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- A Family Portrait of Canada's Most Successful Female Entrepreneurs
In an attempt to study the factors contributing to the decision to become an entrepreneur, an intensive interview survey of 36 successful women entrepreneurs was conducted. The importance of paternal...
Citation: Belcourt, Monica. 1990. A Family Portrait of Canada's Most Successful Female Entrepreneurs. Journal of Business Ethics 9 (4/5):435-438.
Areas of Interest: Education, Gender
- A New Mindset for Business Education
In this book chapter I refine stakeholder theory by identifying its connection to the traditional attention given by business managers to shareholders via the notion of the intangible assets of a firm as they are affected by moral conduct....
Citation: "A New Mindset for Business Education," in Rethinking Business Management, S. Gregg & J. Stoner, eds., Princeton: The Witherspoon Institute, 2008.
Areas of Interest: Education, Leadership, Theory
- Applying Transformative Learning to Ethics Education
Transformative learning seems particularly well suited to the goals of the increasingly important area of ethics education. The objectives of transformative learning and its possible foundation in “ladders of influence” are presented....
Citation: Driscoll, Cathy; Sable, D.; VanEsch, L. 2005. Applying Transformative Learning to Ethics Education. Paper read at Atlantic Universities' Teaching Showcase 2004: Proceedings, IX, at Halifax: Dalhousie University.
Areas of Interest: Education, Spirituality
- Are Academics Committed to Accounting Ethics Education?
This paper reviews the current commitment of accounting academics to teaching accounting ethics. In the course of the review it assesses the recent initiative of the American Accounting Association; n...
Citation: Gunz, Sally; McCutcheon, John. 1998. Are Academics Committed to Accounting Ethics Education? Journal of Business Ethics 17 (11):1145-1154.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Auditing, Accountability - Certification, Education
- Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics
The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics provides clear, concise and highly informative definitions and explanations of the key concepts in one of the most important fields in contempo...
Citation: Werhane, Patricia H. and R. Edward Freeman, eds. 1998. Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers.
Areas of Interest: Education, Theory
- Brand Management in US Business Schools: Can Yale Learn from Harvard?
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used to evaluate the performance of top US business school in maintaining reputation among members of the academic and business communities. The authors generate eff...
Citation: Liston-Heyes, Catherine and Anthony Heyes. 2004. Brand Management in US Business Schools: Can Yale Learn from Harvard? International Journal of Educational Advancement 5 (1):35-45.
Areas of Interest: Education
- Business Ethics – Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization
This book is the completely updated and revised 2nd edition of this successful text and boasts some new features. The new edition follows its great popularity beyond its initial European focus and bro...
Citation: D. Matten and A. Crane. 2007. Business Ethics - Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization. 2 ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Citizenship, Education, Globalization, Sustainability, Theory - Stakeholder
- Business Ethics in Canada: Distinctiveness and Directions
The article presents an analysis on the distinctiveness and directions of business ethics in Canada. The author introduces several articles published within the issue, including one by Len Brooks pres...
Citation: Di Norcia, Vincent. 1997. Business Ethics in Canada: Distinctiveness and Directions. Journal of Business Ethics 16 (6):583-590.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Economic - Social, Education, Public Policy, Theory
- Business Ethics: A European Perspective – Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization
Business Ethics is an exciting, new student focused text which provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of European business ethics. It is the first business ethics textbooks to feature ex...
Citation: A. Crane and D. Matten. 2004. Business Ethics: A European Perspective - Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Globalization, Sustainability, Theory, Theory - Stakeholder
- Business Ethics: Case Studies and Selected Readings
This text provides real-life examples of ethical dilemmas, poor ethical choices, and wise ethical decisions from the newspapers, business journals and the author's experiences as a consultant and boar...
Citation: Jennings, Marianne Moody. 1998. Business Ethics: Case Studies and Selected Readings. 3 ed: South-Western Educational Publishing.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Corruption, Education, Environment & Business, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety, Leadership, Theory - Shareholder, Theory - Stakeholder
- Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases
This book provides readers with a clear, straightforward writing style, an abundance of examples, detailed real-life cases, and current data and statistics. It aims to 1) introduce ethical concepts th...
Citation: Velasquez, Manuel G. 2001. Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases. Boston: Pearson Education Inc.
