This is – for the time being – the sixth and final review of the books in the Gower Short Guides to Business Risk Series, since so far, only 6 out of  13 have been published. The last one out for review on husdal.com is A Short Guide to Ethical Risk, written by Carlo Patetta Rotta. Corporate social responsibility is growing in importance, and this is a book that provides an overview of the theories of ethics that bear on today’s business world. It is also a book that describes the adoption of appropriate company cultures and corporate governance models, and it is a book that discusses the selection and retention of ethically sound staff and implementation of fair incentive systems.  It is a book for companies wishing to survive into the future, simply because developing effective protection against exposure to ‘ethical risk’ is the only possible way forward. Well, not the only possible way, but the only viable way.

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