This book explores how the distinctive Quaker approach to responsible business is based on
honesty truth and integrity. It analyzes how networks family and succession are at its heart
and how much this approach offers to current debates on corporate social responsibility as
well as to managers and practitioners in an increasingly complex business world. The
contributions in this volume assess the factors that explain the success and prosperity of many
Quaker businesses throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries discussing the lessons
learned from their disappearance from prominence. By drawing upon examples that illustrate the
Quaker ethic it also considers what so-called Quakernomics can contribute to contemporary
responsible business theory and practice.
