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Part I: From CSR and Business Ethics to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) -- Chapter 1: Ethics and Justice in the International World: The Problem of Globalization and the Need for a Cosmopolitan Spirit -- Toward a critical philosophy of globalization -- Globalization, misery of the world, and struggle for recognition -- Globalization as an expression of hyper modernity and world culture -- Criticism of globalization and hope for an exit from the crisis -- Hope of cosmopolitanism -- Chapter 2: Sustainability and Business Ethics in a Global Society -- Methodology of sustainability and business ethics -- The values of business corporations -- Application in the different fields of sustainability and business ethics -- International legal developments of business ethics and CSR -- Integrity, trust, accountability, and legitimacy -- Chapter 3: Ethics of Administration: Towards Sustainability and Cosmopolitanism -- Changed conditions for administration ethics: the competition state -- Challenges to administration ethics: crisis and corruption -- Values of administration ethics: cosmopolitanism and sustainability -- Theoretical framework for administration ethics -- Urgent issues for administration ethics -- Chapter 4: Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, and Stakeholder Management -- Sustainability and corporate citizenship -- The concept of corporate social responsibility -- Corporate social responsibility in stakeholder management -- Institutional theory and stakeholder management -- Chapter 5: Business Sustainability and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) -- From the millennium goals to the SDGs -- The challenge of the SDGs -- Criticism of sustainable development to transformation toward another economy -- Civil society and partnerships for the SDGs -- Part II: Philosophy of Management and Ethical Economy of Sustainability -- Chapter 6: Philosophy of Management and Ethical Interdependence in the Anthropocene Age -- Epistemological foundations of Anthropocene ethics -- The anthropology of the interdependence of man and nature -- The natural and socio-cultural interdependence of the new climate regime -- Resilience management and governance at the Anthropocene age -- Toward a new geopolitics of sustainability -- Chapter 7: Environmental Catastrophe and Challenges to Ethical Decision-making -- The challenge of Fukushima for the environment -- Fukushima as a symbol of the logic of technology in modernity -- Political economy and responsibility after Fukushima -- Ethical complexity thinking in organizational decision-making -- Chapter 8: From the Financial Crisis to a New Economics of Sustainability -- Ethics in economic history -- The Neo-liberal concept of economics -- Welfare economics an the criticism of Neo-classical concepts of rationality -- The ethics out of economics -- Economic anthropology and the foundations of rationality -- Missed rationality of economic decision-making -- Chapter 9: Ethical Economy and the Environment -- the concept of an ethical economy -- The need for an ethical economy today -- Application of an ethical economy: ecology, sustainability, and capitalism -- Beyond anthropocentric environmental ethics -- From ethics to law -- The balanced company -- Toward a research agenda for an ethical economy -- Chapter 10: The Concept of Equality in Ethics and Political Economy -- The concept of equality in ethics and political philosophy -- Equality and distribution of wealth -- Conceptions and perspectives for ethics and political economy -- Part III: Foundations of Philosophy of Management, Ethics, and Sustainability -- Chapter 11: The Dark Side of Sustainability: Evil in Organizations and Corporations -- Hannah Arendt: the banality of evil -- Detailed analysis of Eichmann's banality of evil -- Moral blindness in institutions and organizations -- Responsibility and reflective judgement -- Evil in modern philosophy -- Chapter 12: The Ethics of Integrity: A New Foundation of Sustainable Wholeness -- Integrity in business and politics -- Integrity as existential subjectivity -- Integrity as a virtue -- Integrity as organizational integrity -- Integrity as practical judgement -- Chapter 13: Recognition between Cultures as the Foundation of Ethical and Political Sustainability --recent definition of recognition: Paul Ricoeur's philosophy -- Origins of recognition: Hegel and Kojeve -- The gift as a recognition: Marcel mauss -- French thought of the impossibility of recognition and the gift -- American introduction of the problem of recognition -- German reformulation of the problem of recognition -- Hermeneutical reintroduction of recognition: Paul Ricoeur -- From recognition to acknowledgement: Patchen Markell -- Toward what kind of sustainable recognition between cultures? -- Chapter 14: Philosophy of Management in the Hypermodern Experience Economy -- Creativity, sustainability, and the experience economy -- Subjectivity and the concept of experience -- What kind of society made the experience economy possible? -- What is the morality and ethics of the experience society? -- Can critical management studies and the experience economy be combined? -- Perspectives for sustainability in Hypermodernity -- Part IV: Responsible Management of Sustainability -- Chapter 15: The Principle of Responsibility: Rethinking CSR as SDG Management -- Business and management for sustainability -- Sustainability and corporate social responsibility -- toward a new responsibility for sustainable development

