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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 648 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 235x197x35 mm, kaal: 1156 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2008
  • Kirjastus: Broadview Press Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1551116618
  • ISBN-13: 9781551116617
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 648 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 235x197x35 mm, kaal: 1156 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2008
  • Kirjastus: Broadview Press Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1551116618
  • ISBN-13: 9781551116617
Teised raamatud teemal:
Business in Ethical Focus is a compilation of classical and contemporary essays on business ethics. Approximately 50 essays are organized into five units: Corporate Social Responsibility; Rights and Obligations of Employees and Employers; Justice and Fair Practice; Distributive Justice; and Advertising, Marketing, and the Consumer.

Readers will become acquainted with seminal ideas from important thinkers such as Milton Friedman on corporate social responsibility and Amartya Sen on whether business ethics makes economic sense. They will also find classic readings on distributive justice by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Karl Marx, John Rawls, and Robert Nozick. Other topics include drug testing, sexual harassment, environmental responsibility, bribery, and ethical issues in advertising and marketing.

The editors provide thoughtful commentary, case studies, and study questions for each unit, enabling readers to clearly understand the growing discipline of business ethics.

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This anthology from Fritz Allhoff and Anand J. Vaidya is the most comprehensive I have ever seen in my 30 plus years in the field. Diverse students will relish this replacement for boring textbooks. Moreover, it belongs on the bookshelf of any serious applied ethics scholar. Gregory A. Daneke, Chair in Business Ethics, University of Calgary and Professor, Arizona State University

Business in Ethical Focus could just as easily have been entitled Ethics in Business Focus as the volume provides a truly integrative view of the role that each plays in the other. The anthology contains an insightful collection of historical and contemporary classics, examining a broad range of internal and external ethical challenges we all face in todays complex organizational world. Combined with a series of short cases and thoughtful section introductions by the editors, the volume provides the reader with a solid foundation in business ethics that will facilitate a much needed questioning about the critical role that morality must play within the global business world. It is a wonderful reader that will be very useful in a broad range of courses. Anthony F. Buono, Professor of Management & Sociology, Bentley College and Coordinator, Bentley Alliance for Ethics & Social Responsibility

It is all here in this volume. All the famous names from the ancients like Aristotle and the Buddha to all the important contemporary thinkers. This book gives the student easy access to the key debates between different philosophies as well as to the debates on current hot topics. A fascinating resource for anyone interested in corporate social responsibility or business ethics. Colin Fisher, Professor of Mangaerial Ethics and Values, Nottingham Trent University

