A Companion to Business Ethics (eBook)

Robert E. Frederick (Herausgeber)

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2008
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-99838-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In a series of articles specifically commissioned for this volume, some of today's most distinguished business ethicists survey the main areas of interest and concern in the field of business ethics.

Sections of the book cover topics such as the often easy relation between business ethics and capitalism, the link between business ethics and ethical theory, how ethics applies to specific problems in the business world, the connection between business ethics and related academic disciplines, and the practice of business ethics in modern corporations.

• Includes extensive, accessible discussion of all of the main areas of interest and debate in business ethics
• Features all original contributions by distinguished authors in business ethics
• Includes an annotated table of contents, bibliographies of the relevant literature and a list of internet sources of material on business ethics
• Perfect, comprehensive book for use in business ethics courses

Robert E. Frederick is chair of the philosophy department at Bentley College, a research scholar at the Center for Business Ethics, and the editor of the journal Business and Society Review, also published by Blackwell. He is the author of The Philosophy of Right and Left and co-editor (with Michael Hoffman) of Business Ethics: Readings and Cases in Corporate Morality. Frederick and Hoffman are also editors of the new series Foundations of Business Ethics.

Inhalt

A Companion to Business Ethics: Blackwell Companionsto Philosophy 5
Contents 7
Contributors 11
Preface 15
PART I BUSINESS ETHICS AND NORMATIVE THEORIES 19
1 A Kantian approach to business ethics 21
2 Utilitarianism and business ethics 35
3 Business ethics and virtue 48
4 Social contract approaches to business ethics: bridging the "is–ought" gap 56
5 Business ethics and the pragmatic attitude 74
6 An outline of ethical relativism and ethical absolutism 83
7 Feminist theory and business ethics 99
8 Business ethics in a free society 106
9 Nature and business ethics 118
10 Toward new directions in business ethics: some pragmatic pathways 130
11 Business ethics: pragmatism and postmodernism 146
PART II BUSINESS ETHICS AND THE BUSINESS DISCIPLINES 157
12 Ethics in management 159
13 Finance ethics 171
14 Ethics in the public accounting profession 182
15 Marketing ethics 196
16 Law, ethics, and managerial judgment 212
17 Business ethics and economics 225
18 Business ethics and the social sciences 236
PART III ISSUES IN BUSINESS ETHICS 249
19 International business ethics 251
20 Corporate moral agency 261
21 Employee rights 275
22 Business ethics and work: questions for the twenty-first century 287
23 Business’s environmental responsibility 298
24 Business ethics and religion 308
25 Social responsibility and business ethics 321
PART IV BUSINESS ETHICS: ORIGINS AND CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE 341
26 Business ethics and the origins of contemporary capitalism: economics and ethics in the work of Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer* 343
27 A brief history of American business ethics 360
28 Business ethics in Europe: a tale of two efforts 371
29 Ethics and the regulatory environment 384
30 A passport for the corporate code: from Borg Warner to the Caux Principles 392
31 Investigations and due process 404
32 Ethics and corporate leadership 417
Bibliography 427
Appendix A: BUSINESS ETHICS: ELECTRONIC RESOURCES 441
Appendix B: DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ETHICS ORGANIZATIONS 443
Index 465

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2008
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: Angewandte Ethik • Applied Ethics • applies • Areas • Articles • Between • Book • business • Business & Management • Business & Management Special Topics • commissioned • concern • distinguished • ethicists • ethics • Field • Main • often • Philosophie • Philosophy • Problems • Relationship • sections • series • specifically • Spezialthemen Wirtschaft u. Management • todays • Topics • Uneasy • Volume • Wirtschaft u. Management • World
• ISBN-10: 0-470-99838-5 / 0470998385
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-99838-0 / 9780470998380