Week 10: Creating Value with Ethical Behavior and Good Corporate Governance Week 10 Readings, Multimedia and Assignments Reading Whetten, D., Rands,...

Week 10: Creating Value with Ethical Behavior and Good Corporate Governance

Week 10 Readings, Multimedia and Assignments

Reading

Whetten, D., Rands, G., & Godfrey, P. (2006). What are the responsibilities of business to society?. In A. Pettigrew, H. Thomas & R. Whittington Handbook of strategy and management (pp. 373-403). London: SAGE Publications Ltd. Doi: 10.4135/9781848608313.n17
Schmitz, A. (Trans.). 2012. Governance and accountability.
Smith, H.J. (2003). The shareholders vs. stakeholders debate. Sloan Management Review, 44(4), 85-90. (UMUC Library)
Erbschloe, M. (2015). Corporate social responsibility. Research Starters: Business (Online Edition). (UMUC Library)

Multimedia

Freeman, R.E. [DardenMBA]. (2009, May 13). Teaching business ethics. [Video file].

Assignment

Discussion Assignments:

This week's discussion activity focuses on corporate governance issues from the perspectives of shareholders, employees, regulatory bodies, and other stakeholders. This discussion will be graded with your Week 8 discussion activity.

Discussion Activity 6 - Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

Propose a recent (within last 3 years) business ethics case that you are familiar with; alternatively search on the internet or among the following resources one business ethics case:

http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/cases.cfm?fam=BUSI
http://web.tepper.cmu.edu/ethics/aa/arthurandersen.htm
http://business-ethics.com/category/csr/page/2/

Discuss this case using the following Corporate Social Responsibility approaches:

Stakeholder Theory
Corporate Citizenship
Corporate Social Performance
Legal, Economic, Moral and Social responsibilities.