Ethics in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Global overviews

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Introduction: Global Perspectives on Ethics in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

      • Laura J. Spence, Mollie Painter-Morland

      Pages 1-9

   3. Africa: Ethics and Sustainability Within SMEs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Enabling, Constraining and Contaminating Relationships

      • Mollie Painter-Morland, Kris Dobie

      Pages 13-34

   4. Europe: Practice and Politics: Ethics and Social Responsibility in SMEs in the European Union

      • Laura J. Spence, Francesco Perrini

      Pages 35-54

   5. India: CSR and Ethics in MSMEs in India

      • Vasanthi Srinivasan

      Pages 55-63

   6. Latin America: Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility in Latin American Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: Challenging Development

      • Maria Cecilia Coutinho de Arruda

      Pages 65-83

   7. New Zealand & Australia: A New Zealand and Australian Overview of Ethics and Sustainability in SMEs

      • Eva Collins, Carolyn Dickie, Paull Weber

      Pages 85-97

   8. USA: An Overview of Empirical Research on Ethics in Entrepreneurial Firms Within the United States

      • Melissa S. Baucus, Philip L. Cochran

      Pages 99-119

3. Individual research : THEORY DEVELOPMENT

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Entrepreneurial Social Responsibility: Scoping the Territory

      • Richard K. Blundel, Laura J. Spence, Stefania Zerbinati

      Pages 123-145

   3. A Comprehensive Model for SMEs: Measuring the Dynamic Interplay of Morality, Environment and Management Systems – Towards Continuous Improvement

      • Jörg Bürgi

      Pages 147-171

   4. CSR and SMEs in Portugal: The Strategy of Obligation

      • Maria João Santos

      Pages 173-190

4. Individual research : EMPIRICAL RESEARCH

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191

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   2. In Search of Sustainability? SMEs in Brittany, France

      • Sarah Hudson, Julia Roloff

      Pages 193-214

   3. Corporate Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Relations – The Perspective of German Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

      • Simone Klein, Kristin Vorbohle

      Pages 215-225

   4. The Alignment Between Social Responsibility and Business Strategy: Implications for Social Responsibility Value Creation in Spanish SMEs

      • Cristina Iturrioz, Cristina Aragón, Lorea Narvaiza, Asunción Ibañez

      Pages 227-253

   5. Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Practice in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: Sampling from Thailand and Hong Kong

      • David Bevan, Robert Annop Wynne

      Pages 255-274

5. Individual research: CASE EXAMPLES

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 275-275

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   2. Fostering Corporate Social Responsibility in Small and Medium Size Enterprises. Recent Experiences in The Netherlands

      • Henk van Luijk, Lobke Vlaming

      Pages 277-289

This book is the first of its kind – a global overview of extant research on ethics in small and medium sized enterprises. While vast amounts of corporate money, government policy and media time are directed at the social and ethical activities of large corporations, small businesses don’t generally attract the spotlight. This is wildly inappropriate, however, since upward of 90% of private businesses are small or medium sized. This book goes some way to helping us understand the social and ethical contribution of this majority organizational form. The first section of the book is a global round-up of research on ethics in small and medium sized enterprises from major regions of the world. In the second section smaller scale research projects from a variety of countries present both empirical and theoretical advances in the area. Anyone with an interest in ethics and small and medium sized enterprises should find this an inspiring book which paves the way for future research.

• Business Ethics
• CSR
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Entrepreneurship
• Ethics
• Private Businesses
• Responsible entreprenership
• Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
• Small and Medium sized businesses
• Social and ethical activities

• University of London, School of Management, Royal Holloway, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom

  Laura Spence

• Dept. Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, USA

  Mollie Painter-Morland

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