Christian Ethics and Corporate Culture, 2014 A Critical View on Corporate Responsibilities CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance Series

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. 

Seeing the World of Business.- The Business in Society: Can Companies Save the World.- Philosophical Underpinnings of Good Company.- The Challenge of Clashing Theories.- Social Vocation of the Firm.- Non Profit and Business Sector Collaboration.- The Common Good and Social Competitive Creativity.- Maximizing the Shareholder Value.- Consumer, Client,Customer or Citizen - Can the State be a Good Company.- Doing Well by Doing Good: Distinguishing the Right from Good in Theories of Corporate Social Responsibility.- Moral Intuition and Transformative Organizations.- The Game of Exchange: Towards Justice in Bargaining.- The Posture of Services.- When Being Good Isn't Good Enough: the Case of Malden Mills.- What of Financialization?.- Accounting for Just Wages: A Proposal.- A Framework for CSR Assessment, Measurement and Reporting.

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".

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