Cutting-edge Issues in Business Ethics

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Introduction

   • Mollie Painter-Morland

   Pages 1-8

3. Are We Victims of Circumstances? Hegel and Jean-Paul Sartre on Corporate Responsibility and Bad Faith

   • Robert C. Solomon

   Pages 9-20

4. “It’s Business; We’re Soldiers”: The Sopranos, Liberal Business Ethics, and this American Thing of Ours

   • H. Peter Steeves

   Pages 21-31

5. Redefining Accountability as Relational Responsiveness

   • Mollie Painter-Morland

   Pages 33-45

6. Hegel on the Place of Corporations Within Ethical Life

   • Nathan Ross

   Pages 47-58

7. Abjection, Ambiguity, and Female Sweatshop Workers: Is Alienated Labor Really an Ethical Problem?

   • Robin James

   Pages 59-73

8. The Grameen Bank and Capitalist Challenges

   • Sokthan Yeng

   Pages 75-85

9. Building an Ethics of Visual Representation: Contesting Epistemic Closure in Marketing Communication

   • Janet L. Borgerson, Jonathan E. Schroeder

   Pages 87-108

10. Of Dice and Men

    • Russell Ford

    Pages 109-120

11. Business, Ethics and the Hope of Society in Hannah Arendt: The Notion of Responsible Business Entrepreneurship

    • Angelo Carlo S. Carrascoso

    Pages 121-130

12. Continental Philosophy: A Grounded Theory Approach and the Emergence of Convenient and Inconvenient Ethics

    • David Bevan

    Pages 131-152

13. Contribution Towards a Phenomenological Approach to Business Ethics

    • Stephen Meinster

    Pages 153-167

14. Mental Models, Moral Imagination and System Thinking in the Age of Globalization: A Post-Colonial Proposal

    • Patricia H. Werhane

    Pages 169-186

15. Business Ethics Beyond the Moral Imagination: A Response to Richard Rorty

    • Paul T. Harper

    Pages 187-206

16. An Arendtian Approach to Business Ethics

    • P. Gratton

    Pages 207-214

17. A Marxist in the Business Ethics Classroom

    • Bill Martin

    Pages 215-223

18. Back Matter

    Pages 225-228

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Business ethics originated in the United States as an offshoot of theoretical ethics and as part of a movement in applied ethics that was initiated with medical ethics. Although a few small religious-based colleges and universities offered courses in business ethics just after the Second World War, business ethics as an academic ?eld developed most seriously in many universities in the early 1970s. The ?eld of medical ethics was well-developed by then, and it was a natural step to think about ethical issues in business as well. There was also a public reaction to a number of corporate scandals (e.g., price ?xing, the Lockheed Japanese bribery allegations, the Goodyear airbrake scandal, etc. that encouraged universities to begin teaching the subject). Business ethics as an academic ?eld was originally developed by philosophers, most of whom had come out of the analytic or Anglo-American philosophical tra- tions and who had been trained in classical ethics, on Aristotle, Kant, Mill, Bentham and perhaps Dewey. The resulting ?eld then, has been dominated by this thinking. Although to date there are over 50 textbooks in business ethics, most textbooks in business ethics do not take into account contemporary continental philosophy. Although Marxism is sometimes taught in these courses, other more contemporary continental thinkers who could contribute substantially to the ?eld have been - nored. This phenomenon is iterated in the professional journals and in theoretical books on the topic.

• Management
• business ethics pedagogy
• collection of papers
• contemporary business ethics
• ethics
• moral agency
• morality
• organizational integrity

• Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, DePaul University, Chicago, USA

  Mollie Painter-Morland, Patricia Werhane

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