Overview
- Provides a clear exposition of the philosophical consideration of the moral status of common business practice, from Aristotle to the present
- Gives a clear critique of the fundamentals of modern business theory from Adam Smith onwards
- Provides a useful review of influential court cases that influenced business practice in the United States?
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Ethics (BRIEFSETHIC)
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Table of contents (3 chapters)
Keywords
- Adam Smith
- Adam Smith and Business fundamentals
- American corporations
- Benjamin Franklin
- Business Ethics In The Social Context
- Business Theory
- Can Business Be A Moral Enterprise
- Corporations in The United States
- Customers, Community, and the World
- Employee Rights and Responsibilities
- Health Hazards
- History of Applied Ethics
- Internal Constituencies of Business
- Introduction to Business Ethics
- Moral Practice of Business
- Profits, and the Evolving Practice of Business Ethics
- advances in fairness in hiring
- banking and retail trade
- business and its practitioners
- collapse of Wall Street (and Main Street)
- employee dignity
- employee integrity
- financial industries crisis
- harassment and stereotyping
- moral codes and standards
- moral status of business practice
- quality of product and service
- stewardship of the natural environment
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Business Ethics in the Social Context
Book Subtitle: Law, Profits, and the Evolving Moral Practice of Business
Authors: Lisa Newton
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00870-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-00869-1Published: 05 August 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-00870-7Published: 23 July 2013
Series ISSN: 2211-8101
Series E-ISSN: 2211-811X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 100
Topics: Ethics, Business Ethics, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Law and Economics