Ethical Issues in Business
A Philosophical Approach
6th Edition
Published on 15. March 1999
Book
Hardback
611 pages
978-0-13-290628-9 (ISBN)
Description
For undergraduate or MBA-level courses in Business Ethics, Business and Society, and Ethical and Legal Environment of Business. One of the most widely used texts on business ethics, this collection of readings and cases begins with an introduction to moral reasoning, and then provides students with a wide range of opportunities to apply ethical theory to real contemporary managerial situations - including issues facing managers in the next century. Each section contains a case study and relevant theoretical articles that range from classics in philosophy to modern commentaries by business practitioners.
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6th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
1000 gr
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978-0-13-290628-9 (9780132906289)
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Content
General Introduction.
Introduction to Ethical Reasoning, Thomas Donaldson and Patricia H. Werhane.
Does Business Ethics Make Economic Sense?, Amartya Sen.
I. GENERAL ISSUES IN ETHICS.
Truth Telling.
CASE STUDY: Italian Tax Mores, Arthur L. Kelley.
Ethical Duties Towards Others: "Truthfulness," Immanuel Kant.
Is Business Bluffing Ethical?, Albert Carr.
Business Ethics and Politics, Joseph Betz.
Promoting Honesty in Negotiation: An Exercise in Practical Ethics, Peter C. Cramton and J. Gregory Dees.
Virtues and the Virtuous Manager:
CASE STUDY: Run, Inc., American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Corporate Roles, Personal Virtues: An Aristotelean Approach to Business Ethics, Robert C. Solomon.
Moral Mazes: Bureaucracy and Managerial Work, Robert Jackall.
II. PROPERTY, PROFIT, AND JUSTICE.
Traditional Theories of Property and Profit:
CASE STUDY: Plasma International, T.W. Zimmerer and P.L. Preston.
CASE STUDY: Dorrence Corporation Trade-offs, Hans Wolf.
The Justification of Private Property, John Locke.
Alienated Labor, Karl Marx.
Benefits of the Profit Motive, Adam Smith.
Wealth, Andrew Carnegie.
Property and Profit: Modern Discussions.
CASE STUDY: Merck & Co., Inc., The Business Enterprise Trust.
The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase, Milton Friedman.
Can Socially Responsible Firms Survive in a Competitive Environment, Robert H. Frank.
The Moral Muteness of Managers, Frederick B. Bird and James A. Waters.
Justice.
CASE STUDY: The Oil Rig, Joanne B. Ciulla.
Distributive Justice, John Rawls.
The Entitlement Theory, Robert Nozick.
Complex Equality, Michael Walzer.
III. CORPORATIONS, PERSONS, AND MORALITY.
The Moral Responsibility of Corporations.
CASE STUDY: H.B. Fuller in Hondura, Norman E. Bowie and Stefanie Ann Lenway.
Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation, R. Edward Freeman.
Business Ethics and Stakeholder Analysis, Kenneth E. Goodpaster.
The "New" U.S. Sentencing Commission Guidelines: A Wake-Up Call for Corporate America, Dan R. Dalton, Michael B. Metzger and John W. Hill.
Parable of the Sadhu, Bowen H. McCoy.
Employee Rights and Responsibilities.
CASE STUDY: The Aircraft Brake Scandal, Kermit Vandivier.
Whistleblowing and Professional Responsibility, Sissela Bok.
Employment at Will and Due Process, Patricia H. Werhane and Tara J. Radin.
In Defense of Contract at Will, Richard A. Epstein.
Employability Security, Rosabeth Moss Kanter.
Diversity.
CASE STUDY: Ellen Moore: Living and Working in Bahrain, Gail Ellement, Martha Maznevski, and Henry W. Lane.
CASE STUDY: Is This the Right Time to Come Out?, Alistair D. Williamson.
Management Women and the New Facts of Life, Schwartz.
White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies, Peggy McIntosh.
Sexual Harassment, Susan M. Dodds, Lucy Frost, Robert Pargetter, and Elizabeth W. Prior.
IV. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS.
Ethical Relativism.
CASE STUDY: What Price, Safety?, from Uncompromising Integrity: Motorola's Global Challenge.
Relativism, Cultural and Moral, Norman E. Bowie
The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.
Business Values Away from Home.
CASE STUDY: Just When is a "Tip" Only Another Means to Insure Promptness?
CASE STUDY: Levi Strauss & Co.: Global Sourcing, Lynn Sharpe Paine and Jane Palley Katz.
International Business Ethics and Incipient Capitalism: A Double Standard?, Richard T. De George.
Values in Tension: Ethics away from Home, Thomas Donaldson, Harvard Business Review, (September-October, 1996).
V. CONTEMPORARY BUSINESS THEMES
Marketing.
CASE STUDY: Joe Camel: The Cartoon Character Who Sells Cigarettes, Marianne M. Jennings.
Persuasive Advertising, Autonomy, and the Creation of Desire, Roger Crisp.
Ethical Myopia: The Case of "Framing" by Framing, Alan E. Singer, Steven Lysonski, Ming Singer, and David Hayes.
Marketing to Inner-City Blacks: PowerMaster and Moral Responsibility, George C. Brenkert.
Strategy.
CASE STUDY: Sears Auto Centers, Lynn Sharp Paine and Michael A. Santoro.
The Leader's New Work: Building Learning Organizations, Peter M. Senge.
