CUTTING-EDGE ISSUES IN BUSINESS ETHICS by Mollie Painter-Morland (Editor), Patricia H. Werhane (Editor) ( 9789048178681 )

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Title:

CUTTING-EDGE ISSUES IN BUSINESS ETHICS
CONTINENTAL CHALLENGES TO TRADITION AND PRACTICE

By:

Mollie Painter-Morland (Editor), Patricia H. Werhane (Editor)

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

9048178681

ISBN 13:

9789048178681

Publisher:

SPRINGER

Pub. date:

29 November, 2010

Edition:

Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008

Series:

Issues in Business Ethics 24

Pages:

228

Description:

This collection of papers presents business ethics scholars and practitioners with an overview of some of the new perspectives in the field. It could be used to supplement standard textbooks, and can serve to stimulate scholar-practitioner interaction.

Synopsis:

Business ethics originated in the United States as an offshoot of theoretical ethics and as part of a movement in applied ethics that was initiated with medical ethics. Although a few small religious-based colleges and universities offered courses in business ethics just after the Second World War, business ethics as an academic ?eld developed most seriously in many universities in the early 1970s. The ?eld of medical ethics was well-developed by then, and it was a natural step to think about ethical issues in business as well. There was also a public reaction to a number of corporate scandals (e.g., price ?xing, the Lockheed Japanese bribery allegations, the Goodyear airbrake scandal, etc. that encouraged universities to begin teaching the subject). Business ethics as an academic ?eld was originally developed by philosophers, most of whom had come out of the analytic or Anglo-American philosophical tra- tions and who had been trained in classical ethics, on Aristotle, Kant, Mill, Bentham and perhaps Dewey. The resulting ?eld then, has been dominated by this thinking. Although to date there are over 50 textbooks in business ethics, most textbooks in business ethics do not take into account contemporary continental philosophy. Although Marxism is sometimes taught in these courses, other more contemporary continental thinkers who could contribute substantially to the ?eld have been - nored. This phenomenon is iterated in the professional journals and in theoretical books on the topic.

Illustrations:

XIV, 228 p.

Publication:

Netherlands

Imprint:

Springer

Returns:

Returnable

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