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Resources for Business: Ethics & Social Responsibility

Articles:


In-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business from academic journals, popular business magazines, trade publications, and regional business publications.

Suggested subject terms:
Ethics, Moral values, Social responsibility

Restricted to SJUBusiness Source Complete - using standard EBSCOhost interface - More Information 
A collection of popular business magazines, scholarly journals and trade publications, including titles in Business Ethics.

Suggested subjects to include in your search: Business ethics, Professional ethics, Investments -- moral & ethical aspects, Social responsibilty of business.

Suggested subjects to include in your search: Business ethics, professional ethics, Industry - social aspects.


From the Library and Information Services group of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. Citations direct researchers to journal and newspaper articles, books, book chapters, government reports, court decisions, bills, laws, and audiovisual materials. The primary focus of the database is bioethics and medical ethics; however there is coverage of Applied and Professional Ethics, including Business.

This international resource provides indexing and author-written abstracts from books and journals of philosophy (over 480) in the 15 fields of philosophy and in related fields. Coverage includes the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.

Offers well-researched but accessible information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment.
Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact.

Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling.  Business-related subject headings include:

  • Business - environmental aspects
  • Business enterprises
  • Consumer behavior
  • Consumers
  • Corporate culture
  • Corporate environmentalism
  • Marketing
  • Social responsibility of business


Organizations & Institutes:


ERC is the oldest nonprofit (established 1922) in the United States devoted to the advancement of organizational ethics. ERC conducts the The National Business Ethics Survey (NBES)

Established in 2002, the ECGI works improve corporate governance through fostering independent scientific research and related activities

Site includes working papers and links to corporate governance codes

The International Business Ethics Institute promotes business ethics and corporate responsibility through public awareness and dialogue about international business ethics issues, and works closely with companies to assist them in establishing effective international ethics programs.
The International Business Ethics Review (IBER) is the Institute’s flagship publication on business ethics. Selected articles from IBER are available free on the site.

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at York University
Content includes Codes of Conduct and Instruments of Corporate Responsibility (find under Links)



Investigating a Company:



Search for reports on businesses or charities (BBB Wise Giving Alliance).

Provides detailed information relating to the prosecution, defense, and settlement of federal class action securities fraud litigation. The Clearinghouse maintains an Index of Filings of 1849 issuers that have been named in federal class action securities fraud lawsuits since passage of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Clearinghouse also contains copies of more than 2000 complaints, briefs, filings, and other litigation-related materials filed in these cases. 

  List of filings SEC Division of Enforcement

Restricted to SJUDelaware Court of Chancery (in LexisNexis Academic® "Legal"  - More Information)
"The Delaware Court of Chancery is widely recognized as the nation's preeminent forum for the determination of disputes involving the internal affairs of the thousands upon thousands of Delaware corporations and other business entities through which a vast amount of the world's commercial affairs is conducted."

Restricted to SJUFederal and State Legal Cases (in LexisNexis Academic® "Legal"  - More Information)
Access to state and federal litigation records in case law



Selected Books & Journals at the Francis A. Drexel Library:


To locate additional resources, search the Library Catalog using the following subject terms:

"Business Ethics "
"Professional ethics"
"Social responsibility of business"
"Social ethics"


Books

The Blackwell guide to business ethics
Drexel Library Book shelves (2nd fl.) HF5387 .B554 2002 (view catalog record)

Contemporary issues in business ethics 5th ed.
Drexel Library Book shelves (2nd fl.) HF5387 .D39 2005 (view catalog record)

Corporate ethics: the business code of conduct for ethical employees
Drexel Library Book shelves (2nd fl.) HF5387 .B356 2003 (view catalog record)

Ethics at work: basic readings in business ethics
Drexel Library Book shelves (2nd fl.) HF5387 .E836 2003 (view catalog record)

Ethics for international business: decision making in a global political economy
Drexel Library Book shelves (2nd fl.) HF5387 .K578 2005 (view catalog record)

Journals

Restricted to SJUBusiness & professional ethics journal    Find it! @ SJU

Restricted to SJUBusiness and society review   Find it! @ SJU

Restricted to SJUBusiness ethics   Find it! @ SJU

Restricted to SJUBusiness ethics : a European review   Find it! @ SJU

Restricted to SJUBusiness ethics quarterly   Find it! @ SJU

Restricted to SJUEthics & behavior   Find it! @ SJU

Restricted to SJUThe journal of corporate citizenship   Find it! @ SJU




See also:

Resources for Management

Resources for Company Research

Resources for Philosophy

Resources for Theology


Cynthia H. Slater
Business Reference Librarian
Saint Joseph's University
Last revision / review:  August 15, 2008
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