Business Ethics

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Pub. Date: 2005-03-09
Publisher(s): Sage Publications Ltd
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Summary

Business Ethics is a three-volume collection which provides students and researchers with the historically most important of the classic articles in business ethics, as well as the best of the contemporary and trendsetting work in this burgeoning area. The collection will serve as a sourcebook for academics and researchers entering or already established in the area of business ethics. The editors bring together a breadth of articles across business ethics, with an orientation that is diverse as well as international. The three volumes are well organized to focus on the main topics in business ethics and are divided into corporate social responsibility , the employee-employer relationship, and distributive justice & dilemmas. Courses and research programmes in business ethics have multiplied in recent years alongside a growing concern with the ethical practices of business. This multi-volumed work provides a focused and well-balanced reference for academics and their students to acquire a thorough understanding of this now central topic. The SAGE Library in Business and Management is a first-class series of major works that brings together the most influential and field-defining articles, both classical and contemporary, in a number of key areas of research and inquiry in business and management. Each multi-volume set represents a collection of the essential published works collated from the foremost publications in the field by an Editor or Editorial Team of renowned international stature. They also include a full introduction, presenting a rationale for the selection and mapping out the discipline?s past, present and likely future. This series is designed to be a ?gold standard? for university libraries throughout the world with a programme or interest in business and management studies.

