Quakers, Business and Corporate Responsibility: Lessons and Cases for Responsible Management

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-vi The Quakers: Pioneers of Responsible Management (Nicholas Burton, Richard Turnbull)....Pages 1-5 Front Matter ....Pages 7-7 Transforming Contemporary Businesses: The Impact of Quaker Principles and Insights on Business in a Volatile World (Georgeanne Lamont)....Pages 9-23 Towards a Set of Quaker Business Values (John Kimberley)....Pages 25-40 Cadbury’s Ethics and the Spirit of Corporate Social Responsibility (Andrew Fincham)....Pages 41-58 Front Matter ....Pages 59-59 Quaker Employer Conference of 1918 (Karen Tibbals)....Pages 61-77 Honey I Shrunk the State (Mike King)....Pages 79-94 Quakers, Free Trade and Social Responsibility (Richard Turnbull)....Pages 95-109 The Quakers and the Joint Stock Company: Uneasy Bedfellows (Donncha Kavanagh, Martin Brigham)....Pages 111-128 Front Matter ....Pages 129-129 Thomas Jefferson’s Complicated Friends (Sue Kozel)....Pages 131-152 John Bellers (1654–1725): ‘A Veritable Phenomenon in the History of Political Economy’ (Paul N. Anderson)....Pages 153-181 Back Matter ....Pages 183-185