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ONE Newsletter - New publications: books and edited volumes

  • 1.  ONE Newsletter - New publications: books and edited volumes

    Posted 02-16-2021 09:31

    New Publications By ONE Members

    Congratulations to all ONE members that recently published books or edited volumes!

     

     

    Books and edited volumes

     

    Managing Business Ethics: Making Ethical Decisions

    Alfred A. Marcus & Timothy J. Hargrave

    SAGE

    Making Ethical Decisions teaches students how to navigate ethical issues they will encounter using the weight-of-reasons approach applied throughout the book. This decision-making framework’s goal is not to faithfully apply particular philosophical perspectives on what is right, but rather to solve ethical problems. The authors underscore the need for employees at all levels to carefully consider the ethical implications of their actions using this approach and it can be applied at the individual, organizational, and stakeholder levels. Chapters provide a case to walk through application of the framework and mini-cases allow students to practice applying this framework on their own. A wide range of real-world case studies are presented, featuring companies such as Facebook, Google, Wells Fargo, Volkswagen, and Amazon.

     

    See here for details: https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/managing-business-ethics/book258129

     

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    Management as a Calling: Leading Business, Serving Society

    Andrew J. Hoffman

    Stanford University Press

    Business leaders have tremendous power to influence our society, how it operates, whether it is fair, and the extent to which it impacts the environment. And yet, we do not recognize or call out the responsibility that comes with that power. This book is meant to challenge future business leaders to think differently about their career, its purpose, and its value as a calling or vocation, one that is in service to society. Its message is for current and prospective business students, business leaders thinking anew about the role of business in society, and the business educators that train all these people.

     

    See here for details: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33255

     

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    The Engaged Scholar: Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today’s World

    Andrew J. Hoffman

    Stanford University Press

    Society and democracy are ever threatened by the fall of fact. Rigorous analysis of facts, the hard boundary between truth and opinion, and fidelity to reputable sources of factual information are all in alarming decline. A 2018 report published by the RAND Corporation labeled this problem "truth decay" and Andrew J. Hoffman lays the challenge of fixing it at the door of the academy. But, as he points out, academia is prevented from carrying this out due to its own existential crisis—a crisis of relevance. Scholarship rarely moves very far beyond the walls of the academy and is certainly not accessing the primarily civic spaces it needs to reach in order to mitigate truth corruption. In this brief but compelling book, Hoffman draws upon existing literature and personal experience to bring attention to the problem of academic insularity—where it comes from and where, if left to grow unchecked, it will go—and argues for the emergence of a more publicly and politically engaged scholar. This book is a call to make that path toward public engagement more acceptable and legitimate for those who do it; to enlarge the tent to be inclusive of multiple ways that one enacts the role of academic scholar in today's world.

     

    See here for details: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33037

     

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    Transforming Towards Life-Centered Economics: How Business, Government, and Civil Society Can Build A Better World

    Sandra Waddock

    Business Expert Press

    Transforming Towards Life orients change agents, policy makers, activists, business leaders, ecologists, economists, and thoughtful people everywhere to the values and practices needed to build a world where all can flourish, where ‘all’ includes all humanity and all of life’s beings. It provides an in-depth understanding of what it will take, especially in the wake of the global Covid-19 pandemic and the burgeoning climate emergency, to transform today’s growth-and profit-oriented socio-economic systems to life-affirming ways benefit all rather than just an elite few. Business and other institutions need to create collective value, that is, value for all, and change the mindsets of people engaged with them so that they in turn can generate new performance metrics, practices, and power relationships that enable people everywhere to find their voice and their capacity to participate actively in bringing about a flourishing world. The book concludes with thoughts about how each one of us can do our bit to bring about this necessary transformation.

     

    See here for details: https://www.businessexpertpress.com/books/transforming-towards-life-centered-economics-how-business-government-and-civil-society-can-build-a-better-world/

     

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    Management and the Sustainability Paradox: Reconnecting the Human Chain

    David Wasieleski, Sandra Waddock, and Paul Shrivastava. Routledge

    Management and the Sustainability Paradox is about how humans became disconnected from their ecological environment throughout evolutionary history. Begining with the premise that people have competing innate, natural drives linked to survival. Survival can be thought of in the context of long-term genetic propagation of a species, but at the same time, it involves overcoming of immediate adversities. Due to a diverse set of survival challenges facing our ancestors, natural selection often favored short-term solutions, which by consequence, muted the motivations associated with longer-range sustainability values. This book is intended for a broad appeal to an academic and policy maker audience in the sustainability and management fields. The book will be of vital reading for managers seeking to reconnect our human chain with the natural environment in the cause of sustainable business.

     

    See here for details: https://www.routledge.com/Management-and-the-Sustainability-Paradox-Reconnecting-the-Human-Chain/Wasieleski-Waddock-Shrivastava/p/book/9781138204782

     

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    Lead for the Planet: Five Practices for Confronting Climate Change

    Rae André

    University of Toronto Press

    With melting ice caps in the Arctic causing catastrophic environmental issues, it’s hard to believe that we’ve had to spend so much time convincing each other that climate change is real. Lead for the Planet shifts the focus to how we, the members of Team Humanity, are going to organize to solve the twin issues of climate change and energy evolution. The book channels a broad range of social science perspectives, from anthropology to psychology to economics, to help decision-makers explore how Team Humanity can get this thing done. Lead for the Planet outlines five practices that successful climate leaders will need to adopt, from getting the truth about the state of the planet, to assessing the risks and identifying the interests of key stakeholders, to implementing change within and between organizations and sectors on a global scale. Building on her experience as an organizational psychologist, Rae André shows how these practices comprise an effective model for climate leadership. Lead for the Planet is a guide for the kind of leadership that is necessary to help us all avoid the worst of global warming and to create a clean energy future for the generations to come.

     

    See here for details: https://utorontopress.com/us/lead-for-the-planet-2

     



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