Table of Contents

Appendix of Sources xi
Editor's Introduction xix
Preliminaries: Why Business Ethics?
Excerpts from ``Business Ethics: Widening the Lens''
1(10)
Clarence C. Walton
Unit One: Ethical Theory and Business Ethics
Perception
Excerpts from ``The Parable of the Sadhu''
11(7)
Bowen H. McCoy
The Rashomon Effect
18(10)
Patricia Werhane
Strategy
Excerpts from ``The Prince''
28(4)
Niccolo Machiavelli
Excerpts from ``The Art of War''
32(2)
Sun Tzu
Perspectives
Utilitarianism and Business Ethics
34(14)
Milton Snoeyenbos
James Humber
Victims of Circumstances? A Defense of Virtue Ethics in Business
48(20)
Robert C. Solomon
Virtue Ethics, the Firm, and Moral Psychology
68(17)
Daryl Koehn
A Kantian Approach to Business Ethics
85(18)
Norman E. Bowie
Unit Two: Distributive Justice
Classical Theories of Contracts, Property, and Capitalism
Excerpts from ``Leviathan''
103(11)
Thomas Hobbes
The Justification of Property
114(6)
John Locke
Excerpts from ``The Wealth of Nations''
120(6)
Adam Smith
Alienated Labor and Private Property Communism
126(19)
Karl Marx
Contemporary Theories of Distribution and Property
Excerpts from ``A Theory of Justice''
145(15)
John Rawls
Excerpts from ``Anarchy, State, and Utopia''
160(15)
Robert Nozick
Capitalism and Morality
175(14)
James Q. Wilson
Illusions about Private Property and Freedom
189(14)
Gerald A. Cohen
Excerpts from ``Ethics and Society''
203(8)
Milton Fisk
Intellectual Property
Justifying Intellectual Property
211(18)
Edwin C. Hettinger
Trade Secrets and the Justification of Intellectual Property: A Comment on Hettinger
229(18)
Lynn Sharp Paine
Unit Three: Corporate Social Responsibility
The Central Debate
The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits
247(6)
Milton Friedman
A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation
253(12)
R. Edward Freeman
Economics, Business Principles, and Moral Sentiments
265(13)
Amartya Sen
The Normative Theories of Business Ethics: A Guide for the Perplexed
278(25)
John Hasnas
Arguments for and Against Corporate Social Responsibility
303(7)
N. Craig Smith
Smith and Friedman on the Pursuit of Self-interest and Profit
310(10)
Harvey S. James, Jr.
Farhad Rassekh
Does Business Ethics Make Economic Sense?
320(9)
Amartya Sen
New Directions in Corporate Social Responsibility
329(15)
Norman Bowie
Globalization and its Ethical Significance
Globalization and its Impact on the Full Enjoyment of All Human Rights Preliminary Report of the Secretary-General
344(16)
Rights in the Global Market
360(21)
Thomas J. Donaldson
International Business, Morality, and the Common Good
381(14)
Manuel Velasquez
The Great Non-Debate Over International Sweatshops
395(15)
Ian Maitland
Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects
410(14)
Christopher D. Stone
The Place of Nonhumans in Environmental Issues
424(7)
Peter Singer
At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, or Why Political Questions are Not All Economic
431(13)
Mark Sagoff
A Defense of Risk-Cost-Benefit Analysis
444
Kristin Shrader-Frechette
Unit One: Rights and Obligations of Employers and Employees
Employment at Will
Employment at Will and Due Process
3(7)
Patricia H. Werhane
Tara J. Radin
In Defense of the Contract at Will
10(10)
Richard A. Epstein
Work-Life Balance
Work in the Family and Employing Organization
20(23)
Sheldon Zedeck
Kathleen L. Mosier
Work/Family Border Theory: A New Theory of Work/Family Balance
43(20)
Sue Campbell Clark
Whistleblowing
Whistleblowing and Professional Responsibility
63(9)
Sissela Bok
Whistle Blowing
72(10)
Richard T. De George
Drug Testing
Drug Testing in Employment
82(16)
Joseph DesJardins
Ronald Duska
Drug Testing and the Right to Privacy: Arguing the Ethics of Workplace Drug Testing
98(14)
Michael Cranford
Employees' Rights to Privacy
The Ethics of Genetic Screening in the Workplace
112(9)
Joseph Kupfer
Computers and Privacy
121(24)
Stacey L. Edgar
Privacy, Polygraphs and Work
145(10)
George G. Brenkert
Employees' Rights to Safety
The Employer-Employee Relationship and the Right to Know
155(13)
Anita M. Superson
Human Rights, Workers' Rights, and the `Right' to Occupational Safety
168(9)
Tibor R. Machan
Unit Two: Justice and Fair Practice
Affirmative Action
Regents of University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 268 (1978)
177(11)
Why Bakke Has No Case
188(9)
Ronald Dworkin
Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference
197(8)
Shelby Steele
What Is Wrong with Reverse Discrimination?
205(13)
Edwin C. Hettinger
Sexual Harassment
The Definition of Sexual Harassment
218(14)
Edmund Wall
A Feminist Definition of Sexual Harassment
232(18)
Anita M. Superson
Bluffing
Is Business Bluffing Ethical?
250(10)
Albert Z. Carr
Business and Game-Playing: The False Analogy
260(8)
Daryl Koehn
Second Thoughts About Bluffing
268(8)
Thomas Carson
Business Bluffing Reconsidered
276
Fritz Allhoff
Just Another Day at the Office: The Ordinariness of Professional Ethics
1(7)
Don Welch
Professional Responsibility: Just Following the Rules?
8(13)
Michael Davis
Unit One: Ethical Issues in Advertising
Truth and Deception in Advertising
Deceptive Advertising
21(9)
John J. McCall
Advertising: The Whole or Only Some of the Truth?
30(11)
Tiber R. Machan
The Making of Self and World in Advertising
41(9)
John Waide
Creation of Desire
Advertising and Behavior Control
50(13)
Robert L. Arrington
Persuasive Advertising, Autonomy, and the Creation of Desire
63(8)
Roger Crisp
Is Targeting Ethical?
Children as Consumers: An Ethical Evaluation of Children's Television Advertising
71(14)
Lynn Sharp Paine
Marketing to Inner-City Blacks: PowerMaster and Moral Responsibility
85(18)
George G. Brenkert
Consumer Risk
The Ethics of Consumer Production
103(11)
Manuel G. Velasquez
Strict Products Liability and Compensatory Justice
114(9)
George G. Brenkert
Unit Two: Ethical Issues in Accounting and Finance
Earnings Hocus-Pocus: How Companies Come Up with the Numbers They Want
123(9)
Nanette Byrnes
Richard A. Melcher
Debra Sparks
The Ethics of Creative Accounting
132(14)
Oriol Amat
John Blake
Jack Dowds
Ethics in the Public Accounting Profession
146(16)
Mohammad J. Abdolmohammadi
Mark R. Nixon
The Ethics of Insider Trading
162(6)
Patricia H. Werhane
What is Morally Right with Insider Trading
168(8)
Tibor R. Machan
Justice and Insider Trading
176(17)
Richard L. Lippke
Unit Three: Ethical Issues in Journalism
The Ethical Responsibilities of Journalists
193(10)
David Detmer
The Intervention Dilemma
203(12)
Susan Paterno
Ethically Challenged
215(11)
Lori Robertson
Ethical Boundaries to Media Coverage
226(11)
Raphael Cohen-Almagor
Truth, Neutrality, and Conflict of Interest
237(10)
Judith Lichtenberg
Media Culpas
247(8)
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
Unit Four: Ethical Issues in Law
Professional Responsibility of the Criminal Defense Lawyer: The Three Hardest Questions
255(14)
Monroe H. Freedman
The Adversary System Excuse
269(38)
David Luban
Pure Legal Advocates and Moral Agents: Two Concepts of a Lawyer in an Adversary System
307(13)
Elliot D. Cohen
Can Virtue be Taught to Lawyers?
320(13)
Amy Gutmann
Confidentiality and the Lawyer-Client Relationship
333(21)
Bruce M. Landesman
A Lawyer's Duty to Represent Clients, Repugnant and Otherwise
354(23)
Charles W. Wolfram
Unit Five: Ethical Issues in Medicine
The Hippocratic Oath
377(2)
The Virtuous Physician and the Ethics of Medicine
379(6)
Edmund D. Pellegrino
Four Models of the Physician-Patient Relationship
385(14)
Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Linda L. Emanuel
Legal and Ethical Myths about Informed Consent
399(10)
Alan Meisel
Mark Kuczewski
Truth and the Physician
409(11)
Bernard C. Meyer
Lies to the Sick and Dying
420(16)
Sissela Bok
Standards of Competence
436(7)
Allen E. Buchanan
Dan W. Brock
Surrogate Decision Making for Incompetent Adults: An Ethical Framework
443
Dan W. Brock

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