Ethical issues in business : a philosophical approach

Responsibility edited by Thomas Donaldson, Patricia H. Werhane, Margaret Cording. Edition 7th ed. Imprint Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2002. Physical description xii, 623 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

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Contributor Donaldson, Thomas, 1945- Werhane, Patricia Hogue. Cording, Margaret, 1957-

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• Introduction to Ethical Reasoning. I. GENERAL ISSUES IN ETHICS. Introduction. Business Ethics: The Controversy. Virtues and the Virtuous Manager: CASE STUDY: "H.B. Fuller in Honduras, " by Norman Bowie and Stefanie Lenway. "The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Profits, " by Milton Friedman. "Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation, " R. Edward Freeman. "Business Ethics and Stakeholder Analysis, " Kenneth Goodpaster. Ethical Reasoning in Practice. "A Kantian Approach to Business Ethics, " Norman Bowie. " Corporate Roles, Personal Virtues: An Aristotelian Approach to Business Ethics, " Robert Solomon. "The Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme, " Patricia Werhane. Truth Telling. CASE STUDY: "Italian Tax Mores, " Arthur L. Kelly. Ethical Duties Towards Others: "Truthfulness, " Immanuel Kant. "Is Business Bluffing Ethical?" Albert Carr. "The Business of Ethics, " Norman C. Gillespie. "Trust, Morality and International Business, " George C. Brenkert. II. PROPERTY, PROFIT AND JUSTICE. Introduction. Traditional Theories of Property and Profit. CASE STUDY: "Plasma International, " T.W. Zimmerer and P.L. Preston. CASE STUDY: "Dorrence Corporation Trade-Offs, " Wolf. "The Justification of Private Property, " John Locke. "Benefits of the Profit Motive, " Adam Smith. "Alienated Labour, " Karl Marx. "Wealth, " Andrew Carnegie. The Impact of Technology on Traditional Views of Property. CASE STUDY: "McMadness' Hong Kong Style, " Farhoomand, Clark and Lovelock. "The Judgment of Thamus, " Postman. "Needed: A New System of Intellectual Property Rights, " Thurow. Justice. CASE STUDY: "The Oil Rig, " Joanne Ciculla. "Distributive Justice, " John Rawls. "The Entitlement Theory, " Robert Nozick. "Complex Equality, " Michael Walzer. III. CORPORATIONS PERSONS AND MORALITY. Introduction. The Role of Organizational Values. CASE STUDY: "Merck & Co., Inc., " The Business Enterprise Trust. "Does Business Ethics Make Common Sense?" Amartya Sen. "Can Socially Responsible Firms Survive in a Competitive Environment?" Robert Frank. "The Parable of the Sadhu, " Bowen McCoy. Values and the Virtuous Manager. CASE STUDY: "Run, Inc., " AICPA. "Moral Mazes: Bureaucracy and the Managerial Work, " Robert Jackall. "The Moral Muteness of Managers, " Bird and Waters. "The 'New' U.S. Sentencing Guidelines: A Wake-Up Call for Corporate America, " Dalton, Metzger and Hill. Employee Rights and Responsibilities. CASE STUDY: "The Aircraft Brake Scandal, " Kermit Vandivier. "Whistleblowing and Professional Responsibilities, " Sissela Bok. "Employment at Will, Employee Rights, and Future Directions for Employment, " Radin and Werhane. "In Defense of the Contract at Will, " Richard A. Epstein. "Employability Security, " Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Diversity. CASE STUDY: "The Case of the Unequal Opportunity, " Mary C. Gentile. "Management Women and the New Facts of Life, " Felice N. Schwartz. "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies, " Peggy McIntosh. IV. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS. Introduction. Ethical Relativism. CASE STUDY: "What Price Safety?" CASE STUDY: "W.R. Grace and the Neemix Patent" (A), Severance, Shapiro and Werhane. "The Challenge of Cultural Relativism, " James Rachels. "A Social Contracts Approach to Business Ethics, " Donaldson and Dunfee. "The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights." Business Values Away from Home. CASE STUDY: "Just When Is a 'Tip' ONLY Another Means to Ensure Promptness?" CASE STUDY: "Levi Strauss & Co.: Global Sourcing, " Paine and Katz. "International Business Ethics and Incipient Capitalism: A Double Standard?" Richard DeGeorge. "Values in Tension: Ethics away from Home, " Thomas Donaldson. V. CONTEMPORARY BUSINESS THEMES. Introduction. Marketing. CASE STUDY: "Fingerhut's Price Strategy, " Fennel, Kalsow, and West. CASE STUDY: "Kate: Dot-Com CEO." "Persuasive Advertising, Autonomy and the Creation of Desire, " Roger Crisp. "Ethical Myopia: The Case of 'Framing' by Framing, " Singer, Lysonski, Singer and Hayes. The Environment. CASE STUDY: "Shell and Nigerian Oil, " Newburry and Gladwin. "Scarcity or Abundance?" Julian Simon. "The Natural Step, " Wendy Warren and Andrea Larsen. "Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique, " Steven Kelman. Leadership. CASE STUDY: "Sears Auto Centers, " Lynn Sharp Paine and Michael Santoro. "Citigroup's John Reed and Stanford's James March on Management Research and Practice, " ed., Ann Sigismund Huff. "Managing for Organizational Integrity, " Lynn S. Paine. "The Leader's New Work: Building Learning Organizations, " Peter M. Senge. Biographical Information.
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