Business Ethics
1st Edition
Published on 16. February 2005
Book
Hardback
1240 pages
978-1-4129-0254-0 (ISBN)
Description
Business Ethics is a three-volume collection which provides students and researchers with the historically most important of the classic articles in business ethics, as well as the best of the contemporary and trendsetting work in this burgeoning area.
The collection will serve as a sourcebook for academics and researchers entering or already established in the area of business ethics. The editors bring together a breadth of articles across business ethics, with an orientation that is diverse as well as international.
The three volumes are well organized to focus on the main topics in business ethics and are divided into corporate social responsibility , the employee-employer relationship, and distributive justice & dilemmas.
Courses and research programmes in business ethics have multiplied in recent years alongside a growing concern with the ethical practices of business. This multi-volumed work provides a focused and well-balanced reference for academics and their students to acquire a thorough understanding of this now central topic.
The SAGE Library in Business and Management is a first-class series of major works that brings together the most influential and field-defining articles, both classical and contemporary, in a number of key areas of research and inquiry in business and management.
Each multi-volume set represents a collection of the essential published works collated from the foremost publications in the field by an Editor or Editorial Team of renowned international stature.
They also include a full introduction, presenting a rationale for the selection and mapping out the discipline's past, present and likely future.
This series is designed to be a 'gold standard' for university libraries throughout the world with a programme or interest in business and management studies.
The collection will serve as a sourcebook for academics and researchers entering or already established in the area of business ethics. The editors bring together a breadth of articles across business ethics, with an orientation that is diverse as well as international.
The three volumes are well organized to focus on the main topics in business ethics and are divided into corporate social responsibility , the employee-employer relationship, and distributive justice & dilemmas.
Courses and research programmes in business ethics have multiplied in recent years alongside a growing concern with the ethical practices of business. This multi-volumed work provides a focused and well-balanced reference for academics and their students to acquire a thorough understanding of this now central topic.
The SAGE Library in Business and Management is a first-class series of major works that brings together the most influential and field-defining articles, both classical and contemporary, in a number of key areas of research and inquiry in business and management.
Each multi-volume set represents a collection of the essential published works collated from the foremost publications in the field by an Editor or Editorial Team of renowned international stature.
They also include a full introduction, presenting a rationale for the selection and mapping out the discipline's past, present and likely future.
This series is designed to be a 'gold standard' for university libraries throughout the world with a programme or interest in business and management studies.
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Series
Edition
Third Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
2260 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4129-0254-0 (9781412902540)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
VOLUME ONE: ETHICAL THEORY, DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Preliminaries
Why Business Ethics?
The State of Business Ethics - Clarence C Walton
PART ONE: ETHICAL THEORY AND BUSINESS ETHICS
Perception
The Parable of the Sadhu - Bowen H McCoy
The Rashomon Effect - Patricia Werhane
Strategy
The Prince (Chapter 17) - Nicolo Machiavelli
The Art of War (excerpts) - Sun Tzu
Perspectives
Utilitarianism and Business Ethics - Milton Snoeyenbos and James Humber
Victims of Circumstances? A Defense of Virtue Ethics in Business - Robert C Solomon
Virtue Ethics, the Firm and Moral Psychology - Daryl Koehn
A Kantian Approach to Business Ethics - Norman E Bowie
