Quakers, Business and Corporate Responsibility Lessons and Cases for
This book explores how the distinctive "Quaker" approach to responsible business is based on honesty, truth and integrity. It analyzes how networks, family and succession are at its heart, and how much this approach offers to current debates on corporate
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Nicholas Burton Richard Turnbull Editors
Quakers, Business and Corporate Responsibility Lessons and Cases for Responsible Management
CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance
Series editors Samuel O. Idowu, London Metropolitan University, London, United Kingdom René Schmidpeter, Cologne Business School, Cologne, Germany
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11565
Nicholas Burton • Richard Turnbull Editors
Quakers, Business and Corporate Responsibility Lessons and Cases for Responsible Management
Editors Nicholas Burton Newcastle Business School Northumbria University Newcastle, UK
Richard Turnbull Centre of Markets, Enterprise & Ethics Oxford, UK
ISSN 2196-7075 ISSN 2196-7083 (electronic) CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance ISBN 978-3-030-04033-8 ISBN 978-3-030-04034-5 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04034-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018966594 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 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. 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. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Contents
The Quakers: Pioneers of Responsible Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nicholas Burton and Richard Turnbull Part I
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The Spirit of Quaker Responsible Business
Transforming Contemporary Businesses: The Impact of Quaker Principles and Insights on Business in a Volatile World . . . . . . . . . . . . . Georgeanne Lamont
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Towards a Set of Quaker Business Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Kimberley
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Cadbury’s Ethics and the Spirit of Corporate Social Responsibility . . . . Andrew Fincham
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Part II
An Uneasy Relationship with the State
Quaker Employer Conference of 1918 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Karen Tibbals
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Honey I Shrunk th
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