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Klappentext Business Ethics is a three-volume collection which provides students and researchers with the historically most important of the classic articles in business ethics, as well as the best of the contemporary and trendsetting work in this burgeoning area. The collection will serve as a sourcebook for academics and researchers entering or already established in the area of business ethics. The editors bring together a breadth of articles across business ethics, with an orientation that is diverse as well as international. The three volumes are well organized to focus on the main topics in business ethics and are divided into corporate social responsibility , the employee-employer relationship, and distributive justice & dilemmas. Courses and research programmes in business ethics have multiplied in recent years alongside a growing concern with the ethical practices of business. This multi-volumed work provides a focused and well-balanced reference for academics and their students to acquire a thorough understanding of this now central topic. The SAGE Library in Business and Management is a first-class series of major works that brings together the most influential and field-defining articles, both classical and contemporary, in a number of key areas of research and inquiry in business and management. Each multi-volume set represents a collection of the essential published works collated from the foremost publications in the field by an Editor or Editorial Team of renowned international stature. They also include a full introduction, presenting a rationale for the selection and mapping out the discipline's past, present and likely future. This series is designed to be a 'gold standard' for university libraries throughout the world with a programme or interest in business and management studies. Zusammenfassung A three-volume collection which provides students and researchers with the historically most important of the classic articles in business ethics. It focuses on the main topics in business ethics and are divided into corporate social responsibility ! the employee-employer relationship! and distributive justice & dilemmas. Inhaltsverzeichnis VOLUME ONE: ETHICAL THEORY, DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Preliminaries Why Business Ethics? The State of Business Ethics - Clarence C Walton PART ONE: ETHICAL THEORY AND BUSINESS ETHICS Perception The Parable of the Sadhu - Bowen H McCoy The Rashomon Effect - Patricia Werhane Strategy The Prince (Chapter 17) - Nicolo Machiavelli The Art of War (excerpts) - Sun Tzu Perspectives Utilitarianism and Business Ethics - Milton Snoeyenbos and James Humber Victims of Circumstances? A Defense of Virtue Ethics in Business - Robert C Solomon Virtue Ethics, the Firm and Moral Psychology - Daryl Koehn A Kantian Approach to Business Ethics - Norman E Bowie PART TWO: DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICS Classical Theories of Contracts, Property and Capitalism Leviathan (excerpts) - Thomas Hobbes Of Property - John Locke The Wealth of Nations (excerpts) - Adam Smith Alienated Labor and Private Property and Communism - Karl Marx Contemporary Theories of Distribution and Property A Theory of Justice (excerpts) - John Rawls The Entitlement Theory - Robert Nozick Capitalism and Morality - James Q Wilson Illusions about Private Property and Freedom - Gerald A Cohen Economic Justice - Milton Fisk Intellectual Property Justifying Intellectual Property - Edwin C Hettinger Trade Secrets and the Justification of Intellectual Property - Lynn Sharp Paine A Comment on Hettinger PART THREE: CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY The Central Debate The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits - Milton Friedman A Stakeholder Theory of the Moder...
