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1 online resource (xiv, 380 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Series |
Business, value creation, and society
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Business, value creation, and society.
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| Summary |
This book argues that managers must be stewards of workplace objects, from coffee to nitrogen oxides, to run sustainable and responsible businesses. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The singularization of everything -- Singularization schema -- The power of negative thinking -- Three failures in regulated markets -- Person, place, and product -- Ecological value -- Putting responsibility to work -- Materiality for business ethics -- Endnotes -- Index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Increasingly, conscientious consumers and green marketers are recognizing that material things, not firms, must be made responsible. Even so, many scholars in ethics, sustainability, and governance focus on people and organizations, ignoring the flows of things. In this book, Ryan Burg argues that material things are fundamental features of moral life, serving as both valuable instruments and guides for responsibility. Unless care is taken for these non-living entities, living things cannot be protected. Viewing the global economy as a network of material transfers, Burg argues that to facilitate object care, professionals must act as stewards. By tracing the origins and disposal of workplace objects through this material network, businesses and employees can discover the outcomes for which they are responsible, and managers can align ethics, sustainability and governance with a truly global formulation of responsibility. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sustainable development -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Sustainable development -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Sustainable development. |
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Business ethics.
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Business ethics. |
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Material culture.
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material culture (discipline) |
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Material culture. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Burg, Ryan. Business ethics for a material world. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018 1107183014 9781107183018 (DLC) 2017024709 (OCoLC)981115630 |
| ISBN |
9781316874691 (electronic book) |
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1316874699 (electronic book) |
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9781316869147 (electronic book) |
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1316869148 (electronic book) |
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9781316874066 (electronic book) |
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1316874060 (electronic book) |
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9781107183018 |
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1107183014 |
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9781316634004 (paperback) |
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