Business Ethics: A Virtue Ethics and Common Good Approach / Edition 1

by Alejo José G. Sison, Ignacio Ferrero, Gregorio Guitián

Overview

Can business activities and decisions be virtuous?

This is the first business ethics textbook to take a virtue ethics approach. It explains how virtue ethics compares with alternative approaches to business ethics, such as utilitarianism and deontology, and argues that virtue ethics best serves the common good of society.

Looking across the whole spectrum of business—including finance, governance, leadership, marketing and production—each chapter presents the theory of virtue ethics and supports students’ learning with chapter objectives, in-depth interviews with professionals and real-life case studies from a wide range of countries.

Business Ethics: A Virtue Ethics and Common Good Approach is a valuable text for advanced undergraduates and masters-level students on business ethics courses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138242579
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/22/2018
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Alejo José G. Sison is Professor (School of Economics and Business, University of Navarra) and former president of the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) (2009–2012). He is Section Editor at the Journal of Business Ethics and editorial board member of Business Ethics Quarterly.

Ignacio Ferrero is Professor of Business Ethics (School of Economics and Business, University of Navarra) and Visiting Scholar at Bentley, Harvard and Notre Dame University. He is co-founder of the research group on virtue ethics in business and management.

Gregorio Guitián is Associate Professor of Moral Theology (School of Theology, University of Navarra). He has published several books and articles on Catholic Social Teaching in international journals. His research interest includes Catholic Social Teaching on economic issues. He is Associate Editor of the journal Scripta Theologica.

Table of Contents

1. Virtues and the Common Good in Business

2. Virtues and the Common Good in Leadership

3. Virtues and the Common Good in Finance

4. Virtues and the Common Good in Production

5. Virtues and the Common Good in Marketing

6. Virtues and the Common Good in Human Resource Management

7. Virtues and Common Good in Corporate Legal Practice

8. Practical Wisdom in Corporate Governance

9. Confucian Traditions in Virtue Ethics