內容大鋼
本書是一本英文影印版圖書,原著Business Eihics: Concepts and Cases在許多國家和地區廣泛使用。
第8版沿襲之前版本的框架,首先介紹商業倫理的基本原則,其次探討市場與倫理的關係問題,之後聚焦企業外部交換涉及的倫理問題,最後著眼于企業內部員工問題。同時,增加了以下內容:
·強調不斷變化的全球環境和商業實踐,它們帶來了複雜的倫理問題
·來自企業和小型組織的全新或更新過的研究和實例
·關注不斷變化的商業倫理觀
·對日益複雜的各類理論有明確的觀點
·強調批判性思維
·再次關注環境問題相關的倫理問題
本書寫作風格簡明流暢,易於理解,對各種商業倫理現象、易混淆的知識概念和抽象的倫理理論的說明詳細而清晰。本書配有豐富的教輔資源,包括PPT講義、教師手冊、試題等,非常適合高校本科生、研究生等的雙語教學或全英教學。
目錄
Preface
1 Ethics and Business
1.1 The Nature of Business Ethics
1.2 Moral Reasoning and Moral Decision Making
1.3 Ethical Issues in International Business
1.4 Foundations of Moral Reasoning
1.5 Moral Responsibility and Blame
Case Study 1.1 : Slavery in the Chocolate Industry
Case Study 1.2 : Aaron Beam and the HealthSouth Fraud
Summary
2 Ethical Principles in Business
2.1 Approaches to Moral Decision-Making
2.2 Utilitarianism: Weighing Social Costs and Benefits
2.3 Rights and Duties
2.4 Justice and Fairness
2.5 An Ethic of Care
2.6 Integrating Utility, Rights, Justice, and Caring
2.7 An Alternative to Moral Principles: Virtue Ethics
2.8 Unconscious and Conscious Moral Decisions
Case Study 2.1: Testing Drugs in the Developing World
Summary
3 The Business System: Government, Markets, and International Trade
3.1 Globalization and the Business System
3.2 Free Markets and Rights: John Locke
3.3 Free Markets and Utility: Adam Smith
3.4 Free Trade and Utility: David Ricardo
3.5 Karl Marx and Justice: A Critique of Free Markets and Free Trade
3.6 The Mixed Economy and New Forms of Property
Case Study 3.1: The GM Bailout
Case Study 3.2: Accolade versus Sega
Summary
4 Ethics in the Marketplace
4.1 Applying Ethics to Market Competition
4.2 Perfect Competition
4.3 Monopoly Competition
4.4 Oligopolistic Competition
4.5 Oligopolies and Public Policy
Case Study 4.1: Intel's Rebates and Other Ways It "Helped" Customers
Case Study 4.2 : Archer Daniels Midland and the Friendly Competitors
Summary
5 Ethics and the Environment
5.1 The Dimensions of Pollution and Resource Depletion
5.2 The Ethics of Pollution Control
5.3 Remedies and Duties of the Firm
5.4 The Ethics of Conserving Resources
Case Study 5.1: The Ok Tedi Copper Mine
Case Study 5.2: Gas or Grouse?
Summary
6 The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing
6.1 Everyday Consumer Risks
6.2 Markets and Consumer Protection
6.3 The Contractual View of the Manufacturer's Duties to Consumers
6.4 The Due-Care View of the Manufacturer's Duties to Consumers
6.5 The Social Costs View of the Manufacturer's Duties to Consumers
6.6 Advertising Ethics
6.7 Consumer Privacy
Case Study 6.1 : Reducing Debt at Credit Solutions of America
Summary
7 The Ethics of Job Discrimination
7.1 Divided over Discrimination
7.2 The Nature of Job Discrimination
7.3 The Extent of Discrimination in the United States
7.4 Discrimination: Utility, Rights, and Justice
7.5 Affirmative Action
Case Study 7.1: Wal-Mart's Women
Summary
8 Ethics and the Employee
8.1 The Rational Organization
8.2 The Political Organization
8.3 Informal Power Relationships in Organizations
8.4 The Caring Organization
Case Study 8.1: Who Should Pay?
Summary
Glossary
Notes