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Informationen zum Autor Michael Boylan is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Marymount University. He is the author and editor of 26 books, including his manifesto on social/political philosophy A Just Society (2004), and on cosmopolitanism Morality and Global Justice: Justifications and Applications (2011). Boylan was himself the focus of an edited volume, Morality and Justice: Reading Boylan's A Just Society (2009). He has served on professional and governmental policy committees and was a fellow at the Center for American Progress and a program presenter at The Brookings Institution. He has been an invited speaker in nine countries around the world, including talks in Oxford, Cambridge, Cologne, Oslo, Dublin, Sydney, and the Sorbonne. Klappentext The second edition of Business Ethics introduces readers to key ethical issues that arise within the world of business, providing a strong theoretical foundation as well as real world applications. This new edition has been greatly revised, and includes new sections on the financial services industry, globalization, and global economic justice.* An accessible introduction for beginners, offering a combination of important established essays and new essays commissioned especially for this volume* Greatly revised - more than half of the selections are new to this edition. Newly commissioned essays address information technology, global economic justice and globalization, stakeholder theory, the corporation as an individual, and other topics* Uses diverse, authentic business cases to illustrate discussion of concepts* Cases have been updated to reflect current problems and issues* Provides students with guidance and tools to write their own case study essays* Readings are presented to progressively develop the reader's ability to read and apply ethical theory by writing case responses from different vantage points Zusammenfassung The second edition of Business Ethics introduces readers to key ethical issues that arise within the world of business, providing a strong theoretical foundation as well as real world applications. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors x Preface to the Second Edition xiii Source Credits xv 1 Ethical Reasoning 1 Michael Boylan 2 Theories of Economic Justice 12 Marxian Liberalism 13 Jeffrey Reiman Reframing the Commonwealth: Commercial or Civic 32 Marvin T. Brown Evaluating a Case Study: Developing a Practical Ethical Viewpoint 45 3 What Is a Corporation? 51 A. The Corporation as an Individual 55 Can a Corporation Have a Conscience? 55 Kenneth E. Goodpaster and John B. Matthews Jr. The Corporation as a Moral Person 63 Peter A. French Personalizing Corporate Ontology: The French Way 72 Thomas Donaldson Citizens United v. FTC (U.S. Supreme Court Case, 2010) 81 B. The Corporation as a Community: Stakeholder Theory 87 Corporations as Communities 87 Amitai Etzioni Business Ethics and Stakeholder Analysis 95 Kenneth E. Goodpaster Stakeholders and Consent 108 Stephen Cohen A Fiduciary Argument against Stakeholder Theory 114 Alexei M. Marcoux Evaluating a Case Study: Finding the Conflicts 136 4 What Are Proper Business Practices? 142 A. Competition and the Practice of Business 145 The Janus Faces of Competition 145 Michael Boylan The Principle of Fair Competition 155 Michael Boylan B. Advertising 163 The Advertising of Happiness and the Branding of Values 163 Edward H. Spence A Model to Explore the Ethics of Erotic Stimuli in Print Advertising 176 Tony L. Henthorne and Michael S. LaTour C. Information Technology 187 The Importance of Info...
