Saving Human Lives Lessons in Management Ethics /

This is a pioneering work. Recent disasters such as the tsunami disaster continue to demonstrate Professor Allinson's thesis that valuing human lives is the core of ethical management. His unique comparison of the ideas of the power of Fate and High Technology, his penetrating analysis of the v...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Allinson, Robert E. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
Edition:1st ed. 2005.
Series:Issues in Business Ethics, 21
Subjects:
Knowledge, Theory of.
Private international law.
Conflict of laws.
International law.
Comparative law.
Business.
Management science.
Management.
Industrial organization.
Epistemology.
Private International Law, International and Foreign Law, Comparative Law.
Business and Management.
Organization.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • Accidents, Tragedies and Disasters
  • The Internal Relationship Between Ethics and Business
  • The Buck Stops Here and it Stops Everywhere Else as Well
  • Crisis Management and Disaster Prevention Management
  • The Vasa Disaster
  • The Titanic Disaster
  • The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
  • Post-Challenger Investigations
  • The Herald of Free Enterprise Disaster
  • The King's Cross Underground Fire
  • The Disaster on Mt. Erebus
  • Moral Responsibility and Techno-Organization.

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