The Routledge Companion to Business Ethics

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Eugene Heath, Byron Kaldis, Alexei M. Marcoux
Routledge, 2018 - Business & Economics - 702 pages
Introduction / Eugene Heath, Byron Kaldis, Alexei Marcoux -- The discipline of business ethics -- The history of business ethics / Bernard Mees -- Theorists and philosophers on business ethics / George Bragues -- Theory and method in business ethics / Nicholas Capaldi -- Teaching business ethics : current practice and future directions / Darin Gates, Bradley R. Agle, Richard N. Williams -- Moral philosophy and business: foundational theories -- Consequentialism and non-consequentialism / Andrew Gustafson -- Social contract theories / Pedro Francés-Gómez -- Can profit-seekers be virtuous? / Michael C. Munger and Daniel C. Russell -- Feminist ethics and business ethics : redefining landscapes of learning / Ming Lim -- Business ethics and religious belief / Kenneth J. Barnes -- Business ethics theories -- Social responsibility / Florian Wettstein -- Stakeholder thinking / Kenneth E. Goodpaster -- Integrative economic ethics : concept and critique / Alexander Lorch and Thomas Beschorner -- Conceptual considerations -- What is business? / William Kline -- The corporation : genesis, identity, agency / Gordon G. Sollars -- Alternative business organizations and social enterprise / Dana Brakman Reiser -- The ethics of entrepreneurship / Christian Lautermann and Kim Oliver Tokarski -- The contribution of economics to business ethics / Joseph Heath -- Economic institutions: operations and effects -- Property and business / Bas van der Vossen -- Creativity, innovation, and the production of wealth / Knut Sogner -- Money and finance : ethical considerations / Antonio Argandoña -- Regulation, rent-seeking, and business ethics / Christel Koop and John Meadowcroft -- Business, nature, and environmental sustainability / Joseph DesJardins -- The economic crisis : causes and considerations / Randall G. Holcomb -- Roles and responsibilities within the firm -- Corporate governance / Ann K. Buchholtz -- Leadership and business ethics : are leaders wolves for business ethics? / Valérie Petit and Sarah E. Saint-Michel -- Theoretical issues in management ethics / Joseph A. Petrick -- The ethics of managers and employees / Linda Klebe Treviño -- Employee ethics and rights / Jeffrey Moriarty -- Exploitation and labor / Benjamin Ferguson -- Ethical issues in marketing, advertising, and sales / Minette Drumwright -- The accounting profession, the public interest, and human rights / Ken McPhail -- Multinational corporations and globalization -- The globalization of business ethics / Kirk O. Hanson -- Cross-cultural management ethics in multinational commerce / Terence Jackson -- Corruption, bribery, and moral norms across national boundaries / Wesley Cragg -- Business ethics across the globe -- Business ethics in china / Yuqiao Xiang -- Business ethics in South Asia : Gandhian trusteeship and its relevance for the twenty-first century / S. Ramakrishna Velamuri -- Business ethics in Africa / Minka Woermann -- Business ethics in Latin America / Álvaro E. Pezoa -- Business ethics in transition : communism to commerce in Central Europe and Russia / Rodica Milena Zaharia -- Index

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About the author (2018)

Eugene Heath is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where he has taught since 1993. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and his B.A. from Davidson College. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, his interests include business ethics, social and political philosophy, and eighteenth-century British moral philosophy. His scholarly essays have appeared in the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Political Theory, History of Philosophy Quarterly, and Hume Studies. Byron Kaldis, BA Honours (University of Kent), DPhil (University of Oxford), is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Studies in the School of Humanities at the Hellenic Open University. He has previously held positions at universities in the United Kingdom, United States, and Greece and has recently been a visiting scholar in the departments of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Helsinki. He will be again a visiting scholar at Harvard University and Rutgers University.He has taught and published in the areas of the philosophy of social sciences, metaphysics and epistemology, history of philosophy and political thought, and the ethics of technoscience. He currently works on the relationship between philosophical issues in cognition and social ontology.He is the editor of a forthcoming edited volume: "Mind and Society: Cognitive Science Meets the Social" "Sciences, "to appear in the Synthese Library of Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, and co-editor of another forthcoming edited volume titled: "Wealth, Commerce and Philosophy "published by The University of Chicago Press. Byron Kaldis will be editor of a new academic book series in the philosophy of the social sciences and serves as member of the advisory board on the philosophy of sociality book series at Springer. In 2011, he launched together with colleagues the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS). Alexei Marcoux is an Associate Professor of Business Ethics in the School of Business Administration at Loyola University Chicago. He is also a Senior Research Fellow in the National Center for Business Ethics at Loyola University New Orleans.