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Author : Peter A. French
Publisher : Harcourt Brace College Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Corporations in the Moral Community written by Peter A. French and published by Harcourt Brace College Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Rönnegard
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401797560
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Fallacy of Corporate Moral Agency written by David Rönnegard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is uncontroversial that corporations are legal agents that can be held legally responsible, but can corporations also be moral agents that are morally responsible? Part one of this book explicates the most prominent theories of corporate moral agency and provides a detailed debunking of why corporate moral agency is a fallacy. This implies that talk of corporate moral responsibilities, beyond the mere metaphorical, is essentially meaningless. Part two takes the fallacy of corporate moral agency as its premise and spells out its implications. It shows how prominent normative theories within Corporate Social Responsibility, such as Stakeholder Theory and Social Contract Theory, rest on an implicit assumption of corporate moral agency. In this metaphysical respect such theories are untenable. In order to provide a more robust metaphysical foundation for corporations the book explicates the development of the corporate legal form in the US and UK, which displays how the corporation has come to have its current legal attributes. This historical evolution shows that the corporation is a legal fiction created by the state in order to serve both public and private goals. The normative implication for corporate accountability is that citizens of democratic states ought to primarily make calls for legal enactments in order to hold the corporate legal instruments accountable to their preferences.
Author : A. C. Fernando
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 8131786692
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (317 download)
Download or read book Corporate Ethics, Governance, and Social Responsibility: Precepts and Practices: Precepts and Practices written by A. C. Fernando and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2009 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is profit-making the only goal of a business? Should an unbridled market mechanism drive corporate enterprise? To what extent should corporations compensate for the manifest and hidden costs that are incurred by the society at large? These are some of the questions that have engaged specialist economists, business barons, corporate heads and management experts for decades. Corporate Ethics, Governance, and Social Responsibility: Precepts and Practices addresses these issues and deals with three key concepts impacting contemporary businesses: business or corporate ethics, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility.
Author : Marion Smiley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226763250
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Moral Responsibility and the Boundaries of Community written by Marion Smiley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of responsibility plays a critical role not only in our attempts to resolve social and political problems, but in our very conceptions of what those problems are. Who, for example, is to blame for apartheid in South Africa? Is the South African government responsible? What about multinational corporations that do business there? Will uncovering the "true facts of the matter" lead us to the right answer? In an argument both compelling and provocative, Marion Smiley demonstrates how attributions of blame—far from being based on an objective process of factual discovery—are instead judgments that we ourselves make on the basis of our own political and social points of view. She argues that our conception of responsibility is a singularly modern one that locates the source of blameworthiness in an individual's free will. After exploring the flaws inherent in this conception, she shows how our judgments of blame evolve out of our configuration of social roles, our conception of communal boundaries, and the distribution of power upon which both are based. The great strength of Smiley's study lies in the way in which it brings together both rigorous philosophical analysis and an appreciation of the dynamics of social and political practice. By developing a pragmatic conception of moral responsibility, this work illustrates both how moral philosophy can enhance our understanding of social and political practices and why reflection on these practices is necessary to the reconstruction of our moral concepts.
Author : Peter Ulrich
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401103992
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Facing Public Interest written by Peter Ulrich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as private business since business activities have widespread and sometimes far-reaching impacts on the community. The side-effects of entrepreneurial decision making - increasing unemployment, for instance, or pollution - increasingly expose corporations to the public gaze, with management in the limelight. Facing Public Interest opens up new vistas on business policy and corporate communications facing public interest. The relationship between private enterprise and public interest is subjected to an ethical examination, highlighting the role of the general public as a locus of morality for business and the guiding concept of a corporate dialogue between management and the concerned public. Instructive case studies are also presented. The volume not only proposes corporate dialogue: it puts into practice. Business leaders, representatives of citizens' groups, public affairs consultants, and academics discuss the topics thoroughly and thoughtfully in the best contributions to the seventh conference on the European Business Ethics Network, held at the University of St. Gallen in September 1994.
