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Thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, Second Edition explores current topics, such as mass social media, cookies, and cyber-attacks, as well as traditional issues including accounting, discrimination, environmental concerns, and management. The new edition also includes an in-depth examination of current and recent ethical affairs, such as the dangerous work environments of off-shore factories for Western retailers, the negligence resulting in the 2010 BP oil spill, Apple's exploitation of outdated tax code, the gender wage gap, the minimum wage debate and increasing income disparity and the unparalleled level of debt in the U.S. and other countries with the challenges it presents to many societies and the considerable impact on the ethics of intergenerational wealth transfers. Key features include: seven volumes, with more than 1,200 signed entries by significant figures in the field cross-references and suggestions for further readings to guide students to in-depth resources Thematic Reader's Guide groups related entries by general topics Index allows for thorough browse-and-search capabilities in the electronic edition.

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Author:   Robert W. Kolb
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   SAGE Publications Inc
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
ISBN:  

9781483381527

ISBN 10:   1483381528
Pages:   4072
Publication Date:   28 June 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Volume 1 List of Entries Reader's Guide About the Editor Contributors Introduction Entries A Entries B Entries C Volume 2 List of Entries Entry C (Cont) Entry D Entry E Volume 3 List of Entries Entry E (Cont) Entry F Entry G Volume 4 List of Entries Entry G (Cont) Entry H Entry I Entry J Entry K Entry L Volume 5 List of Entries Entry M Entry N Entry O Entry P Volume 6 List of Entries Entry P (Cont) Entry Q Entry R Entry S List of Entries Volume 7 Entry S (Cont) Entry T Entry U Entry V Entry W Entry Z Appendix Index Barter - Clark Farmer Empathy - Clark Farmer Pornography - Clark Farmer Business Judgment Rule - John Holcomb Golden Parachutes - John Holcomb Interest Groups - John Holcomb Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) - John Holcomb Political Action Committees (PACs) - John Holcomb Shareholder Resolutions - John Holcomb Shareholders - John Holcomb Airline Deregulation - William Martello Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) - William Martello Savings and Loan Scandal - William Martello

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Robert W. Kolb is Professor of Finance and the Frank W. Considine Chair of Applied Ethics in the business school at Loyola University Chicago. Kolb's career as a finance professor spans almost three decades and includes appointments at the University of Florida, Emory University, and the University of Miami, where he served as department chair and as the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Finance. Recently he was Professor of Finance and Assistant Dean for Business and Society at the University of Colorado at Boulder. There he led the school's program in business ethics and business and society. He has published more than 50 academic research articles and more than 20 books. In 1990, he founded Kolb Publishing Company to publish finance and economics university texts, built the company's list over the ensuing years, and sold the firm to Blackwell Publishers of Oxford, England, in 1995. He also recently published the sixth edition of Understanding Futures Markets and the fifth edition of Futures, Options, and Swaps (both with James A. Overdahl). He recently edited three monographs: The Ethics of Executive Compensation, The Ethics of Genetic Commerce, and Corporate Retirement Security: Social and Ethical Issues. He is the general editor for the five-volume Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society. He earned two Ph.D.s from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (one in philosophy, in 1974, and the other in finance, in 1978).

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