This book explores the relationship between moral action and economic action with a special focus on the firm. Considers self-regulation and firm integrity and corporate responsibility - social, civil, political and environmental - in a rapidly changing world.

Firms, the most significant nucleus of modern economic activity, are very special social organisations with economic purposes and also a responsibility for pursuing the welfare of all ranks of society. This requires moral commitment at a subjective and collective level, i.e. ethics. In this book, a renowned author with long experience as a consultant to large firms explores the relationship between moral action and economic action with particular reference to the firm. Diverse aspects of corporate responsibility social, civil, political, and environmental within a rapidly changing world are investigated from a philosophical perspective. Prerequisites for self-regulation are considered and aspects of responsibility beyond the law, such as charters of values and codes of ethics, are discussed. Particular attention is paid to firm integrity and different spheres of justice, each of which has its own criteria for the distribution of goods.

Unconventional philosophical approach to firm governance Examines diverse aspects of corporate responsibility Written by a renowned author with long experience as a consultant to large firms Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Giulio Sapelli is Full Professor of Economic History at the University of Milan. He has previously taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, the University of Buenos Aires, the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Prof. Sapelli has published very extensively on a wide range of topics, including the energy industry and management, market pathologies and the need for institutional, organisational and ethical transparency, territorial socioeconomic systems and anthropology and economics. He was one of the founders of the journal Industrial and Corporate Change (Oxford University Press) and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee for Modern Italy and the International Academic Board of the Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans. Prof. Sapelli has been a member of the Boards of eni and Unicredit Group as independent director and President of M.E.T.A. s.pa.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Ethics and Justice.- 2. Ethics.- 3. On "Corporate Responsibility".- 4. Environmental Responsibility and Corporate Culture: the Prerequisites for Self-Regulation.- 5. Responsibility Beyond the Law.- 6. Firm Integrity and Spheres of Justice.- 7. A Final Thought on Reparative Justice.