PART TWO: DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICS
Classical Theories of Contracts, Property and Capitalism
Leviathan (excerpts) - Thomas Hobbes
Of Property - John Locke
The Wealth of Nations (excerpts) - Adam Smith
Alienated Labor and Private Property and Communism - Karl Marx
Contemporary Theories of Distribution and Property
A Theory of Justice (excerpts) - John Rawls
The Entitlement Theory - Robert Nozick
Capitalism and Morality - James Q Wilson
Illusions about Private Property and Freedom - Gerald A Cohen
Economic Justice - Milton Fisk
Intellectual Property
Justifying Intellectual Property - Edwin C Hettinger
Trade Secrets and the Justification of Intellectual Property - Lynn Sharp Paine
A Comment on Hettinger
PART THREE: CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
The Central Debate
The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits - Milton Friedman
A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation - R Edward Freeman
Economics, Business Principles and Moral Sentiments - Amartya Sen
Two Normative Theories of Business Ethics - John Hasnas
A Guide for the Perplexed
Arguments for and against Corporate Social Responsibility - N Craig Smith
Smith and Friedman on the Pursuit of Self-Interest and Profit - Harvey James Jr and Farhad Rassekh
Does Business Ethics Make Economic Sense? - Amartya Sen
New Directions in Corporate Social Responsibility - Norman E Bowie
Globalization and Its Ethical Significance
Preliminary Report of the Secretary-General - Globalization and Its Impact on the Full Enjoyment of All Human Rights - United Nations General Assembly
Global Distributive Justice - Thomas J Donaldson
International Business, Morality and the Common Good - Manuel Velasquez
The Great Non-Debate over International Sweatshops - Ian Maitland
Environmental Responsibility
Should Trees Have Standing? Towards Legal Rights for Natural Objects - Christopher D Stone
The Place of Non-Humans in Environmental Issues - Peter Singer
At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, or Why Political Questions Are Not All Economic - Mark Sagoff
A Defense of Risk-Cost-Benefit Analysis - Kristin Shrader-Frechette
VOLUME TWO: FAIRNESS AND JUSTICE IN THE WORKPLACE
PART ONE: RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES
Employment at Will
Employment at Will and Due Process - Patricia H Werhane and Tara J Radin
In Defense of the Contract at Will - Richard A Epstein
Work Life Balance
Work in the Family and Employing Organization - S Zedeck and K L Mosier
Work/Family Border Theory - S C Clark
A New Theory of Work/Life Balance
Whistleblowing
Whistleblowing and Professional Responsibility - Sissela Bok
Whistleblowing - Richard T De George
Drug Testing
Drug-Testing in Employment - Joseph DesJardins and Ronald Duska
Drug-Testing and the Right to Privacy - Michael Cranford
The Ethics of Genetic Screening in the Workplace - Joseph Kupfer
Technology and Privacy
Computers and Privacy - Stacey L Edgar
Privacy, Polygraphs and Work - George B Brenkert
Safety in the Workplace
The Employer-Employee Relationship and the Right to Know - Anita M Superson
Human Rights, Workers' Rights and the `Right' to Occupational Safety - Tibor R Machan
PART TWO: JUSTICE AND FAIR PRACTICE
Affirmative Action
Why Bakke Has No Case and The Court and the University - Ronald Dworkin
Affirmative Action - Shelby Steele
The Price of Preference
What Is Wrong with Reverse Discrimination? - Edwin C Hettinger
Sexual Harassment
The Definition of Sexual Harassment - Edmund Wall
A Feminist Definition of Sexual Harassment - Anita M Superson
Bluffing in Business
Is Business Bluffing Ethical? - Albert Z Carr
Business and Game-Playing - Daryl Koehn
The False Analogy
Second Thoughts about Bluffing - Thomas Carson
Business Bluffing Reconsidered - Fritz Allhoff
VOLUME THREE: PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
Just Another Day at the Office - Don Welch
The Ordinariness of Professional Ethics
Professional Responsibility - Michael Davis
Just Following the Rules?
PART ONE: ETHICAL ISSUES IN ADVERTISING
Truth and Deception in Advertising
Deceptive Advertising - John J McCall
Advertising - Tibor R Machan
The Whole Truth or Only Some of the Truth?
The Making of Self and World in Advertising - John Waide
Creation of Desire
Advertising and Behavior Control - Robert L Arrington
Persuasive Advertising, Autonomy and the Creation of Desire - Roger Crisp
Is Targeting Ethical?
