Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Themes for cosmopolitan business ethics
Cosmopolitan business ethics as future management science
CHAPTER 1. What is cosmopolitan business ethics?
Business ethics in private and public organizations
Cosmopolitan business ethics and creation of trust
Focus on global social responsibility
Social responsibility in Scandinavia: The inclusive labor market
Business ethics in practice
Business ethics in organization and management
Is business ethics profitable?
The purpose of the programs for ethics and values-driven leadership
CHAPTER 2. Business Ethics in the age of globalization
Ethics and globalization of the market economy
Neoliberalism, competition states, and globalization
Strengths and weaknesses of globalization
Social responsibility as risk management
Values and globalization
International codes of ethics and codes of conduct
International business ethics as a first dimension of cosmopolitan business ethics
Caux Round Table Principles: Guidelines for global ethics
CHAPTER 3. What are values?
Values in the late modern society
Business Ethics in experience society
Values in business organizations
Values-driven management as a strategic management communication
Values and values-driven management
Requirements for an ethical culture in the organization
Values-driven leadership, ethics, and organization theory
Code of conduct for leadership in the public sector
Organization, perceptions, values, and ethics
Different theoretical approaches to values-driven management
CHAPTER 4 Values-driven management in practice
Values-driven leadership as change management
Case 1: Novozymes
Ethics and bioethics in biotechnology companies
Case 2: Aalborg Municipality
Case 3: Lockheed Martin
Criticism of values-driven management
CHAPTER 5 Theories and principles of business ethics
A new business understanding?
Corporate ethics and institutional theory
Institutional theory and business ethics
Existentialist basis for corporate ethics
The classical theories of business ethics
Utilitarianism and consequentialism
Duty Ethics and contract theory
Virtue ethics and communitarianism
Republican business ethics and ethical principles
The ethical principles
Judgment and moral thinking in management
Ethics and economics. What is the connection?
CHAPTER 6 Historical foundations of cosmopolitan business ethics
How was cosmopolitanism defined historically?
From historical cosmopolitanism to Kantian cosmopolitanism
Stoic philosophy and the origins of cosmopolitanism
CHAPTER 7 The citizen of the world and education of humanity for world citizenship
The concept of the citizen of the world
The history of the world citizen in the framework of the history of cosmopolitanism
Modern cosmopolitanism
Educational philosophy as philosophical hermeneutics
Educational philosophy as based on mimesis
Cosmopolitanism as political philosophy
CHAPTER 8 Responsibility, ethical economy, and order ethics in globalization
European schools of business ehics and philosophy of mnagement
The ethics of responsibility
Ethics and economics or ethical economy: A framework for business ethics
The definition of the ethical economy
Order ethics and framework conditions
Order ethics and the problem of globalization
CHAPTER 9 Republicanism, integrative economic ethics, and global governance
Republican business ethics and corporate citizenship
Philosophical foundations: Constructivism and republican business ethics
Integrative economic ethics
Basic income for all and integrative business ethics
Governance ethics and values-driven management
Governance ethics in practical business life
Global business ethics
Critical theory of economic markets
Cosmopolitan business ethics: Global ethos and corporate citizenship
CHAPTER 10 What is corporate social responsibility?
Corporate social responsibility
The company's four responsibilities
Overlapping CSR between economics, law, and ethics/philanthropy
Criticism of corporate social responsibility
Arguments for and against social responsibility
The case for CSR
Arguments against CSR
Is the company a moral person?
Values-driven management and the company's collective decision-making structure
CHAPTER 11 Sustainability, social responsibility, and corporate governance
Sustainability and responsibility
Sustainability and the triple bottom line
Kofi Annan’s Global Compact principles
Business and the 17 UN development goals
Ethics and values-driven management in the US
Seven formal requirements for ethics and compliance programs according to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines
Main features of the Sarbanes–Oxley legislation
Ethics and values-driven management in Europe
Corporate governance based on corporate social responsibility
From ethics and responsibility to corporate governance
Corporate governance in a small EU country
CHAPTER 12 Business ethics as stakeholder management
The stakeholder model
The socially responsible business
Dimensions of stakeholder theory
Definitions of the term stakeholder
Stakeholder management and fairness
Social responsibility of some Danish companies as cosmopolitan global actors
CHAPTER 13 Shareholders, management, and employees
Finance ethics
The company's finance and ethics
Ethical investments
Should large companies have an ethics employee?
Management with integrity
Integrity, judgment, and ethics
Corporate ethics and ethical formulation competence
Employee ethics
The banality of evil in organizations
CHAPTER 14 Consumers, public relations, and ethical accounting reports
Consumer ethics
Marketing and ethics
The company and the local community
Public relations and legitimacy
Managing legitimacy and the public sphere
Construction of public relations in different companies
Ethical accounting and sustainability reports
Ethical accounting as a strategic management tool
CHAPTER 15 Cosmopolitanism, religion, and legitimacy
Protestant ethics and business
Protestant ethics and secularization
The religion of the economy
Economic existentialism
Towards new legitimation forms
Cynical approaches to business ethics and corporate social responsibility
CHAPTER 16 Cosmopolitan business ethics as global corporate citizenship
Cosmopolitan business ethics and civil society
Human rights and universal ethical guidelines for multinational corporations
Corporate citizenship as global cosmopolitan citizenship
CHAPTER 17 Decision-making model for cosmopolitan business ethics
Dimensions of a model for decision-making
Phenomenological and critical hermeneutical analysis
Analysis from the perspective of the different ethical theories
Analysis from the perspective of the ethical principles
Analysis with values, codes of conduct, and compliance programs
Decisions, decision-making, and evaluation
CHAPTER 18 Strategy for cosmopolitan business ethics
The basis of the company's strategy for ethics
Social responsibility as a practical strategy
Corporate governance and stakeholder management
Basic ethical principles in values-driven management
Bibliography
Index