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Business Ethics in Theory and Practice

Contributions from Asia and New Zealand

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Patricia H. Werhane

    1. Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia, USA

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  2. Alan E. Singer

    1. Department of Management, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

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Part of the book series: Issues in Business Ethics (IBET, volume 13)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction and Overview

    1. Introduction and Overview

      • Patricia H. Werhane, Alan E. Singer
      Pages 1-11

  3. The Ethics of the New Managerialism

    1. Managerialism and the Economics of the Firm

      • Peter E. Earl
      Pages 13-26

    2. New Organizational Cultures and Ethical Employment Practice

      • Catherine Casey
      Pages 27-39

  4. Strategic Discourses and Narratives

    1. Environmentally Sustainable Business and the Rashomon Effect

      • Patricia H. Werhane
      Pages 41-50

    2. Strategic Discourse as a Technology of Power

      • Kate Kearins, Keith Hooper, David Coy
      Pages 51-61

  5. Empirical Psychology and Business Ethics

    1. Property Ethics and Starvation

      • Matthew Hirshberg
      Pages 63-77

    2. The Contributions of Empirical Research Towards Normative Business Ethics

      • Ming Singer
      Pages 79-86

    3. Ethics, Aesthetics, and Empiricism

      • Glynn Owens
      Pages 87-99

  6. The New Zealand Context

    1. Business Ethics: Is Amoral Good Enough?

      • Ian F. Grant
      Pages 101-111

    2. Perceptions of Empowerment

      • V. Suchitra Mouly, Amelia C. Smith, Jayaram Sankaran
      Pages 113-130

    3. Ethics in Action: The Management of Intangibles

      • V. Nilakant, Ramzi Addison
      Pages 131-144

  8. Moral Progress in Business and Society

    1. Varieties of Progress: Commercial, Moral and Otherwise

      • Stan Godlovitch
      Pages 205-219

    2. Synergy-Orientation and the “Third Way”

      • Alan E. Singer
      Pages 221-239

    3. Afterword

      • Alan E. Singer
      Pages 241-242

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 243-247
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About this book

This book originated in a symposium on business ethics that took place in the Faculty of Commerce at the University of Canterbury in September of 1997. Professor Werhane, who was a visiting Erskine Fellow, provided the keynote address, and many of the papers in this collection were originally presented at this symposium. We are grateful to Kluwer Publishers for the opportunity to publish these essays in their series on International Business Ethics. We want to thank the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at the Darden School, University of Virginia, and the Erskine Trust and the Department of Management at the University of Canterbury for their support of Professor Werhane's fellowship, research for this text, and funding for its production. We especially want to thank Lisa Spiro, who copy-edited and prepared the manuscript for publication. INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW This book originated in a symposium on business ethics that took place in the faculty of commerce, at the University of Canterbury, in September 1997. Professor Werhane, who was a visiting Erskine Fellow, provided the keynote address. Contributions to the proceedings were. inter-disciplinary, spanning theory and practice. Subsequent contributions were obtained from within New Zealand and from Asia. The book starts off on rather a pessimistic note: the new managerialism (the kind of thing Scott Adams jokes about in the world-famous Dilbert cartoons) is economically suspect and psychologically damaging.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia, USA

    Patricia H. Werhane

  • Department of Management, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Alan E. Singer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Business Ethics in Theory and Practice

  • Book Subtitle: Contributions from Asia and New Zealand

  • Editors: Patricia H. Werhane, Alan E. Singer

  • Series Title: Issues in Business Ethics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9287-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-5849-7Published: 31 July 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5273-5Published: 09 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-9287-1Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0925-6733

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1680

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 248

  • Topics: Ontology, Ethics, Business and Management, general, Management

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