Index

Jacob Dahl Rendtorff (Roskilde University, Denmark)

Philosophy of Management and Sustainability: Rethinking Business Ethics and Social Responsibility in Sustainable Development

ISBN: 978-1-78973-454-6, eISBN: 978-1-78973-453-9

Publication date: 30 September 2019

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Rendtorff, J.D. (2019), "Index", Philosophy of Management and Sustainability: Rethinking Business Ethics and Social Responsibility in Sustainable Development, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 237-241. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-453-920191023

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INDEX

Index

Accountability
, 26–28, 212

Accounting ethics
, 24

Administration ethics (see also Business ethics)
, 29

challenges to
, 31–35

changed conditions for
, 30–31

issues for
, 39–41

theoretical framework for
, 36–39

values
, 35–36

Agency theory
, 97, 101

Aggressive gift
, 106, 175, 184, 186

Anthropocene age
, 67–68, 121

resilience management and governance at
, 76–77

Anthropocene ethics, epistemological foundations of
, 68–70

Anthropocentric environmental ethics
, 120–123

Authentic experience
, 187, 190

Authenticity
, 199–200

axioms
, 200

Autonomy
, 27

ethical principles of
, 207, 209–210

Banality of Evil (Eichmann)
, 143–152, 152, 158

Brundtland Commission
, 60, 62, 213–214

Bureaucrat
, 147–150

Business

integrity in
, 162–163

leaders
, 169

models
, 62–63, 208

philanthropy
, 215

Business ethics (see also Administration ethics)
, 19–28, 51, 59, 67, 101

Capital
, 134

tax
, 135

Capitalism
, 21, 117–120, 130, 134

of hyperconsumption
, 12

Climate change
, 57, 67–68, 125

invisibility of
, 73, 119–120

Code of ethics in business
, 100

Codes of conduct
, 21

Communitarian kantianism
, 19–20, 25, 27

Consumer

capitalism
, 81–82

organizations
, 217

society
, 6, 10, 194

Corporate

citizenship
, 22, 26, 43–44, 49, 53, 63, 116–117, 170

governance
, 27

identity
, 26

integrity
, 170

responsibility
, 217

Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
, 19–20, 22–23, 25–27, 43–47, 53, 61, 67, 88, 116–118, 205, 210–217

Cosmopolitan(ism)
, 5–6, 29, 35–36, 75

Creative/creativity
, 188–189, 192–193

destruction
, 94

political thought
, 157

Decision-making
, 87, 169

Deconstructive ethics
, 88

Democratic/democracy
, 6, 15

Dignity
, 27

ethical principles of
, 207, 209–210

Economic(s)
, 6, 20, 32, 94

action/actors
, 101, 102

anthropology
, 21, 105–109

authenticity
, 200

crisis
, 83–84

decision-making, mixed rationality of
, 109–110

ethics
, 111–112

globalization
, 6

growth
, 57

liberalism
, 179

logic
, 80

man
, 92–93, 105

model of consumer society
, 84

organizations
, 104–105

rationality
, 91, 98, 103

responsibility
, 46

subjectivity
, 106

system of late capitalism
, 189

Ethical/ethics
, 19, 40–41, 46

action
, 162

of administration (see Administration ethics)

balance
, 13

of competition
, 96

of complexity
, 87

complexity thinking in organizational decision-making
, 88–90

conceptions and perspectives for
, 136–139

cosmopolitanism
, 15

in economic history
, 92–94

out of economics
, 100–105

economy
, 111–126

engines
, 102–103

equality in
, 127–129

of experience society
, 195–199

integrity
, 162

judgment
, 169

to law
, 123–124

leadership
, 21, 24, 61–62

liberalism
, 19, 22, 27

management studies
, 200

principles
, 19–20, 22–25, 27

rationality of economic thinking
, 101

of responsibility
, 45–47, 214

sensibility
, 123

subjectivity
, 108

of sustainability
, 29

theories
, 29

European Commission
, 216

Financial crisis
, 12–14, 83–84, 118

economic anthropology and foundations of rationality
, 105–109

ethics in economic history
, 92–94

ethics out of economics
, 100–105

mixed rationality of economic decision-making
, 109–110

neo-liberal concept of economics
, 94–98

to new economics of sustainability
, 91

welfare economics and criticism of neo-classical concepts of rationality
, 98–100

