Jewish Business Ethics The Firm and Its Stakeholders

by Levine, Aaron; Pava, Moses

• ISBN13: 9780765760562
• ISBN10: 0765760568
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Summary

The main idea upon which the essays in this book are built is that the power and success of business is ultimately based on one's beliefs about life's meaning. It is no exaggeration to suggest that corporate success is set in motion and encouraged by a set of core ethics values shared by managers, employees, and stockholders. This book reflects the unflinching belief that traditional Jewish sources provide useful and practical paradigms and solutions to many important issues facing the modern business manager. Jewish business ethics must begin by taking both business and Jewish ethics seriously.

Table of Contents

Prologue: What Is Jewish Business Ethics?	xi
Moses L. Pava
Moral Markets: Two Cheers for Stakeholder Theory	1	(26)
Moses L. Pava
Convenantal Morality in Business	27	(18)
Walter S. Wurzburger
The Employee as Corporate Stakeholder: Exploring the Relationship between Jewish Tradition and Contemporary Business Ethics	45	(30)
David J. Schnall
Aspects of the Firm's Responsibility to Its Customers: Pharmaceutical Pricing and Consumer Pricing	75	(48)
Aaron Levine
Balancing the Scales: Halakhah, the Firm, and Information Asymmetries	123	(24)
Jonas Prager
Responsibility of the Firm to the Environment	147	(28)
Yehoshua Liebermann
Ethical Investment: The Responsibility of Ownership in Jewish Law	175	(28)
D. B. Bressler
The Corporate Veil and Halakhah: A Still Shrouded Concept	203	(70)
Michael J. Broyde
Steven H. Resnicoff
Epilogue	273	(44)
Aaron Levine
Contributors	317	(2)
Index	319