In the new edition of Advertising and Promotion you can find the chapter Brands on the Defensive: Ethics and Regulation for Advertising. The authors outline issues within branding and advertising ethics and regulation. And in Michael Beverland’s new title, Brand Management, the chapter on Ethics and Brand Purpose reviews the ethical challenges and issues that can arise from branding, including case studies ranging from LEGO to Panera Bread.
Read MoreThese excerpts from Marketing Planning & Strategy and Social Media Marketing focus on ethics in marketing planning and the privacy, ethical and legal issues inherent in social media marketing. Both include questions for discussion and consideration and real-world examples.
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This excerpt from Employee Engagement in Corporate Social Responsibility examines corporate social responsibility (CSR) through the lens of gender. See key ways in which gender overlaps with CSR at both the organizational and institutional level.
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This chapter from Sustainable Marketing by Mark Peterson highlights important topics for sustainable business practices — especially those related to new ventures led by entrepreneurs. It includes green opportunities, pathways to sustainable business, and a number of real-world case studies.
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Find the full chapter on Sustainable Management in the new edition of Oliver Laasch’s Principles of Management: Practicing Ethics, Responsibility, Sustainability. In this chapter he explores the rise of sustainable development, its tools, and how to manage the triple bottom line.
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This excerpt from the new edition of Managing and Organizations: An Introduction to Theory and Practice describes how to manage ethically and sustainability. The authors review CSR, corporate greening, making business sustainable, and greenwashing.
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This chapter, Ethically Engaging and Empowering Employees, is from the third edition of Denis Collins and Patricia Kanashiro’s new text, Business Ethics: Best Practices for Designing and Managing Ethical Organizations. The authors discuss the benefits of employee engagement and the different ways to ethically engage employees with their work.
Read MoreDo high job demands help employees staying challenged at work, or do they challenge their well-being? This study in Human Relations develops an integrated perspective on the antecedents of burnout, rather than viewing various elements in isolation. It also provides guidance for organizations on how to maintain high job demands by emphasizing collective trust and open communication.
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Do women promote other women? This study in the Journal of Management investigates the question through the lens of gender role theory and managerial discretion. It explores the influence of women CEOs on gender representation in the top management team (TMT) and the role of managerial discretion at the individual, organizational, and task environment levels.
Read MoreThis business case is about the emotional tax—i.e., the feeling of having to protect against bias or unfair treatment and to be continually on guard, that employees faced at The Wing, a female-only coworking space. The Wing hired employees by pitching them feminism, but issues of pay and uncivil behavior in the workplace followed. The case explores emotional labor, discrimination, and the need for repositioning a business.
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This research in the Journal of Marketing Research documents systematic gender performance differences (GPD) at a top business school using a unique administrative data set and survey of students. Read the full article to see their findings (which did show deviations), their discussion of and test for different reasons to explain this, and several important implications of these findings for business schools and for society.
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This article in the Journal of Marketing Education explores the challenges and opportunities of teaching macromarketing and sustainability concepts to business students. How can more macromarketing managers develop and exert their influence in marketplaces around the world?
Read MoreThis new article in Organization & Environment is about how hubris, individually and collectively, has contributed to the climate emergency. It also discusses how an environmental ethic of humility could play an ameliorating role in the crisis.
Read MoreThis article in Management Learning explores a practical approach to teaching animal ethics in food systems as part of a business course. It includes a teaching example that outlines a pedagogy of courageously witnessing, inquiring with empathy, and prompting positive action—an activist approach they term fierce compassion.
Read MoreIn this Sage video, Responsible Business: Good to the Core, two leaders at Innocent Drinks discuss how, and why, they maintain sustainability as a core value throughout its operations.
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While virtual working became the norm for many organizations since March 2020, we know little about its impact on managerial behavior. This article in California Management Review presents the results of three surveys conducted before and during lockdown to understand what changed.
Read MoreNew research from the journal of Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies seeks to understand what types of leadership employees think is most important for supervisors to exhibit when managing in crisis-related contexts. And, in light of assertions that women may be better leaders during times of crisis, it examines gender differences in how male and female supervisors act and how they’re perceived.
Read MoreThis essay in BRQ Business Research Quarterly focuses on the role of leadership in addressing or failing to address crises, paying special attention to the responses to the Covid-19 crisis during 2020.
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To achieve impact, academics need to create personal impact development plans (PIDPs), focused on what and on whom to have an impact and the necessary competencies to do so. This article in Business & Society introduces the concept of PIDPs—including why they’re needed, their content, activities, and the role of university leaders in their successful implementation.
Read MoreThis paper in Strategic Organization argues that management scholars need to vigorously embrace a research agenda on sustainability focusing on deep engagement with practitioners to address grand challenges. The authors offer lessons and identify implications of deep engagement for impact within organization studies.
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