1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462330003321

Titolo

Computing research for sustainability [[electronic resource] /] / Lynette I. Millett and Deborah L. Estrin, editors ; Committee on Computing Research for Environmental and Societal Sustainability ; Computer Science and Telecommunications Board ; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences ; National Research Council of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-63611-5

0-309-25759-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MillettLynette I

EstrinDeborah (Deborah Lynn)

Disciplina

577.2

Soggetti

Sustainable development - Research

Sustainable development - Data processing

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter ""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Roles and Opportunities for Information Technology in Meeting Sustainability Challenges""; ""2 Elements of a Computer Science Research Agenda for Sustainability""; ""3 Programmatic and Institutional Opportunities to Enhance Computer Science Research for Sustai""; ""Appendix A: Summary of a Workshop on Innovation in Computing and Information Technology for Sustainability""; ""Appendix B: Biographies of Committee Members and Staff""



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910337791703321

Titolo

Quakers, Business and Corporate Responsibility : Lessons and Cases for Responsible Management / / edited by Nicholas Burton, Richard Turnbull

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-04034-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 pages)

Collana

CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, , 2196-7075

Disciplina

658.408

174.4

Soggetti

Social responsibility of business

Spirituality

Family-owned business enterprises

Business—Religious aspects

Business ethics

Corporate Social Responsibility

Family Business

Faith, Spirituality and Business

Business Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Part 1: The spirit of Quaker responsible business -- Chapter 1: Transforming contemporary Businesses:the Impact of Quaker principles and insights on business in a volatile world -- Chapter 2: Towards a set of Quaker business values -- Chapter 3: Cadbury’s ethics and the spirit of Corporate Social Responsibility -- Part 2: An uneasy relationship with the State -- Chapter 4: Quaker Employer Conference of 1918 -- Chapter 5: Honey I shrunk the state -- Chapter 6: Quakers, free trade and social responsibility -- Chapter 7: The Quakers and the joint stock company: uneasy bedfellows -- Part 3: Complicated Quakers -- Chapter 8: Thomas Jefferson’s complicated Friends -- Chapter 9: John Bellers (1654-1725)—A veritable phenomenon in the history of political economy’.



Sommario/riassunto

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 social responsibility, as well as to managers and practitioners in an increasingly complex business world. The contributions in this volume assess the factors that explain the success and prosperity of many Quaker businesses throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, discussing the lessons learned from their disappearance from prominence. By drawing upon examples that illustrate the Quaker ethic, it also considers what so-called “Quakernomics” can contribute to contemporary responsible business theory and practice. .