Table of Contents
List of Contributors ix
Preface xiii
PART I BUSINESS ETHICS AND NORMATIVE THEORIES 1
1 A Kantian approach to business ethics 3Norman E. Bowie
2 Utilitarianism and business ethics 17Milton Snoeyenbos and James Humber
3 Business ethics and virtue 30Robert C. Solomon
4 Social contract approaches to business ethics: bridging the “is–ought” gap 38Thomas W. Dunfee and Thomas Donaldson
5 Business ethics and the pragmatic attitude 56Douglas R. Anderson
6 An outline of ethical relativism and ethical absolutism 65Robert E. Frederick
7 Feminist theory and business ethics 81Robbin Derry
8 Business ethics in a free society 88Tibor R. Machan
9 Nature and business ethics 100William C. Frederick
10 Toward new directions in business ethics: some pragmatic pathways 112Sandra B. Rosenthal and Rogene A. Buchholz
11 Business ethics: pragmatism and postmodernism 128R. Edward Freeman and Robert A. Phillips
PART II BUSINESS ETHICS AND THE BUSINESS DISCIPLINES 139
12 Ethics in management 141Archie B. Carroll
13 Finance ethics 153John R. Boatright
14 Ethics in the public accounting profession 164Mohammad J. Abdolmohammadi and Mark R. Nixon
15 Marketing ethics 178George G. Brenkert
16 Law, ethics, and managerial judgment 194Lynn S. Paine
17 Business ethics and economics 207Diane L. Swanson
18 Business ethics and the social sciences 218Linda Klebe Treviño
PART III ISSUES IN BUSINESS ETHICS 231
19 International business ethics 233Richard T. De George
20 Corporate moral agency 243John R. Danley
21 Employee rights 257Ronald Duska
22 Business ethics and work: questions for the twenty-first century 269Joanne B. Ciulla
23 Business’s environmental responsibility 280Joseph R. Desjardins
24 Business ethics and religion 290Ronald M. Green
25 Social responsibility and business ethics 303Rogene A. Buchholz and Sandra B. Rosenthal
PART IV BUSINESS ETHICS: ORIGINS AND CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE 323
26 Business ethics and the origins of contemporary capitalism: economics and ethics in the work of Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer 325Patricia H. Werhane
27 A brief history of American business ethics 342Thomas F. McMahon
28 Business ethics in Europe: a tale of two efforts 353Henk Van Luijk
29 Ethics and the regulatory environment 366Jeffrey M. Kaplan and Rebecca S. Walker
30 A passport for the corporate code: from Borg Warner to the Caux Principles 374Lisa H. Newton
31 Investigations and due process 386Joan Elise Dubinsky
32 Ethics and corporate leadership 399Keith Darcy
Bibliography 409
Appendix A: BUSINESS ETHICS: ELECTRONIC RESOURCES 423
Appendix B: DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ETHICS ORGANIZATIONS 425
Index 447