Christian Ethics and Corporate Culture A Critical View on Corporate
The essays collected in this book discuss the contemporary pratice of corporate responsibility by applying the Christian principles of the unity of knowledge and pursuit of truth to the traditional principles of justice, human dignity and the common good,
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Bartholomew Okonkwo Editor
Christian Ethics and Corporate Culture A Critical View on Corporate Responsibilities
CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance Series Editors Samuel O. Idowu, London, United Kingdom Rene´ Schmidpeter, Ingolstadt, Germany
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Bartholomew Okonkwo Editor
Christian Ethics and Corporate Culture A Critical View on Corporate Responsibilities
Editor Bartholomew Okonkwo St. Bonaventure’s Center for Catholic Studies Onitsha-ana Nigeria
ISBN 978-3-319-00938-4 ISBN 978-3-319-00939-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-00939-1 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013944659 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
The business of business should not be about money, it should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed. —Dame Anita Roddick
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Preface
We live in a troubled world besieged with numerous social and environmental problems. Some of these problems are local in that they affect people in a particular location or community while others are global in scale. Does the belief in an automatic link between
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