Areas of Interest: Education, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Theory
- Business Ethics: Policies and Persons
This comprehensive collection presents a case-method approach to teaching business ethics. It contains a wide range of individual, managerial, and corporate cases, many with an international perspecti...
Citation: Kenneth E Goodpaster, Laura L Nash and Henri-Claude de Bettignies. 2005. Business Ethics: Policies and Persons 4ed: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
Areas of Interest: Education, Human Rights, Labour, Resource Extraction
- Business Ethics: The State of the Art
In a world in which daily reports of questionable business practices, from insider trading to environmental pollution, dominate the headlines, the need to understand the large issues of how business a...
Citation: Freeman, R. Edward. 1992. Business Ethics: The State of the Art: Oxford University Press.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Leadership
- Business: Its Legal, Ethical, and Global Environment
Offering the best preparation for future managers, teaches you how to understand and apply legal and ethical concepts to real business. Going further than simply introducing you to the legal environme...
Citation: Jennings, Marianne Moody. 1996. Business: Its Legal, Ethical, and Global Environment 4th Bk&CD ed: South-Western Pub.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Economic - Environmental, Education, Environment & Business, Globalization, Labour - Employee, Public Policy - Regulation, Sustainability
- Can Ethics Be Taught?: Perspectives, Challenges, and Approaches at the Harvard Business School
When business, government, and other professions fail to meet their responsibilities, it is most often not from an inadequacy of tools, techniques, and theory but from an absence of vision and a failu...
Citation: Thomas R. Piper, Mary C. Gentile and Sharon Daloz Parks. 1993. Can Ethics Be Taught?: Perspectives, Challenges, and Approaches at the Harvard Business School: Harvard Business School Press.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Leadership
- Character Is Destiny: The Value of Personal Ethics in Everyday Life
As Russell Gough implies, the fact that people are lapping up books on personal ethics, virtue, and character is best understood as a long-overdue reaction to the two dominant schools of pop psycholog...
Citation: Gough, Russell W. 1997. Character Is Destiny: The Value of Personal Ethics in Everyday Life: Crown Forum.
Areas of Interest: Education, Theory
- Conducting Law and Society Research: Reflections on Methods and Practices
Through interviews with many of the most noteworthy authors in Law and Society, Conducting Law and Society Research takes students and scholars behind the scenes of empirical scholarship, showing the messy reality of research methods....
Citation: Halliday, Simon and Patrick Schmidt, eds. 2009. Conducting Law and Society Research: Reflections on Methods and Practices.Cambridge Studies in Law and Society Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Areas of Interest: Corruption, Education, Globalization, Public Policy
- Contemporary Moral Issues
Trusted and respected throughout five editions, Contemporary Moral Issues provides students with a probing view of today's ethical landscape. Compiled from a Canadian perspective, and incorporating co...
Citation: Cragg, Wesley and Christine Koggel eds. 2004. Contemporary Moral Issues. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson
Areas of Interest: Education, Theory
- Corporate Governance and Accountability: What Do We Know and What Do We Teach Future Business Leaders?
This paper was presented by Mary Gentile at the 3rd Colloquium of the European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS). The conference, entitled "The Challenges of Sustainable Growth: Integrating Socie...
Citation: Gentile, Mary C. Corporate Governance and Accountability: The Aspen Institute: Center For Business Education.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Leadership, Theory, Theory - Shareholder
- Corporate Social Responsibility – Three Volume Set
This three volume collection provides students and researchers with the historically most important of the classic articles in CSR, as well as the best of the contemporary and trendsetting work in thi...
Citation: (eds.), A. Crane and D. Matten. 2007. Corporate Social Responsibility - Three Volume Set. London: SAGE Library in Business and Management, London (Sage)
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Globalization, Theory
- Corporate Social Responsibility Education in Europe
In the context of some criticism about social responsibility education in business schools, the paper reports findings from a survey of CSR education (teaching and research) in Europe. It analyses the...
Citation: D. Matten and J. Moon. 2004. Corporate Social Responsibility Education in Europe. Journal of Business Ethics 54 (4):323-337.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Education
- Corporate Social Responsibility: A Three Domain Approach
Extrapolating from Carroll's four domains of corporate social responsibility (1979) and Pyramid of CSR (1991), an alternative approach to conceptualizing corporate social responsibility (CSR) is propo...
