TY - BOOK AU - Donaldson,Thomas AU - Werhane,Patricia Hogue AU - Van Zandt,Joseph D. TI - Ethical issues in business: a philosophical approach SN - 9780131846197 AV - HF5387 .E8 2008 U1 - 174/.4 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Upper Saddle River, N.J. PB - Pearson/Prentice Hall KW - Business ethics KW - Case studies KW - Social responsibility of business N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Preface --; Introduction to ethical reasoning; Thomas Donaldson; Patricia H. Werhane --; pt. 1; General issues in business ethics --; Introduction --; ch. 1; Business ethics : the controversy --; Case study : H.B. Fuller in Honduras : street children and substance abuse; Norman E. Bowie; Stefanie Ann Lenway --; The; social responsibility of business is to increase its profits; Milton Friedman --; Managing for stakeholders; R. Edward Freeman --; ch. 2; Ethical reasoning in practice --; Case study : Italian tax mores; Arthur L. Kelly --; A; Kantian approach to business ethics; Norman E. Bowie --; Corporate roles, personal virtues : an Aristotlean approach to business ethics; Robert C. Solomon --; Utilitarianism and business ethics; Andrew Gustafson --; Ethics and pragmatism : John Dewey's deliberative approach; John McVea --; ch. 3; Truth telling --; Case study : Cynthia Cooper and WorldCom; Emily Mead; Patricia H. Werhane --; Ethical duties toward others : "Truthfulness"; Immanuel Kant --; Trust, morality, and international business; George G. Brenkert --; Whistleblowing and professional responsibility; Sissela Bok --; Is business bluffing ethical?; Albert Carr --; pt. 2; Property, profit, and justice --; Introduction --; ch. 4; Traditional theories of property and profit --; Case study : New protocol : How drug's rebirth as treatment for cancer fueled price rises; Geeta Anand --; Case study : Plasma international; Thomas W. Zimmerer; Paul L. Preston --; The; justification of private property; John Locke --; Benefits of the profit motive; Adam Smith --; Alienated labour; Karl Marx --; Wealth; Andrew Carnegie --; ch. 5; Contemporary challenges to property rights --; Case study : W.R. Grace & Co. and the Neemix patent; Kristi Severance; Lisa Shapiro; Patricia H. Werhane --; Needed : a new system of intellectual property rights; Lester C. Thurow --; Privacy; Deborah G. Johnson --; ch. 6; Case study : The oil rig; Joanne B. Ciulla --; Distributive justice; John Rawls --; The; entitlement theory; Robert Nozick --; pt. 3; Corporations, persons, and morality --; Introduction --; ch. 7. The; role of organizational values --; Case study : Merck & Co., Inc.; The; Business Enterprise Trust --; Does business ethics make economic sense?; Amartya Sen --; Can socially responsible firms survive in a competitive environment?; Robert H. Frank --; Managing for organizational integrity; Lynn Sharp Paine --; The; parable of the Sadhu; Bowen H. McCoy --; ch. 8; Values and the virtuous manager --; Case study : The Enron collapse; Stewart Hamilton --; Moral mazes : Bureaucracy and managerial work; Robert Jackall --; The; moral muteness of managers; Frederick B. Bird; James A. Waters --; Legislative summary of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 --; Limited options; John C. Coffee Jr. --; ch. 9; Issues in employment --; Case study : United wins approval to dump pension plans; Mark Skertic --; Case study : Unkept promises hit retirees; Barbara Rose --; Case study : Working at Walmart; Barbara Ehrenreich --; Employment at will, employee rights, and future directions for employment; Tara J. Radin; Patricia H. Werhane --; In defense of the contract at will; Richard A. Epstein --; Employability security; Rosabeth Moss Kanter --; People, profits, and perspective; Jeffrey Pfeffer --; ch. 10; Diversity --; Case study : Foreign assignment; Thomas Dunfee; Diana Robertson --; Ways women lead; Judy B. Rosener --; White privilege and male privilege : a personal account of coming to see correspondences through work in women's studies; Peggy McIntosh --; pt. 4; International business --; Introduction --; ch. 11; Ethical relativism --; Case study : What price safety?; R.S. Moorthy; Richard T. De George; Thomas Donaldson; William S. J. Ellos; Robert C. Solomon; Robert B. Textor --; Case study : Facing face; R.S. Moorthy; Richard T. De George; Thomas Donaldson; William S.J. Ellos; Robert C. Solomon; Robert B. Textor --; The; challenge of cultural relativism; James Rachels --; A; social contracts approach to business ethics; Thomas Donaldson; Thomas W. Dunfee --; The; United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights --; ch. 12; Business values away from home --; Case study : Alchemist's dream come true; Barnaby J. Feder --; Case study : Gift giving and the African elder; James Gathii --; International business ethics and incipient capitalism : a double standard?; Richard T. De George --; Values in tension : ethics away from home; Thomas Donaldson --; pt. 5; Contemporary business themes --; Introduction --; ch. 13; Marketing --; Case study : Fingerhut's price strategy; Lee Anne Fennel; Gretchen A. Kalsow; June A. West --; Persuasive advertising, autonomy, and the creation of desire; Roger Crisp --; ch. 14. The; environment --; Case study : Exxonmobil and the Chad/Cameroon pipeline; Jenny Mead; Andy Wicks; Patricia H. Werhane --; Scarcity or abundance?; Julian L. Simon --; Cost-benefit analysis : an ethical critique; Steven Kelman --; A; boat for Thoreau; William McDonough --; ch. 15; Globalization --; Case study : global profits, global headaches; Mark Baker; Laura Hartman; Bill Shaw --; The; market at the bottom of the pyramid; C.K. Prahalad --; The; great non-debate over international sweatshops; Ian Maitland --; Biographical information UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0714/2007013459.html ER -