A Companion to Business Ethics

by Frederick, Robert E.

• ISBN13: 9781405101028
• ISBN10: 1405101024
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-02
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

In a series of articles specifically commossioned for this volume, some of today's most distinguished business ethicists survey the main areas of interest and concern in the field of business ethics.Sections of the book cover topics such as the often easy relation between business ethics and capatalism, the link between business ethics and ethical theory, how ethics applies to specific problems in the business world, the connection between business ethics and related academic disciplines, and the practice of business ethics in modern corporations. Includes extensive, accessible discussion of all of the main areas of interest and debate in business ethics. Features all original contributions by distinguished authors in business ethics. Includes an annotated table of contents, bibliographies of the relevant literature and a list of internet sources of material on business ethics. Perfect, comprehensive book for use in business ethics courses.

Author Biography

Robert E. Frederick is chair of the philosophy department at Bentley College, a research scholar at the Center for Business Ethics, and the editor of the journal Business and Society Review, also published by Blackwell. He is the author of The Philosophy of Right and Left and co-editor (with Michael Hoffman) of Business Ethics: Readings and Cases in Corporate Morality. Frederick and Hoffman are also editors of the new series Foundations of Business Ethics.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix
Preface	xiii
PART I BUSINESS ETHICS AND NORMATIVE THEORIES	1	(138)
A Kantian approach to business ethics	3	(14)
Norman E. Bowie
Utilitarianism and business ethics	17	(13)
Milton Snoeyenbos
James Humber
Business ethics and virtue	30	(8)
Robert C. Solomon
Social contract approaches to business ethics: bridging the ``is-ought'' gap	38	(18)
Thomas W. Dunfee
Thomas Donaldson
Business ethics and the pragmatic attitude	56	(9)
Douglas R. Anderson
An outline of ethical relativism and ethical absolutism	65	(16)
Robert E. Frederick
Feminist theory and business ethics	81	(7)
Robbin Derry
Business ethics in a free society	88	(12)
Tibor R. Machan
Nature and business ethics	100	(12)
William C. Frederick
Toward new directions in business ethics: some pragmatic pathways	112	(16)
Sandra B. Rosenthal
Rogene A. Buchholz
Business ethics: pragmatism and postmodernism	128	(11)
R. Edward Freeman
Robert A. Phillips
PART II BUSINESS ETHICS AND THE BUSINESS DISCIPLINES	139	(92)
Ethics in management	141	(12)
Archie B. Carroll
Finance ethics	153	(11)
John R. Boatright
Ethics in the public accounting profession	164	(14)
Mohammad J. Abdolmohammadi
Mark R. Nixon
Marketing ethics	178	(16)
George G. Brenkert
Law, ethics, and managerial judgment	194	(13)
Lynn S. Paine
Business ethics and economics	207	(11)
Diane L. Swanson
Business ethics and the social sciences	218	(13)
Linda Klebe Trevino
PART III ISSUES IN BUSINESS ETHICS	231	(92)
International business ethics	233	(10)
Richard T. de George
Corporate moral agency	243	(14)
John R. Danley
Employee rights	257	(12)
Ronald Duska
Business ethics and work: questions for the twenty-first century	269	(11)
Joanne B. Ciulla
Business's environmental responsibility	280	(10)
Joseph R. Desjardins
Business ethics and religion	290	(13)
Ronald M. Green
Social responsibility and business ethics	303	(20)
Rogene A. Buchholz
Sandra B. Rosenthal
PART IV BUSINESS ETHICS: ORIGINS AND CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE	323	(86)
Business ethics and the origins of contemporary capitalism: economics and ethics in the work of Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer	325	(17)
Patricia H. Werhane
A brief history of American business ethics	342	(11)
Thomas F. Mcmahon
Business ethics in Europe: a tale of two efforts	353	(13)
Henk van Luijk
Ethics and the regulatory environment	366	(8)
Jeffrey M. Kaplan
Rebecca S. Walker
A passport for the corporate code: from Borg Warner to the Caux Principles	374	(12)
Lisa H. Newton
Investigations and due process	386	(13)
Joan Elise Dubinsky
Ethics and corporate leadership	399	(10)
Keith Darcy
Bibliography	409	(14)
Appendix A: Business Ethics: Electronic Resources	423	(2)
Appendix B: Domestic and International Business Ethics Organizations	425	(22)
Index	447