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For business ethics /
"For Business Ethics is a daring adventure into the world of business ethics. It offers a clear and accessible introduction to business ethics and also expands business ethics beyond its current narrow confines. It is ground-breaking in the sense that it invites a distinctively critical approac...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction : Against business ethics
- This strange book
- Against business ethics
- First problem : foreclosing philosophy
- Second problem : foreclosing philosophy
- third problem : foreclosing 'the ethical'
- Fourth problem : foreclosing the meaning of 'ethics'
- Fifth problem : foreclosing politics
- Sixth problem : foreclosing the goal of ethics
- For or against business ethics?
- 2. Common sense business ethics
- Introduction
- What is business?
- What is ethics?
- What is business ethics?
- What is common sense?
- What is philosophy?
- Conclusion
- 3. 'Business ethics' 1 : consequences
- Introduction
- Utilitarianism
- Refining utilitarianism
- The utility of utilitarianism
- Weighing the good
- Political arithmetic
- The problem of information
- Conclusion
- 4. Business ethics 2 : intentions
- Introduction
- Bowie's version of Kant
- Duty, certainty and moral conflict
- Freedom
- The experience of limitation
- Conclusion
- 5. 'Business ethics' 3 : virtues
- Introduction
- Virtue and business?
- Virtue and community
- Business communities?
- 6. The meaning of ethics
- Introduction : the charm of business ethics
- Meaning
- The meaning of ethics
- Others and the other
- The other and critique.
- 7. Denying ethics 1 : bureaucracy
- Introduction
- The banality of evil
- McEthics
- Intentions and consequences
- In praise of bureaucracy?
- Moral distance
- Modern business
- 8. Denying ethics 2 : global capital
- WTO kills farmers
- The social responsibility of business
- The social responsibility of business
- Neoliberalism
- Striking back
- Capitalism, commodities and ethics
- Challenging commodity fetishism
- Can wrong life be lived rightly?
- 9. Business ethics today
- Introduction : fashion and utopia in business ethics
- Community
- Trust
- Whistleblowing
- Responsibility
- Cynicism
- Business ethics, the very idea
- 10. Conclusion : For business ethics
- Introduction
- Ethics and thought
- For business ethics
- Business ethics and reality
- Glossary
- Further reading
- References
- Author index
- Subject index.