Start small, think big: Starting and growing the business. If you can dream it, you can do it -- There's a gap in the market, but is there a market in the gap? -- You can learn all you need to know about the competition's operation by looking in his garbage cans -- The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows -- Be first or be better -- Put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket -- Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get -- Broaden your vision, and maintain stability while advancing forward -- Nothing great is created suddenly -- The role of the CEO is to enable people to excel -- Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken -- A corporation is a living organism : it has to continue to shed its skin -- Without continuous growth and progress, success has no meaning -- If you believe in something, work nights and weekends -- it won't feel like work -- Lighting the fire: Leadership and human resources. Managers do things right, leaders do the right thing -- None of us is as smart as all of us -- Innovation must be invasive and perpetual: everyone, everywhere, all of the time -- Dissent adds spice, spirit, and an invigorating quality -- No great manager or leader ever fell from heaven -- A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way -- Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results -- Leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do -- The way forward may not be to go forward -- The more a person can do, the more you can motivate them -- Be an enzyme -- a catalyst for change -- The worst disease that afflicts executives is egotism -- Emotional intelligence is the intersection of heart and head -- Management is a practice where art, science, and craft meet -- A camel is a horse designed by committee -- The art of thinking independently, together -- Making money work: Managing finances. Do no let yourself be involved in a fraudulent business -- Executive officers must be free from avarice -- If wealth is placed where it bears interest, it comes back to you redoubled -- Borrow short, lend long -- The interests of the shareholders are our own -- Make the best quality of goods at the lowest cost, paying the highest wages possible -- Utilize OPM -- other people's money -- Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom -- Debt is the worst poverty -- Cash is king -- Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked -- Return on equity is a financial goal that can become an own goal -- As the role of private equity has grown, so have the risks it poses -- Assign costs according to the resources consumed -- Working with a vision: Strategy and operations. Turn every disaster into an opportunity -- If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses -- The main thing to remember is, the main thing is the main thing -- You don't need a huge company, just a computer and a part-time person -- Don't get caught in the middle -- The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do -- Synergy and other lies -- The Chinese word "crisis" is composed of two characters: "danger" and "opportunity" -- You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term -- Market attractiveness, business attractiveness -- Only the paranoid survive -- To excel, tap into people's capacity to learn -- The future of business is selling less of more -- To be an optimist ... have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose -- Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable -- The strongest competitive forces determine the profitability of an industry -- If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete -- If you don't know where you are, a map won't help -- Chaos brings uneasiness, but it also allows for creativity and growth -- Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astonish the other -- There is no such thing as a minor lapse in integrity -- Make it easier to do the right thing and much harder to do the wrong thing -- Successful selling: Marketing management. Marketing is far too important to leave to the marketing department -- Know the customer so well that the product fits them and sells itself -- Attention, Interest, Desire, Action -- Marketing myopia -- The cash cow is the beating heart of the organization -- Expanding away from your core has risks; diversification doubles them -- If you're different, you will stand out -- There is only one boss: the customer -- Whitewashing, but with a green brush -- People want companies to believe in something beyond maximizing profits -- Everybody likes something extra for nothing -- In good times people want to advertise; in bad times they have to -- Make your thinking as funny as possible -- E-commerce is becoming mobile commerce -- Trying to predict the future is like driving with no lights looking out of the back window -- Product, place, price, promotion -- Delivering the goods: Production and postproduction. See how much, not how little, you can give for a dollar -- Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced -- If the pie's not big enough, make a bigger pie -- Eliminate unnecessary steps -- Every gain through the elimination of waste is gold in the mine -- Machines, facilities, and people should work together to add value -- Learning and innovation go hand in hand -- Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning -- Technology is the great growling engine of change -- Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a highway -- Put the product into the customer's hands -- it will speak for itself -- The desire to own something a little better, a little sooner than necessary -- Time is money -- A project without a critical path is like a ship without a rudder -- Taking the best from the best.