A. Theoretical Foundations of Order Ethics.- Fundamentals.- 1. Christoph Luetge; Contractarian Foundations of Order Ethics.- 2. Ingo Pies; The Ordonomic Approach to Order Ethics.- 3. Karl Homann; Theory Strategies of Business Ethics.- The Economic and Social Background.- 4. Martin Leschke; A Critique of Welfare Economics.- 5. Hannes Rusch/Matthias Uhl; Order Ethics – an Experimental Perspective.- 6. Michael von Grundherr; Order Ethics and Situationist Psychology.- 7. Nikil Mukerji / Christoph Schumacher; Order Ethics, Economics and Game Theory.- 8. Sigmund Wagner-Tsukamoto; Biblical Economics and Order Ethics: Constitutional Economic and Institutional Economic Roots of the Old Testament.- The Philosophical Background of Order Ethics.- 9. Christoph Luetge; Order Ethics and the Problem of Social Glue.- 10. Ludwig Heider / Nikil Mukerji; Rawls, Order Ethics, and Rawlsian Order Ethics.- 11. Michael Festl; Boost up and Merge With: Order Ethics in the Light of Recent Developments in Justice Theory.- 12. Tatjana Schönwälder-Kuntze; Deconstructive Ethics: Handling Human Plurality (Shaped) by Normative (Enabling) Conditions.- 13. Sigmund Wagner-Tsukamoto; Contrasting the Behavioural Business Ethics Approach and the Institutional Economic Approach to Business Ethics: Insights from the Study of Quaker Employers.- B. Problems of Business Ethics from an Order Ethics Perspective.- 14. Markus Beckmann/Ingo Pies; The Constitution of Responsibility: Toward an Ordonomic Framework for Interpreting (Corporate Social) Responsibility in Different Social Settings.- 15. Ludger Heidbrink; Companies as Political Actors: A Positioning between Ordo-Responsibility and Systems Responsibility.- 16. Nikil Mukerji and Christoph Schumacher; Is the Minimum Wage Ethically Justifiable? An Order-Ethical Answer.- 17. Markus Beckmann; Sustainability from an Order Ethics Perspective.- 18. Nikolaus Knoepffler/Martin O’Malley; An Ordonomic Perspective in Medical Ethics.- 19. Ford Shanahan/Peter Seele; Ethics and the Development of Reputation Risk at Goldman Sachs 2008-2010.- 20. Christoph Luetge; Executive Compensation.
Nikil Mukerji is a researcher in philosophy at the Chair of Political Theory and Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and currently serves as academic director of the executive master’s degree programme Philosophie Politik Wirtschaft (PPW) also at LMU. He studied business administration, economics, philosophy, logic and scientific theory in Munich (Germany), Aberdeen (UK) and Auckland (NZ). His research and teaching interests comprise practical philosophy and particularly ethics, the philosophy of economics, practical logic and argumentation theory as well as experimental philosophy. As a self-employed trainer, coach and consultant with the Institut für Argumentation (Munich) he furthermore specializes in the application of philosophical ideas in the business world and everyday life.
Christoph Luetge holds the Peter Loescher Endowed Chair of Business Ethics at Technical University of Munich. He studied business informatics as well as philosophy, obtaining his doctorate in 1999 and his habilitation in 2005 at the University of Munich. He was visiting researcher in Pittsburgh and San Diego. Luetge taught business ethics at the Universities of Munich, Witten and Braunschweig before moving to Technical University of Munich in 2010. He held visiting professorships in Taipei, Kyoto and Venice and was awarded a Heisenberg Fellowship by the German Research Foundation in 2007.
This book examines the theoretical foundations of order ethics and discusses business ethics problems from an order ethics perspective. Order ethics focuses on the social order and the institutional environment in which individuals interact. It is a well-established paradigm in European business ethics. The book contains articles written by leading experts in the field and provides both a concise introduction to order ethics and short summary articles homing in on specific aspects of the order-ethical paradigm. It presents contributions describing fundamental concepts, historical roots, and the economic, social, and philosophical background of the theory. The second part of the handbook focuses on the theory's application in business, society, and politics, casting new light on an array of topics that loom large in contemporary ethical discourse.