pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Organizational strategy -- pt. 3. Finance and economics -- pt. 4. Organizational behaviour -- pt. 5. Marketing and innovation -- pt. 6. HRM and employee relations -- pt. 7. The ethical future?

Events such as Trafigura's illegal dumping of toxic waste in Côte d'Ivoire and BP's environmentally disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have highlighted ethical issues in international business at a time when business leaders, academics and business schools were reflecting on their own...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) ist zu einem Schlagwort unserer heutigen Gesellschaft, der Politik, aber auch zunehmend des betriebswirtschaftlichen Denkens geworden. Dabei ist das CSR-Engagement eines Unternehmens nur dann glaubhaft, wenn soziale Maßnahmen nicht auf die externe Dimension...

Sustainagility explores the way in which innovative and agile business ideas, processes and products have the ability to solve some of the world's most complex sustainability challenges. Examples and case studies will be used to demonstrate how real companies have successfully used innovative...

Economic inequality continues to contribute to political and social instability around the world. This instability stifles development and results in widening the wealth gap between the "haves" and "have nots," further eroding stability. It has been argued that entrepreneurship is a prime...

Schumpeter’s growth theory (based on innovations, entrepreneurs, long waves and “creative destruction”) seems to be most adequate to discuss principles of the Knowledge Based Economy. In the paper, the author discussed the assumptions of Schumpeter’s theory in three subsections: “Long...

Employer behavior (“Arbeitgeberverhalten”) plays an essential role when it comes to understanding Human Resource Management (HRM). However, rather few studies actually seem to take the concrete behavior of organizations as employers into account. Instead, German textbooks and journals are...

This paper proposes that Green HRM can meet its full potential only by considering employees in their twofold role as producers and consumers. Employees learn different kinds of behaviour not exclusively at the workplace, but also in private life. Since reciprocal interactions between working...

The topic of environmental sustainability is generating increased concern among business executives, governments, consumers, and management scholars. As these stakeholders struggle with the challenges and opportunities presented by an array of environmental issues, HRM scholars and practitioners...