Screen LibraryBusiness, institutions, and ethics : a text with cases and readings /
"Business, Institutions, and Ethics: A Text with Cases and Readings is the first text to use the analysis of social institutions to examine business ethics.
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| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Business, Institutions, and Ethics: A Text with Cases and Readings is the first text to use the analysis of social institutions to examine business ethics. It explains fundamental concepts in ethics and how to apply them to business and economics. The author shows how social institutions are constituted by an integrated set of ethical, economic, and legal principles, and then uses. Principles to study the ethics of commerce at the individual, organizational, and market levels. This unique work features thirty-four cases and articles that are organized into economic categories, providing a conceptual unity and flexibility not found in similar texts."--Jacket. |
| Carrier Form: | xix, 489 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780195080803 (pbk.) : 0195080807 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | HF5387 |
| CLC: | D718 |
| Call Number: | D718/D562 |
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Markets, organizations, and individuals -- Market institutions, organizational practices, and individual decision making -- Institutions / Managing for organizational integrity / Ethical leadership and the psychology of decision making / Ethics, economics, and law : an institutional approach to decision making -- Ethical decision making : psychological foundations -- Ethical decision making : exploring alternative values -- Economics and ethical decision making -- Law and ethical decision making -- Applying the framework : cases and articles -- Property -- Agrico, Inc. : a software dilemma / The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits / Deriving ethical principles from theories of the firm / A stakeholder theory of the modern corporation / Getting real : stakeholder theory, managerial practice, and the general irrelevance of fiduciary duties owed to shareholders / Diablo Canyon : nuclear energy and the public welfare / People or penguins : the case for optimal pollution / Morality, money, and motor cars / Plasma International / Ethical dilemmas for the multinational enterprise : a philosophical overview / The moral responsibility of multinational corporations to be socially responsible / International business ethics : the aluminum companies in Jamaica / U.S. and Mexico confront a toxic legacy / The ethics of development and the dilemmas of global environmentalism / Risk-reward relationships -- Kate Simpson / Employment at will and due process / Johnson Controls and protective exclusion from the workplace / The right to risk information and the right to refuse workplace hazards / Merck & Co., Inc. / The moral authority of transnational corporate codes / Wait International and questionable payments / The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1988 : "death" of a law / Information -- Natural cereals / Advertising and behavior control / Persuasive advertising, autonomy, and the creation of desire / The case of the willful whistle-blower / Whistleblowing and employee loyalty / The transfer of dangerous industries to underdeveloped countries / Chemical exports and the age of consent : the high cost of international export control proposals / Competition -- Seizure of the S.W. parcel / Some ethical consequences of economic competition / Tee-shirts and tears : third world suppliers to first world markets / Two roads to China : nice, and not so nice / The moral obligations of multinational corporations / |