Citation: Schwartz, Mark; Carroll, Archie. 2003. Corporate Social Responsibility: A Three Domain Approach. Business Ethics Quarterly 13 (4):503-530.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Theory
- Corporate Social Responsibility: Readings and Cases in Global Context
Modern business is obliged to meet increasingly demanding ethical, environmental, legal, commercial, and public standards as defined by wider society. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has therefore become an important consideration for managers at all levels, as well as one of the most vibrant areas of study and research in the field of business and management. This important new book provides a comprehensive and student-centred introduction to the key themes and issues currently being addressed in CSR around the world....
Citation: Crane, Andrew, Dirk Matten, and Laura J. Spence, eds. 2008. Corporate Social Responsibility: Readings and Cases in Global Context. London: Routledge.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Auditing, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic - Environmental, Education, Theory, Theory - Stakeholder
- Creative Accounting and the Cross-Eyed Javelin Thrower
Creative accounting, as highlighted in the best selling books of Terry Smith and Ian Griffiths, was one of the key themes in corporate finance in the 1980s. The control of creative accounting has been a major issue of the 1990s. This book looks at the regulatory response to creative accounting and the role olf the Financial Reporting Review Panel, under Sir David Tweedie, in policing company accounts. The book is about the contest for the control of creative accounting, a contest in which Sir David Tweedie describes the Financial Reporting Review Panel as 'like a cross-eyed javelin thrower at the Olympic Games'....
Citation: McBarnet, Doreen and Chris Whelan. 2000. Creative Accounting and the Cross-Eyed Javelin Thrower. London: John Wiley & Sons.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Auditing, Corporate Governance, Education, Public Policy - Regulation
- Critical Elements of an Organizational Ethical Culture
In the 2005 National Business Ethics Survey ® (NBES), the Ethics Resource Center (ERC) finds that a formal ethics and compliance program alone does not substantially impact outcomes. Additional analys...
Citation: Amber Levanon Seligson; Laurie Choi. 2006. Critical Elements of an Organizational Ethical Culture: Ethics Resource Center.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Education, Labour - Employee, Leadership, Theory
- Do Accounting Academics Have the Expertise to Teach a Discipline-Specific Ethics Course? A Research Assessment Approach.
The study establishes a baseline that allows stakeholders to assess the level of past, present and future accounting ethics research, and the capabilities of accounting faculty to address alternative ethics education pedagogies....
Citation: Bernardi, Richard A., David F. Bean, and Michael R. Melton. 2008. Do Accounting Academics Have the Expertise to Teach a Discipline-Specific Ethics Course? A Research Assessment Approach. Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting, Vol. 13, pp. 157-179. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1761330
Areas of Interest: Education, Theory - Stakeholder
- Doing Business with the World – The New Role of Corporate Leadership in Global Development
Poverty remains the main challenge facing the countries that will be the home of 85% of the world's population in the decades to come. Some 2.7 billion people worldwide continue to subsist on less than US$2 per day. The challenge facing the global communi...
Citation: World Business Council for Sustainable Development. 2007. Doing Business with the World - The New Role of Corporate Leadership in Global Development. World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
Areas of Interest: Development, Education, Globalization, Health - Healthcare, Poverty, Public Policy, Sustainability
- Doing the Business: A film series programmed by ICCSR in conjunction with Broadway Cinema
Launched in 2004, 'Doing the Business' is an exciting and innovative component of the ICCSR curriculum. It consists of an annual programme of films specially selected by the centre to examine a range of social and ethical issues in business....
Citation: Bondy, K., Crane, A., and Browne, L. 2004. Doing the Business: A film series programmed by ICCSR in conjunction with Broadway Cinema. In ICCSR Research Paper Series, edited by D. Matten, no. 25.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Theory - Stakeholder
- Ethical Issues: : Perspectives for Canadians
The long-awaited new edition of Ethical Issues updates Eldon Soifer's highly respected applied ethics anthology. The text introduces students to many of the central ethical issues. These include anima...
Citation: Soifer, Eldon, ed. 2009. Ethical Issues: Perspectives for Canadians. Peterborough: Broadview Press.
