1 Introducing Conscience: The Structure of the Book.- The Power of Conscience: From Wedgwood to Chocolonely.- Becoming Conscientious.- The Content.- 2 What Is Conscience? And Why Does It Matter?.- Defining Conscience.- Where Conscience Goes Wrong.- Why Conscience Matters.- Conclusion.- 3 The Business of Conscience.- Soneva: Integrating Conscience.- Soneva’s Slow Life.- Putting Conscience at the Core.- The Attributes of a Business with a Conscience.- Fair.- Open.- Responsible.- Becoming a Business with a Conscience.- Conclusion.- 4 Building a Driving Conscience.- The Corporate Purpose.- Unilever and the Three Levels of Purpose.- The Corporate Principles.- The Benefits of a Driving Conscience.- Driving Conscience.- Uncovering the Corporate Heritage.- Embracing Stakeholder Co-creation.- Conclusion.- 5 Embedding Conscience.- Conscience as a Strategic Guide: La Casa de Carlota.- Curating Conscience.- How Oda Curates Conscience.- How to Embed Conscience.- Embedding Conscience in Value Creation Processes.- Embedding Conscience into Targets and Metrics.- Embedding Conscience into Culture.- Conscience and Ecosystems of Change.- The Power of Power with: Embedding Conscience Through Participation.- Power with Diversity and Inclusion.- HP’s Commitment to Equality.- Conclusion.- 6 Fostering Conscientious Innovation.- Bringing Rest to the World: Conscientious Innovation at Auping.- Four Conscientious Innovation Strategies.- Built to Last: Slow but Agile Business Models.- Cowboys and Spaceships: Circular Business Models.- Repair, Resale and Rental: Extending Business Models.- Making Lives Better: Business Models with Social Impact.- The Three Enablers of a Conscientious Innovation Strategy.- Digitalization.- Servitization.- Co-creation.- Conclusion.- 7 Communicating and Demonstrating Conscience.- Helping Stakeholders Make Good Choices.- Know Your Audience.- Own the Issue.- Tell the Story.- Using Conscience as a Differentiator.- Conscientious Communication with Financial Audiences.- Conclusion.- 8 Leading with Conscience.- Strategic Paradoxes and Leadership Styles.- The Role of the Leader with a Conscience.- The Traits of Leaders with a Conscience.- How Can One Develop Leaders with a Conscience?.- Going Beyond the Leader of the Moment.- Conclusion.- 9 It’s Up to You.- Taking Responsibility.- Thinking Critically.- Practising Transparency.- Focusing on People.- How to Think Different.- Index.

When a customer, employee, or investor is faced with a choice of companies amidst a sea of competitors, they increasingly consider how responsible that organization is. Customers want to buy ethical and sustainable; employees want to feel a sense of purpose at work, and investors need reassurance that their investments are good for the long term. To be competitive and valuable to society, firms need to develop an organizational conscience that drives key strategic decisions and spurs sustainable and responsible innovation. In this book, the authors argue that organizations need to think critically about their role and to use their conscience to guide actions. With plenty of concrete suggestions based on substantive research, it shows how a firm can reconcile the competing interests of stakeholders, create an organization that is fair, open and transparent and do the right thing while building a profitable business.Using practical models, integrated videos andinternational case studies featuring multinational companies as well as small firms, this book explains how firms can make the transition to becoming conscientious.Nicholas Ind is a Professor at Kristiania University College, Oslo. Before he became an academic Nicholas ran Icon Medialab’s brand consultancy arm in Sweden, had his own branding consultancy in the UK and was a Director of a design group. The author of thirteen books, Nicholas is a Visiting Professor at ESADE, Barcelona and Edinburgh Napier University. He was a founder member of the Medinge Group - an international branding think tank.Oriol Iglesias is an Associate Professor and Head of the Marketing Department at ESADE Business School. An accomplished author, his research has been published in top international academic journals. Before joining academia, Oriol was a serial entrepreneur. Furthermore, he has consulted and/or developed custom in-company training for worldwide leading firms from many different sectors. He is a member of the Medinge Group.

“The authors of this thought-provoking book advocate the importance of corporate conscience and call for a move away from corporate values to action-oriented corporate principles … . This book has insights that are fascinating – juggling concepts and practical solutions.” (Christopher Walker, impact Investor, impact-investor.com, June 30, 2023)

"Humanity faces two big and escalating challenges: climate change and social inequality. In their book, In Good Conscience, Professors Ind and Iglesias argue that it’s time for business to transcend corporate social responsibility and to step up and play a key role in addressing these major global challenges. Moreover, their timely and practical guide demonstrates convincingly that doing the right thing also happens to be good business." (Alan Jope, CEO Unilever) "This is the first book to take a serious look at the role of conscience in business ethics. It will stimulate much conversation about the role of individuals and organizations in creating ethical businesses." (R Edward Freeman, Professor, The Darden School, University of Virginia) "The gravity of the intertwined environmental and social crisis demands that we emerge from what Veblen described as the “predatory phase” of ourdevelopment into a new era,  in which we make use of our capacities to recognize reality and cooperate to address its challenges. In Good Conscience is timely and on the mark, recognizing both the necessity for business to earn its operating license and the power of conscience to help us plant the seeds of change that can yield a thriving planet and human culture." (Vincent Stanley, Director, Patagonia Philosophy)

A practical 'how to' book that shows how firms can contribute to the ambitions of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Underpinned by evidence from original research that the authors conducted from interviews with best practice managers Additional multimedia content accessible in browser or via SN More Media App