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Ethics, Governance and Sustainability - Study Guide

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Topic 2 Retrospective, Perspective and Prospective

Topic 01 Reading 1 Toward a theory of stakeholder identification and salience Defining the principle of who and what really counts

Topic 01 Reading 2 Shifting paradigms for sustainable development implications for management theory and research - Gladwin Thomas N

Topic 01 Reading 3 The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits - Friedman, Milton, 2007

Topic 02 Reading 1 The CEO of Duke Energy on learning to work with green activists - Rogers, James, 2011

Topic 02 Reading 1 Timberland's CEO on standing up to 65,000 angry activists - Swartz, Jeff, 2011

Topic 02 Reading 2 Runaway capitalism - Meyer, Christopher 2012

Topic 02 Reading 3 The trouble with GDP

Topic 03 Reading 1 Promoting corporate social responsibility and sustainable development through management development..... - Pless, Nicola M, 2012.pdf

Topic 03 Reading 2 Ethical breakdowns - Brazerman, Max H, 2011

Topic 03 Reading 3 Building an ethical organization - Johnson, Craig E, 2012

Topic 04 Reading 1 The unselfish gene - Benkler, Yochai, 2011

Topic 04 Reading 2 Embedding sustainability across the organization a critical perspective - Banerjee, Subhabrata Bobby, 2011

Topic 04 Reading 3 How great companies think differently - Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, 2011.pdf

Topic 05 Reading 1 Shifting paradigms in corporate environmentalism from poachers to gamekeepers - Sandhu, Sukhbir ,2010

Topic 05 Reading 2 Creating shared value - Porter, Michael E, 2011

Topic 06 Reading 1 The performance frontier innovating for a sustainable strategy - Eccles, Robert G, 2013

Topic 05 Reading 3 The truth about CSR - Rangan, Kasturi, 2015

Topic 06 Reading 3 Beyond greening strategies for a sustainable world - Hart, Stuart L, 2007

Topic 07 Reading 1 Corporate environmental responsiveness in India lessons from a developing country - Sandhu, Sukhbir, 2012

Topic 06 Reading 2 Green rules to drive innovation - Esty, Daniel C, 2012

Topic 07 Reading 2 Planetary boundaries implications for asset impairment - Linnenluecke, Martina K, 2015

Topic 07 Reading 3 Creating economic and environmental value through industrial symbiosis - Paquin, Raymond L ,2015

Topic 08 Reading 1 Resilience in a hotter world - Winston, Andrew, 2014

Topic 08 Reading 2 The collaboration imperative - Nidumolu, Ram, 2014.pdf

Topic 08 Reading 3 How to survive climate change and still run a thriving business - Lowitt, Eric, 2014

Topic 10 Reading 2 The boardroom's quiet revolution - Parsons, Richard D, 2014

Topic 10 Reading 3 Environmental governance - Baron, David P, 2012

Topic 09 Reading 2 Models of corporate governance - Tricker, R. Ian, 2009

xCase Study 2 BATM - A grim contradiction.... - Barraclough, Simon, 2008.

Topic 09 Reading 1 The case for professional boards - Pozen, Robert C, 2010

xCase Study 3 ENRON - I didn't know and I was only doing my job.... Cohan, John Alan, 2002

Case Study 4 Interface Global - Sustainability at work the interface example [extract] - Doppelt, Bob, 2003

xCase Study 4 Interface Global - Natural advantage a business imperative - Hargroves, Karlson, 2005

xChan - Theories of ethics and social responsibility Asian and Western perspectives [extract] - Chan, Kok Yew Gary, 2011

xFroom Stakeholder influence strategies - Frooman, Jeff, 1999

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EGS: Introduction
EGS: Introduction to Topics 1 & 2
Topic 1: Business in society (a): The nature of the firm: The Shareholder vs Stakeholder approach
- Topic 1 Readings
Topic 2: Business in society (B): The nature of the firm: The Triple Bottom-Line approach and Corporate Social Responsibility
- Topic 2 Readings
EGS: Introduction to Topics 3 & 4
Topic 3: Ethics and justice (a) - ethics
- Topic 3 Readings
Topic 4: Ethics and justice (b) - justice
- Topic 4 Readings
EGS: Introduction to Topics 5, 6, 7 & 8
Topic 5: Sustainable business (a) - Social and ecological challenges and what it means for there to be a sustainable world
- Topic 5 Readings
Topic 6: Sustainable business (b): Sustainable business and sustainable business strategy
- Topic 6 Readings
Topic 7: Sustainable business (c): The compliance approach and the efficiency approach to sustainable business.
- Topic 7 Readings
Topic 8: Sustainable business (d): The strategic proactivity approach and the sustaining corporation approach to sustainable business.
- Topic 8 Readings
EGS: Introduction to Topics 9 & 10
Topic 9: Governance (A): Governance models
- Topic 9 Readings
Topic 10: Governance (B): Some dimensions of governance: SMEs, NGOs, Board composition and gender.
- Topic 10 Readings
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