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European Business Ethics Casebook

The Morality of Corporate Decision Making

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Editors:
  1. Wim Dubbink

    1. , Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands

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  2. Luc Liedekerke

    1. Fac. Business & Economics, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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  3. Henk Luijk

    1. Amsterdam, Netherlands

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  • Extensive and nuanced case descriptions
  • First case book of its kind
  • Interdisciplinary approach to business ethics
  • Advanced theoretical approaches to business ethics cases

Part of the book series: Issues in Business Ethics (IBET, volume 29)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Business Ethics: Cases, Codes and Institutions

      • Henk van Luijk
      Pages 3-10

    3. Moral Competence

      • Henk van Luijk, Wim Dubbink
      Pages 11-18

    4. Institutions and the Institutional Turn in Business Ethics

      • Wim Dubbink
      Pages 19-33

  3. Cases

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
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    2. The Pharmaceutical Industry and the AIDS Crisis

      • Marcel Verweij
      Pages 37-52

    3. Heineken and Promotion Girls in Cambodia

      • Frans-Paul van der Putten, Rosalie Feilzer
      Pages 53-67

    4. Heineken and Promotion Girls in Cambodia, Part 2

      • Frans-Paul van der Putten
      Pages 69-75

    5. A Disputed Contract: IHC Caland in Burma

      • Frank G.A. de Bakker, Frank den Hond
      Pages 77-98

    6. The ICE Train Accident Near Eschede

      • Michiel Brumsen
      Pages 99-111

    7. A Question of Involvement: Unilever and Indian Cottonseed Production

      • Wim Dubbink
      Pages 113-144

    8. Rise and Fall of Silicon Valley in Flanders: Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products

      • Marc Buelens, Eva Cools
      Pages 145-157

    9. Construction Fraud

      • Johan Graafland, Luc van Liedekerke
      Pages 159-177

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 179-182
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About this book

Business cases are at the heart of business ethics as a discipline. Analysis and reflection on the morality of business often is triggered by concrete cases. After four introductory chapters into recent developments within business ethics and the value of case analysis, the present volume offers extensive description of eight recent European cases, mainly stemming from The Netherlands and Belgium and all of them with a clear moral impact. Among them are the Lernout and Hauspie speech technology disaster, Heineken struggle with the promotion girls selling beer in Cambodia, cartels in the Dutch construction industry,  the pharmaceutical industry and the Aids crisis, and Unilever allegedly making use of child labour in the cotton industry in India. The book will be of interest to researchers as well as teachers of undergraduate and graduate courses in Business Ethics, Business in Society, Management and Organisation Theory and Strategic Management. It will also be useful for business practitioners eager to learn about business ethics by means of cases.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands

    Wim Dubbink

  • Fac. Business & Economics, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Luc Liedekerke

  • Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Henk Luijk

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: European Business Ethics Casebook

  • Book Subtitle: The Morality of Corporate Decision Making

  • Editors: Wim Dubbink, Luc Liedekerke, Henk Luijk

  • Series Title: Issues in Business Ethics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8966-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8965-6Published: 06 January 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-8966-3Published: 04 January 2011

  • Series ISSN: 0925-6733

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1680

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 182

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Ethics, Law and Economics, Philosophy, general

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