Business Ethics

Managing corporate citizenship and sustainability in the age of globalization
3. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-956433-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 648 Seiten, Format (B × H): 188 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1370 g

An award-winning textbook, written by two of the world's leading experts on business ethics
Covers the topics of globalization, sustainability and corporate citizenship throughout the text as a whole, enabling students to see how issues are treated when embedded in the context of business ethics
Offers a truly global perspective on business ethics that offers a refreshing alternative in a market dominated by American texts. Crane & Matten therefore provides relevant examples that students are able to relate to and demonstrates how business ethics applies to a real variety of organizations
Includes excellent case studies and unique pedagogical features that really show how theory relates to real life practice, including 'Ethics on Screen', 'Ethics Online' and 'Ethics in Action'
Offers a clear, easy-to-follow structure based around core business ethics themes and distinct stakeholder applications
Includes a comprehensive set of web resources for both instructors and students, including the Crane and Matten blog - a unique opportunity for ongoing interactive exchange with the authors.
Accessible style and easy-to-follow narrative, ensuring the text is engaging for students new to the subject

New to this edition Fully updated and revised cases and vignettes throughout, including features on BP, Cadbury, Diageo, Greenpeace, McDonald's, Siemens, and the microfinance industry. Fully integrated global perspectives on business ethics, including increased coverage of theories and problems related to Asia, Africa and Latin America New pedagogical feature 'Ethics online' provides insight into the use of social media and online tools for understanding and participating in business ethics. Extensive content from Ethical Corporation Magazine featured to demonstrate the latest real life issues in global business ethics, including private military companies in the Middle East, black economic empowerment in South Africa, fraud in India, and Islamic finance in the UK. New digital resources including short responses to the 'Think Theory' features in the textbook; trailers of films featured in the 'Ethics on Screen' boxes; and 'Case Bank' Expanded coverage of key global business ethics issues, including climate change, poverty, water, financial markets, private equity and global religions.

Business Ethics is a lively and engaging textbook that tackles one of the most pressing issues facing business today: how to be a good corporate citizen in a complex multiple stakeholder world. It covers the foundations of business ethics and applies these concepts to each of the corporation's major stakeholders. Written from a truly international perspective, it explains the ethical challenges faced by business in different parts of the globe, and provides the tools and concepts necessary to understand and deal with ethical problems effectively wherever you are in the world. It is the only text on the market that fully considers the implications of three major ethical challenges facing business: corporate citizenship, globalization, and sustainability.

This third edition offers fully integrated global perspectives, including increased coverage of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The book has been thoroughly updated and includes new content on climate change, water issues, financial markets, private equity, social enterprise, and global religions. The authors offer a wealth of new cases and examples as well as updates of old favourites including BAE, BP, Diageo, McDonald's, Greenpeace, and Siemens. Among the unique learning features included in the book are 'Ethics on Screen' boxes that describe recent movies involving business ethics issues, and 'Ethics online' - a new feature that provides cutting edge insight into the use of social media and online tools for understanding and participating in business ethics. Further links and web resources are also provided on the book's dedicated Online Resource Centre.

Online Resource Centre

Student resources
- Additional case study web links
- Additional 'Ethics in Action' web links
- Additional 'Ethics on Screen' web links
- Useful ethics web links
- Further reading
- Link to Crane & Matten blog
- Think Theory Answers - short responses to the 'Think Theory' features that are currently in the text
- Trailers of movies featured in the Ethics on Screen boxes

Lecturer resources:
- Teaching notes for case studies
- Teaching notes for 'Ethical Dilemmas'
- Teaching notes for 'Ethics in Action'
- Teaching notes for 'Ethics on Screen'
- PowerPoint slides
- Think Theory Answers - short responses to the 'Think Theory' features that are currently in the text
- Crane and Matten 'Case Bank' - cases no longer in book will be provided on the ORC for use by instructors
- Additional Week 1 PowerPoint slides with details of book, ORC, and blog

Zielgruppe

Third-year undergraduate and postgraduate students following a module on business ethics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crane, Andrew

Matten, Dirk

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wirtschaftsethik, Unternehmensethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part A: Understanding business ethics
1: Introducing business ethics
2: Framing business ethics: corporate responsibility, stakeholders, and citizenship
3: Evaluating business ethics: normative ethical theories
4: Making decisions in business ethics: descriptive ethical theories
5: Managing business ethics: tools and techniques of business ethics management

Part B: Contextualizing business ethics: the corporate citizen and ist stakeholders
6: Shareholders and business ethics
7: Employees and business ethics
8: Consumers and business ethics
9: Suppliers, competitors, and business ethics
10: Civil society and business ethics
11: Government, regulation, and business ethics
12: Conclusions and future perspectives

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Crane, George R. Gardiner Professor of Business Ethics, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada, and Dirk Matten, Hewlett-Packard Chair in Corporate Responsibility, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada

Professor Andrew Crane is the George R. Gardiner Professor of Business Ethics in the Schulich School of Business at York University in Canada. He holds a PhD from the University of Nottingham and a BSc from the University of Warwick. He has over ten years' experience of teaching and researching business ethics, and has spoken and published widely on the subject. Journals in which his work has been published include the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, and Organization Studies.

Professor Dirk Matten is Hewlett-Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility in the Schulich School of Business at York University in Canada. He has a PhD and the Habilitation from Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf in Germany. He has taught the subject at universities in Britain, France, Germany, Belgium and the Czech Republic. His work is published in leading journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies.