Ethics in International Management

ISBN-13: 9783110154474 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 485 str.

Horst Steinmann; Brij Kumar

Opis

A comprehensive text book with international contributions on the ethnical, legal, and cultural implications of the management of multinational corporations. Multinational companies (MNCs), operating in multiple environments, have day by day to cope with cultural, legal, and ethical differences. expanding globalization and diminishing government control thus increases moral responsibility of globally operating companies and calls for new principles for business conduct. The central issues treated in this volume are: how can corporate ethics be theoretically founded? how can corporate ethics be implemented in practice, e.g. with respect to corruption? how can MNCs integrate their goals of sustainable development and business ethics? how can religious and national traditions be accounted for? A book for students of management and business studies as well as practising managers alike.

Spis treści

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents in Brief -- Contents -- Introduction to the Volume: Ethics in Multinational Corporations -- Part One. Theoretical Foundation of Corporate and Management Ethics in the Context of Multinational Enterprise and Globalization -- Corporate Ethics and Global Business: Philosophical Considerations on Intercultural Management -- Constructivist Anthropology and Cultural Pluralism: Methodological Reflections on Cultural Integration -- The Competitive Context of Ethical Decision-Making in Business -- The Role of International Industry Associations in the Development and Implementation of Corporate Ethics: The Case of the Chemical Industry and Responsible Care -- Social Capital Investments, Property Rights and the Ethics of Win-Win: Why Multinational Enterprise Management Should Engage in Institution Building of their Host Countries -- Globalization, Development and Ethics: Moral Responsibility and Strategies of International Management in the Perspective of 'Sustainable Development' -- Part Two. Ethics in International Strategies and Management Functions -- Global Responsibility for Sustainable Development: The Role of Multinational Corporations -- Corruption in International Business Relations: Problems and Solutions -- Ethics - A Global Business Challenge -- Ethical Issues in International Marketing -- Concepts and Experience of the "Valuing Diversity and Ethics" Workshops at Levi Strauss and Company -- Orientation for a Globally Competent Human Resources Function in Preventing and Resolving Cross-cultural Conflicts -- Part Three. Morals in Religion and National Traditions: Cultures as Points of Departure for Foundations of Corporate Ethics in International Business -- Ethics for Business and Management: Explorations in Hindu Thought -- Business Ethics in China: Confucianism, Socialist Market Economy and the Multinational Enterprises -- "Contextualism" in Business and Ethical Issues in Japan -- An Islamic Framework for International Marketing Ethics -- Business and Corporate Ethics in the USA: Philosophy and Practice -- Business Ethics in the Catholic Value System: The Spanish Case -- Business Ethics in a Transforming Economy: Applying the Integrative Social Contracts Theory to Russia -- The Interfaith Declaration: Context, Issues and Problems of Application of a Code of Ethics for International Business among those of three Major Religions -- List of Contributors -- Index

O autorze

Prof. (em.) Dr. Dr. h.c. Horst Steinmann war Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre und Unternehmensführung an der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.