The Many Faces of the Corporate Code, Lisa H. Newton.
Managing for Organizational Integrity, Lynn Sharp Paine.
The Environment.
CASE STUDY: Shell and Nigerian Oil, William E. Newburry and Thomas N. Gladwin.
Scarcity or Abundance?, Julian L. Simon.
Holes in the Cornucopia, Ernest Partridge.
Biographical Information.
Introduction to Ethical Reasoning, Thomas Donaldson and Patricia H. Werhane.
Does Business Ethics Make Economic Sense?, Amartya Sen.
I. GENERAL ISSUES IN ETHICS.
Truth Telling.
CASE STUDY: Italian Tax Mores, Arthur L. Kelley.
Ethical Duties Towards Others: "Truthfulness," Immanuel Kant.
Is Business Bluffing Ethical?, Albert Carr.
Business Ethics and Politics, Joseph Betz.
Promoting Honesty in Negotiation: An Exercise in Practical Ethics, Peter C. Cramton and J. Gregory Dees.
Virtues and the Virtuous Manager:
CASE STUDY: Run, Inc., American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Corporate Roles, Personal Virtues: An Aristotelean Approach to Business Ethics, Robert C. Solomon.
Moral Mazes: Bureaucracy and Managerial Work, Robert Jackall.
II. PROPERTY, PROFIT, AND JUSTICE.
Traditional Theories of Property and Profit:
CASE STUDY: Plasma International, T.W. Zimmerer and P.L. Preston.
CASE STUDY: Dorrence Corporation Trade-offs, Hans Wolf.
The Justification of Private Property, John Locke.
Alienated Labor, Karl Marx.
Benefits of the Profit Motive, Adam Smith.
Wealth, Andrew Carnegie.
Property and Profit: Modern Discussions.
CASE STUDY: Merck & Co., Inc., The Business Enterprise Trust.
The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase, Milton Friedman.
Can Socially Responsible Firms Survive in a Competitive Environment, Robert H. Frank.
The Moral Muteness of Managers, Frederick B. Bird and James A. Waters.
Justice.
CASE STUDY: The Oil Rig, Joanne B. Ciulla.
Distributive Justice, John Rawls.
The Entitlement Theory, Robert Nozick.
Complex Equality, Michael Walzer.
III. CORPORATIONS, PERSONS, AND MORALITY.
The Moral Responsibility of Corporations.
CASE STUDY: H.B. Fuller in Hondura, Norman E. Bowie and Stefanie Ann Lenway.
Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation, R. Edward Freeman.
Business Ethics and Stakeholder Analysis, Kenneth E. Goodpaster.
The "New" U.S. Sentencing Commission Guidelines: A Wake-Up Call for Corporate America, Dan R. Dalton, Michael B. Metzger and John W. Hill.
Parable of the Sadhu, Bowen H. McCoy.
Employee Rights and Responsibilities.
CASE STUDY: The Aircraft Brake Scandal, Kermit Vandivier.
Whistleblowing and Professional Responsibility, Sissela Bok.
Employment at Will and Due Process, Patricia H. Werhane and Tara J. Radin.
In Defense of Contract at Will, Richard A. Epstein.
Employability Security, Rosabeth Moss Kanter.
Diversity.
CASE STUDY: Ellen Moore: Living and Working in Bahrain, Gail Ellement, Martha Maznevski, and Henry W. Lane.
CASE STUDY: Is This the Right Time to Come Out?, Alistair D. Williamson.
Management Women and the New Facts of Life, Schwartz.
White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies, Peggy McIntosh.
Sexual Harassment, Susan M. Dodds, Lucy Frost, Robert Pargetter, and Elizabeth W. Prior.
IV. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS.
Ethical Relativism.
CASE STUDY: What Price, Safety?, from Uncompromising Integrity: Motorola's Global Challenge.
Relativism, Cultural and Moral, Norman E. Bowie
The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.
Business Values Away from Home.
CASE STUDY: Just When is a "Tip" Only Another Means to Insure Promptness?
CASE STUDY: Levi Strauss & Co.: Global Sourcing, Lynn Sharpe Paine and Jane Palley Katz.
International Business Ethics and Incipient Capitalism: A Double Standard?, Richard T. De George.
Values in Tension: Ethics away from Home, Thomas Donaldson, Harvard Business Review, (September-October, 1996).
V. CONTEMPORARY BUSINESS THEMES
Marketing.
CASE STUDY: Joe Camel: The Cartoon Character Who Sells Cigarettes, Marianne M. Jennings.
Persuasive Advertising, Autonomy, and the Creation of Desire, Roger Crisp.
Ethical Myopia: The Case of "Framing" by Framing, Alan E. Singer, Steven Lysonski, Ming Singer, and David Hayes.
Marketing to Inner-City Blacks: PowerMaster and Moral Responsibility, George C. Brenkert.
Strategy.
CASE STUDY: Sears Auto Centers, Lynn Sharp Paine and Michael A. Santoro.
The Leader's New Work: Building Learning Organizations, Peter M. Senge.
The Many Faces of the Corporate Code, Lisa H. Newton.
Managing for Organizational Integrity, Lynn Sharp Paine.
The Environment.
CASE STUDY: Shell and Nigerian Oil, William E. Newburry and Thomas N. Gladwin.
Scarcity or Abundance?, Julian L. Simon.
Holes in the Cornucopia, Ernest Partridge.
Biographical Information.