Financial responsibility
, 214

Firm
, 47–48, 96

Fraser, Nancy (political theory)
, 179–180

Freedom
, 35, 37, 39, 95, 102, 110, 129

Fukuyama, Francis (American political economist)
, 178–179

Globalization
, 3

critical philosophy of
, 4–6

criticism of globalization and hope for exit from crisis
, 12–14

as expression of hypermodernity and world culture
, 10–12

hope of cosmopolitanism in age of hypermodernity
, 15–17

misery of world, and struggle for recognition
, 6–10

Good citizen corporation
, 20, 22–23, 26–28, 43, 46

Good corporate citizenship
, 43, 52, 210–211

Hannah Arendt’s philosophy
, 143–146

Hayek’s economic theory
, 95

Hegel and Kojève philosophy
, 173–175

Hermeneutical

origins of recognition
, 180

reintroduction of recognition
, 182–184

Honneth, Axel
, 181

and renewal of struggle for recognition
, 181–182

Humanity
, 73, 121, 174–175

Hyperconsumption
, 11, 194, 201

society
, 10–11, 194

Institutional(ization)

action
, 147

of democracy
, 38

legitimacy
, 51

of microbiology
, 70

responsibility
, 26

theory
, 40, 49–52

Integrative business ethics
, 20, 28

Integrity
, 26–28, 161

in business and politics
, 162–163

ethical principles of
, 207, 209–210

ethics of
, 161

as existential subjectivity
, 163–165

of legal and political system
, 30

of oppressed groups
, 163

as organizational integrity
, 167–168

as practical judgment
, 168–170

as virtue
, 165–166

International Labor Organization (ILO)
, 48, 57

Justice
, 171

as fairness
, 23

principle of
, 50

Kantian business ethics
, 22

Kantian moral philosophy
, 165

Law

of cumulative growth
, 131

as integrity
, 167

Leadership
, 87, 154

Legitimacy
, 26–28, 50

for corporate performance
, 51–52

Liberal culture
, 10, 178–179, 193

Locke’s concept of private property
, 128–129

Markell, Patchen
, 184–185

Meso-level ethical economy
, 126

Mixed rationality of economic decision-making
, 109–110

Moral

accountability
, 162

blindness
, 39, 152–156

coherence
, 162

commitment
, 162

conscientiousness
, 162

deafness
, 154–156

imagination
, 87–88

imperative
, 189

management
, 21–22, 24, 27

muteness
, 154–155

norms
, 100

responsibility
, 45, 123

sensibility
, 158

shortsightedness
, 156

sight
, 156

silence
, 155

thinking
, 169

vision
, 156

Neoliberal(ism)
, 13

agenda
, 6

concept of economics
, 94–98

state
, 31

Nietzscheanism
, 176–177

Non-anthropocentric positions
, 121–122

Obedience
, 149, 154

Organizational integrity
, 26

integrity as
, 167–168

Paine’s approach
, 168

Pareto-optimality
, 99, 102

Partnerships for SDGs
, 62–64

Pasteur’s techniques
, 69–70

Paul Ricoeur’s philosophy
, 172–173

Philosophy

of ecoethica
, 212

Hannah Arendt’s
, 143–146

Hegel and Kojève
, 173–175

Marcel Mauss
, 175–176

Paul Ricoeur’s
, 172–173

Plato’s ethical theory
, 161

Political/politics
, 185

corruption
, 34

CSR
, 61

decision-maker
, 30

ecology
, 73

equality in political philosophy
, 127–129

integrity in
, 162–163

justice concept
, 21

morality
, 30

Principle of responsibility
, 205

business and management for sustainability
, 206–210

new responsibility for sustainable development
, 217–220

sustainability and corporate social responsibility
, 210–217

Public management
, 30–31, 39

Rational(ity)
, 21, 94

action
, 92, 100

choice theory
, 22

theory of welfare economics in macro-and micro-economics
, 98

Recognition of culture
, 9, 171, 182

American reintroduction of problem of recognition
