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Business ethics are the set of practices and policies that companies use to guide them through decisions about finances, negotiations and deals, corporate social responsibility, and more. Without a strong set of ethics, a business can run afoul of the law, encounter financial pitfalls and moral dilemmas.
List of contents
PART I. - PREAMPLE. Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: Rudiments of Business Ethics. Chapter 3: Functional Area Business Ethics. Chapter 4: Ethics and Complexity of Business Decisions. Chapter 5: Universality of Corruption and Unethical Business Conduct. Chapter 6: Insights on Scandal Pervasiveness and Regulation. PART II. ETHICS ENTER DECISION MAKING STAGES. Chapter 7: Why Bother with Ethical Business Practices. Chapter 8: How Ethics Enters Strategic Project Decisions. Chapter 9: Ethics, Culture, Strategy, Decisions and Value Links. PART III. DECISION-MAKING SUCCESS FACTOR INTERACTIONS AND IMPACTS. Chapter 10: Culture, 4-Cs, VRIO Resources, TQM, and ESG Links. Chapter 11: Strategy Links with Decision Making Success Factors Chapter. Chapter 12: Inter Decision-Making Success Factor Linkages. Chapter 13: 4-C, VRIO Resources, TQM, ESG, Value Creation Linkages. Chapter 14: Characterization of Competitive Advantage. Chapter 15: Competitive Advantage Sources and Life Cycle of SCA. PART IV. LINKS TO COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE ELEMENTS. Chapter 16: Decision-Making Effects on Competitive Advantage. Chapter 17: Inter-Competitive Advantage Element Interactions. Chapter 18: Strategy Links With Competitive Advantage Elements. Chapter 19: Multiplicity of Competitive Advantage Effects. PART V. WHERE TO FROM HERE. Chapter 20: Current Reality of Business Ethics. Chapter 21: Is There a Need for Ethics Compliance? Chapter 22: Common Business Scandal and Lessons Learned. Chapter 23: Summary and Conclusions. APPENDIX A – Costs of Ethics Compliance and Non-Compliance. APPENDIX B – Proposed Method for Quantitative Assessment
About the author
John E. Triantis is a retired business consulting economist, business strategist, and former project financing director with a passion for business competitive advantage. He has a track record of introducing effective processes and practices to assess and develop successful, value creating projects. He is an experienced new business development project leader and a trusted advisor in large investment, international infrastructure financing, and organizational restructuring projects. His passion is to help companies seeking or maintaining competitive advantage by minimizing decision uncertainty risk. His approach involves integrating sound processes, best business practices, analytics and evaluations with sound strategic planning, business development, and financial principles.
He has authored numerous position papers and published the books Creating Successful Acquisition and Joint Venture Projects: A Process and Team Approach; Navigating Strategic Decisions: The Power of Sound Analysis and Forecasting; and Project Finance for Business Development; Navigating Project Selection and Execution for Competitive Advantage: A Guide to Evaluating Prospective Projects at the Idea Stage. He has also published several articles in professional domestic and international journals and books. John holds a Ph.D. in macroeconomics and international economics and a master’s degree in statistics and econometrics from the University of New Hampshire. His bachelor’s degree is in economics and mathematics from Fairleigh Dickinson University. John is a US Army veteran who served during the Vietnam conflict.
Summary
Business ethics are the set of practices and policies that companies use to guide them through decisions about finances, negotiations and deals, corporate social responsibility, and more. Without a strong set of ethics, a business can run afoul of the law, encounter financial pitfalls and moral dilemmas.
