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- Presents an in depth engagement with post structural thought – particularly that of Jacques Derrida
- Systematically unpacks the rich interplay between complexity theory and deconstruction
- Shows why a complex notion of ethics introduces new categories for thinking about business ethics
- Demonstrates the implications that a complex ethics holds for our understanding of prominent business ethics
Part of the book series: Issues in Business Ethics (IBET, volume 37)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Foundation
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Front Matter
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Practical Application
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- Conceptualising Corporate Identity
- Conceptualising Corporate Responsibility
- Conceptualising Stakeholder Relations
- Deconstruction as an Expression of Ethical Complexity
- Deconstructive Ethics
- Derrida’s Central Concepts
- Guiding Principles for Corporate Social Responsibility
- Poststructural Understanding of Business Ethics
- Reconsidering the Meaning of Corporate Social Responsibility
- Responsible Leadership
- The Complexity of Ethics
- The Ethics of Complexity
- Theory of Corporate Social Responsibility
- Traditional Account of Corporate Social Responsibility
Authors and Affiliations
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, Department of Philosophy, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa
Minka Woermann
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: On the (Im)Possibility of Business Ethics
Book Subtitle: Critical Complexity, Deconstruction, and Implications for Understanding the Ethics of Business
Authors: Minka Woermann
Series Title: Issues in Business Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5131-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5130-9Published: 01 November 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9480-1Published: 14 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5131-6Published: 02 November 2012
Series ISSN: 0925-6733
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1680
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 178
Topics: Ethics, Management, Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks, Business Strategy/Leadership, Philosophy, general, Educational Philosophy