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International Association for Business and Society

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Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics

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Business ethics organization; Organization for issues on social responsibility of business; Professional business ethics organization; Social responsibility of business organization

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This is a brief description of the history of the International Association for Business and Society (IABS).

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The IABS is, according to its website, “a learned society devoted to research and teaching about relationships between business, government and society.” Its field of research is broadly defined as covering “various aspects of the interface between management and the social political dynamics of the surrounding society. It includes, among others, research on corporate social responsibility and performance, emerging social issues for business, business ethics, environmental affairs, and business and government relations.”

The Association was founded in 1990, 30 years after the journal Business and Society. Readers of the encyclopedia entry on that journal will find...

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  1. University of Northern British Columbia, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Alex C. Michalos

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  1. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Deborah C Poff

  2. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Alex C. Michalos

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  1. University of Northern British Columbia, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Alex C. Michalos C.M., Ph.D., D. Litt., F.R.S.C.

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Michalos, A.C. (2017). International Association for Business and Society. In: Poff, D., Michalos, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23514-1_296-1

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