Overview
- Offers a historical perspective on Quaker businesses for contemporary responsible business debates
- Provides a unique account of how spiritual concerns influence leadership and management
- Includes cases and best practices from the banking and finance, transport and consumer-goods industries
Part of the book series: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance (CSEG)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Spirit of Quaker Responsible Business
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An Uneasy Relationship with the State
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Complicated Quakers
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr Nicholas Burton is a senior lecturer in Strategic Management & Corporate Responsibility at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK. Nicholas holds a PhD from Northumbria University and an MBA from Southampton University. Nicholas, a Quaker, publishes in the area of spirituality in management & law, convenes the research group at Quakers & Business, a recognised group of Quakers in Britain, and is an Associate Editor for the Academy of Management, management, spirituality and religion group.
Richard is a director of the renowned Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics, based in Oxford, UK. Richard has a wide range of experience in business, the church and public life. He holds a degree in Theology and PhD in Theology from the University of Durham. Richard has authored several books including an acclaimed biography of the social reformer, Lord Shaftesbury, is a member of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quakers, Business and Corporate Responsibility
Book Subtitle: Lessons and Cases for Responsible Management
Editors: Nicholas Burton, Richard Turnbull
Series Title: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04034-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04033-8Published: 17 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04034-5Published: 07 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2196-7075
Series E-ISSN: 2196-7083
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 185
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Corporate Social Responsibility, Spirituality, Family Business, Faith, Spirituality and Business, Business Ethics
Industry Sectors: Consumer Packaged Goods, Engineering, Finance, Business & Banking, Pharma