business.- Chapter 1: Transforming contemporary Businesses:the Impact of Quaker principles and insights on business in a volatile world.- Chapter 2: Towards a set of Quaker business values.- Chapter 3: Cadbury's ethics and the spirit of Corporate Social Responsibility.- Part 2: An uneasy relationship with the State.- Chapter 4: Quaker Employer Conference of 1918.- Chapter 5: Honey I shrunk the state.- Chapter 6: Quakers, free trade and social responsibility.- Chapter 7: The Quakers and the joint stock company: uneasy bedfellows.- Part 3: Complicated Quakers.- Chapter 8: Thomas Jefferson's complicated Friends.- Chapter 9: John Bellers (1654-1725)-A veritable phenomenon in the history of political economy'.

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