{"id":351,"date":"2009-08-28T15:33:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T23:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dlam\/?p=351"},"modified":"2011-07-11T11:27:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T19:27:06","slug":"new-books-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dlam\/2009\/08\/new-books-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/resolve.library.ubc.ca\/cgi-bin\/catsearch?bid=3958443\" target=\"_blank\">Looking beyond profit : small shareholders and the values imperative<\/a>.\u00a0 Author Peggy Chiu argues that financial risk and return are not the only factors affecting the investment\u00a0behaviour of small shareholders.\u00a0 She lays a theoretical and empirical framework which asserts that personal values strongly influence the decisions about the types of investments\u00a0these shareholders make and in which companies they choose to invest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/resolve.library.ubc.ca\/cgi-bin\/catsearch?bid=3803356\" target=\"_blank\">Managing corporate social responsibility in action:\u00a0 talking, doing and measuring<\/a>.\u00a0 The authors of this\u00a0collection of essays focus on different aspects of managing corporate social responsibility\u00a0 in order to explore differences between discourse and practice.\u00a0 They explore three major areas&#8211;talking about CSR, performing CSR and measuring CSR&#8211;and conclude by suggesting strategies to overcome difficulties which might arise from the reality of CSR implementation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/resolve.library.ubc.ca\/cgi-bin\/catsearch?bid=3959679\" target=\"_blank\">The living code:\u00a0 embedding ethics into the corporate DNA<\/a>.\u00a0 This short book presents a model to create, develop and implement codes of conduct in companies.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The practical tips and examples are illustrated with results from a study of the Fortune Global 200 and the author&#8217;s own experience working with KPMG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking beyond profit : small shareholders and the values imperative.\u00a0 Author Peggy Chiu argues that financial risk and return are not the only factors affecting the investment\u00a0behaviour of small shareholders.\u00a0 She lays a theoretical and empirical framework which asserts that personal values strongly influence the decisions about the types of investments\u00a0these shareholders make and in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284242],"tags":[474,4970],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-2","tag-books","tag-corporate-social-responsibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dlam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dlam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dlam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dlam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dlam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dlam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dlam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dlam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dlam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dlam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}