Absolute essentials of business ethics

by Stanwick, Peter Allen

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Title Statements

Full title :Absolute essentials of business ethics / Peter A. Stanwick and Sarah D. Stanwick.

Summary

This shortform textbook explores practical applications of how business ethics impacts working lives, allowing readers to reflect on their own moral compass through the use of ethical dilemmas. Highlighting the extensive breadth of issues related to business ethics, the authors introduce and analyze ethical and unethical behaviors of firms through numerous real -life examples including Patagonia, Costco, LVMH, Bill Gates, Muhummad Yunus, Enron, WorldCom, Samsung, Purdue Pharma, Vale Mining and the COVID-19 crisis. Regardless of career path or occupation, Absolute Essentials of Business Ethics is a valuable resource to understand why people make decisions based on their own ethical values and beliefs. Useful at both undergraduate and graduate levels, this unique textbook will serve students of business ethics around the world.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2021

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2021

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The Physical Object

Description:114 pages ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780367414740, 0367414740
oclc:on1241088347
LC Classification:HF5387
Dewey Decimal:174.4

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Using this book -- 1 The foundations of business ethics -- What is ethics? -- Why study business ethics? -- Types of ethical examinations -- Enron and ethical examinations -- Descriptive examination of Enron -- Analytical examination of Enron -- Normative description of Enron -- Philosophical ethical frameworks -- Teleological frameworks -- Ethical egoism -- Utilitarianism -- Sidgwick's dualism -- Patagonia and teleological frameworks -- Ethical egoism

Utilitarianism -- Sidgwick's dualism -- Deontological frameworks -- Existentialism -- Contractarianism -- Kant's ethics -- WorldCom and deontological frameworks -- Existentialism -- Contractarianism -- Kant's ethics -- The trolley problem -- A future trolley dilemma? -- Bibliography -- 2 Stakeholders and corporate social responsibility -- What is a stakeholder? -- How Costco serves its stakeholders -- Addressing the needs of the employees -- Addressing the needs of the community -- Addressing the needs of environmental sustainability -- Addressing the needs of the suppliers and customers

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