Business Ethics and Strategy, Volumes I and II

by Singer,Alan E.; Singer,Alan E.

• ISBN13: 9780754626091
• ISBN10: 0754626091
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume is intended as a reference for those interested in the relationship between business strategy and business ethics, and features articles that have been selected from various leading journals in management, strategy and ethics.

Table of Contents

Series preface

Foreword Introduction

Frameworks (Integrative Frameworks)

Mapping moral philosophies: strategic implications for multinational firms

A single framework for strategic and ethical behavior in the international context

Strategy as moral philosophy

Corporate social responsibility: a 3-domain approach

An agent morality view of business policy

Economics (Economic Principles and Ethical Strategies)

Self-interest, self-deception and the ethics of commerce

The 'invisible hand'

Corporate social responsibility: a theory of the firm perspective

Economics, business principles and moral sentiments

Globalization (Corporations as Global Citizens

The battle in Seattle: reconciling 2 world views on corporate culture

Business citizenship: from domestic to global level of analysis

Globalization and the ethics of business

Globalization and ethical global business

Market Limitations (Strategic Responses to Market Limitations)

Globalization and the good corporation: a need for proactive co-existence

A model of value creation: strategic view

Enterprise action for the common good: market limitations as strategic problems

Environment (Green Strategy and Environmental Policy)

Toward green narrative: management and the evolutionary epic

Corporate strategies and environmental regulations: an organizing framework

Commentary on 'Corporate strategies and environmental regulations: an organizing framework'

Environmental technologies and competitive advantage

The environment, the moralist, the corporation and its culture

Stakeholders (Stakeholder Theories and Strategies)

Convergent stakeholder theory

Divergent stakeholder theory

Toward a descriptive stakeholder theory: an organizational life cycle approach

Missing the target: normative stakeholder theory and the corporate governance debate

A communitarian note on stakeholder theory

Models (Choosing a Conceptual Model)

Philosophizing on strategic management models

Strategy and recursivity

Toward a stewardship theory of management

Index

Series preface

Game Theory (Game Theory and its Interpretations)

Game theory as a model for business and business ethics

Game theory and business ethics

Game theory and the evolution of strategic thinking

Trust (Trustworthiness and Trust-Building)

Trust, morality and international business

Trustworthiness as a source of competitive advantage

Social contracting as a trust building process of network governance

Trust: the connecting link between organizational theory and philosophical ethics

Lobbying (Lobbying and Corporate Citizenship)

Ethical standards for business lobbying: some practical suggestions

Citizenship and democracy: the ethics of corporate lobbying

A framework for the ethical analysis of corporate political activity

Corruption (Corruption and Strategy)

Corruption and change: the impact of foreign direct investment

Increasing firm value through detection and prevention of white-collar crime

Poverty (The Effects of Business on Poverty)

Serving the world's poor, profitably

Poverty and the politics of capitalism

Stalking the poverty consumer: a retrospective examination of modern ethical dilemmas

Knowledge (Intellectual Property and Knowledge Strategy): a pluralistic account of intellectual property

Dissolving the digital dilemma: meta-theory and intellectual property

Intellectual property rights, moral imagination, and access to life-enhancing drugs

Systems (Systemic and Holistic Approaches)

Managerial moral strategies - in search of a few good principles

Moral imagination and the search for ethical decision-making in management

Toward the feminine firm: an extension to Thomas White

The question of organizational consciousness: can organization have values, virtues and visions?

Human and social capital - prerequisites for sustained prosperity

Misery loves companies: rethinking social initiatives by business

Performance (Corporate Social and Financial Performance)

Corporate social and financial performance: a meta-analysis

The link between corporate social and financial performance: evidence form the banking industry

Beyond built to last... stakeholder relations in 'built-to-last' companies

Corporate social responsibility and financial performance: correlation or misspecification?

Implementation (Implanting Ethical Strategy)

Modes of managing morality: a descriptive model of strategies for managing ethics

Enron ethics (or: culture matters more than codes)

Creating corporate accountability: foundational principles to make corporate citizenship real

Name index

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