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The Routledge Companion to Business Ethics

by Eugene Heath, Byron Kaldis, Alexei Marcoux

February 2018

Intermediate to advanced

722 pages

34h 15m

English

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The “Idol of Origins”Critics of CapitalismBusiness Ethics Becomes a Field of Study
Ancient and Medieval Suspicions of CommerceThe Modern Approval of BusinessThe Late Modern Attack on BusinessThe Philosophic Epoch of Business Ethics
Hostility To Business and Business EthicsThe Philosophical BackgroundThe Enlightenment Project and Contemporary EthicsExploration: The “New” Normative MethodologyTwo Competing Narratives of Philosophical ExplorationAn Alternative Method: Explication
Business Ethics: Education Vs. TrainingThe Why, What, How, Where, and When of Business Ethics EducationStrengthening a Student’S Moral Sense and CommitmentMoral Blindness, Self-Deception, and Unethical Actions
A Brief Overview of Ethical TheoriesEthical Theories of Non-Consequentialism and ConsequentialismNon-Consequentialism and Consequentialism In Business Ethics
A Taxonomy of Social Contract ApproachesJustification of The Social Contract Theory of Business EthicsHow Does It Work? The Elements of CbeIntegrative Social Contracts Theory (Isct)Application and Criticism of Integrative Social Contracts TheoryOther Social Contract Theories In Business EthicsConcluding Remarks: Criticism and New Directions
Can Profit Seekers Be Virtuous?Profits In The Entrepreneurial ProcessVirtuously Seeking ProfitsEntrepreneurial Virtue In Commercial Society Vs. Rent-Seeking Society
Feminist Ethics and The Ethics of CareFeminist Ethics and Business EthicsEthics of Care: a Way Forward?Virtue, Self, and Other: Implications for Business EthicsEtienne Wenger: Learning a (Virtue) Ethics of Relationship
The Hebrew TraditionThe Christian TraditionsIslamReligions of Asia
Social Responsibility DefinedCan Corporations Have Moral Responsibilities? Corporations As Moral AgentsWhat Are The Social Responsibilities of Corporations?Making Sense of Csr Theory and PracticeNew Directions In Csr
Setting The StageConscience: Personal and InstitutionalIs Stakeholder Thinking More An Obstacle To Than a Proxy for Corporate Conscience?From Stakeholder to Comprehensive Moral ThinkingImplications for Business EducationAppendix: The Mba Oath
Integrative Versus Applied EthicsDiscourse, Legitimization, and ResponsibilityThe Micro Level: The Ethics of Economic CitizensThe Meso Level: Normative Stakeholder ManagementThe Macro Level: Republican Liberalism and Regulatory Ethics
Business As An OrganizationBusiness As An ActivityStakeholder Theory, Participation Rights, and Fair Decision Procedures
Origins of The CorporationTheories of The CorporationCorporate Moral Agency
The Us Experience DescribedA Critique of Us Specialized FormsThe European Environment ExploredEvaluating European Social Enterprise Forms
Conceptions of EntrepreneurshipExpanded Conceptions of EntrepreneurshipCore Elements of EntrepreneurshipEthical Entrepreneurship: Empirical ConsiderationsEthical Entrepreneurship: Normative Considerations
Skepticism About Business EthicsThe Rational Choice RevolutionThe New Modesty
Forms of OwnershipTwo Kinds of JustificationThe Conventionalist ObjectionIntellectual PropertyConcluding Remarks: Business and Property
Innovation and Neoclassical EconomicsThe Interactive Approach to InnovationInnovation InstitutionalizedLiving In An Unsuccessful Age?
The Legal and Institutional FrameworkThe Ethics of Financial IntermediariesThe Ethics of Financial MarketsAlternative Finance
A Typology of Business Ethics and RegulationThe Business Ethics of Rent SeekingRegulation, Rent Seeking, and Institutional Design
Environmental Goods As Economic Resources: Where Markets Can WorkEnvironmental Goods and Intrinsic Value: Where Markets Won’T WorkThe Ethics and Environmentalism of Sustainable DevelopmentWhat Sustainability Is Not
