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Business Ethics Resources

Business Ethics: An Ethical Decision-Making Approach by Mark S. Schwartz
Call Number: Electronic Book

Presents a practical decision-making framework to aid in the identification, understanding, and resolution of complex ethical dilemmas in the workplace.
Virtue at Work: Ethics for Individuals, Managers, and Organizations by Geoff Moore
Call Number: Electronic Book

Provides an integrated and philosophically-grounded framework that enables a coherent approach to organizations and organizational ethics from the perspective of practitioners in the workplace, managers in organizations, as well as from the perspective of organizations themselves.
Ethics 101: From Altruism and Utilitarianism to Bioethics and Political Ethics, an Exploration of the Concepts of Right and Wrong by Brian Boone
Call Number: BJ1012 .B58

This easy-to-read guide presents the key concepts of ethics in fun, straightforward lessons and exercises featuring only the most important facts, theories, and ideas.

Ethics & Compliance Initiative
The Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI) is a best practice community of organizations that are committed to creating and sustaining high quality ethics & compliance programs.
CorpWatch
Provides accurate, timely and easily accessible articles, reports and data on violations by multinational corporations to activists, media, the general public and policy makers.
Ethical Corporation
Ethical Corporation also publishes the leading responsible business magazine, website, and research reports.
Business Ethics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, this entry summarizes important research on central questions in business ethics.
Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research
The mission of the Center is to sponsor and disseminate leading-edge research on critical topics in business ethics. It provides students, educators, business leaders, and policymakers with research to meet the ethical, governance, and compliance challenges that arise in complex business transactions.

Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making and Cases by O. C. Ferrell; John Fraedrich; Linda Ferrell
Call Number: HF5387 .F45 2008

This accessible, applied text covers the complex environment in which managers confront ethical decision making.
Corporate Ethics: The Business Code of Conduct for Ethical Employees by Steven Barth
Call Number: HF5387 .B356

Barth provides a guide to ensuring compliance with ethics policies and developing a corporate ethics plan. This is the perfect tool to establish fundamental rules and standards for employees.
Resisting Corporate Corruption: Cases in Practical Ethics from Enron Through Financial Crisis by Stephen V. Arbogast
Call Number: Electronic Book

Offers twenty-eight case studies and nine essays that cover a full range of business practice, controls and ethics issues. The essays discuss the nature of sound financial controls, root causes of the Financial Crisis, and the evolving nature of whistleblower protections.

U.S. Department of State: Responsible Business Conduct
The Responsible Business Conduct (RBC) team provides guidance, promotion and support for responsible business practices, engaging the private sector, labor groups, non-governmental organizations, and other governments, based on international best practices.
3BL Association
The mission of 3BL is to help develop indispensable corporate responsibility and sustainability professionals who embed core business value, by providing them: actionable professional development, effective thought leadership opportunities and meaningful networking.
CSRwire
CSRwire is a digital media platform for the latest news, views and reports in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability.

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World by Kiyoteru Tsutsui (Editor); Alwyn Lim (Editor)
Call Number: Electronic Book

The authors examine how global and local dimensions of contemporary corporate social responsibility (CSR) intersect with each other.
The Rise and Fall of Corporate Social Responsibility by Douglas M. Eichar
Call Number: HD2785 .E45

The first to cover the entire history of twentieth-century corporate social responsibility, this book provides a valuable perspective from which to revisit the debate concerning the public purpose of large corporations.
Corporate Social Responsibility: A Very Short Introduction by Jeremy Moon
Call Number: HD60 .M66

Exploring the place of CSR in different economic, social, political, and managerial contexts, this short guide considers the many positives, but also challenges, that CSR can present for companies, societies, and governments worldwide.
SAGE Brief Guide to Corporate Social Responsibility by Sage Publications Staff
Call Number: HD60 .S225

Provides objective coverage of key issues in corporate social responsibility, the obligation of companies to various stakeholder groups, the contribution of business to society and culture, and the relationship between organizations and the quality of the environment.

Business for Social Responsibilty
BSR™ is a global nonprofit organization that works with its network of more than 250 member companies and other partners to build a just and sustainable world.
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
WBCSD is a global, CEO-led organization of over 200 leading businesses working together to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world.
United Nations Global Impact
The world's largest corporate sustainability initiative UN Global Impact calls on companies to align strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and take actions that advance societal goals.
International Institute for Sustainable Developement
An independent think tank that seeks to accelerate solutions that drive a global transition to fair economies, clean water and a stable climate.

A Simple Path to Sustainability: Green Business Strategies for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses by Elizabeth S. Cooperman (Editor); Fred Andreas (Editor); Blair Gifford (Editor); Graham Russell (Editor)
Call Number: HD2341 .S553

With unequaled insight, business experts profile 12 outstanding, sustainable, small- to medium-sized enterprises and explain how their green strategies and methods have helped them succeed.
Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship by Geoffrey Jones
Call Number: HD30.255 .J66

Are profits and sustainability compatible?This book brings unique perspectives to this key debate by exploring the history of green entrepreneurship since the nineteenth century, and its spread globally in industry.