Richard T. DeGeorge

Business Ethics

Pearson New International Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For courses in Business Ethics, Moral Issues in Business, Social Issues in Business, Business and Society, International Business Ethics, and Issues in International Business.

This systematic, integrated investigation of the field of business ethics is presented from an informed philosophical point of view. It argues that ethics is the glue as well as the oil that makes business possible, addressing the full gamut of issues: from such macro considerations as the moral justification of economic systems to such micro issues as proper computer use by employees.

Produktdetails

• Pearson New International Edition
• Verlag: Pearson Education
• 7. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 552
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 279mm x 217mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1338g
• ISBN-13: 9781292022840
• ISBN-10: 1292022841
• Artikelnr.: 53748865

Autorenporträt

Richard T. De George is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the International Center for Ethics in Business at the University of Kansas. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and he has been a research fellow at Yale University, Columbia University, Stanford University, and the Hoover Institution. He was the Charles J. Dirksen Professor of Business Ethics at Santa Clara University in 1986, and a Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland in 1985. He is the author of over 200 articles and the author or editor of twenty books, including The Ethics of Information Technology and Business (2003); Business Ethics (also available in Japanese, Russian, Serbian and Chinese); and Competing With Integrity in International Business (1993), also translated into Chinese. He has been the President of several academic organizations, including the American Philosophical Association, the Metaphysical Society of America, the Society for Business Ethics, and International Society for Business, Economics, and Ethics. He has given invited lectures on six continents at a great many universities and keynote addresses to a variety of organizations both here and abroad, including such places as Tokyo, Como, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, and Perth. He has been a consultant for Motorola, Hallmark Cards, Kansas City Power and Light, Koch Industries, and General Motors, among others, and is a specialist in international business ethical issues and codes. In 2009 the Society for Business Ethics presented him with a special award “In recognition of a career of outstanding service to the field of business ethics” In November, 1996, he received an honorary doctorate from Nijenrode University in the Netherlands together with Bill Gates and Nelson Mandela.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface xi
 
Introduction
Chapter 1: Ethics and Business 1
  Horatio Alger and Stock Options 1
  The Myth of Amoral Business 3
  The Relation of Business and Morality 5
  Business Ethics and Ethics 9
  The Case of the Collapsed Mine 18
  Study Questions 20
 
Moral Reasoning In Business
Chapter 2: Conventional Morality and Ethical
  Relativism 21
  Purchasing Abroad: A Case Study 21
  The Levels of Moral Development 22
  Subjective and Objective Morality 24
  Descriptive Relativism 26
  Normative Ethical Relativism 27
  Moral Absolutism 31
  Moral Pluralism 32
  Pluralism and American Business 33
  Pluralism and International Business 33
  Pluralism, Business, and the Law 35
  Business and Religious Ethics 36
  Approaches to Ethical Theory 38
Study Questions 41
 
Chapter 3: Utility and Utilitarianism 43
  An Airplane Manufacturing Case 43
  Utilitarianism 43
  Act and Rule Utilitarianism 47
  Objections to Utilitarianism 50
  Utilitarianism and Justice 52
  Applying Utilitarianism 53
  Utilitarianism and Bribery 56
Study Questions 60
 
Chapter 4: Moral Duty, Rights, and Justice 61
  The Johnson Controls Case 61
  Deontological Approaches to Ethics 62
  Reason, Duty, and the Moral Law 63
  Application of the Moral Law 67
  Imperfect Duties, Special Obligations, and Moral Ideals 71
  Rights and Justice 73
  Study Questions 81
 
Chapter 5: Virtue Ethics and Moral Reasoning 82
  The Case of Dora and Joe 82
  Virtue 82
  Applying Moral Reasoning 87
  Study Questions 97
 
Chapter 6: Moral Responsibility: Individual and Corporate 98
  The Love Canal Case 98
  Moral Responsibility 99
  Excusing Conditions 100
  Liability and Accountability 104
  Agent and Role Moral Responsibility 106
  The Moral Status of Corporations and Formal   Organizations 108
  Study Questions 112
 
Moral Issues in Business
Chapter 7: Justice and Economic Systems 114
  The Case of the Two Slaveholders 114
  Moral Evaluation of Economic Systems 115
  Moral Evaluation of Contemporary Systems 119
  Economic Models and Games 120
  A Capitalist Model 121
  Capitalism and Government 125
  A Socialist Model 128
  Comparison of Models and Systems 130
  Economic Systems and Justice 131
  Study Questions 133
 
Chapter 8: American Capitalism: Moral or Immoral? 134
  The Case of Bill Gates and Warren Buffet 134
  The American Economic System 136
  Relation of the American Government to the American   Economic System 138
  The Marxist Critique 141
  Non-Marxist Moral Critiques of American Capitalism 146
  The Moral Defense of the American Free-Enterprise System 148
  Non-Socialist Alternatives to Contemporary American
Capitalism 152
  Philanthropy 156
  Study Questions 157
 
Chapter 9: The International Business System, Globalization, and
Multinational Corporations 159
  The WTO and Agriculture: A Case Study 159
  Justice and the International Economic System 161
  The Globalization of Business 164