Social Responsibilities of the Businessman
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Social Responsibilities of the Businessman by Howard R Bowen
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) expresses a fundamental morality in the way a company behaves toward society. It follows ethical behavior toward stakeholders and recognizes the spirit of the legal and regulatory environment. The idea of CSR gained momentum in the late 1950s and 1960s with the expansion of large conglomerate corporations and became a popular subject in the 1980s with R. Edward Freeman's Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach and the many key works of Archie B. Carroll, Peter F. Drucker, and others. In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008-2010, CSR has again become a focus for evaluating corporate behavior.
First published in 1953, Howard R. Bowen's Social Responsibilities of the Businessman was the first comprehensive discussion of business ethics and social responsibility. It created a foundation by which business executives and academics could consider the subjects as part of strategic planning and managerial decision-making. Though written in another era, it is regularly and increasingly cited because of its relevance to the current ethical issues of business operations in the United States. Many experts believe it to be the seminal book on corporate social responsibility.
This new edition of the book includes an introduction by Jean-Pascal Gond, Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility at Cass Business School, City University of London, and a foreword by Peter Geoffrey Bowen, Daniels College of Business, University of Denver, who is Howard R. Bowen's eldest son.
Bowen, Howard R.: -
Howard R. Bowen was chief economist of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation of the U.S. Congress and economist for the Irving Trust Company. He was Avery Professor of Economics and Education at Claremont Graduate School, and also taught at Grinnell College and the University of Iowa before becoming dean of the Business School at the University of Illinois. He is author of many books, most notably The Costs of Higher Education and State of the Nation and the Agenda for Higher Education. Investment in Learning is the anchor to this trilogy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781609381967 |
| ISBN 10 | 1609381963 |
| Title | Social Responsibilities of the Businessman |
| Author | Howard R Bowen |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
| Year published | 2013-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 298 |
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