Business Ethics

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Michael Boylan
Wiley, Jun 25, 2013 - Business & Economics - 448 pages

The second edition of Business Ethics introduces readers to key ethical issues that arise within the world of business, providing a strong theoretical foundation as well as real world applications. This new edition has been greatly revised, and includes new sections on the financial services industry, globalization, and global economic justice.

  • An accessible introduction for beginners, offering a combination of important established essays and new essays commissioned especially for this volume
  • Greatly revised - more than half of the selections are new to this edition. Newly commissioned essays address information technology, global economic justice and globalization, stakeholder theory, the corporation as an individual, and other topics
  • Uses diverse, authentic business cases to illustrate discussion of concepts
  • Cases have been updated to reflect current problems and issues
  • Provides students with guidance and tools to write their own case study essays
  • Readings are presented to progressively develop the reader's ability to read and apply ethical theory by writing case responses from different vantage points

About the author (2013)

Michael Boylan is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Marymount University. He is the author and editor of 26 books, including his manifesto on social/political philosophy A Just Society (2004), and on cosmopolitanism Morality and Global Justice: Justifications and Applications (2011). Boylan was himself the focus of an edited volume, Morality and Justice: Reading Boylan’s A Just Society (2009). He has served on professional and governmental policy committees and was a fellow at the Center for American Progress and a program presenter at The Brookings Institution. He has been an invited speaker in nine countries around the world, including talks in Oxford, Cambridge, Cologne, Oslo, Dublin, Sydney, and the Sorbonne.

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