Description

This textbook provides an innovative/ internationally oriented approach to the teaching of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business ethics. Drawing on case studies involving companies and countries around the world/ the textbook explores the social/ ethical/ and business dynamics underlying CSR in such areas as global warming/ genetically modified organisms (GMO) in food production/ free trade and fair trade/ anti-sweatshop and living-wage movements/ organic foods and textiles/ ethical marketing practices and codes/ corporate speech and lobbying/ and social enterprise. The book is designed to encourage students and instructors to challenge their own assumptions and prejudices by stimulating a class debate based on each case study.