Responsible Business: Foundations of Ethical and Sustainable Management (The Principles for Responsible Management Education Series)

As sustainable development becomes an increasingly important strategic issue for all organizations, there is a growing need for management and executive education to adapt to this new reality.This textbook provides a theoretically sound and highly relevant introduction to the topic of socially and environmentally responsible business.The authors take a “competence-based approach” to responsible management education.The book aims to go beyond the traditional domains of teaching and towards the facilitation of learning across key competences.Each chapter in this book has a section dedicated to exercises that cover five core competences - know, think, do, relate, be - to enable self-directed transformative learning. Drawing from the classic background theories such as corporate sustainability, business ethics, and corporate social responsibility, these concepts are applied to the most up-to-date practices.The book covers an international perspective, featuring cases from countries all aro