Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics

ISBN-13: 9789400714939 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 1582 str.

Christoph Luetge

Opis

The Handbook of Business Ethics: Philosophical Foundations is an interdisciplinary reference handbook in the field of business ethics. Articles by notable philosophers and economists examine fundamental concepts, theories and questions of business ethics.

Spis treści

Aristotelian Foundations of Business Ethics.- Scholastic Thought and Business Ethics.- Morality and Self-Interest I: Hume, Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment.- Morality and Self-Interest II: Contemporary Perspectives.- Kantian and Hegelian Thoughts on Business Ethics.-  Marxist Thoughts on Business Ethics.- Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Business Ethics.- Christian Foundations of Business Ethics.- Jewish Foundations of Business Ethics.- Islamic Foundations of Business Ethics.- Eastern Cultural, Philosophical and Religious Foundations of Business Ethics.- Discourse Ethics and Business.- Contractarianism.-  Sen’s “Capabilities”, Poverty and Economic Welfare.- Human Rights, Globalization and Business Ethics.- Gender Issues and Business Ethics.- Justice and Business Ethics.- Philosophical Issues of Sustainability and the Environment.- Free Markets, Morality and Business Ethics.- Property Rights: Material and Intellectual.- Philosophical Issues of Management and Corporations.- Methodology and Business Ethics.

O autorze

Christoph Luetge studied economics and philosophy in Braunschweig, Paris, Goettingen and Berlin. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Pittsburgh (1997), research fellow at the University of California, San Diego (1998) and visiting professor at Venice International University (2003). After taking his PhD in philosophy in 1999, Luetge held a position as assistant professor at the Institute for Philosophy and Economics of the University of Munich from 1999 to 2007, where he also took his habilitation in 2005. He has been acting professor at Witten/Herdecke University (2007-2008) and at Braunschweig University of Technology (2008-2010). Since 2010, he holds the Peter Löscher Chair in Business Ethics at Technische Universität München. His main areas of interest are business ethics, general ethics, internet and computer ethics as well as philosophy of the social sciences and economics. His major publications include Corporate Citizenship, Contractarianism and Ethical Theory: On Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics (co-editor, 2008), Was hält eine Gesellschaft zusammen? (2007, in German), an Introduction to Business Ethics (co-author, 2004, in German) as well as 10 other books and more than 80 articles.