New Book on New Capitalism

Check out this interesting compilation:

http://www.infoagepub.com/index.php?id=9&p=p488dd42f6f793

Doing Well and Good
The Human Face of the New Capitalism
Edited by:Julian Friedland, University of Colorado at DenverA volume in the series: Ethics in Practice. Series Editor(s): Robert A. Giacalone, Temple University and Carole L. Jurkiewicz, Louisiana State University In Press 2009

Ethical business creates social value. That’s the theme of this bold new volume, heralding and defending this rapidly-growing new conception of capitalism making its way into the mainstream. It provides clear and succinct guidelines for how to evaluate what counts as an ethical business as well as how and why ethical businesses tend to succeed better over the long term. The book is jargon-free and targeted primarily at thought leaders and academics in business and philosophy who will want to use it in their business ethics classes. Each chapter has been selected for its ability to engage a wide audience without oversimplifying the content.All twelve chapters are original and authored by leading business ethicists including William Shaw, Tony Simons, Duane Windsor, and Mark Schwartz. Each piece makes use of recent empirical evidence or ethical theory (or both) in order to present a detailed yet overarching picture of what ethical business looks like--and how to achieve it--in today’s global environment. It is thus divided into three subsections:1. The Role of Corporate Culture2. A New For-Profit Paradigm3. Making the Change Happen: Voluntary and Regulatory ExamplesPerhaps the book’s greatest strength is its blending of cutting-edge philosophy, psychology, and management theory into a cohesive, provocative, and accessible format. Hence, it promises to launch a wide discussion of what exactly we should expect the moral duty of business to be.

TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroduction: Ushering in the New Capitalism, Julian Friedland.
PART I: THE ROLE OF CORPORATE CULTURE. Getting Business Off Steroids, Maximilian B. Torres. Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect Consumer Behavior? Larry Howard. Facing the Stakeholder Trust Gap, Michael Pirson.
PART II: A NEW FOR-PROFIT PARADIGM. Being Serious About Being Good, Eugene Heath. Transforming the Ethical Culture of Organizations, Steve May. Beyond the Invisible Hand, William H. Shaw. Beyond The Bottom Line: A Shifting Paradigm for Business? Mark S. Schwartz.
PART III: MAKING THE CHANGE HAPPEN: VOLUNTARY AND REGULATORY EXAMPLES. The Integrity Dividend and “Doing Good”, Tony Simons. Determining a Job Candidate’s Ethics Profile: Integrity, Personality, and Moral Reasoning Level Tests, Denis Collins. Multinational Corporations and Basic Health Services, Duane Windsor. Legislative Excess or Regulatory Brilliance? Corporate Governance After Sarbanes-Oxley, Gwendolyn Yvonne Alexis.

in the news

Hi There,

Check out a Cranfield School of Management discussion with Heiko Spitzeck:

A fresh perspective from Heiko Spitzeck and an international team of academics and practitioners challenges current business orthodoxy. It offers an authoritative basis for a new wave of business: it investigates the possibility of creating a human-centred, value-oriented society from humanistic principles
Published: 26 February 2009
ISBN:978-0521727624 - Purchase from Amazon

Best,
Michaell

Late but interesting insight.. Jack Welch

Look at this:
Jack Welch, a protagonist of Shareholder value maximization, now calls it the dumbest idea in the world..

Read the Financial Times interview:

http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto031220091430053057

Enjoy!

Michael

Humanism in Business- Book Out at Cambridge University Press

Hi Everybody,

In March our first volume on Humanism in Business will finally appear at Cambridge University Press.

Have a look! There is a cheaper paperback version available.

All the best,
Michael


http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521727624


http://www.amazon.com/Humanism-Business-Heiko-Spitzeck/dp/0521727626/ref=ed_oe_p