Applied Business Ethics

Moral Reasoning, Principles, and Cases

Lewis Vaughn (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

480 Seiten

2026
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-761725-0 (ISBN)

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Applied Business Ethics meets today's students where they are, providing clearer explanations, higher-quality cases, and more abundant pedagogy than any text on the market.

Applied Business Ethics: Moral Reasoning, Principles, and Cases by Lewis Vaughn prepares students to tackle the moral challenges waiting for them in the business world. After opening with a thorough introduction to ethical theory, critical thinking, and moral reasoning, it moves on to cover the essential issues and debates in business ethics. Integrating over 120 passages from books and essays, content features that provide further support for students as they engage with morally charged business issues, and abundant, up-to-date case studies enhanced by explanatory headnotes and questions for reflection, Applied Business Ethics provides every student with the tools they need to do business ethically.

Lewis Vaughn is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Bioethics, Sixth Edition (2025), Philosophy: Here and Now, Fifth Edition (2025), The Power of Critical Thinking, Eighth Edition (2024), and Living Philosophy, Fourth Edition (2023), all published by Oxford University Press.

Preface

PART 1: PRINCIPLES AND THEORIES

Chapter 1: Moral Reasoning in Business
1.1 Ethics and the Moral life
Normative Dominance
Universality
Impartiality
Reasonableness
Thinking Point: What's Wrong with Ethical Egoism?
1.2 Morality and the Law
1.3 Objective Morality
In Depth: Cultural Moral Relativism and Women's Rights
Thinking Point: Where Do Moral Standards Come From?
1.4 Emotivism
1.5 Morality and Religion
Review Notes
1.6 Moral Arguments
Argument Fundamentals
Patterns of Moral Arguments
Review Notes
Evaluating Premises
Assessing Moral Arguments
1.7 Obstacles to Critical Reasoning
Self-Centered Thinking
Denying Contrary Evidence
Looking for Confirming Evidence
Motivated Reasoning
Preferring Available Evidence
The Dunning-Kruger Effect
1.8 Common Fallacies in Moral Reasoning
Straw Man
Appeal to the Person
Appeal to Ignorance
Begging the Question
Slippery Slope
Appeal to Authority
Faulty Analogy
Hasty Generalization
1.9 Arguing about Moral Issues
Key Terms
Exercises
Review Questions
Argument Exercises

Chapter 2: Making Moral Decisions
2.1 Moral Reasoning and Moral Theories
2.2 Influential Moral Theories
Utilitarianism
Kantian Ethics
Virtue Ethics
Natural Law Theory
Feminist Ethics
In Depth: Feminist Ethics in History
2.3 Moral Principles in Business
Respect
Justice
Beneficence
Review Notes
2.4 Framework for Moral Decision-Making
Step 1. Determine what prima facie principles apply.
Step 2. Weigh and balance the principles.
Step 3. Choose the right option.
In Depth: Rules and Codes
2.5 Resolving cases
Case A: Maximizing Profits, Hurting Patients?
Case B: What to Do about an Unsafe Product?
Case C: A Wayward Coworker
Key Terms
Exercises
Cases for Evaluation
2.1 Fired for Free Speech?
2.2 Stealing from an Employer
2.3 Working Off the Clock
2.4 High-Pressure Sales Tactics
2.5 Not Welcome at Starbucks
2.6 Facebook and Fake News
2.7 Copyright Ethics
2.8 Trimming Data

PART 2: CAPITALISM AND CORPORATIONS

Chapter 3: Capitalism and Economic Justice
3.1 Theories of Justice
Libertarianism
Utilitarianism
Egalitarianism
Rawls' Contract Theory
3.2 Shades of Capitalism
In Depth: Conscious Capitalism
Thinking Point: Is the United States a Socialist Country?
3.3 For and Against Capitalism
Review Notes
In Depth: Capitalism and Non-Compete Agreements
Review Notes
Key Terms
Exercises
Cases for Evaluation
3.1 Surveillance Capitalism
3.2 Global Corporations and Tragedy at Rana Plaza
3.3 The Power of Monopolies
3.4 Truth or Profit
3.5 Stealing Technology

Chapter 4: Corporate Rights and Responsibilities
4.1 The Nature of Corporations
4.2 Shareholder Theory
In Depth: Corporations and Their Stakeholders
4.3 Stakeholder Theory
In Depth: Millennials and Socially Responsible Business
Key Terms
Exercises
Cases for Evaluation
4.1 Facebook, Hate Speech, and Violence
4.2 Big Oil and the Ethics of Climate Change
4.3 Refusing to Serve LGBTQ People
4.4 Merck against River Blindness
4.5 CVS Stops Selling Cigarettes
4.6 Luckin Coffee and Unethical Culture