, 178–180

French thought and impossibility of recognition and gift
, 176–178

German reformulation of problem of recognition
, 180–182

Hegel and Kojève philosophy
, 173–175

hermeneutical reintroduction of recognition
, 182–184

Paul Ricoeur’s philosophy
, 172–173

Rentiers
, 132–133

Resilience
, 76

management
, 76–77

resilient infrastructures
, 57

Responsibility
, 26, 43–45, 68, 88, 106, 108, 157–158, 184, 197, 212–213

Risk

management
, 90

risk-mitigation
, 90

Role

behavior
, 147

expectations in social system
, 147

role-identification
, 154

role-player
, 147

role-playing
, 147

Social

capital
, 119

contract
, 124, 173

entrepreneurship
, 116–117

integration
, 8, 206

ontology
, 77

order
, 95–96

psychology
, 147, 156

responsibility
, 46, 50, 213, 218–220

roles and structures
, 156

Stakeholder
, 119, 169

business ethics
, 49

corporation
, 49–50

governance
, 40

theory
, 43, 63

Stakeholder management
, 49–52, 63

corporate social responsibility in
, 47–49

Sustainable development
, 23, 32, 43, 55, 118, 213–215

criticism of
, 59–60

new responsibility for
, 217–220

Sustainable development goals (SDGs)
, 53, 67, 205

challenge
, 54–59

criticism of
, 59–60

Sustainable/sustainability (see also Dark side of sustainability)
, 19, 29, 35–36, 43–44, 55, 57, 59, 61, 117–120, 124, 188–189, 210–217

application in
, 22–24

business and management
, 206–210

economics
, 119

innovation
, 57

methodology
, 19–21

Technological/technology
, 153

age
, 94

rationality
, 35

society
, 82

system
, 81

Totalitarianism
, 144

Triple bottom line
, 125, 207, 220

Utilitarian(ism)
, 169

thinking
, 165

Utility

maximization
, 93

theory
, 102

Value

of integrity
, 166

of professional ethics
, 35

values-driven management
, 51

Vulnerability
, 27

ethical principles of
, 207, 209–210

Welfare

economics
, 98–100, 110

economists
, 102

equality of
, 127–128

policy
, 57

Prelims
Part I: From CSR and Business Ethics to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Chapter 1: Ethics and Justice in the International World: The Problem of Globalization and the Need for a Cosmopolitan Spirit
Chapter 2: Sustainability and Business Ethics in a Global Society
Chapter 3: Ethics of Administration: Towards Sustainability and Cosmopolitanism
Chapter 4: Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, and Stakeholder Management
Chapter 5: Business Sustainability and the un Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Part II: Philosophy of Management and Ethical Economy of Sustainability
Chapter 6: Philosophy of Management and Ethical Interdependence in the Anthropocene Age
Chapter 7: Environmental Catastrophe and Challenges to Ethical Decision-making
Chapter 8: From the Financial Crisis to a New Economics of Sustainability
Chapter 9: Ethical Economy and the Environment
Chapter 10: The Concept of Equality in Ethics and Political Economy
Part III: Foundations of Philosophy of Management, Ethics, and Sustainability
Chapter 11: The Dark Side of Sustainability: Evil in Organizations and Corporations
Chapter 12: The Ethics of Integrity: A New Foundation of Sustainable Wholeness
Chapter 13: Recognition between Cultures as the Foundation of Ethical and Political Sustainability
Chapter 14: Philosophy of Management in the Hypermodern Experience Economy
Part IV: Responsible Management of Sustainability
Chapter 15: The Principle of Responsibility: Rethinking CSR as SDG Management
References
Index