Ethical Corporation’s guide to what’s newly-published
The Virtues of Leadership: contemporary challenges for global managers
By Arménio Rego, Miguel Pina e Cunha and Stewart R Clegg
Hardback: 240 pages, £16.99
ISBN: 978-0-19-967737-5
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: March 2014
The link between the behaviour and values of corporate leaders and the corporations that they run is a strong one. Drawing on the positive organisational scholarship movement, this book explores the virtues and character strengths required by today’s captains of industry.
A Culture of Purpose: how to choose the right people and make the right people choose you
By Christoph Lueneburger
Hardcover: 272 pages, $27.95
ISBN: 978-1118814567
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: April 2014
"The very best people don’t want window-dressing policies about composting and charitable giving,” Lueneburger writes. “They do want to see the meaning in their work all around them.” This practically oriented book sets out to explain how businesses can create and sustain such a purpose-giving culture.
Socially Responsible Investment in the 21st Century: does it make a difference for society?
By Celine Louche and Tessa Hebb (eds)
Hardcover: 250 pages, £66.95
ISBN: 1783504676
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: May 2014
Divided into three sections, the opening part of this fascinating book explores how the SRI community has sought to bring about change through new engagement approaches, product offerings and alternative investment models. Parts two and three show the limitations of these efforts, before going on to explore the need for values and good governance going forward.
This book marks an ambitious attempt to draw a link between the worlds of design, sustainability, inner values and spirituality. In searching for alternatives to current models of consumer-led growth, it looks for inspiration from nature and the human imagination. The result is a bold and more meaningful vision of the future.
Social Innovation for Business Success: shared value in the apparel industry
By Julia Schmitt
Paperback: 112 pages, £42.99
ISBN-13: 978-3658054601
Publisher: Springer Gabler
Published: ISBN-10: 3658054603
Structured around an empirical study of the German fair trade and organic fashion industry, this book presents a well researched and cogently argued case for the adoption of “shared value” principles by small businesses. Academic in tone, but full of useful insights.
Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future: insights from 45 global thought leaders
By Robert Costanza and Ida Kubiszewski (eds)
Hardcover: 300 pages, £45
ISBN-13: 978-9814546881
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
Published: April 2014
What does the future look like? Or, better, what might the future look like? This book is designed to provide an answer to that question. Not in a predictive sense. Rather, its focus lies on the question of collectively imagining a shared vision of the future – and then taking steps to achieve it.
Implementing Corporate Social Responsibility: Indian perspectives
By Subhasis Ray and S Siva Raju(eds)
Hardcover: 175 pages, £90
ISBN-13: 978-8132216520
Publisher: Springer
Published: April 2014
Recent changes to India’s Companies Act have put corporate responsibility and good governance at the centre of business debate in India. This wide-ranging book provides an intriguing description of how various CR theories have fared – and are faring – in one of Asia’s most significant economies.
Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: when girl meets oil
By Christine Bader
Hardcover: 264 pages, $26.95
ISBN-13: 978-1937134884
Publisher: Bibliomotion
Published: March 2014
Written by a long-term employee of BP, this critical account of life within one of the world’s largest oil companies offers a rare and captivating read. Bader pulls no punches, describing the struggles, frustrations and occasional successes of being a “corporate idealist” within a big business.