Areas of Interest: Education
- Ethics and Auditing
Ethics and Auditing examines ethical challenges exposed by recent accounting and auditing 'lapses' through a study of interconnected moral, legal and accounting issues. The book aims to engage a broad...
Citation: Campbell, Tom and Keith Houghton, eds. Ethics and Auditing. Canberra: ANU E Press, 2010.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Auditing, Education, Public Policy - Regulation
- Ethics and Corruption in Education: An Overview
This paper argues that the problems posed by corruption in education have been neglected for too long. It details the three assumptions that underlie the IIEP's project on “Ethics and corruption in education”. It then describes the approach followed to tackle this sensitive issue within the framework of the project. Finally, it summarizes a few conclusions drawn from the research thus far in three areas: teacher behaviour, teacher management, and private tutoring. It then concludes by identifying key strategies for improving transparency and accountability in education....
Citation: Jacques Hallak; Muriel Poisson. 2005. Ethics and Corruption in Education: An Overview. Journal of Education for International Development
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corruption, Education
- Ethics and the Conduct of Business
Ethics and the Conduct of Business, 6/e is a comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of the most prominent issues in the field of business ethics and the major positions and arguments on these issues....
Citation: Boatright, John R. 2008. Ethics and the Conduct of Business. 6 ed: Prentice Hall.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety
- European Union Law: Texts and Analysis
How can the law of the European Union be most effectively taught in the face of the EU's current upheavals? With this new book a team of specialists provide a comprehensive survey of EU law, placing it in its social, political and economic contexts....
Citation: Chalmers, Damian and Giorgio Monti. 2008. European Union Law: Texts and Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Areas of Interest: Development, Economic - Social, Education, Public Policy
- Evidence of Social Desirability Response Bias in Ethics Research: An International Study
This paper analyzes the association between ethical perceptions of questionable business practices and Hofstede's Individualism, Transparency International's Corruption Index, and social desirability response bias....
Citation: Bernardi, Richard A., Erin L. Delorey, Catherine C. LaCross, and Rebecca A. Waite. 2003. Evidence of Social Desirability Response Bias in Ethics Research: An International Study. Journal of Applied Business Research, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 41-51. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1094751
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Education
- Family Values and Business Ethics: An International Study
This study compares the attitudes of international college students concerning personal versus business ethics, the environment, and competition....
Citation: Bernardi, Richard A., and Shelby P. Long. 2004. Family Values and Business Ethics: An International Study. International Business & Economics Research Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1-11, 2004. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1095390
Areas of Interest: Education, Environment & Business
- Free Trade and Women in Business in the Americas - What Role Should Women's Organizations Play?
Our objective in this paper is to bring to the attention of businesswomen's organizations in Latin America the importance of collecting data on the increasing participation of women in the economy as entrepreneurs and managers....
Citation: Echeverri-Carroll, Elsie, Brandazza, Maria Daniela and Giusti, Cecilia. [2001?]. Free Trade and Women in Business in the Americas - What Role Should Women's Organizations Play?. SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=283226
Areas of Interest: Education, Gender, Labour, Public Policy - Lobbying
- Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) - 2001 Canadian National Executive Report
In 2001, 7% of all adults in Canada were actively engaged in starting a business. In this respect, Canada ranked 14th of the 29 countries participating in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) research project in 2001. Three investigation methods are used in the GEM studies: an adult population survey; interviews with entrepreneurship experts in that country; and selected national and demographic data....
Citation: Riverin, Nathaly, Rein Peterson, and Robert Kleiman. 2002. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) - 2001 Canadian National Executive Report. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1509248
Areas of Interest: Education, Gender, Labour, Public Policy
- How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living
Breaking down complex philosophical issues into a step-by-step self-help guide, the founder of the Institute for Global Ethics shows us how to grapple with everyday issues and problems: Should I take...
Citation: Kidder, Rushworth M. 1996. How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living. 1 ed: Fireside.
Areas of Interest: Education, Theory
- In and out in 60 minutes: how to get an educational game up and running in no time
The advent of the Information Highway has heightened interest in the use of educational games for learning in both schools and universities and the workplace. Studies show that games create favourable...
Citation: Sauve, Louise, Lise Renaud, Margot. Kaszap, and Claire IsaBelle. 2004. In and Out in 60 Minutes: How to get an educational game up and running in no time. Curtin Business School.
