Business Ethics And Environmental Fraud: Improper Competitive Advantage In The Age Of Green

Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: Business Ethics
	1.1	 Business, People, and Ethics
	1.2	 Why Should We Care?
	1.3	 Why Do Businesspeople Behave the Way They Do?
		1.3.1	 Greed
		1.3.2	 Professional Ambition
		1.3.3	 Emotions
		1.3.4	 Pathologies
		1.3.5	 Corporate Culture
		1.3.6	 Opportunism
		1.3.7	 Natural Inclinations
		1.3.8	 Competitive Environments
	1.4	 How Should Businesspeople Behave?
	1.5	 The Role of the Law
	1.6	 Business Ethics Versus Ethics
	1.7	 A Model for Business Ethics
	1.8	 Historical Development
	1.9	 Business Ethics in Practice
		1.9.1	 Modern Slavery
		1.9.2	 Child Labor
	References
2: Environmental Fraud
	2.1	 Fraud, Criminology, and Corporate Crimes
		2.1.1	 Environmental Fraud and Crime
		2.1.2	 Environmental Fraud and Corporate Criminology
	2.2	 Fraud and Environmental Fraud
	2.3	 Differences Between Environmental Fraud and Greenwashing
	2.4	 Impacts of Environmental Fraud
		2.4.1	 Consequences to the Environment
		2.4.2	 Impacts on Public Health
		2.4.3	 Consequences to the Company
	References
3: Improper Competitive Advantage
	3.1	 Competition and Environmental Fraud
	3.2	 Competitive Advantage: Wide Usage and Main Theoretical Currents)
		3.2.1	 SWOT Analysis
		3.2.2	 Industry Structure
		3.2.3	 Resource-Based View
	References
4: The Age of Green
	4.1	 Definition
	4.2	 Philosophical Roots
	4.3	 Recent History
		4.3.1	 Blueprint for Survival (1972)
		4.3.2	 Stockholm Conference (1972)
		4.3.3	 World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) (1987)
		4.3.4	 Bergen Declaration on Sustainable Development (1990)
		4.3.5	 The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (1992)
	4.4	 Sustainable Consumption
	4.5	 Points of Attention
	References
5: The Automotive Industry Under Suspicion
	5.1	 Early Developments
	5.2	 Economic Organization
	5.3	 Car Culture and Society
	5.4	 A Harsh Competition
		5.4.1	 Internal Rivalry
		5.4.2	 Threat of New Entrants
		5.4.3	 Threat of Substitutes
		5.4.4	 Bargaining Power of Suppliers
		5.4.5	 Bargaining Power of Customers
	5.5	 The Automotive Industry as a Scapegoat
	References
6: Dieselgates: VW, FCA, Renault, and PSA
	6.1	 The Volkswagen Dieselgate
		6.1.1	 The Dieselgate in America
		6.1.2	 Settlements in the United States
		6.1.3	 The Dieselgate in Europe
		6.1.4	 General Outcomes of the Dieselgate
	6.2	 Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA)
	6.3	 Renault and PSA (Opel)
	6.4	 General Considerations
	References
7: Not a “Privilege”: Environmental Fraud Beyond the Automotive Industry
	7.1	 Initial Thoughts
	7.2	 Environmental Fraud in Fast Fashion
		7.2.1	 Organic Cotton
	7.3	 Food and Beverage Industry
	7.4	 Logistics
		7.4.1	 Amazon
		7.4.2	 UPS
	7.5	 Electronics
	References
8: The Intangible Costs of Environmental Fraud: Impacts for Brands, Trust, Corporate Identity, Image, Credibility, and Reputation
	8.1	 Constructs
	8.2	 Brand
	8.3	 Trust
	8.4	 Corporate Identity
	8.5	 Corporate Image
	8.6	 Corporate Credibility
	8.7	 Corporate Reputation
	References
9: Your Fraud, Our Country: Impacts on National Brands and Reputations
	9.1	 The “Made In” Brand
	9.2	 National Image, National Identity, and Stereotypes
	9.3	 National Tribalism
	9.4	 Final Considerations
	References
10: Impacts on Market Value
	10.1	 Market Value and Value
	10.2	 What Affects Market Value
		10.2.1	 The Role of Expectations
		10.2.2	 Operational Incapacity, Technological Transition, Impact on Intangible Resources, and Legal Costs
			Operational Incapacity
			Impact on Intangible Resources
			Technological Transition
			Legal Costs
	References
11: Is Diesel Dead?
	11.1	 Brief History of Diesel Technology
	11.2	 Sustainable Alternatives?
		11.2.1	 Natural Gas
		11.2.2	 Electric Cars
		11.2.3	 Sources of Energy
	11.3	 Diesel Is Not Dead
	References
12: Lessons Learned, Future Research and Tendencies on Environmental Fraud
	12.1	 Lessons Learned and Future Research
	12.2	 The Future of Environmental Fraud: Green Finance Under Suspicion
	References
Index