Business Ethics

Staying ethical in a downturn
Author(s): Roger Steare, Visiting Professor of Organisational Ethics, Cass Business School
Topic: Business Ethics Industry: Charity and Non-Governmental Sector Type: Commentary/Analysis

Roger Steare is Visiting Professor of Organisational Ethics at Cass. In this multimedia presentation he introduces the ethicability® framework.

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Updated: 04/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: 3/5 | Total ratings: 2 | Views: 641

The British are not coming! UK higher education and the nonprofit sector
Author(s): Paul Palmer, Mariana Bogdanova, Cass Business School
Topic: Business Ethics Industry: Charity and Non-Governmental Sector Type: Commentary/Analysis

This article explores the factors that have prevented parallel growth in education provision. It argues that the university as an institution, both in terms of its nature and its power structures, is one of those factors. It presents the story of the closing of the world’s first voluntary sector course at the London School of Economics and concludes with reflection on the likely future of voluntary sector management education provision in the United Kingdom.

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Updated: 06/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 155

Irresponsible lending? a case study of a U.K. credit industry reform initiative
Author(s): Paul Palmer, Maria Richards, Mariana Bogdanova, Cass Business School
Topic: Business Ethics Industry: Banking Type: Commentary/Analysis

This article describes an attempt to address the challenges in the credit card industry with the initiation of the RLI, reflected in stakeholder discourse and in the context of a wider concern expressed by the involved stakeholders in terms of the need for greater responsibility in the banking industry’s lending practices.

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Updated: 10/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 186

Business giving, the tsunami and corporates as rock stars: some Implications for arts funding?
Author(s): Jenny Harrow, Paul Palmer, Mariana Bogdanova, Cass Business School
Topic: Business Ethics Industry: Any Industry Type: Commentary/Analysis

The article considers alternative scenarios for company giving in disaster contexts, including as a sustained and lasting giving theme or as company support as a ‘one-off ’ event, rock-star style. The likely development of employee power as a key element in company giving is explored; and its wider meanings for funding in arts settings, (where the giver as rock star heroine/hero is also prominent) are considered.

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Updated: 01/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 93