Business Ethics: A European Perspective Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization
by Crane, Andrew; Matten, DirkFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-01-01
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Business Ethics is an exciting, new student focused text which provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of European business ethics. It is the first business ethics textbooks to feature extensive coverage of the highly topical issues of corporate citizenship, globalization and sustainability. The first of the book covers the foundations of business ethics, including the nature of business ethics, the social role of the corporation, ethical theory, ethical decision making, and business ethics management. The second part applies these theories, concepts and tools to each of the corporation's major stakeholders. The book includes numerous cases, vignettes and examples that vividly bring to life the problems and practices of business ethics in Europe. It is written in a lively and accessible way, and the reader is provided with directed study questions, personal dilemmas and guidance for understanding and applying theory, making it an exciting and practical learning tool.
Author Biography
Dirk Matten is a Principal Research Fellow in Business Ethics, at Nottingham University Business School.
Table of Contents
| List of Figures | p. xix |
| List of Boxes | p. xxi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Understanding Business Ethics | p. 5 |
| Introducing Business Ethics | p. 7 |
| What is business ethics? | p. 7 |
| Why is business ethics important? | p. 12 |
| Globalization: a new context for business ethics? | p. 14 |
| Sustainability: a new goal for business ethics? | p. 20 |
| Europe: a new perspective for business ethics? | p. 26 |
| Summary | p. 31 |
| Study Questions | p. 32 |
| Research Exercise | p. 32 |
| Mceurope: Mcdonald's Faces Ethical Criticism in Europe | p. 32 |
| Framing Business Ethics: Corporate Responsibility, Stakeholders, and Citizenship | p. 37 |
| Towards a framework for business ethics | p. 37 |
| What is a corporation? | p. 38 |
| Corporate social responsibility | p. 41 |
| Stakeholder theory of the firm | p. 50 |
| Corporate accountability: the firm as a 'political' actor | p. 55 |
| Corporate citizenship | p. 61 |
| Summary | p. 70 |
| Study Questions | p. 71 |
| Research Exercise | p. 71 |
| The 'English Patient': BMW Withdraws from Rover Longbridge | p. 71 |
| Evaluating Business Ethics: Normative Ethical Theories | p. 75 |
| Introduction | p. 75 |
| The role of ethical theory | p. 76 |
| Normative ethical theories: a European perspective | p. 78 |
| Traditional ethical theories | p. 79 |
| Contemporary ethical theories | p. 96 |
| Summary: towards a pragmatic use of ethical theory | p. 104 |
| Study Questions | p. 106 |
| Research Exercise | p. 107 |
| A Bitter Pill: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Affordable Aids Drugs for Southern Africa | p. 107 |
| Making Decisions in Business Ethics: Descriptive Ethical Theories | p. 111 |
| Introduction | p. 111 |
| Models of ethical decision-making | p. 112 |
| Individual influences on ethical decision-making | p. 116 |
| Situational influences on decision-making | p. 126 |
| Summary | p. 137 |
| Study Questions | p. 138 |
| Research Exercise | p. 138 |
| Rogue Traders: Scandals in the Banking and Finance Industry | p. 138 |
| Managing Business Ethics: Tools and Techniques of Business Ethics Management | p. 143 |
| Introduction | p. 143 |
| What is business ethics management? | p. 144 |
| Setting standards of ethical behaviour: designing and implementing codes of ethics | p. 148 |
| Managing stakeholder relations | p. 156 |
| Assessing ethical performance | p. 162 |
| Organizing for business ethics management | p. 170 |
| Summary | p. 175 |
| Study Questions | p. 176 |
| Research Exercise | p. 176 |
| Shell Shocked: Has Shell Moved Towards a New Way of Managing Business Ethics? | p. 176 |
| Contextualizing Business Ethics: The Corporate Citizen and its Stakeholders | p. 181 |
| Introduction to Part II | p. 181 |
| Shareholders and Business Ethics | p. 183 |
| Introduction: reassessing the importance of shareholders as stakeholders | p. 183 |
| Shareholders as stakeholders: understanding corporate governance | p. 184 |