Areas of Interest: Education
- Integrating Sustainability into Management Education: A Status Report
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of approaches taken by leading business schools around the globe to build the capacity of graduate students to: • Understand business practices that...
Citation: McGaw, Nancy, and Mary Gentile. Integrating Sustainability into Management Education: A Status Report: The Aspen Institute: Center For Business Education.
Areas of Interest: Education, Sustainability
- Management Ethics [Fall, 2002]
Work as Love Made Visible; Editorial: Plus ça change; Letters to the Editor; Speaker's Corner: Derek Hayes; Paul Bates; Upcoming Events...
Citation: EthicsCentre.ca. 2002. Management Ethics, Fall. EthicsCentre.ca
Areas of Interest: Education, Leadership
- Management Ethics [Spring, 2005]
Cover: The most important issue...; Editorial: CEO Incomes; Ethics Education - Ten Lessons; Speakers' Corner; Upcoming Events; Letters to the Editors...
Citation: EthicsCentre CA. 2005. Management Ethics, Spring. EthicsCentre CA
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Social Responsibility, Education
- Management Ethics [Spring, 2010]
Ethics Education in Canadian Business Schools; Why do Some Professors Think Business Ethics Education Isn't Important?; A Students Perspective; Editorial; Lessons My Professional Life has taught me; Speakers' Corner; New Members; Scholarship Opportunity...
Citation: EthicsCentre CA. 2010. Management Ethics, Spring. EthicsCentre CA
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Education
- Management Ethics [Summer, 2003]
Canadian Business Ethics Education: The Vision and the Reality; Canadian Business Ethics Education: A Commentary; Editorial; Review of Canada's Implementation of the OECD Convention on Combating; Book Review; Speakers’ Corner; Upcoming Events...
Citation: EthicsCentre CA. 2003. Management Ethics, Summer. EthicsCentre CA
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Auditing, Corporate Governance - Transparency, Education
- Management Ethics [Winter, 2003]
The Psychology of Ethical Lapses; Editorial: A New Year, New Beginnings?; Letters to the Editor; Speaker's Corner: David Leslie and Howard Wilson; Upcoming Events...
Citation: EthicsCentre.ca. 2003. Management Ethics, Winter. EthicsCentre.ca
Areas of Interest: Education
- Marketing Management
Marketing Management, Canadian Twelfth Edition, is designed to preserve the strengths of previous editions while introducing new material and organization to further enhance learning. It is dedicated...
Citation: Cunningham, Peggy ; Philip, Kotler; Keller, Kevin. 2006. Marketing Management. 12 ed. Scarborough, Ontario: Prentice-Hall Canada.
Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues, Education
- Marketing: An Introduction
This in-class edition takes a new approach to learning.This book was designed with the student in mind and ties learning and assessment closely together. Within this text, there is a built in study gu...
Citation: Cunningham, Peggy. 2006. Marketing: An Introduction. 1st and 2nd Canadian Editions ed. Scarborough, Ontario: Prentice-Hall Canada.
Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues, Education
- Necessary Business School Curricula for this Millenium: Some Thoughts from Canada.
Within the context of some current debates on management education in Canada, this paper discusses corporate social responsibility and innovation as follows: why there is a new urgency for these concepts to be taught; how this material is traditionally taught; and, how it might be taught in the future. Finally, in each instance reference is made to two leading Canadian multinational companies. Data, albeit limited, suggest that some leading Canadian companies readily embrace these ideas. Such practice is leading, and business schools need to catch up....
Citation: Gallina, Paul Leonard. 2009. Necessary Business School Curricula for this Millenium: Some Thoughts from Canada (December 31). Economics & Management (Neofit Rilski). Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 51-55. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1570523
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Education
- Obligations to Future Generations: A Case Study
Trusted and respected throughout five editions, Contemporary Moral Issues provides students with a probing view of today's ethical landscape. Compiled from a Canadian perspective, and incorporating contemporary court and legal material, in-depth introduct...
Citation: Wesley Cragg; Christine Koggel. 1992. Obligations to Future Generations: A Case Study In Contemporary Moral Issues, edited by W. Cragg. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson.
Areas of Interest: Education, Theory
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