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Flaunting a title like Business as Unusual, Anita Roddick's company biography is anything but your run-of-the-mill book on how to create, nurture, and run a successful company. While it does give a firsthand account of the birth of The Body Shop and Roddick's own particular leadership style of creative (and sometimes chaotic) passion, it doubles as a clarion call for business to tackle the big issues of life alongside the pursuit of profits, with heart, soul and conscience. Roddick grew up in a large Italian immigrant family in small town in blue-collar England, where she was instilled with an intense work ethic and an irreverent, entrepreneurial spirit. Though she admits to having opened her first Body Shop as a way to make ends meet, Roddick developed the company around her zealous belief that, since there is "no more powerful institution in society than business ... it is more important than ever before for business to assume a moral leadership in society." Her concern for protecting The environment and indigenous people's cultures, and of seeing all of life as interconnected, have directed the growth of the company and inspired much of this book. Her account moves from an initial description of what she sees as the problem with "business as usual," through a history of The Body Shop as illustrating her philosophies on fostering passionate activism, building community, making it as a woman, and succeeding in business. Though Roddick's tone occasionally lapses into what might be interpreted as a rather self-righteous one (particularly in her references to most of the company's competition as merely "imitation"), it is driven by a feisty belief in her ideals. The chapter that describes The Body Shop launch into the U.S. market and its subsequent problems with intense competition is not exactly an American love-fest, but for those readers on this side of the Atlantic who don't take themselves too seriously, it's an informative and often amusing take on the trials of cross-cultural Marketing. While praise of The Body Shop's good deeds to date is woven into much of what she discusses, Roddick is not afraid of being honest. Indeed, she presents some of the company's less flattering underbelly, such as a failed experiment in trading directly with an indigenous tribe and the unsuccessful "reorganization" of the company by an unresearched external consultant, which is far more daring than most business leaders are in discussing their corporate offspring. The book would have benefited from a more detailed and less defensive presentation of the media storm that surrounded the company from 1992 to 1994 (which comes dangerously close to being a diatribe), but Roddick's conversational writing style--extremely effective in relaying fervent dedication--doesn't leave room for a lot of legal analysis.

Cosmetics industry - Great Britain. --- Businesswomen. --- Business ethics. --- Ethisch ondernemen. --- The Body Shop. --- Vrouwen en zakenleven.

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Het is vandaag bon ton om het over ethisch ondernemen, duurzaam ondernemen, maatschappelijk verantwoord of betrokken ondernemen te hebben. Ook de term sociaal ondernemen heeft zijn intrede gedaan. Nochtans worden we voortdurend geconfronteerd met bedenkelijke praktijken (financiële en andere) in de bedrijfswereld. Deze gebeurtenissen werpen een schaduw over alle mooie principes en het geloof dat ethisch ondernemen ook succesvol kan zijn. Dit boek wil studenten confronteren met de economische, sociale en ecologische grenzen van onze samenleving. Het start met de verduidelijking van de termen filosofie en ethiek. Daarna wordt het gedachtegoed van een aantal belangrijke filosofen uit de Griekse oudheid, de middeleeuwen, de renaissance, de verlichting, de 20ste en 21ste eeuw besproken. Het tweede deel gaat over bedrijfsethiek, met inbegrip van maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen, duurzaam ondernemen, sociaal ondernemen en sociale economie. De drie belangrijkste ethische modellen uit de westerse zakenethiek worden toegelicht en tot slot wordt een stappenplan uitgewerkt om een ethische casus uit de bedrijfswereld te kunnen beoordelen. Aan de hand van actuele voorbeelden en cases wordt de inhoud geïllustreerd, daarnaast wordt er online aanvullende informatie aangeboden.

Ethisch ondernemen. --- Social ethics --- Business economics --- Business --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- Business ethics --- bedrijfsethiek --- PXL-Business 2016 --- organisatiekunde --- ondernemersstrategie --- sociale economie --- Ethisch ondernemen --- Duurzaam ondernemen --- 658.11 --- ethisch ondernemen

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La 4e de couverture indique "Que ce soit d'un point de vue économique, social, environnemental ou même sanitaire, le gâchis est partout. Il est à la croisée de la plupart des maux actuels : pollution, réchauffement climatique, raréfaction des ressources, de la biodiversité et impacts sur notre santé. Ce sont ces constats et ces aberrations qui nous incitent chaque jour à penser et à agir différemment pour accompagner un changement profond de pensée et de modèle sociétal"

Économie circulaire --- Technologie appropriée --- Développement durable --- Design --- Innovations --- Integrated solid waste management --- Gestion intégrée --- Gestion intégrée --- Economie. --- Environmental economics --- Sustainable development --- Industrial management --- Business enterprises --- Business ethics --- Environmental aspects --- Déchets --- Économie circulaire. --- Design - Innovations --- Industrial management - Environmental aspects --- Business enterprises - Environmental aspects

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Blending theory with practical application, this comprehensive text supports courses at the intersection of corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate strategy, and public policy. Part I provides an overview of the field, defining CSR and placing it in the context of wider corporate strategy. Part II contains chapters on CSR issues related to the organization, the economy, and society, and provides detailed case studies on a variety of well-known firms. Adopting a stakeholder perspective, the authors explore CSR issues within the complex global business environment in which corporations operate today.

Social responsibility of business --- Social responsibility of business. --- Ethisch ondernemen. --- 360.8 --- bedrijf --- Stakeholders --- Strategie --- Business --- Corporate accountability --- Corporate responsibility --- Corporate social responsibility --- Corporations --- CSR (Corporate social responsibility) --- Industries --- Social responsibility, Corporate --- Social responsibility of industry --- Business ethics --- Issues management --- Social responsibility --- Social aspects

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Facing especially wicked problems, social sector organizations are searching for powerful new methods to understand and address them. Design Thinking for the Greater Good goes in depth on both the how of using new tools and the why. As a way to reframe problems, ideate solutions, and iterate toward better answers, design thinking is already well established in the commercial world. Through ten stories of struggles and successes in fields such as health care, education, agriculture, transportation, social services, and security, the authors show how collaborative creativity can shake up even the most entrenched bureaucracies-and provide a practical roadmap for readers to implement these tools.The design thinkers Jeanne Liedtka, Randy Salzman, and Daisy Azer explore how major agencies like the Department of Health and Human Services and the Transportation and Security Administration in the United States, as well as organizations in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom, have instituted principles of design thinking. In each case, these groups have used the tools of design thinking to reduce risk, manage change, use resources more effectively, bridge the communication gap between parties, and manage the competing demands of diverse stakeholders. Along the way, they have improved the quality of their products and enhanced the experiences of those they serve. These strategies are accessible to analytical and creative types alike, and their benefits extend throughout an organization. This book will help today's leaders and thinkers implement these practices in their own pursuit of creative solutions that are both innovative and achievable.

Human services --- Public administration --- Management science. --- Social responsibility of business. --- Business --- Corporate accountability --- Corporate responsibility --- Corporate social responsibility --- Corporations --- CSR (Corporate social responsibility) --- Industries --- Social responsibility, Corporate --- Social responsibility of industry --- Business ethics --- Issues management --- Quantitative business analysis --- Management --- Problem solving --- Operations research --- Statistical decision --- Decision-making in public administration --- Management. --- Decision making. --- Social responsibility --- Social aspects --- Management science --- Social responsibility of business --- Decision making --- E-books