Ethics in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: A Global Commentary

Book Overview

Acknowlegements and Foreward.- 1.Introduction: Global perspectives on Ethics in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises.- Global overviews.- 2. AFRICA: Ethics and sustainability within SMEs in sub-Saharan Africa: Enabling, constraining and contaminating relationships by Mollie Painter-Morland and Kris Dobie.- 3.EUROPE: Practice and Politics: Ethics and Social Responsibility in SMEs in the Europe Union by Laura J. Spence and Francesco Perrini.- 4. INDIA: CSR and Ethics in MSME's in India by Vasanthi Srinivasan.- 5. LATIN AMERICA: Ethics and CSR in Latin American SMEs: Challenging Development by Maria Cecilia Coutinho de Arruda.- 6. NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA: A New Zealand and Australian Overview of Ethics and Sustainability in SMEs by Eva Collins, Carolyn Dickie and Paull Weber.- 7. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: An Overview of Empirical Research on Ethics in Entrepreneurial Firms within the United States by Melissa S. Baucus and Philip L. Cochran.- Individual research.- Theory Development.- 8. Entrepreneurial social responsibility: Scoping the territory by Richard K. Blundel, Laura J. Spence and Stefania Zerbinati.- 9. A comprehensive model for SMEs: Measuring the dynamic interplay of morality, environment and management systems - Towards continuous improvement by J?rg B?rgi.- 10. CSR and SMEs in Portugal: The strategy of obligation by Maria Jo?o Santos.- Empirical Research.- 11. In search of sustainability? SMEs in Brittany, France by Sarah Hudson and Julia Roloff.- 12. Corporate social responsibility and stakeholder relations - The Perspective of German small and medium-sized enterprises by Simone Klein and Kristin Vorbohle.- 13. The alignment between social responsibility and business strategy: Implications for social responsibility value creation in Spanish SMEs by Cristina Iturrioz, Cristina Arag?n, Lorea Narvaiza and Asunci?n Iba?ez.- 14. Business ethics and corporate social responsibility practice in small and medium sized enterprises: Sampling from Thailand and Hong Kong by David Bevan and Robert Wynne.- Case Examples.- 15. Fostering corporate social responsibility in small and medium size enterprises. Recent experiences in the Netherlands by Henk van Luijk and Lobke Vlaming.- 16. Small business social responsibility in the supply chain: A literature review by Francesco Ciliberti, Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo, Barbara Scozzi.- 17.Ethics in agricultural and stockbreeding SMEs: An Argentinean Case Study by Norma T. J?uregui de Pivetta.- Conclusion.- Index.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048193303
• ISBN13: 9789048193301
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"