Ethics and EconomicsPublic Policy on Mortgages and The 2008 CrisisThe Role of The Fed In The CrisisThe Financial Industry BailoutThe Auto Industry Bailout, and MoreThe Ethics of The Policy ResponseHousing Policy and The Political ProcessPolitical Capitalism
The Primacy DebateIssues Surrounding ShareholdersIssues Surrounding Boards of DirectorsThe Nature and Role of The Ceo
Theoretical Foundations: Desperately Seeking Ethics In LeadershipThe Moral Manager: Navigating Ethical LeadershipThe Moral Person: Exploring The Character of Business LeadersEthical Leadership In The Age of Corporate Social Responsibility
Major Management TheoriesMajor Ethics TheoriesSelected Theoretical Issues In Management Ethics
Ethical Awareness, Judgment, Motivation, and ActionManaging Ethical Conduct Through Ethics and Compliance ProgramsEthical Culture
Freedom of Contract: Lochner’S ShadowStarting and Terminating The Employment RelationshipCompensationThe Nature of Work: Meaningful Work and Workplace DemocracyPrivacyWhistleblowing
How Are Laborers Wronged?What Do Firms Owe Their Employees?Who Is Responsible When Workers Are Wronged?
Marketing, Ethics, and Marketing EthicsCriticisms of MarketingConceptual and Theoretical Perspectives on Marketing Ethics
Introducing Accounting EthicsIntroducing Professions and The Public InterestExpressions of The Public InterestAccounting and Human Rights
Business Ethics Emerges In Us Business SchoolsA Focus on Business Ethics Emerges In Us CorporationsInterest In Business Ethics Beyond The United StatesGlobalization Becomes An Economic RealityThe Growth of Corporate Global Ethics ProgramsDefining a Global Ethic for Business: Challenges
Foundations: Hofstede’S Cultural Values Approach In International Management StudiesBuilding on Hofstede’S FoundationsWorld Values Survey and Modernization TheoryEthical Judgments, Algorithms, and Codes of Ethics
Bribery and GiftsBribery: Inherent CharacteristicsBribery: a Complex Social, Economic, and Political RealityAddressing The Paradox of Bribery Through Legal ReformThe Pursuit of Integrity In Business and Government: Lessons and ChallengesThe Character of Corruption
The New Era in China and The Rise of Business EthicsTheoretical Trends in Chinese Business EthicsThe Future Challenges of Business Ethics in China
Business Ethics in South Asia: Scholarship, Teaching, and PracticeGandhi’S Trusteeship FrameworkTrusteeship: a Critical AppraisalApplicability of Gandhian Trusteeship in The Twenty-First Century
Business Ethics Developments in Sub-Saharan AfricaBusiness in Africa: Contextual Considerations and ChallengesTowards An African Business Ethics
Business Ethics in Latin America: An Approach to Reality Through The PressComparative Data on Public CorruptionTeaching and ResearchCorporate Practices, Non-Governmental Organizations (Ngos) and Government InitiativesAppendix: Press Citations
Business Ethics Under CommunismSimilarities Among Former Communist CountriesDifferences Among Former Communist CountriesBusiness Ethics and The Eu

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Stakeholder thinking

Kenneth E. Goodpaster

In this chapter I examine a broad set of approaches to organizational decision making that I will refer to as “stakeholder thinking.” Stakeholder thinking is a normative ethical approach to decision making that emphasizes corporate responsibilities to individuals, groups, and institutions including, when applicable, fiduciary obligations owed to investors and shareholders. I favor the phrase “stakeholder thinking” over “stakeholder theory” because it is more generic.¹ Understood in this way, stakeholder thinking is frequently offered as a proxy for what some would call the “conscience” of the corporation.²

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