Author : Hugh Curtler
Publisher : Haven Books (NJ)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Shame, Responsibility and the Corporation written by Hugh Curtler and published by Haven Books (NJ). This book was released on 1986 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Richardson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190884630
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Articulating the Moral Community written by Henry Richardson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is morality fixed objectively, independently of all human judgment, or do we "invent" right and wrong? Articulating the Moral Community argues that neither of these simple answers is correct. Its central thesis is that, working within zones of objective indeterminacy, the moral community-the community of all persons-has the authority to introduce new moral norms. Unlike political communities, which are centralized, non-inclusive, and backed by coercion, the moral community is decentralized, inclusive, and not coercively backed. This book explains in detail how its structure arises from efforts by individuals to work out intelligently with one another how to respond to morally important concerns. Developing a novel theory of dyadic rights and duties based on this phenomenon, the book argues that conscientious efforts of this kind provide moral input, authoritative only over the parties involved. After sufficient uptake and reflective acceptance by the moral community, however, these innovations become new moral norms. This account of the moral community's moral authority is motivated by, and supports, a type of normative ethical theory, constructive ethical pragmatism, which-to use an unfashionable distinction defended in the book-rejects the consequentialist claim that rightness is to be defined as a function of goodness and the deontological claim that principles of right stand fixed, independently of the good. It holds, rather, that what we ought to do depends on our continuing efforts to specify the right and the good in light of each other.
Author : William C. Frederick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195357159
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Values, Nature, and Culture in the American Corporation written by William C. Frederick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-21 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Values, Nature, and Culture in the American Corporation, distinguished ethicist William Frederick explores issues of fundamental importance to all who aspire to conduct their business affairs ethically. He begins with an examination of the three value systems in business that are basically incompatible, and therefore in constant tension. The first is the need for managers to efficiently allocate resources for maximum profits. The second is the natural tendency for managers, in pursuit of the first goal, to accumulate power for its own sake. The third is the desire for people in the community to create relationships that will perpetuate these communities. Frederick brings in a range of ideas and concepts from the social sciences as well as the natural sciences to illuminate his discussion. In the final section of the book he explores a range of issues of current concern to managers, including corporate culture and technology.
Author : Zgheib, Philippe W.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466672552
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)
Download or read book Business Ethics and Diversity in the Modern Workplace written by Zgheib, Philippe W. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporations have a social responsibility to assist in the overall well-being of their communities through the compliance of moral business standards and practices. However, many societies still face serious issues related to unethical business practices. Business Ethics and Diversity in the Modern Workplace investigates the ethical frameworks within modern corporations and their impact on the communities they serve. With a focus on autonomous decision making in complex quandaries, this book is an all-inclusive reference source for students, researchers, practitioners, and managers who are concerned with the various ethical dilemmas within businesses, as well as evaluating moral issues impacting societal welfare.
Author : Thomas Klikauer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137547405
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Hegel’s Moral Corporation written by Thomas Klikauer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hegel's Moral Corporation is about two versions of a corporation, one business oriented and dedicated to shareholder-value and profit-maximisation and one dedicated to moral life, Sittlichkeit, in Hegelian terms.
Author : Marshall B. Clinard
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Corporate Ethics and Crime written by Marshall B. Clinard and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1983-06 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Safety violations, bribes, kickbacks, and price-fixing -- these are some of the crimes that corporations indulge in as a matter of covert policy. What does middle management do when confronted with the knowledge that their superiors are breaking the law or violating ethics? What makes some corporations behave more ethically than others? Marshall Clinard interviewed retired middle managers of the Fortune 500 corporations to discover the nature of corporate crime and ethics, and the reaction of middle managers to it. How do middle managers account for differences in corporate behaviour? What pressures are brought to bear to keep them silent. What are their own personal ethics when confronted with corporate misdeeds? What kinds of violations would they be willing to report? When would they remain silent? The role of upper level management and the role government regulations play in discouraging and encouraging violations is also discussed. The result is a fascinating portrait of a closed and silent process of violation, corporate dynamics and personal, moral reaction.
Author : Jacob Dahl Rendtorff
Publisher : Copenhagen Business School Press DK
ISBN 13 : 9788763002202
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Responsibility, Ethics and Legitimacy of Corporations written by Jacob Dahl Rendtorff and published by Copenhagen Business School Press DK. This book was released on 2009 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business ethics, corporate social responsibility, corporate citizenship, values-driven management, corporate governance, and ethical leadership are necessary horizons for the legitimacy of corporations in the process of globalization. Based on hermeneutics and institutional analysis, this book discusses the place of values in corporations and the role of ethics in management. With the theories of business ethics as a starting point, it is possible to propose a vision of the good citizen corporation. The book presents theories, concepts of responsibility for stakeholder justice, and basic ethical principles of respect for autonomy, dignity, integrity, and vulnerability. This is the foundation for an analysis of the ethical relations to internal and external constituencies of the firm, i.e. shareholders, owners, investors, management, employees, consumers, and local community. The interaction with the environment is further analyzed with a focus on ethical principles as the basis for sustainability. This investigation culminates with the conceptualization of the firm as a collective and institutional moral agent. The content also includes analysis of concrete political developments in the US, Europe, and the United Nations. Finally, the book provides a framework for a new corporate strategy based on global business ethics.
