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Leadership and Business Ethics

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Gabriel Flynn

    1. Mater Dei Institute, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

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  • Offers innovative models for the coalescence of ethics and business, for the mutual benefit of academics, corporate executives, and businesspeople
  • Provides a new view of ethics and leadership by examining how spirituality and religions contribute to an alternative business ethics
  • As globalization has challenged our parochial management thinking, this collection of essays helps to refocus our conceptual work about commerce and business practices in this new century of global enterprise

Part of the book series: Issues in Business Ethics (IBET, volume 25)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Gabriel Flynn, Patricia H. Werhane
      Pages 1-12

    3. Business Ethics: Europe Versus America

      • Domènec Melé
      Pages 13-27

  4. Organizational Level Business Leadership

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. How Losing Soul Leads to Ethical Corruption in Business

      • Ronald Duska, Julie Anne Ragatz
      Pages 151-163

    3. Corporate Culture and Organisational Ethics

      • David Smith, Louise Drudy
      Pages 165-176

    4. Values in the Marketplace: What Is Ethical Retailing?

      • Paul Whysall
      Pages 177-193

  5. Societal Level Business Leadership

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195
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    2. The Marketing of Human Images as a Challenge to Ethical Leadership

      • Robert Audi
      Pages 197-210

    3. Alternative Business Ethics: A Challenge for Leadership

      • Donal Dorr
      Pages 211-227

    4. The UN Global Compact: The Challenge and the Promise

      • Oliver F. Williams
      Pages 229-249
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This book points to a necessary relationship between ethics and business; the success of such an alliance depends directly on sound business leadership. Without the sort of leadership that upholds the dignity and rights of employees and clients, as well as the interests of shareholders, even the most meticulously prepared ethics statements are destined to founder, as evidenced at Enron and elsewhere. Over the past 30 years or so, since business ethics became established as a discipline in its own right, much progress has been made in the ethical conduct of business at all levels. In short, business people, like politicians, doctors and church leaders, have come to realize that it is not possible to avoid involvement in ethics, for much of what business people do and cannot do may be subject to ethical evaluation. While the history of business ethics as currently practised may be traced to the medieval and ancient periods; our principal concern is with developments in the ?eld over recent decades. A consideration of how the topic has been treated by the Harvard Business Review, the business world’sleadingprofessionaljournal,provideshelpful insights into past progress and present challenges. In 1929, just as business ethics was beginning to evolve, Wallace B.

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  • Mater Dei Institute, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Gabriel Flynn

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