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An introduction to the role of virtue ethics in business, written by one of the foremost Aristotelian scholars.
List of contents
Foreword R. Edward Freeman; Introduction to Aristotle, virtue ethics, and this essay; 1. Virtues and principles; 2. Virtues and decisions; 3. Virtues, good reasons, and the good life; 4. Developing character; 5. Virtues in and among organisations; 6. Teaching virtue in business school; 7. Ethical conflict and the global future; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Edwin M. Hartman was Visiting Professor of Business Ethics and co-director of the Paduano Seminar in Business Ethics at the Stern School of Business, New York University, until his retirement in December 2009. Before joining Stern, he taught for more than twenty years in the business school and the philosophy department at Rutgers University, where he was founding director of the Prudential Business Ethics Center. He is the author of Substance, Body, and Soul: Aristotelian Investigations, Conceptual Foundations of Organization Theory and Organizational Ethics and the Good Life (named Book of the Year (2003) by the Social Issues in Management Division of the Academy of Management).
Summary
Edwin M. Hartman introduces graduate students and academic researchers to the value of applying Aristotle's virtue approach to business. He demonstrates how the virtue approach can deepen our understanding of business ethics, and how it can contribute to contemporary discussions of character, rationality, corporate culture, ethics education and global ethics.
