Cutting-Edge Issues in Business Ethics: Continental Challenges to Tradition and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781402084003 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 228 str.

Painter-Morland, Mollie

Opis

Business ethics originated in the United States as an offshoot of theoretical ethics and as part of a movement in applied ethics that was initiated with medical ethics. Although a few small religious-based colleges and universities offered courses in business ethics just after the Second World War, business ethics as an academic ?eld developed most seriously in many universities in the early 1970s. The ?eld of medical ethics was well-developed by then, and it was a natural step to think about ethical issues in business as well. There was also a public reaction to a number of corporate scandals (e.g., price ?xing, the Lockheed Japanese bribery allegations, the Goodyear airbrake scandal, etc. that encouraged universities to begin teaching the subject). Business ethics as an academic ?eld was originally developed by philosophers, most of whom had come out of the analytic or Anglo-American philosophical tra- tions and who had been trained in classical ethics, on Aristotle, Kant, Mill, Bentham and perhaps Dewey. The resulting ?eld then, has been dominated by this thinking. Although to date there are over 50 textbooks in business ethics, most textbooks in business ethics do not take into account contemporary continental philosophy. Although Marxism is sometimes taught in these courses, other more contemporary continental thinkers who could contribute substantially to the ?eld have been - nored. This phenomenon is iterated in the professional journals and in theoretical books on the topic.

Spis treści

Foreword; P. Werhane. 1. Introduction; M. Painter-Morland. 2. Moral agency re-envisioned. 2.1 Integrating ethics all the way through: The issues of moral agency reconsidered; Rosenthal, Buchholz. 2.2 How do we live the questions? On depth psychology, management education and sustainability; M. Simms. 2.3 Business strategy and poverty alleviation; A. Singer. 'It's Business: we're soldiers': The Sopranos, Business Ethics, and this American thing of ours; P. Steeves. 2.4 Organizational moral distress; A.E. Mills, P. Werhane. 3. Ethics withing contemporary corporate environments. 3.1 A Whole new world: Is corporate governance an obstacle to redefining success? Some thoughts on shareholder ownership and the pursuit of multiple objectives; J. Boatright. 3.2 Moral imagination, trading zones and converging techonologies; M.E. Gorman. 3.3 Organization values in a cyber workplace: The ethical challenges of managing a 24/7 workforce; C.F. Piazza. 3.4 New study shows responsible corporations having good governance return better financial performance; C.C. Verschoor. 3.5 Rethinking ethics initiatives: Considerations from teoretical physics in imbuing ethics all the way through organizations; W. Brown. 3.6 Ethics as a compliance requirement; M. Painter-Morland. 4. Business ethics pedagogy. 4.1 Moral imagination and the practice of architecture; J. Collier. 4.2 Ethics lost: The seventeen millisecond neurobiological hijacking of reason; D. Drehmer. 4.3 An extreme example? Using Arendt's Eichman in Jerusalem in the Business Ethics Classroom; P. Gratton. 4.4 Business ethics, social entrepeneurship, and service learning: a natural partnership; G. Vega.

Blurb

This volume is one of the very few publications dedicated to the challenges that Continental philosophy poses to the field of Business Ethics. The authors want to draw attention to the work of Continental philosophers who have been relegated to the fringes of Business Ethics scholarship, and present some critical perspectives that have been ignored within Business Ethics practice. As such, this volume provides a critique of many of the assumptions that underpin traditional approaches to Business Ethics, and urges its readership to rethink moral agency and epistemology, as well as Business Ethics pedagogy.