Children as Consumers - Lynn Sharp Paine
An Ethical Evaluation of Children's Television Advertising
Marketing to Inner-City Blacks - George G Brenkert
PowerMaster and Moral Responsibility
Consumer Risk
The Ethics of Consumer Production - Manuel G Vasquez
Strict Product Liability and Compensatory Justice - George G Brenkert
PART TWO: ETHICAL ISSUES IN ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE
Earnings Hocus Pocus - Nanette Byrnes, Richard Melcher and Debra Sparks
How Companies Come up with the Numbers They Want
The Ethics of Creative Accounting - Oriol Amat, John Blake and Jack Dowds
Ethics in the Public Accounting Profession - Mohammad J Abdolmohammadi and Mark R Nixon
The Ethics of Insider Trading - Patricia Werhane
What Is Morally Right with Insider Trading? - Tibor R Machan
Justice and Insider Trading - Richard L Lippke
PART THREE: ETHICAL ISSUES IN JOURNALISM
The Ethical Responsibilities of Journalists - David Detmer
The Intervention Dilemma - Susan Paterno
Ethically Challenged - Lori Robertson
Ethical Boundaries to Media Coverage - Raphael Cohen-Almagor
Truth, Neutrality and Conflict of Interest - Judith Lichtenberg
Media Culpas - Kelly Patricia O'Meara
Professional Responsibility of the Criminal Defense Lawyer - Monroe H Freedman
The Three Hardest Questions
PART FOUR: ETHICAL ISSUES IN LAW
The Adversary System Excuse - David Luban
Pure Legal Advocates and Moral Agents - Elliot D Cohen
Two Concepts of a Lawyer in an Adversary System
Can Virtue Be Taught to Lawyers? - Amy Gutman
Confidentiality and the Lawyer-Client Relationship - Bruce M Landesman
A Lawyer's Duty to Represent Clients, Repugnant and Otherwise - Charles W Wolfram
PART FIVE: ETHICAL ISSUES IN MEDICINE
The Hippocratic Oath
Four Models of the Physician-Patient Relationship - Ezekiel J Emanuel and Linda L Emanuel
Legal and Ethical Myths about Informed Consent - Alan Meisel and Mark Kuczewski
Truth and the Physician - Bernard C Meyer
Lies to the Sick and Dying - Sissela Bok
Standards of Competence - Allen E Buchanan and Dan W Brock
Surrogate Decision-Making for Incompetent Adults - Dan W Brock
An Ethical Framework
Preliminaries
Why Business Ethics?
The State of Business Ethics - Clarence C Walton
PART ONE: ETHICAL THEORY AND BUSINESS ETHICS
Perception
The Parable of the Sadhu - Bowen H McCoy
The Rashomon Effect - Patricia Werhane
Strategy
The Prince (Chapter 17) - Nicolo Machiavelli
The Art of War (excerpts) - Sun Tzu
Perspectives
Utilitarianism and Business Ethics - Milton Snoeyenbos and James Humber
Victims of Circumstances? A Defense of Virtue Ethics in Business - Robert C Solomon
Virtue Ethics, the Firm and Moral Psychology - Daryl Koehn
A Kantian Approach to Business Ethics - Norman E Bowie
PART TWO: DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICS
Classical Theories of Contracts, Property and Capitalism
Leviathan (excerpts) - Thomas Hobbes
Of Property - John Locke
The Wealth of Nations (excerpts) - Adam Smith
Alienated Labor and Private Property and Communism - Karl Marx
Contemporary Theories of Distribution and Property
A Theory of Justice (excerpts) - John Rawls
The Entitlement Theory - Robert Nozick
Capitalism and Morality - James Q Wilson
Illusions about Private Property and Freedom - Gerald A Cohen
Economic Justice - Milton Fisk
Intellectual Property
Justifying Intellectual Property - Edwin C Hettinger
Trade Secrets and the Justification of Intellectual Property - Lynn Sharp Paine
A Comment on Hettinger
PART THREE: CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
The Central Debate
The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits - Milton Friedman
A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation - R Edward Freeman
Economics, Business Principles and Moral Sentiments - Amartya Sen
Two Normative Theories of Business Ethics - John Hasnas
A Guide for the Perplexed
Arguments for and against Corporate Social Responsibility - N Craig Smith
Smith and Friedman on the Pursuit of Self-Interest and Profit - Harvey James Jr and Farhad Rassekh
Does Business Ethics Make Economic Sense? - Amartya Sen
New Directions in Corporate Social Responsibility - Norman E Bowie
Globalization and Its Ethical Significance
Preliminary Report of the Secretary-General - Globalization and Its Impact on the Full Enjoyment of All Human Rights - United Nations General Assembly
Global Distributive Justice - Thomas J Donaldson
International Business, Morality and the Common Good - Manuel Velasquez
The Great Non-Debate over International Sweatshops - Ian Maitland
Environmental Responsibility
Should Trees Have Standing? Towards Legal Rights for Natural Objects - Christopher D Stone
