How beneficial are benefit corporations?

To date, there have been few empirical studies of the social performance of this new type of business, writes Daryl Koeh

Business Ethics: A Chinese Approach

This book written by Xiaohe Lu and edited by Daryl Koehn explores the discipline of business ethics from a Chinese perspective. It examines ways in which the Chinese approach resembles and is distinctively different from Western approaches

FUDA-SASS International Forum: Business, Ethics and Society Lectures

This book (in both Mandarin and English) examines Chinese private firms’ attitudes towards social responsibilities and the philosophical, moral foundations of globalization. It provides both theoretical and practical perspectives from practitioners as well as academics

El mal en el mundo de los negocios

Los teóricos de la ética que estudian la empresa y las organizaciones generalmente atribuyen la maldad y la crueldad de los hombres de empresa bien a un fracaso del razonamiento moral o a una completa falta de imaginación empática. En este artículo se estudia el mal en el ámbito de la empresa, y se indaga sobre la posibilidad de que éste asuma en ocasiones una forma más activa y creativa. Concretamente, el mal suele identificarse con figuraciones imaginativas que tienen los siguientes efectos: 1) absolver al agente imaginario de cualquier responsabilidad; 2) evitar que se someta a un autoexamen; y 3) reforzar su sensación de que está actuando éticamente y, por lo tanto, de que no necesita cambiar su comportamiento. A la larga, estos tres efectos contribuirán a aumentar la inconsciencia del individuo. No obstante, esta inconsciencia es más un resultado del mal que algo idéntico a él

Relationships Between Director Profile And Restatements Of Suspect Earnings

The large number of recent earnings restatements suggests that boards have not been discharging their fiduciary duties very well. This paper examines which director traits, if any, are correlated with the need to restate suspect earnings. We find that the only significant aspect of director profile is director independence: boards with a larger percentage of outside directors are less likely to have restated suspect earnings that boards with a lesser percentage. The paper concludes with some thoughts on why current research practice of focusing on formal corporate governance (board composition, board traits, etc.) needs to be supplemented with research into power dynamics

Revitalizing Snow Brand Milk

This case study explores the food poisoning crisis at Snow Brand Milk, one of Japan\u27s largest dairy companies. It examines in particular how the firm successfully revitalized itself and saved the brand

Architecture as Place Making: a Sustainable Farmstead and Staff Housing

A growing number of architects are becoming aware of the necessity to design with respect and response to the natural ecosystem. The advent of environmental criteria in architecture is part of a burgeoning realization that industrial societies are not environmentally sustainable..

On the relational dynamics of caring: a psychotherapeutic approach to emotional and power dimensions of women’s care work

Care is double-edged and paradoxical, inspiring a vast range of strong feelings in both care-givers and care-recipients. This paper draws on ideas about psychotherapeutic relationships to offer a theorisation of the complex emotional and power dynamics and imaginative geographies of care. Examining the humanistic approach developed by Carl Rogers as well as the psychoanalytic tradition, I advance an interpretation of psychotherapeutic practices that foregrounds the fundamental importance of the emotional and power-inflected relationship between practitioners and those with whom they work. I show how different traditions offer conceptualisations of the shape of therapeutic relationships that are highly relevant to consideration of the emotional and power dynamics of giving and receiving care. Against this background I discuss current debates about care, emotions and power, drawing especially on feminist and disability perspectives and arguing that psychotherapeutic approaches offer a powerful lens through which to understand the emotional and power dynamics of caring relationships. I conclude by emphasising how this theorisation helps to illuminate ubiquitous features of women’s care work

Students lost in a flattened world: How resources from the Catholic tradition can help business students find their way

Academically Adrift, the recent study of undergraduate performance, has revealed that college students are learning little, if anything, over the course of their four years at university. This article suggests that students are academically adrift, in part, because Americans are culturally marooned between two ways to pursue happiness, neither of which is viable. A Catholic education can offer a different vision of how a person cannot merely find but, to use Aristotelian language, actualize happiness in his or her life. The Catholic tradition has resources that any professor can draw upon to begin to anchor students to some point of being on which they can build a satisfying life. At the end of the article, the author suggests concrete ways in which professors can deploy these resources within the classroo