Ethics and Consultancy: European Perspectives

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Heidi Von Weltzien Hoivik, Andreas Føllesdal

      Pages 1-4

3. Ethics and Consulting

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. Reflections on the Suspension of Ethics: Managers and Consultants as Manipulators

      • Francis Sejersted

      Pages 7-26

   3. The Use of Consultancy — Ethical Demands and Requirements

      • Paul Batchelor

      Pages 27-37

   4. Ethics and Interventions in Business Moral Issues in Consulting and Economic Systems Design

      • Jan van de Poel

      Pages 39-47

   5. Consultancy in the EU Arena

      • Stanley Crossick

      Pages 49-52

   6. Ethical Issues in Consultancy

      • J. Wessel Ganzevoort

      Pages 53-59

4. General Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61

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   2. Management Consultants — The Danish Experience

      • Flemming Poulfelt, Adrian Payne

      Pages 63-81

   3. Nepotism, Politics and Ethics in the Purchase of Organizational Consultancy Services — Two European Cases

      • Patrick Maclagan, Collean Evans-de Souza

      Pages 83-92

   4. Occasional Ethical Consultancy

      • Antonio Argandoña

      Pages 93-107

   5. “Advise Us What To Do; Decide For Us” (Isaiah 16,3)

      • Haavard Koppang, Bente R. Løwendahl

      Pages 109-123

5. Special Areas

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. Government Agencies and Consultancy — A Norwegian Perspective

      • øystein Blymke

      Pages 127-133

   3. Ethical Issues in Executive Search Consultancy

      • Domènec Melé, Barto Roig

      Pages 135-148

   4. Organizational Ethics Consulting in the Health Care Environment: A Look at a US Children’s Medical Center

      • Joseph A. Petrick, John F. Quinn

      Pages 149-161

   5. Consultants’ Roles and Responsibilities: Lessons From Public Relations in Germany

      • Horst Steinmann, Ansgar Zerfaβ, Rupert Ahrens

      Pages 163-177

6. Actual Ethical Issues of Consulting Services in Post-Communist Countries

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179

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   2. Actual Ethical Issues of Consulting Services in Post-Communist Countries

      • Lidmila Nemcová

      Pages 181-189

The present volume in a series of books produced from European Business Eth­ ics Network (EBEN) conferences in Europe, is a compilation of plenary speeches and papers presented at the 1993 EBEN conference in Oslo, Norway. The theme of this year's conference was "The Use of Consultancy: Ethical Demands and Require­ ments" and there was a special focus on Eastern Europe. Of over 40 papers present­ ed at the conference from 165 participants representing 23 countries, we present here 20 selected by the editors as providing an overview of the latest thinking from both academicians and practitioners on the subject of ethics in consulting. Due to strict constraints on space in this volume, several valuable papers presented at the conference must be published elsewhere. We have also tried to maintain the unique flavor of the papers by authors whose mother tongue is not English. The consulting profession is booming in Europe, both in the West and in the for­ mer Communist Bloc countries. However, it has not previously been subjected to rigorous scrutiny from the ethical point of view. The conference planning commit­ tee thus sought to put the spotlight on the spreading phenomenon of buying and selling consultancy services within the European Union, within Europe and with the new Eastern Europe. The conference addressed several ethical challenges facing either the buyers or providers of consultancy services in both the private and public sectors.

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• business
• development
• ethics
• management
• morality

• Norwegian School of Management, Norway

  Heidi Weltzien Hoivik

• ARENA Research Program, Research Council of Norway, Oslo, Norway

  Andreas Føllesdal

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