The Place of Non-Humans in Environmental Issues - Peter Singer
At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, or Why Political Questions Are Not All Economic - Mark Sagoff
A Defense of Risk-Cost-Benefit Analysis - Kristin Shrader-Frechette
VOLUME TWO: FAIRNESS AND JUSTICE IN THE WORKPLACE
PART ONE: RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES
Employment at Will
Employment at Will and Due Process - Patricia H Werhane and Tara J Radin
In Defense of the Contract at Will - Richard A Epstein
Work Life Balance
Work in the Family and Employing Organization - S Zedeck and K L Mosier
Work/Family Border Theory - S C Clark
A New Theory of Work/Life Balance
Whistleblowing
Whistleblowing and Professional Responsibility - Sissela Bok
Whistleblowing - Richard T De George
Drug Testing
Drug-Testing in Employment - Joseph DesJardins and Ronald Duska
Drug-Testing and the Right to Privacy - Michael Cranford
The Ethics of Genetic Screening in the Workplace - Joseph Kupfer
Technology and Privacy
Computers and Privacy - Stacey L Edgar
Privacy, Polygraphs and Work - George B Brenkert
Safety in the Workplace
The Employer-Employee Relationship and the Right to Know - Anita M Superson
Human Rights, Workers' Rights and the `Right' to Occupational Safety - Tibor R Machan
PART TWO: JUSTICE AND FAIR PRACTICE
Affirmative Action
Why Bakke Has No Case and The Court and the University - Ronald Dworkin
Affirmative Action - Shelby Steele
The Price of Preference
What Is Wrong with Reverse Discrimination? - Edwin C Hettinger
Sexual Harassment
The Definition of Sexual Harassment - Edmund Wall
A Feminist Definition of Sexual Harassment - Anita M Superson
Bluffing in Business
Is Business Bluffing Ethical? - Albert Z Carr
Business and Game-Playing - Daryl Koehn
The False Analogy
Second Thoughts about Bluffing - Thomas Carson
Business Bluffing Reconsidered - Fritz Allhoff
VOLUME THREE: PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
Just Another Day at the Office - Don Welch
The Ordinariness of Professional Ethics
Professional Responsibility - Michael Davis
Just Following the Rules?
PART ONE: ETHICAL ISSUES IN ADVERTISING
Truth and Deception in Advertising
Deceptive Advertising - John J McCall
Advertising - Tibor R Machan
The Whole Truth or Only Some of the Truth?
The Making of Self and World in Advertising - John Waide
Creation of Desire
Advertising and Behavior Control - Robert L Arrington
Persuasive Advertising, Autonomy and the Creation of Desire - Roger Crisp
Is Targeting Ethical?
Children as Consumers - Lynn Sharp Paine
An Ethical Evaluation of Children's Television Advertising
Marketing to Inner-City Blacks - George G Brenkert
PowerMaster and Moral Responsibility
Consumer Risk
The Ethics of Consumer Production - Manuel G Vasquez
Strict Product Liability and Compensatory Justice - George G Brenkert
PART TWO: ETHICAL ISSUES IN ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE
Earnings Hocus Pocus - Nanette Byrnes, Richard Melcher and Debra Sparks
How Companies Come up with the Numbers They Want
The Ethics of Creative Accounting - Oriol Amat, John Blake and Jack Dowds
Ethics in the Public Accounting Profession - Mohammad J Abdolmohammadi and Mark R Nixon
The Ethics of Insider Trading - Patricia Werhane
What Is Morally Right with Insider Trading? - Tibor R Machan
Justice and Insider Trading - Richard L Lippke
PART THREE: ETHICAL ISSUES IN JOURNALISM
The Ethical Responsibilities of Journalists - David Detmer
The Intervention Dilemma - Susan Paterno
Ethically Challenged - Lori Robertson
Ethical Boundaries to Media Coverage - Raphael Cohen-Almagor
Truth, Neutrality and Conflict of Interest - Judith Lichtenberg
Media Culpas - Kelly Patricia O'Meara
Professional Responsibility of the Criminal Defense Lawyer - Monroe H Freedman
The Three Hardest Questions
PART FOUR: ETHICAL ISSUES IN LAW
The Adversary System Excuse - David Luban
Pure Legal Advocates and Moral Agents - Elliot D Cohen
Two Concepts of a Lawyer in an Adversary System
Can Virtue Be Taught to Lawyers? - Amy Gutman
Confidentiality and the Lawyer-Client Relationship - Bruce M Landesman
A Lawyer's Duty to Represent Clients, Repugnant and Otherwise - Charles W Wolfram
PART FIVE: ETHICAL ISSUES IN MEDICINE
The Hippocratic Oath
Four Models of the Physician-Patient Relationship - Ezekiel J Emanuel and Linda L Emanuel
Legal and Ethical Myths about Informed Consent - Alan Meisel and Mark Kuczewski
Truth and the Physician - Bernard C Meyer
Lies to the Sick and Dying - Sissela Bok
Standards of Competence - Allen E Buchanan and Dan W Brock
Surrogate Decision-Making for Incompetent Adults - Dan W Brock
An Ethical Framework