Ethics in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises : A Global Commentary

Acknowlegements and Foreward -- 1.Introduction: Global perspectives on Ethics in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises -- Global overviews -- 2. AFRICA: Ethics and sustainability within SMEs in sub-Saharan Africa: Enabling, constraining and contaminating relationships by Mollie Painter-Morland and Kris Dobie -- 3.EUROPE: Practice and Politics: Ethics and Social Responsibility in SMEs in the Europe Union by Laura J. Spence and Francesco Perrini -- 4. INDIA: CSR and Ethics in MSME’s in India by Vasanthi Srinivasan -- 5. LATIN AMERICA: Ethics and CSR in Latin American SMEs: Challenging Development by Maria Cecilia Coutinho de Arruda -- 6. NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA: A New Zealand and Australian Overview of Ethics and Sustainability in SMEs by Eva Collins, Carolyn Dickie and Paull Weber -- 7. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: An Overview of Empirical Research on Ethics in Entrepreneurial Firms within the United States by Melissa S. Baucus and Philip L. Cochran -- Individual research -- Theory Development -- 8. Entrepreneurial social responsibility: Scoping the territory by Richard K. Blundel, Laura J. Spence and Stefania Zerbinati -- 9. A comprehensive model for SMEs: Measuring the dynamic interplay of morality, environment and management systems - Towards continuous improvement by Jörg Bürgi -- 10. CSR and SMEs in Portugal: The strategy of obligation by Maria João Santos -- Empirical Research -- 11. In search of sustainability? SMEs in Brittany, France by Sarah Hudson and Julia Roloff -- 12. Corporate social responsibility and stakeholder relations - The Perspective of German small and medium-sized enterprises by Simone Klein and Kristin Vorbohle -- 13. The alignment between social responsibility and business strategy: Implications for social responsibility value creation in Spanish SMEs by Cristina Iturrioz, Cristina Aragón, Lorea Narvaiza and Asunción Ibañez -- 14. Business ethics and corporate social responsibility practice in small and medium sized enterprises: Sampling from Thailand and Hong Kong by David Bevan and Robert Wynne -- Case Examples -- 15. Fostering corporate social responsibility in small and medium size enterprises. Recent experiences in the Netherlands by Henk van Luijk and Lobke Vlaming -- 16. Small business social responsibility in the supply chain: A literature review by Francesco Ciliberti, Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo, Barbara Scozzi -- 17.Ethics in agricultural and stockbreeding SMEs: An Argentinean Case Study by Norma T. Jáuregui de Pivetta -- Conclusion -- Index