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Social responsibility of business

Here are entered works on the social responsibilities of business, corporations and industry. Works on the impact of industry on culture and societal changes are entered under Industries -- Social aspects. Works on social relations within industry, as distinguished from labor-management relations, are entered under Industrial sociology.

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• Business and Human Rights in a Time of Change (1999), by Christopher L. Avery (HTML at business-humanrights.org)
• The Trillion Dollar Shift: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals; Business for Good is Good Business (Milton Park and New York: Routledge, c2018), by Marga Hoek (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at Taylor and Francis)
• Gods of Commerce: The Big World View of Business (c1995), by Michael Phillips (HTML at well.com)
• Greening IT: How a Greening IT Can Form a Solid Base for a Low-Carbon Society (c2009), ed. by Adrian T. Sobotta, Irene N. Sobotta, and John Gøtze
  • PDF with commentary at wfsf.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Surveillance Giants: How the Business Model of Google and Facebook Threatens human Rights (in multiple languages; 2019), by Amnesty International (PDF files with commentary at amnesty.org)

• The Enron Corporation: Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations (1999), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML at hrw.org)

• The Price of Oil: Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights Violations in Nigeria's Oil Producing Communities, by Bronwen Manby (HTML at hrw.org)

• Rebuilding Cleveland: The Cleveland Foundation and Its Evolving Urban Strategy (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1992), by Diana Tittle (PDF at Ohio State)

• Public Values Leadership: Striving to Achieve Democratic Ideals (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021), by Barry Bozeman and Michael M. Crow (multiple formats with commentary at Project Muse)
• Power and Accountability, by Robert A. G. Monks and Nell Minow (HTML at lens-library.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Negations: Essays in Critical Theory (London: MayFlyBooks, 2009), by Herbert Marcuse, trans. by Jeremy J. Shapiro (PDF at monoskop.org)
• Tools for Conviviality, by Ivan Illich (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Gamification at Work: Designing Engaging Business Software, by Janaki Kumar and Mario Herger (HTML with commentary at interaction-design.org)

• Modern Industry in Relation to the Family, Health, Education, Morality (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1914), by Florence Kelley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940: A Quantitative Study in Social Change (originally published 1975; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Louis Galambos, contrib. by Barbara Barrow Spence (multiple formats with commentary at Project Muse)

• Fundamentals of Business (second edition; Blacksburg, VA: VT Publishing, 2018), by Stephen J. Skripak (multiple formats with commentary at vt.edu)
• Exploring Business (version 2.0, derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2011), by Karen Collins (PDF at saylor.org)
• Gods of Commerce: The Big World View of Business (c1995), by Michael Phillips (HTML at well.com)
• A History of Business (2 volumes; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1963), by Miriam Beard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Understanding American Business (New York: Macmillan, 1939), by Humphrey B. Neill and Howard M. Cool (page images at HathiTrust)
• A History of the Business Man (New York: Macmillan, 1938), by Miriam Beard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Business and Law, or, The Careful Man's Guide: A Complete Legal and Business Compendium, Including Facts, Figures, Tables, Weights, Measures, Statistics, Short Cuts in Figures, etc.; To Which is Added, Practical Home Building and The Busy Man's Atlas (Boston et al.: Hertel, Jenkins and Co., 1907), by E. T. Roe and Elihu G. Loomis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Business Psychology (Los Angeles: New Literature Pub. Co., 1912), by Christian D. Larson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fundamentals of Prosperity: What They Are and Whence They Come (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1920), by Roger Ward Babson (Gutenberg text and page images)
• How to Make Money, and How to Keep It: or, Capital and Labor (Detroit: Chamberlain Pub. Co., 1884), by Thomas A. Davies and Henry A. Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, by Walter Dill Scott
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• The New Industrial Day (New York: The Century Co., 1913), by William Cox Redfield (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Theory of Business Enterprise, by Thorstein Veblen (text files at McMaster)
• An Address on Success in Business (1867), by Horace Greeley (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)
• Business Hints for Men and Women, by A. R. Calhoun (Gutenberg text)
• How to Make Money, and How to Keep It (New York: G. W. Carleton; London: S. Low, Son, and Co., 1867), by Thomas A. Davies (multiple formats at Googld)
• Influencing Men in Business: The Psychology of Argument and Suggestion (New York: Ronald Press Co., 1911), by Walter Dill Scott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Management Through Accounts (New York: Ronald Press Co., c1924), by James H. Bliss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mayhew's Practical Book-Keeping Embracing Single and Double Entry, Commercial Calculations, and the Philosophy and Morals of Business, by Ira Mayhew (page images at MOA)
• Training for Power and Leadership (Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co., c1923), by Grenville Kleiser (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Vested Interests and the Common Man, by Thorstein Veblen (text at McMaster)
• The Vested Interests and the State of the Industrial Arts ("The Modern Point of View and the New Order") (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1919), by Thorstein Veblen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Worth and Wealth: A Collection of Maxims, Morals and Miscellanies for Merchants and Men of Business, by Freeman Hunt (page images at MOA)

• Cyclopaedia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes (published under "Frazar Kirkland" pseudonym in 2 volumes; New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1864), by R. M. Devens
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Cyclopaedia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes (published under "Frazar Kirkland" pseudonym in 1 volume; New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1868), by R. M. Devens
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Notebooks of James Gillespie Hamilton, by James Gillespie Hamilton (HTML at LOC)
• The Argonauts of Forty-Nine, by David Rohrer Leeper (illustrated HTML at LOC)
• One Man's Gold: The Letters and Journal of a Forty-Niner (1930), by Enos Christman, ed. by Florence Morrow Christman (PDF and XML at loc.gov)
• "Both Sides Told," or, Southern California As It Is, by Mary C. Vail (HTML at LOC)
• California '46 to '88, by Jacob Wright Harlan (HTML at LOC)
• Our Italy, by Charles Dudley Warner (HTML at LOC)
• Recollections of a '49er, by Edward Washington McIlhany (HTML at LOC)
• Recollections of a Long and Somewhat Uneventful Life, by Stephen Allen Bemis (HTML at LOC)

• Sprouts: Working Papers on Information Systems (2000-) (full serial archives)

• Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy (online edition, c2005), by Ron Goldman and Richard P. Gabriel (HTML with commentary at dreamsongs.com)

• Sprouts: Working Papers on Information Systems (2000-) (full serial archives)
• Subject-Oriented Business Process Management (c2011), by Albert Fleischmann, Werner Schmidt, Christian Stary, Stefan Obermeier, and E. Börger (multiple formats with commentary at SpringerLink)
• Gamification at Work: Designing Engaging Business Software, by Janaki Kumar and Mario Herger (HTML with commentary at interaction-design.org)

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