Business Ethics in East Central Europe

ISBN-13: 9783642645976 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 149 str.

Peter Koslowski

Opis

The transformation process from the planned to the market economy in the East Central European countries is a laboratory of applying economic theory and business ethics to an enormous historical transition in the economic and political system. Authors from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia analyse the economic, philosophical and political problems of the transition process. They discuss the economic and legal questions of the privatization of socialized property, examine critically whether pure Liberalism has been and is able to cope with the transition problems, and investigate the role and impact of business ethics in the transition process. This volume contributes to the theory of the role of business ethics in periods of institutional change.

Spis treści

Economic Problems of the Transition Process in East Central Europe: Czech Privatization. Penalties for the Speed. A Criticism of Radical Liberalism; Rejection of Holistic Social Engineering. Ethics and Transition; Economic Ethics and Social Market Economy.- Philosophical and Political Problmes of the Transition Process: Life After Liberalism; On the Relevance of Subsidiarity in Hungary.- The Ethics of Business in East Central Europe: Business Ethics in Management Science; In Search of Integrity in the Company; Ethics in Business in Slovakia. A Sociological Survey; Ethics in the Public Sector. Complaints on Privat Insurance Companies; On the Difference Between Moral and Economic Discourses.

O autorze

Peter Koslowski ist Gründungsdirektor des Forschungsinstituts für Philosophie Hannover und Professor für Philosophie und Politische Ökonomie an der Universität Witten/Herdecke.