Author : Edwin Hartman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190282797
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Organizational Ethics and the Good Life written by Edwin Hartman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In giving an account of what is ethical, we can begin by describing the community that accommodates the good life; to be ethical, then, is to be a contributor to that sort of community. We live in political communities as well as in communities built around families, neighborhoods, churches, and other associations. But for many of us the community that will afford the good life that is the purpose of morality is the organization that employs us. Aristotle claimed tht the greatest ethical questions are political ones; today we have reason to believe that the greatest ethical questions are organizational ones. In Organizational Ethics and the Good Life, Edwin Hartman contends that, as ethics is about the good community, a great part of business ethics is about the good organization. He argues that a large and complex organization has the characteristic of the "commons" studied by game theorists, and that it is the task of management to preserve the commons in the long-term interests of all its members, principally by creating an appropriate corporate culture. A good corporate culture not only serves the interests of the participants but makes the organization a place in which they can develop interests that are compatible with both autonomy and good corporate citizenship: that is, they can develop a sense of the good life that is appropriate to the moral person. Hartman opposes the standard view that the study of organizational ethics is a matter of considering how certain foundational ethical principles apply in organizational settings; instead, he argues, business ethicists should consider how free and rational people arrive at a consensus on practical ethical principles in a morally good organization that leaves room for moral progress. And what makes an organization morally good? In discussing justice, loyalty, and other features of a morally good organization, Hartman draws largely on the work of Rawls and Hirschman. In describing the good life as one in which well-being and morality overlap, Hartman proposes a new version of an idea as old as Aristotle, who taught that human beings are rational but also irreducibly communal creatures.
Author : Gerard Elfstrom
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349212571
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Moral Issues and Multinational Corporations written by Gerard Elfstrom and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-05-13 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Guillermo C. Jimenez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (959 download)
Download or read book Good Corporation, Bad Corporation written by Guillermo C. Jimenez and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This textbook provides an innovative, internationally oriented approach to the teaching of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business ethics. Drawing on case studies involving companies and countries around the world, the textbook explores the social, ethical, and business dynamics underlying CSR in such areas as global warming, genetically modified organisms (GMO) in food production, free trade and fair trade, anti-sweatshop and living-wage movements, organic foods and textiles, ethical marketing practices and codes, corporate speech and lobbying, and social enterprise. The book is designed to encourage students and instructors to challenge their own assumptions and prejudices by stimulating a class debate based on each case study"--Provided by publisher.
Author : A. C. Fernando
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 9788131724101
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (241 download)
Download or read book Corporate Ethics, Governance, And Social Responsibility: Precepts And Practices written by A. C. Fernando and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is profit-making the only goal of a business? Should an unbridled market mechanism drive corporate enterprise? To what extent should corporations compensate for the manifest and hidden costs that are incurred by the society at large? These are some of the questions that have engaged specialist economists, business barons, corporate heads and management experts for decades. A consensus has emerged that corporate practices cannot bypass the fundamental demands of ethical behaviour, that administration and policies of governance have to be more transparent and publicly accountable, and that businesses must be sensitive to the community and environment within which they are established. This has led to the emergence of three key concepts of contemporary businesses, namely, business or corporate ethics, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility.
Author : Tobey Scharding
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119055059
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book This is Business Ethics written by Tobey Scharding and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a seat in the boardroom. What will you decide? Corporations make difficult decisions about the right thing to do every day, but as an organization made up of people with different perspectives and values, how can a business behave ethically? This is Business Ethics offers a dynamic and engaging introduction to the study of corporate morality. Offers real-world practical advice for navigating ethical dilemmas in business, developed and explained through illustrative high-profile case studies like the Ford Pinto case, Enron, Walmart and British Petroleum. Explores how ethical theory informs business policy and practice. Presents unresolved contemporary case studies for consideration, inviting readers to participate in the decision-making and offer their own recommendations. The latest in the This is Philosophy series, This is Business Ethics features supplemental online resources for instructors and students at https://www.wiley.com/enus/thisisphilosophy/thisisbusinessethicsanintroduction
