Contents: Introduction. Troubling times / Joanne B. Ciulla and Tobey K. Scharding -- Part I: Business and politics -- 1. Stepping down rather than up: the ethical option for business in our troubling times / Donna Ladkin -- 2. The dynamics of CSR in a comparative perspective: convergence towards...

This paper examines whether ethics can drive good firm behavior even if no business case exists (i.e., good firm behavior will not improve financial performance). Using a version of the well-known Apple-Foxconn scenario as a test case, we first argue that the answer is no. Ethics cannot drive...