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245 1 _aBusiness ethics and ethical business /
_cRobert Audi.
100 _aAudi, Robert
260 _aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2009.
300 _axii, 164 p.:
300 _c21 cm.
500 _aIncludes bibliographic references and index
020 _a978-0-19-536910-6
650 _aBusiness ethics
650 _aCorporations
_xEnvironmental aspects
650 _aCorporations
_xMoral and ethical aspects
650 _aGlobalization
_xMoral and ethical aspects
650 _aInternational business enterprises
_xMoral and ethical aspects
650 _aSocial responsibility of business
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546 _aEnglish
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505 _aPREFACE; PART I. THE ROLE OF BUSINESS IN A FREE DEMOCRACY; 1. TWO DEMOCRATIC TRADITIONS; Foundations of Capitalism; Two Conceptions of Democracy; 2. THE RIGHTS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF BUSINESS; The Moral Rights of Businesses; A Proposal for Justifying Inequalities in Free Democracies; Determining Ethical Obligations: Some Major Approaches; Ethical Obligation and Legal Requirements; 3. THE CONSTITUENCIES OF ETHICAL BUSINESS; The Scope of Ownership Rights; The Interests of Stockholders; The Multiple-Constituency View of the Corporation; Constituents as "Stakeholders"; 4. A FRAMEWORK FOR MAKING ETHICAL DECISIONS; Common-sense Ethical Principles; A Five-step Model for Making Difficult Ethical Decisions; 5. ETHICAL BUSINESS, ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY, AND SUSTAINABILITY; The Value of the Environment; The Ethical Importance of Future Generations; The Ideal of Sustainability; 6. MARKETING: PRODUCT, TARGET, AND IMAGE; Some Major Dimensions of Marketing Ethics; Five Types of Ethical Problems in Marketing; Insincerity, Deception, and Manipulation in Marketing; Advertising and the Limits of Persuasive Representation; The Ethics of Creating Desire; The Interdependence of Marketing and Manufacturing Decisions; Advertising and the Human Image; 7. THE ETHICS OF FINANCIAL REPRESENTATION; The Centrality of Accounting in Capitalist Democracies; The Public Representation of Financial Positions; Judgment, Clarity, and Conflicts of Interest in Accounting; PART II. THE ETHICS OF INTERNAL MANAGEMENT; 8. HIRING POLICIES AND COMPENSATION STANDARDS; Preferential Hiring and Affirmative Action; Rationales for Affirmative Action; Promotion and Remuneration; Qualifications and Merit; Executive Compensation; An Approach to Fairness in CEO Compensation; 9. CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT AND CODES OF ETHICS; Safety, Risk, and Informed Consent; Whistleblowing; Healthcare Obligations and Responsibilities; Privacy in Employment; Private Lives and the Movable Workplace; Company Codes and Mission Statements; 10. RELIGION IN THE WORKPLACE; Church-state Separation as a Starting Point in Employment; Some Applications to Managerial Policy Questions; Religion in Large Public Companies; Demonstrative Affiliation in Employment; 11. MANAGERIAL LEADERSHIP AND CORPORATE CULTURE; Corporate Culture, Ethos, and Ethics; Managerial Hierarchy and its Limitations; Leadership Versus Power; Ethical Leadership and Leadership in Ethics; Meaningful Work and the Creation of Value; PART III. ETHICAL PROBLEMS OF GLOBAL BUSINESS; 12. INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND CROSS-CULTURAL STANDARDS; Intercultural Understanding; Child Labor; Gift-giving in Business; Gift-giving Versus Bribery; 13. NATIONALITY, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ETHICS, AND COSMOPOLITANISM; Outsourcing; Cultural Adaptation, Relativity, and Standards of Negotiation; Ethical Limits in Negotiation Strategies; The Relation between Ethics and Law; Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer, and Porous Borders; Ethics and Law in International Business; International Cooperation and Cosmopolitanism; 14. CONCLUSION.
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