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Christian Ethics and Corporate Culture

A Critical View on Corporate Responsibilities

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Bartholomew Okonkwo

    1. Catholic Studies, St. Bonaventure's Center for Catholic Studies, Onitsha-ana, Nigeria

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  • Impassioned consideration of what businesses should be responsible for and why
  • Offers a distinctly Christian perspective on the role of businesses
  • Aligns an entrepreneurial view with a Christian ethical framework

Part of the book series: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance (CSEG)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Shaping the Conscience of a Corporation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Business in Society: Can Companies Save the World?

      • Heribert Schmitz
      Pages 3-8

    3. Setting Up the Dialogue Between CST and CSR: The Challenge of Clashing Theories

      • Stefano Zamagni
      Pages 9-21

    4. The Social Vocation of the Firm

      • Giuseppe Argiolas
      Pages 23-44

    5. Nonprofit and Business Sector Collaboration: Towards a New Strategic Approach

      • Laura Michelini
      Pages 45-65

  3. Clarifying the Common Good

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. The Common Good and Social-Competitive Creativity

      • Mario Molteni
      Pages 69-79

    3. Maximizing the Shareholder Value

      • Robert Miller
      Pages 81-99

    4. Doing Well by Doing Good: Distinguishing the Right from the Good in Theories of Corporate Social Responsibility

      • Joseph R. DesJardins
      Pages 101-111

  4. Taking Aspiration into Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. Moral Intuition and Transformative Organizations

      • Gina Vega, S. M. Patrick Primeaux
      Pages 115-129

    3. The Posture of Services

      • John Larrivee, D. Kirk Davidson
      Pages 131-148

    4. When Being a Good Company Isn’t Good Enough: The Malden Mills Case

      • Al Gini, Alexei M. Marcoux
      Pages 149-154

    5. What of Financialisation?

      • GianDemetrio Marangoni, Stefano Solari
      Pages 155-165

    6. Accounting for Just Wages: A Proposal

      • Timothy A. Mahoney
      Pages 167-175

    7. The Framework for CSR Assessment, Measurement, and Reporting

      • Dan W. Hess
      Pages 177-192

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 193-194
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About this book

The essays collected in this book discuss the contemporary practice of corporate responsibility by applying the Christian principles of the unity of knowledge and pursuit of truth to the traditional principles of justice, human dignity and the common good, to rediscover a corporate culture that will help transform our economic system and the characteristics required to build an enduring trust in economic relationships. In this volume a select group of management theorists, theologians, legal scholars, economists and ethicists jointly strive ​to give back to the market economy its ethical and political dimensions. They assess the quality of present day corporate social responsibility, discuss the social and environmental costs of production and argue for an agenda that can be used in modern corporations in their effort to align profitability and growth with business ethics. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Catholic Studies, St. Bonaventure's Center for Catholic Studies, Onitsha-ana, Nigeria

    Bartholomew Okonkwo

About the editor

Bartholomew C. Okonkwo is the research director of St. Bonaventure's Center for Catholic Studies in Osha, Nigeria. He is an Analyst and prolific writer of multifarious interests covering politics, religion and human relations. Among his other books are "The Mystery of Human Personhood" and "Finding Meaning in Business: Theology, Ethics, and Vocation".

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