RISULTATI RICERCA

Ways of self-empowerment: people development into organizations as CSR dimension ABSTRACT: The corporate social responsibility is a central challenge, that is articulated along various directions: the corporate ethical codes, the social balance next to the financial balance, the search for sustainable development strategies for the environment and the social context in which the companies operate, the certification of environmental quality, the ethical investments funds, the introduction of the Ethics Officer as a new professional figure inside organizations. Selfempowerment is a challenge for the organizations careful of all CSR aspects.

The Changing Work Ethic ABSTRACT: The aim of this essay is to speculate about the changing work ethic. It is divided in two synthetic parts. In part one I will discuss the changing workplace. In part two I will speculate about the changing work ethic hoping to stimulate further discussions. I do not pretend with this essay to include all the contradictions and work ethic changes of the workplace. It is well know that allover the world millions of workers do not have a job. For them the work ethic is not even part of their daily life. Lately the workplace is changing very fast thanks to the technological revolution and in social science we have to dedicate more attention to all these changes.

Ethics And Corporate Social Responsibility: a Challenge for Capitalism ABSTRACT: The formalisation of ethical conduct or of behavioural norms at work in the texts of firms is not, in itself, a new phenomenon. Already the owners of businesses in the 19th century, in published rules for workshops, imposed a moral code on their workers. Over the past twenty years the charters published by multinationals, in a far more abstract and diverse form, have raised a new debate. The object of this contribution is to propose a certain number of routes for reflection and hypothesis on the subject of this tranformation. This is why we will start from the more contemporary examples by contextualizing the corporate social responsibility movement in a larger set of initiatives. In the second part this paper will rehearse, through an historical perspective, certain traits that characterise relative these contemporary transformations in the relationship between ethics and capitalism.

The Spotlight And The Microphone: Is A Socially Responsible Economy Possible or Necessary? ABSTRACT: The author explains how and why, after ten years of teaching at Leuven University, he has moved from a sceptical point of view towards corporate ethics (or corporate social responsibility, as many scholars prefer to define it nowadays) to a positive option, leading the same author to consider corporate social responsibility as one of the main instruments for a development process towards a more equal and fair society, together with participatory democracy.

Social aspects of ethics in economics. The moral philosophy contribution to the debate about corporate social responsibility ABSTRACT: Jean-Louis Laville Solidarity and Sustainable Development In the modern democracies the polysemic concept of solidarity has been one of the references allowing the construction of social rules and institutional frameworks in which the market economy has been embedded. The so-called fordist compromise between market and welfare state was an emblematic example of such an embededness. After the end of this compromise the text suggests the following hypothesis: the notion of sustainable development becomes central to imagine a new phase of compromise between economy and society. But this notion implicitly evokes two contrasted projects, one based one philanthropic solidarity, the other one based on democratic solidarity. It is possible to better understand the role of corporate social responsibility when referred to these two projects, reactualizing constant debates about solidarity.

Ethics and Economics: conceptual Backgrounds of Division and Unity ABSTRACT: Considering the recent financial capitalism development and the ethical ‘collapse’ in this specific sphere of economic action as the new figure of classical contest between ethics and economics, this paper is intended to be a record of the sources both of ethics and economics division and unity in the contemporary conceptual horizons. In particular, the aim is to show how difficult is for our dominant views in ethics, coming out from a long way of antithesis against the instrumental rational pattern of economic action, to focus attention on the real unitarian model the aristotelean one that embeds economics inside ethics. By this, also Amartya Sen proposal of an aristotelean connection between ethics and economics is analysed and criticized because of his subterranean link with the divisionistic contemporary positions.