| Ethical issues in corporate governance | p. 190 |
| Shareholders and globalization | p. 201 |
| Shareholders as citizens of the corporation | p. 206 |
| Shareholding for sustainability | p. 213 |
| Summary | p. 217 |
| Study Questions | p. 218 |
| Research Exercise | p. 218 |
| Derailing Privatization: Rail Track, Shareholders, and the 'Travelling Public' | p. 219 |
| Employees and Business Ethics | p. 223 |
| Introduction | p. 223 |
| Employees as stakeholders | p. 224 |
| Ethical issues in the firm-employee relation | p. 226 |
| Employing people worldwide: the ethical challenges of globalization | p. 252 |
| The corporate citizen and employee relations in a varied European context | p. 256 |
| Towards sustainable employment | p. 257 |
| Summary | p. 260 |
| Study Questions | p. 261 |
| Research Exercise | p. 262 |
| Unhealthy Business: Junior Doctors and Excessive Working Hours | p. 262 |
| Consumers and Business Ethics | p. 265 |
| Introduction | p. 265 |
| Consumers as stakeholders | p. 266 |
| Ethical issues and the consumer | p. 269 |
| Globalization and consumers: the ethical challenges of the global marketplace | p. 283 |
| Consumers and corporate citizenship: consumer sovereignty and the politics of purchasing | p. 288 |
| Sustainable consumption | p. 292 |
| Summary | p. 298 |
| Study Questions | p. 299 |
| Research Exercise | p. 299 |
| Boycotting the 'Baby Killers'? Nestle and the Ongoing Infant Formula Controversy | p. 299 |
| Suppliers, Competitors, and Business Ethics | p. 303 |
| Introduction | p. 303 |
| Suppliers and competitors as stakeholders | p. 304 |
| Ethical issues and suppliers | p. 307 |
| Ethical issues and competitors | p. 318 |
| Globalization, suppliers, and competitors: the ethical challenges of global business networks | p. 322 |
| The corporate citizen in the business community: ethical sourcing and fair trade | p. 328 |
| Sustainability and business relationships: towards industrial ecosystems? | p. 334 |
| Summary | p. 337 |
| Study Questions | p. 338 |
| Research Exercise | p. 338 |
| The Spying Game: Allegations of Industrial Espionage at Unilever, Canal Plus, and Ericsson | p. 339 |
| Civil Society and Business Ethics | p. 343 |
| Introduction: what is civil society? | p. 343 |
| Civil society organizations as stakeholders | p. 346 |
| Ethical issues and CSOs | p. 351 |
| Globalization and civil society organizations | p. 364 |
| Corporate citizenship and civil society: charity, collaboration, or regulation? | p. 369 |
| Civil society, business, and sustainability | p. 378 |
| Summary | p. 382 |
| Study Questions | p. 382 |
| Research Exercise | p. 383 |
| From Conflict to Collaboration? Greenpeace's Greenfreeze Campaign | p. 383 |
| Government, Regulation, and Business Ethics | p. 387 |
| Introduction | p. 387 |
| Government as a stakeholder | p. 388 |
| Ethical issues in the relation between business and government | p. 393 |
| Globalization and business-government relations | p. 409 |
| Corporate citizenship and regulation: business as key player in the regulatory game | p. 415 |
| Governments, business, and sustainability | p. 426 |
| Summary | p. 430 |
| Study Questions | p. 430 |
| Research Exercise | p. 431 |
| Mixing Oil and Kohl: Elf, Leuna, and Allegations of Political Corruption in France and Germany | p. 431 |
| Conclusions and Future Perspectives | p. 435 |
| Introduction | p. 435 |
| The nature and scope of business ethics | p. 436 |
| Globalization as a new context for business ethics | p. 436 |
| Sustainability as a new goal for business ethics | p. 437 |
| Business ethics in a European context | p. 438 |
| The role of different stakeholder constituencies in business ethics | p. 439 |
| Corporate citizenship as a new concept in business ethics | p. 441 |
| The contribution of normative ethical theories to business ethics | p. 442 |
| Influences on ethical decision-making | p. 443 |
| The role of management tools in business ethics | p. 443 |
| Summary | p. 444 |
| Study Questions | p. 445 |
| Research Exercise | p. 445 |
| No Laughing Matter: The Ilisu Dam Project in Turkey | p. 445 |
| References | p. 449 |
| Subject Index | p. 468 |
| Authors Index | p. 474 |
| Countries and Regions Index | p. 479 |
| Companies, Organizations, and Brands Index | p. 481 |
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