In this topical book, Boudewijn de Bruin examines the ethical 'blind spots' that lay at the heart of the global financial crisis. He argues that the most important moral problem in finance is not the 'greed is good' culture, but rather the epistemic shortcomings of bankers, clients, rating...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Competing perspectives on corporate responsibility -- Contrasting stakeholder and shareholder theories -- Stakeholder theory and corporate social responsibility in a market economy -- A critique of stakeholder theory: the...

Introducing corporations and citizenship -- Corporations as citizens -- Corporations as governments -- Stakeholders as citizens -- Citizenship identities and the corporation -- Citizenship ecologies and the corporation -- Citizenship, globalization and the corporation -- Conclusions

Increasingly, conscientious consumers and green marketers are recognizing that material things, not firms, must be made responsible. Even so, many scholars in ethics, sustainability, and governance focus on people and organizations, ignoring the flows of things. In this book, Ryan Burg argues...