Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : global perspectives on ethics in small and medium sized enterprises / Laura J. Spence and Mollie Painter-Morland -- Pt. 1, Global overviews: Africa : ethics and sustainability within SMEs in Sub-Saharan Africa : enabling, constraining and contaminating relationships / Mollie Painter-Morland and Kris Dobie ; Europe : practice and politics : ethics and social responsibility in SMEs in the European Union / Laura J. Spence and Francesco Perrini ; India : CSR and ethics in MSMEs in India / Vasanthi Srinivasan ; Latin America : ethics and corporate social responsibility in Latin American small and medium sized enterprises : challenging development / Maria Cecilia Coutinho de Arrunda ; New Zealand & Australia : a New Zealand and Australian overview of ethics and sustainability in SMEs / Eva Collins, Carolyn Dickie, and Paull Weber ; USA : an overview of empirical research on ethics in entrepreneurial firms within the United States / Melissa S. Baucus and Philip L. Cochran -- Pt. 2, Individual research, theory development: Entrepreneurial social responsibility : scoping the territory / Richard K. Blundel, Laura J. Spence, and Stefania Zerbinati ; A comprehensive model for SMEs : measuring the dynamic interplay of morality, environment and management systems ; towards continuous improvement / Jèorg Bèurgi ; CSR and SMEs in Portugal : the strategy of obligation / Maria Joäao Santos -- Pt. 3, Individual research, empirical research: In search of sustainability? SMEs in Brittany, France / Sarah Hudson and Julia Roloff ; Corporate social responsibility and stakeholder relations : the perspective of German small and medium-sized enterprises / Simone Klein and Kristin Vorbohle ; The alignment between social responsibility and business strategy : implications for social responsibility value creation in Spanish SMEs / Christina Iturrioz, Cristina Aragâon, Lorea Narvaiza, and Asunciâon Ibaänez ; Business ethics and corporate social responsibility practice in small and medium sized enterprises : sampling from Thailand and Hong Kong / David Bevan and Robert Annop Wynne -- Pt. 4, Individual research, case examples: Fostering corporate social responsibility in small and medium sized enterprises : recent experiences in the Netherlands / Henk Van Luijk and Lobke Vlaming ; Small business and social responsibility in the supply chain : a literature review / Francesco Ciliberti, Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo, and Barbara Scozzi ; Ethics in agricultural and stockbreeding SMEs : an Argentinean case study / Norma T. Jâauregui de Pivetta -- Conclusion : the road ahead for research on ethics and SMEs.