Business Ethics in the Social Context - Law, Profits, and the Evolving Moral Practice of Business

The book tracks the rise of Business Ethics as a discipline in the United States through a review of the basic understandings of the role of business practices in the operations of society, beginning with Aristotle and proceeding to a review of the formative concepts and cases in the history of American business.

List of contents

Prefatory Note.- Introduction: The Nature of this text.- Chapter 1. Can Business Be a Moral Enterprise?.- Chapter 2. Employee Rights and Responsibilities The Internal Constituencies of Business.- Chapter 3: Customers, Community, and World: The External Constituencies of Business.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Newton
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.08.2013
• EAN: 9783319008691
• ISBN: 978-3-31-900869-1
• No. of pages: 100
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 238 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 184 g
• Illustrations: X, 100 p.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Ethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Recht, C, Unternehmensethik und soziale Verantwortung, CSR, Soziale und politische Philosophie, Ethics, Business ethics & social responsibility, Social & political philosophy, Law and Economics, Business Ethics, Religion and Philosophy, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Philosophy and social sciences, Public international law: economic & trade, Company, commercial & competition law: general, financial industries crisis, Internal Constituencies of Business, business and its practitioners, harassment and stereotyping, employee integrity, employee dignity, collapse of Wall Street (and Main Street), banking and retail trade, advances in fairness in hiring, Moral Practice of Business, stewardship of the natural environment, Introduction to Business Ethics, quality of product and service, moral status of business practice, moral codes and standards, Profits, and the Evolving Practice of Business Ethics