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Enriching Business Ethics

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Clarence C. Walton

    1. The American College, Bryn Mawr, USA

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Part of the book series: Springer Studies in Work and Industry (SSWI)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Overview

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Business Ethics

      • Clarence C. Walton
      Pages 3-38

  3. Perspectives from Religion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-41
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    2. Jewish Ethical Perspectives toward Business

      • Rabbi Gordon Tucker
      Pages 43-62

    3. Christian Religious Traditions

      • Paul Camenisch, Dennis McCann
      Pages 63-83

  4. Perspectives from Law, Sociology, and Industrial Relations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-90
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    2. Ideals of Competition and Today’s Marketplace

      • Lynn Sharp Paine
      Pages 91-112

    3. America’s Neopluralism

      • Ivar Berg
      Pages 113-143

    4. Unions in the Nineties

      • James W. Kuhn
      Pages 145-184

  5. Perspectives on Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-186
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    2. King Midas in America

      • Barry Schwartz
      Pages 187-212

    3. Business Students and Ethics

      • James R. Glenn Jr.
      Pages 213-231

  6. A Special Perspective

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-234
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    2. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

      • Clarence J. Gibbs Jr.
      Pages 235-257

  7. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 259-259
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    2. Retrospection

      • Clarence C. Walton
      Pages 261-276

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 277-286
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About this book

Over thirty years ago, Alfred North Whitehead wrote: "If America is to be civilized, it has to be done (at least for the present) by the business class who are in possession of the power and the economic resources . . . . If the American universities were up to their job, they would be taking business in hand and teaching it ethics and professional standards. " * To the intellectual elites of his time, there was something of a minor in Whitehead's view. Few of them saw business as a civilizing force heresy and even fewer, feeling that business was not to be tamed, relished the role of the lion tamers. Not many today doubt Whitehead's wisdom. Organiza­ tions of wealth and power have accepted their corporate social responsibili­ ties, and universities have launched major efforts to provide ethical instruc­ tion for business personnel. So far as the scholars are concerned, they quickly came to realize the difficulty of an undertaking that seeks to redefine and apply moral criteria to a very complex corporate world. Philosophers, in particular, have learned (or perhaps have relearned) how their speculations on ethics must take into account the "living ethic" expressed in the American culture­ and here anthropologists, sociologists, and theologians were needed to provide an expertise that the moral manuals did not.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The American College, Bryn Mawr, USA

    Clarence C. Walton

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Enriching Business Ethics

  • Editors: Clarence C. Walton

  • Series Title: Springer Studies in Work and Industry

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2224-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-43450-1Published: 30 June 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-2226-7Published: 04 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-2224-3Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 286

  • Topics: Business and Management, general, Political Science, Ethics

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