Preliminaries: Why Study Business Ethics?
``Volume Introduction''
11(4)
Anand Vaidya
Fritz Allhoff
Foundational Issues
``Ill-Founded Criticisms of Business Ethics''
15(5)
Anand Jayprakash Vaidya
``Does Business Ethics Make Economic Sense?''
20(9)
Amartya Sen
Systems of Moral Evaluation
``Kantian Business Ethics''
29(6)
Heather Salazar
``Caring as an Ethical Perspective''
35(7)
Rita C. Manning
``Buddhist Ethics''
42(4)
Karin Brown
``Aristotelian Virtue Ethics and the Recommendations of Morality''
46(7)
Richard M. Glatz
``Utilitarianism''
53(12)
David Meeler
Unit 1 Corporate Social Responsibility
``Corporate Social Responsibility''
63(2)
Anand Vaidya
The Central Debate
``The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits''
65(4)
Milton Friedman
``A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation''
69(10)
R. Edward Freeman
``The Normative Theories of Business Ethics: A Guide for the Perplexed''
79(20)
John Hasnas
``Private Corporations and Public Welfare''
99(11)
George G. Brenkert
``Business Ethics Without Stakeholders''
110(21)
Joseph Heath
Globalization and Its Ethical Significance
``The Ethics of Risk in the Global Economy''
131(12)
Thomas Donaldson
``International Business, Morality, and the Common Good''
143(11)
Manuel Velasquez
``The Great Non-Debate Over International Sweatshops''
154(16)
Ian Maitland
``Values in Tension: Ethics Away from Home''
170(11)
Thomas Donaldson
``Ethics and the Gender Equality Dilemma for US Multinationals''
181(8)
Don Mayer
Anita Cava
Environmental Responsibility
``At the Monument to General Meade, or On the Difference Between Beliefs and Benefits''
189(25)
Mark Sagoff
``A Defense of Risk-Cost-Benefit Analysis''
214(11)
Kristin Shrader-Frechette
``Reconciling the Irreconcilable: The Global Economy and the Environment''
225(7)
Deborah C. Poff
``Environmentalism Humanized''
232(23)
Tibor R. Machan
Case Study 1: Actions Speak Louder than Words: Rebuilding Malden Mills
246(2)
Case Study 2: Charity Begins at Home: Nepotism
248(5)
Unit 2 Rights and Obligations of Employees and Employers
``Rights and Obligations of Employees and Employers''
253(2)
Anand Vaidya
Employment at Will
``Employment at Will and Due Process''
255(4)
Patricia H. Werhane
Tara J. Radin
``In Defense of the Contract at Will''
259(8)
Richard A. Epstein
Whistleblowing
``Whistleblowing''
267(7)
Richard T. De George
``Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty''
274(5)
Robert A. Larmer
Drug Testing
``Drug Testing in Employment''
279(12)
Joseph DesJardins
Ronald Duska
``Drug Testing and the Right to Privacy: Arguing the Ethics of Workplace Drug Testing''
291(11)
Michael Cranford
Safety in the Workplace
``The Employer-Employee Relationship and the Right to Know''
302(10)
Anita M. Superson
``Human Rights, Workers' Rights, and the `Right' to Occupational Safety''
312(12)
Tibor R. Machan
Case Study 3: Lifestyles and Your Livelihood: Getting Fired in America
316(2)
Case Study 4: E-Mail and Privacy: A Novel Approach
318(5)
Unit 3 Justice and Fair Practice
``Justice and Fair Practice''
323(1)
Anand Vaidya
Affirmative Action
Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. FCC, 497 U.S. 547 (1990)
324(2)
``What Is Wrong with Reverse Discrimination?''
326(11)
Edwin C. Hettinger
``The Moral Status of Affirmative Action''
337(19)
Louis P. Pojman
Sexual Harassment
``The Definition of Sexual Harassment''
356(10)
Edmund Wall
``A Feminist Definition of Sexual Harassment''
366(14)
Anita M. Superson
``Sexual Harassment and the Rights of the Accused''
380(20)
Stephen Griffith
Bluffing in Business
``Is Business Bluffing Ethical?''
400(9)
Albert Z. Carr
``Second Thoughts about Bluffing''
409(23)
Thomas Carson
``Business Bluffing Reconsidered''
432(7)
Fritz Allhoff
Bribery and Exploitation
``Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: A Legal and Moral Analysis''
439(8)
Bill Shaw
``A Traveler's Guide to Gifts and Bribes''
447(20)
Jeffrey A. Fadiman
Case Study 5: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
458(2)
Case Study 6: The Ethics of Bluffing: Oracle's Takeover of PeopleSoft
460(5)
Unit 4 Distributive Justice
``Distributive Justice''
465(2)
Fritz Allhoff
Classical Theories of Contracts, Property, and Capitalism
Excerpts from Leviathan
467(8)
Thomas Hobbes
Excerpts from The Second Treatise of Human Government
475(8)
John Locke
Excerpts from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
483(7)
Adam Smith
``Estranged Labor''
490(8)
Karl Marx
Contemporary Theories of Distribution and Property
Excerpts from A Theory of Justice
498(15)
John Rawls
Excerpts from Anarchy, State and Utopia
513(20)
Robert Nozick
``A Moral Case for Socialism''
533(6)
Kai Nielsen
``Illusions About Private Property and Freedom''
539(11)
G.A. Cohen
Intellectual Property
``Justifying Intellectual Property''
550(14)
Edwin C. Hettinger
``Trade Secrets and the Justification of Intellectual Property: A Comment on Hettinger''
564(20)
Lynn Sharp Paine
Case Study 7: Intellectual Property Across National Borders
577(2)
Case Study 8: Copy That, Red Leader: Is File-Sharing Piracy?
579(4)
Unit 5 Advertising, Marketing, and the Consumer
``Advertising, Marketing, and the Consumer''
583(1)
Anand Vaidya
Truth and Deception in Advertising
``Advertising: The Whole Truth or Only Some of the Truth?''
584(8)
Tibor R. Machan
``The Making of Self and World in Advertising''
592(7)
John Waide
Creation of Desire in Advertising
``Persuasive Advertising, Autonomy, and the Creation of Desire''
599(6)
Roger Crisp
``Advertising and Behavior Control''
605(10)
Robert L. Arrington
Is Targeting Ethical?
``Children as Consumers: An Ethical Evaluation of Children's Television Advertising''
615(11)
Lynn Sharp Paine
``Marketing to Inner-City Blacks: PowerMaster and Moral Responsibility''
626(19)
George G. Brenkert
Case Study 9: Nestle and Advertising: An Ethical Analysis
640(2)
Case Study 10: Children and Targeting: Is it Ethical?
642(3)
Sources 645
Fritz Allhoff is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Western Michigan University and a Research Fellow in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at The Australian National University. He has edited several volumes in the field of applied ethics.

Anand Jayprakash Vaidya is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at San José State University. He has edited several volumes on business and professional ethics.