FROM BUSINESS ETHICS TO SUSTAINABILITY. WHY SHOULD COMPANIES CARE?
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The article analyzes the origin of business ethics as the root element for corporate social responsibility theory and some sustainability frameworks, while at the same time considering the contribution of each of the three concepts. It also analyzes why business ethics is the main pillar for creating socially responsible organizations and how the three variables coexist and interconnect in order to create more sustainable organizations that contribute to both sustainable
development, and more balanced and just communities. Finally, it offers recommendations.
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Orozco Martínez, I. (2020). FROM BUSINESS ETHICS TO SUSTAINABILITY. WHY SHOULD COMPANIES CARE?. The Anáhuac Journal, 20(1), Págs. 76–105. Retrieved from https://pruebapub.anahuac.mx/index.php/the_anahuac_journal/article/view/260
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the Purpose of a Corporation to Promote “An Economy That Serves
All Americans”». Business Roundtable. https://www.businessroundtable.org/
business-roundtable-redefines-the-purpose-of-a-corporation-to-promotean-
economy-that-serves-all-americans
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and efforts to eradicate poverty. https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/
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de divulgación 7. Buenos Aires: Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo e Instituto
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the environment to CSR and sustainable development». Journal of World Business.
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kpmg/mx/es/home/tendencias/2018/02/encuesta-desarrollo-sostenible-enmexico-
2018.html
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Esfuerzos colaborativos para el crecimiento”». KPMG. https://home.kpmg/mx/
es/home/sala-de-prensa/press-releases/2019/02/kpmg-presenta-perspectivasde-
la-alta-direccion-en-mexico-2019.html
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y casos. Montevideo: Editorial Grupo Magro.
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empresarial, México: ESADE.
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y creación de valor compartido (CVC)». Journal Globalization, Competitiveness &
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4 (2): 79-92.
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». Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 140, parte 1: 17-31.
Savater, F. (2002). «La ética en el mundo de hoy» (conferencia). Monterrey, Nuevo
León: Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Savater, F. (2014). Ética para la Empresa. Barcelona: Conecta.
Schwab, K. (2016). La cuarta revolución industrial. World Economic Forum.
Thulasivelu, K. (2012). Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and Governance.
India: Sasurie College of Engineering, Department of Management Sciences.
Valor, C. (2005). «Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Citizenship: towards
Corporate Accountability». Business and Society Review, 110 (2): 191-212.
Vives, A. (2006). «Social and environmental responsibility in small and medium
enterprises in Latin America». The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 21: 85-94.
Werner, K y Weiss, H. (2003). El libro negro de las marcas: el lado oscuro de las empresas
globales (3ª. ed.). Buenos Aires, Editorial Sudamericana.
Weyzig, F. (2006). «Local and global dimensions of corporate social responsibility in
Mexico». The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, vol. 24: 39-50.
Sesiones y asesorías directas
G. Broman y K.H. Robèrt (2005). Programa de posgrado Master’s for Strategic Leadership
towards Sustainability. Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Karlskrona, Suecia.
Robèrt, K.H. (2005). Karlskrona, Suecia.
Obras consultadas
Carroll, A. B. (2000). «The Four Faces of Corporate Citizenship». En Richardson, J. E.
(ed.). Business Ethics 00/01. Nueva York: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill: 187-191.
Cedillo, C.; Garcia-French, M.; Hordijk, R. y Lana Olup, K.N. (2012). «Four Case Studies
on Corporate Social Responsibility: Do Conflicts Affect a Company’s Corporate
Social Responsibility Policy?». Utrecht Law Review, vol. 8, núm. 3.
Díaz, R. (2017). «La relación entre desempeño financiero y responsabilidad social
empresarial (un estudio de 63 empresas emisoras de la Bolsa Mexicana de Valores)
». The Anáhuac Journal, vol. 17, núm. 1.
Duque, Y., Cardona, M. y Rendón, J. (2013). «Responsabilidad Social Empresarial:
Teorías, índices, estándares y certificaciones». Cuadernos de Administración, vol.
29, núm. 50: 196-206.
Gardiner, R. (2018). «Ethical Responsibility - An Arendtian Turn». Business Ethics
Quarterly 28: 1.
GlobeScan & SustainAbility (2017). Evaluating Progress toward the Sustainable Development
Goals. https://globescan.com/evaluating-progress-towards-the-sdgs/
GlobeScan (2018). The 2018 GlobeScan-SustainAbility Leaders Survey. https://globescan.
com/2018-sustainability-leaders-report/
Goel, M. y Ramanathan, P. (2014). «Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility.
Is there a dividing line?». ScienceDirect. Procedia Economics and Finance.
Elsevier, vol. 11: 49-59.
González, A., (2018). «Re-thinking social responsibility and business ethics. A review
of the thinking of Gilles Lipovetsky». Gestión y estrategia, núm. 53.
Haces, J.A. (2015) Motivaciones de la responsabilidad social corporativa en Latinoamérica.
The Anahuac Journal, vol. 15, núm. 2: 11.
Nizam, E.; Ng, A.; Dewandarub, G.; Nagayevc, R. y Nkoba, M.A. (2019). The impact
of social and environmental sustainability on financial performance: A global
analysis of the banking sector. Journal of Multinational Financial Management,
Elsevier. Volume 49(C): 35-53.