Facing Public Interest
The Ethical Challenge to Business Policy and Corporate Communications
Editors: Ulrich, Peter, Sarasin, Charles (Eds.)
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Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as private business since business activities have widespread and sometimes far-reaching impacts on the community. The side-effects of entrepreneurial decision making - increasing unemployment, for instance, or pollution - increasingly expose corporations to the public gaze, with management in the limelight.
Facing Public Interest opens up new vistas on business policy and corporate communications facing public interest. The relationship between private enterprise and public interest is subjected to an ethical examination, highlighting the role of the general public as a locus of morality for business and the guiding concept of a corporate dialogue between management and the concerned public. Instructive case studies are also presented.
The volume not only proposes corporate dialogue: it puts into practice. Business leaders, representatives of citizens' groups, public affairs consultants, and academics discuss the topics thoroughly and thoughtfully in the best contributions to the seventh conference on the European Business Ethics Network, held at the University of St. Gallen in September 1994.
- Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Introduction Business in the Nineties: Facing Public Interest
Pages 1-8
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Clash of Civilizations or World Peace through Religious Peace
Pages 11-27
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The Responsibility Enterprises have Regarding the Big Problems of our Time
Pages 29-32
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Public Expectations Toward Private Industry
Pages 33-40
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The General Public as the Locus of Ethics in Modern Society
Pages 43-58
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Facing Public Interest
- Book Subtitle
- The Ethical Challenge to Business Policy and Corporate Communications
- Editors
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- Peter Ulrich
- Charles Sarasin
- Series Title
- Issues in Business Ethics
- Series Volume
- 8
- Copyright
- 1995
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-011-0399-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-011-0399-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-7923-3633-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-0-7923-3634-1
- Series ISSN
- 0925-6733
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 275
- Topics