PART 3: DUTIES OF EMPLOYEES AND EMPLOYERS

Chapter 5: Employee Rights and Responsibilities
5.1 Limits on Employee Rights
In Depth: Job-Security Rights in Europe
5.2 Free Speech at Work
In Depth: Constitutional Limits on Free Speech
5.3 Privacy Rights
5.4 Sexual Harassment
In Depth: How to Deal with Harassment
Key Terms
Exercises
Cases for Evaluation
5.1 The Era of Robot Surveillance
5.2 Fired for Political Facebook Posts
5.3 Punished for Criticizing the Boss
5.4 Losing a Job for Using Marijuana
5.5 Remote Sexual Harassment
5.6 #MeToo Backlash
5.7 Punishing Employees for Having Affairs

Chapter 6: Justice in Hiring, Paying, and Promoting
6.1 Job Discrimination
In Depth: Some Recent EEOC Discrimination Cases
In Depth: Implicit Bias in the Workplace
6.2 Affirmative Action
In Depth: Advantages and Disadvantages of Workplace Diversity
Review Notes
In Depth: Shades of Racism
Thinking Point: Equal Opportunities?
6.3 Pay and Promotions
In Depth: Seniority Pros and Cons
6.4 Comparable Worth
In Depth: Big Companies Achieving Gender Pay Equity
6.5 Executive Compensation
Key Terms
Exercises
Cases for Evaluation
6.1 Google Settles Gender Discrimination Suit
6.2 Discrimination against Pregnant and Disabled Workers
6.3 Disparate Impact through Word-of-Mouth
6.4 Clawing Back Executive Pay
6.5 Appearance Discrimination
6.6 The American Dream and a Living Wage
6.7 Would You Favor Preferential Hiring?
6.8 Name Discrimination
6.9 Sex Discrimination through Testing
6.10 Fired for Having a Panic Attack

Chapter 7: Working Conditions: Employer Obligations
7.1 Workplace Health and Safety
In Depth: Moral Stress and Moral Injury
7.2 Child Care and Family Leave
In Depth: Emotional Labor
In Depth: Options in Employer-Supported Child Care
7.3 Health Care
Thinking Point: Is the U.S. Health Care System Broken?
Key Terms
Exercises
Cases for Evaluation
7.1 Guilty of Falsifying Records
7.2 Moral Injury
7.3 Emotional Labor
7.4 Fairness in Providing Health Care

PART 4: DUTIES TO CONSUMERS

Chapter 8: Product Safety and Liability
8.1 Product Liability
In Depth: Product Liability Claims
8.2 Legal Paternalism
Thinking Point: How Much Is One Life Worth?
8.3 Tobacco: Extreme Product Liability
In Depth: The Harm Principle and Secondhand Smoke
Key Terms
Exercises
Cases for Evaluation
8.1 Galaxy Note 7 Catches Fire - and Not in a Good Way
8.2 Who Is Liable When a Self-Driving Care Crashes?
8.3 The Ford Pinto Case
8.4 McDonald's Hot Coffee Case
8.5 Product Liability and Social Media
8.6 Uvalde Families Sue 'Call of Duty' and Meta
8.7 Lawsuits Say Lemonade Caused Death and Injury
8.8 Protecting Gun Manufacturers from Lawsuits
8.9 Suing Oil Companies for Climate Change Damages

Chapter 9: Marketing and Advertising
9.1 Dimensions of Marketing Ethics
In Depth: Price Gouging Pro and Con
9.2 Advertising Right and Wrong
In Depth: Targeting Children with 'Blurred Advertising'
Misleading comparisons
Weasel Words
Withholding Information
Fallacies
Thinking Point: Are Doctors Experts?
9.3 What Hath Advertising Wrought?
Key Terms
Exercises
Cases for Evaluation
9.1 Price Fixing Using Technology
9.2 Epic Games Accused of Duping Millions of Players
9.3 Kellogg's Mini-Wheats Can Make Children Smarter?
9.4 Penis Enlargement Pill Extenze Sue for False Advertising
9.5 Advertising through Influencers
9.6 Price Fixing by Sugar Companies
9.7 Pushing Back against Price Gouging
9.8 American Consumers and Modern Slavery
9.9 Price Gouging During the Pandemic
9.10 Volkswagen Deceived Consumers with "Clean Diesel"
9.11 Beauty and Social Media Filters
9.12 When Marketers Pay for (Positive) Online Reviews
9.13 Marketing Unproven Treatments

PART 5: GLOBAL MATTERS

Chapter 10: International Business Ethics
10.1 Moral Standards and Cultural Differences
10.2 Business and Human Rights
In Depth: Bad Grades on Human Rights
10.3 Sweatshops
In Depth: Levi Strauss's Social Impact
In Depth: The UN's Global Compact
10.4 Child Labor
In Depth: IKEA and Child Labor
Key Terms
Exercises
Cases for Evaluation
10.1 Profits or Child Safety?
10.2 U.S. Companies and Censorship in China
10.3 When Local Culture Clashes with Corporate Culture
10.4 Agricultural Child Labor in the U.S.
10.5 Nike and Its Labor Problems
10.6 Walmart's Bribery Scandal
10.7 Cocoa Harvested by Child Labor

Appendix
Glossary
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.1.2026
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-10	0-19-761725-5 / 0197617255
ISBN-13	978-0-19-761725-0 / 9780197617250
Zustand	Neuware