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50Multinational Corporations and Global Justice, by Florian Wettstein .Hardcover, 410 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8047-6240-3Business Ethics Quarterly 22 (1): 193-198. 2012.Increasingly, global businesses are confronted with the question of complicity in human rights violations committed by abusive host governments. This contribution specifically looks at silent complicity and the way it challenges conventional interpretations of corporate responsibility. Silent complicity impliesthat corporations have moral obligations that reach beyond the negative realm of doing no harm. Essentially, it implies that corporations have a moral responsibility to help protect human …Read more
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24Book ReviewsKenneth Goodpaster,. Conscience and Corporate Culture.Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007. Pp. xiv+336. $83.95 ; $26.95 (review)Ethics 119 (2): 353-356. 2009.
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25The Linguistic Turn, Social Construction and the Impartial Spectator: why Do these Ideas Matter to Managerial Thinking?Philosophy of Management 17 (3): 265-278. 2018.One’s philosophical points of view, which form the bases for assumptions that we bring to management theory and practice matter, and matter deeply, to management thinking and corporate behavior. In this paper I outline three related threads of philosophical conversations and explain how they are important in management theory and practice: the “linguistic turn” in philosophy, deriving from the later writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, a social constructionist perspective: a set of theories at least…Read more
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49Business Ethics: A Kantian Perspective , by Norman E. Bowie. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 234 pp. ISBN: 978-1316343210 (review)Business Ethics Quarterly 28 (1): 110-113. 2018.
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8Cambridge Handbook of Research Approaches to Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2017.While there is a large and ever-expanding body of work on the fields of business ethics and corporate social responsibility, there is a noted absence of a single source on the methodology and research approaches to these fields. In this book, the first of its kind, leading scholars in the fields gather to analyse a range of philosophical and empirical approaches to research in business ethics and CSR. It covers such sections as historical approaches, normative and behavioural methodologies, quan…Read more
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18Strategic Global Strategy: The Intersection of General Principles, Corporate Responsibility and Economic Value-AddedBusiness and Society Review 122 (1): 71-91. 2017.An ongoing argument often made by business ethicists is that a singular preoccupation on profitability, will lead, in the long run, to disvalue for all the stakeholders and the communities it affects, and often, economic challenges for the company. On the other hand, we argue, a preoccupation with ethics and CSR as the primary aims of a for-profit company, it is, on its own, like a preoccupation with profitability, unsustainable. Indeed, without economic viability, a company will fail. Both of t…Read more
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16Fraud and deception: a response to Gedeon RossouwBusiness Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 9 (4): 273-275. 2000.This response addresses the question: how can ethical values play a role in combating fraud? Three points are made. Firstly, ethical values are both self‐ and other‐related. Secondly, changing the prevalence of fraudulent behaviours requires not only a reduction in opportunity for fraud but also a change in mindset of the perpetrators. Thirdly, that change in mindset involves the recognition that there are personal and organizational advantages to be gained by not contributing to or abetting fra…Read more
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8Management EthicsWiley-Blackwell. 2004._Management Ethics_ is a highly accessible and concise introduction to issues and key problems in the area of management ethics. Examines the obligations that managers have to their various stakeholders: employees, customers, shareholders, and the community Looks at topics at the cutting edge of business ethics, including the ethics of supply chain management, as well as dealing with the press and non governmental agencies Considers the concepts of sustainability and triple bottom line accountin…Read more
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1Employment and Employee RightsWiley-Blackwell. 2003._Employment and Employee Rights_ addresses the issue of rights in the workplace. Although much of the literature in this field focuses on employee rights, this volume considers the issue from the perspective of both employees and employers. Considers the rights of both employees and employers. Discusses the moral and legal landscape and traditional assumptions about right in employment. Investigates arguments for guaranteeing rights, particularly for employees, which are derived from relational,…Read more
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3Philosophical Issues in ArtPrentice-Hall. 1984.This anthology on aesthetics illustrates abstract philosophical readings with comments by artists and with a number of art works.
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36Ethical and Environmental Challenges to EngineeringPearson. 2000.This short reader accompanies the textbook The Christian Theological Tradition. It was copiled by 13 members fo the Theology Dept. of the University of St. Thomas. All the translations have been done by department members.
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12The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics provides clear, concise and highly informative definitions and explanations of the key concepts in one of the most important fields in contemporary business.
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2Profit and Responsibility: Issues in Business and Professional EthicsE. Mellen Press. 1985.This is a collection of essays on business ethics written by philosophers, theologians and professors of business.
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28McNeely, Jeffrey A. and Sara J. Scherr, Ecoagriculture. Strategies to Feed the World and Save Wild Biodiversity (Island Press, Washington, DC, 2003), 266+ pp (review)Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 16 219-221. 2003.
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42Introduction: The Wide Reach of Business Ethics (review)Journal of Business Ethics 84 (S1). 2009.
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8Institutional practices, ethics, and the physicianIn Rosamond Rhodes, Leslie Francis & Anita Silvers (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics, Blackwell. 2007.The prelims comprise: Introduction The Physician and the Provider Organization The Physician and the Payer Organization Dealing with Systems Conclusion Notes References.
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59Moral imagination, trading zones, and the role of the ethicist in nanotechnologyNanoEthics 3 (3): 185-195. 2009.The societal and ethical impacts of emerging technological and business systems cannot entirely be foreseen; therefore, management of these innovations will require at least some ethicists to work closely with researchers. This is particularly critical in the development of new systems because the maximum degrees of freedom for changing technological direction occurs at or just after the point of breakthrough; that is also the point where the long-term implications are hardest to visualize. Rece…Read more
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54Formal organizations, economic freedom and moral agencyJournal of Value Inquiry 14 (1): 43-50. 1980.
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21Principles and Practices for Corporate ResponsibilityBusiness Ethics Quarterly 20 (4): 695-701. 2010.The first issue of Business Ethics Quarterly was launched in 1991. At that time there were few general principles that could serve as guidelines for global business. However, since 1991 a plethora of such principles have been developed to serve as guidelines and evaluative mechanisms for global corporate responsibilities. But operationalizing these principles in practice has been a challenge for most transnational corporations and even for smaller, more local enterprises. This is because, in som…Read more
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1Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics: The Callista Wicklander Lectures, DePaul University, 1991-2005University Press of Amer. 2006.This collected volume of essays, the work of scholars from DePaul University who have served as the Wicklander Chair in Business Ethics, focuses on a wide range of issues including the role of self-interest in commerce, moral character, evil and complacency, privacy, spirituality in the work place, and globalization challenges.
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26Werhane's Letter to Harvard Business ReviewThe Society for Business Ethics Newsletter 4 (3): 11-11. 1993.
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20Globalization and Its Challenges for Business and Business Ethics in the Twenty‐first CenturyBusiness and Society Review 117 (3): 383-405. 2012.The global expansion of free enterprise has been underway for some time, and the challenges for global companies are well‐known. Companies often operate in economically blighted communities and in corrupt environments without a rule of law. At the same time Western‐based global corporations are under increasing public pressure to take on responsibilities to these communities that are often beyond their expertise or economic purview. For example, at the 2008 Davos meetings Bill Gates proposed the…Read more
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17th/18th Century Philosophy |