Melé Carné, Domènec; Dierksmeier, Claus; Cátedra de Ética Empresarial y de los Negocios
A more humanistic approach toward management may be the answer to growing problems that currently plague our economic system, argue editors Domènec Melé and Claus Dierksmeier in the introduction of their book Human Development in Business, written in response to Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical that sought to realign economic matters with their social purpose.
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Melé Carné, Domènec
According to IESE’s Domènec Melé, the current global economic difficulties may contain a silver lining. Faced with the risks of doing “business as usual,” some managers are beginning to shift their focus from short-term gain to long-term sustainability. In his new book, Management Ethics, Melé sees this shift as part of a general trend toward placing ethics back at the core of management.
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Melé Carné, Domènec; Mammoser, T.L.
IESE’s Domènec Melé and Thomas Mammoser, of the Midtown Educational Foundation of Chicago, use the example of the U.S. drugstore chain Walgreens to identify four major factors for delivering a meaningful and successful program of corporate community involvement.
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Melé Carné, Domènec
The much-talked-about movie, The Social Network, which depicts the Facebook phenomenon, casts some of the conduct surrounding social networks in a less-than-flattering light. IESE’s Chair of Business Ethics, Domènec Melé, attempts to define morally responsible networking, as we learn to navigate an increasingly complex web of relationships and structures.
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Melé Carné, Domènec
Imagine you are the general manager of a Spanish company with hotels in the Caribbean. On your first trip there, you discover candidates for cleaning staff at your hotel are required to have pregnancy tests. It’s legal, and no one seems to mind, but it occurs to you that women could be having abortions to get jobs. What do you do? In his new book, Business Ethics in Action, Domènec Melé poses dilemmas like this in a bid to get the new generation of managers, executives and consultants thinking about how to deal ethically.
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Melé Carné, Domènec
In the field of corporate social responsibility, four theories are currently considered the most relevant: corporate social performance, shareholder value, stakeholder theory and corporate citizenship. Each has strengths and weaknesses, and understanding the possibilities and limitations of each will help you decide which CSR approach is best for your organization, as IESE Prof. Domènec Melé explains.
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Melé Carné, Domènec
The philosopher Mary Parker Follett was ahead of her time. More than 70 years ago, when business ethics was basically unheard of, she began studying the issue and wrote: "The chief function of business is to give an opportunity for individual development through the better organization of human relationships." Her work prompted important questions about setting ethical standards and integrating ethics into management decisions. IESE Professor Domènec Melé examines her avant-garde ideas more closely in the paper "Ethics in Management: Exploring the Contribution of Mary Parker Follett."
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Melé Carné, Domènec; Guillén, M.
Which shouts more loudly: ethics or the ever-present need for competitive advantage? While the focus is still on the competitive landscape, managers are talking more − and more seriously − about ethics and social responsibility. Nevertheless, moral issues tend to be talked about in terms of how they can contribute to future earnings. This should not be so, argue Domènec Melé and Manuel Guillén in the paper "The Intellectual Evolution of Strategic Management and Its Relationship With Ethics and Social Responsibility." The professors present an historical insight on this problem and state that ethics is an intrinsic requirement for any human activity, including business. They insist that ethics and strategy should be soundly integrated: In addition, when they are, it "tends to work in favor of future business results."
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Melé Carné, Domènec
Despite codes on Good Government and control mechanisms implemented by administrations and companies, financial crime continues. The resulting scandals create social unrest and distrust, and give a bad image to companies, markets and entire countries. So, how can financial crime be prevented? Finding out the source of the offenses could help and IESE ethics professor Domenec Melé takes on the task by analyzing the reasons that led to the Enron and Parmalat scandals. In his opinion, there are four determining factors: the method of raising capital; the decision-making practices; the existing regulation and social control within the organization; and corporate culture. Yet, beyond these factors are individuals who have their own virtues or moral beliefs and can cause - though not alone - financial scandals.
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Melé Carné, Domènec
The worlds top drug companies - Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi-Aventis, Novartis and Lilly - have to swallow a lot of harsh criticism. Their detractors accuse them of putting profits ahead of solidarity, of inventing illnesses like "male menopause," and of providing the world's most lucrative markets with new drugs while neglecting the world's most poor and sick. In the paper "The Five Largest Pharmaceutical Companies: Corporate Image and Criticisms in the Context of Social Responsibility," Domènec Melé, Professor of Business Ethics and holder of the Chair of Economics and Ethics at IESE, examines how the "big pharmas" stack up against the criticism.
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