Overview
- Offers a unique opportunity to rethink corporate responsibility and business ethics
- Provides fresh and timely insight into ideal business values and commitments
- First book-length analysis of business and economic cases and theories from the perspective of care theory
- Explores the intersection between the burgeoning field of care ethics and business
Part of the book series: Issues in Business Ethics (IBET, volume 34)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Justice, Distribution, and Economics
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Front Matter
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Justice, Distribution, And Economics
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Corporate Decision Making
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Front Matter
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Corporate Culture
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Back Matter
Keywords
- affective dimensions of morality
- business ethics
- care ethics
- connection and cooperation
- corporate responsibility
- corporate social responsibility
- csr
- dimensions of morality
- economic ethics
- feminist theory
- feminists
- ideal business values
- non-feminist scholars
- particularist of morality
- relational of morality
- scrutiny of market practices
- social policy
- socially responsible investment
- sri
About this book
Applying Care Ethics to Business is a multidisciplinary collection of original essays that explores the intersection between the burgeoning field of care ethics and business. Care ethics is an approach to morality that emphasizes relational, particularist, and affective dimensions of morality that evolved from feminist theory and today enjoys robust intellectual exploration. Care ethics emerged out of feminist theory in the 1980's and the greatest contribution to moral analysis among Women' Studies scholars. Today, feminists and non-feminist scholars are increasingly taking care ethics seriously. Applying care to the marketplace is a natural step in its maturity. Applying Care Ethics to Business is the first book-length analysis of business and economic cases and theories from the perspective of care theory. Furthermore, given economic turbulence and the resulting scrutiny of market practices, care ethics provides fresh and timely insight into ideal business values and commitments.
In many ways, care ethics’ emphasis upon connection and cooperation as well as the growth and well-being of the other make it appear to be the antithesis of the corporate character. Nevertheless, many contemporary theorists question if traditional moral approaches based on autonomous agents is adequate to address a shrinking and interconnected world—particularly one that is marked by global markets. Applying Care Ethics to Business offers a unique opportunity to rethink corporate responsibility and business ethics.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Applying Care Ethics to Business
Editors: Maurice Hamington, Maureen Sander-Staudt
Series Title: Issues in Business Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9307-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9306-6Published: 29 July 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3726-6Published: 16 September 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9307-3Published: 29 July 2011
Series ISSN: 0925-6733
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1680
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 304
Topics: Ethics, Gender Studies, Business and Management, general, Social Policy