Quakers, Business and Corporate Responsibility
Lessons and Cases for Responsible Management
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Beschreibung
This book explores how the distinctive "Quaker" approach to responsible business is based on honesty, truth and integrity. It analyzes how networks, family and succession are at its heart, and how much this approach offers to current debates on corporate social responsibility, as well as to managers and practitioners in an increasingly complex business world. The contributions in this volume assess the factors that explain the success and prosperity of many Quaker businesses throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, discussing the lessons learned from their disappearance from prominence. By drawing upon examples that illustrate the Quaker ethic, it also considers what so-called “Quakernomics” can contribute to contemporary responsible business theory and practice.
Offers a historical perspective on Quaker businesses for contemporary responsible business debatesProvides a unique account of how spiritual concerns influence leadership and managementIncludes cases and best practices from the banking and finance, transport and consumer-goods industries
Offers a historical perspective on Quaker businesses for contemporary responsible business debates Provides a unique account of how spiritual concerns influence leadership and management Includes cases and best practices from the banking and finance, transport and consumer-goods industries
Autor*in
Nicholas Burton
Themen in »Quakers, Business and Corporate Responsibility«
Quakers and business Quakernomics responsible management corporate philantrophy business cases responsible business practice spiritually based decision making corporate social responsibility faith, spirituality and business