Business Ethics Kant Virtue And The Nexus Of Duty

Author : Richard M. Robinson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030859978

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Business Ethics: Kant, Virtue, and the Nexus of Duty by Richard M. Robinson Pdf

This book offers students a philosophical introduction to the ethical foundations of business management. It combines lessons from Kant with virtue ethics and also touches upon additional approaches such as utilitarianism. At the core of the book lies the concept of the nexus of imperfect managerial duty: building and reinforcing the virtuous managerial team, engaging in reasoned discourse among all stakeholders, and diligently pursuing business responsibilities, including the creative efforts necessary for modern organizations. Case illustrations of these applications are presented throughout the book, including chapter appendices. Ancillary videos, test and answer banks and sample syllabi are available online via the author’s website.

Author : Norman E. Bowie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107120907

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Business Ethics: A Kantian Perspective by Norman E. Bowie Pdf

This book applies the latest studies on Kantian ethics to show how a business can maintain economic success and moral integrity.

Author : Denis Gordon Arnold,Jared D. Harris
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781004968

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Kantian Business Ethics by Denis Gordon Arnold,Jared D. Harris Pdf

In this original collection of essays, a group of distinguished scholars critically examine the ethical dimensions of business using the Kantian themed business ethics of Norman E. Bowie as a jumping off point. the authors engage Bowie's influential body of scholarship as well as contemporary themes in business, including topics such as: the normative foundations of capitalism; the applicability of Kantian ethics, virtue ethics, and pragmatism in normative business ethics; meaningful work; managerial ethics; the ethics of high leverage finance capitalism; business ethics and corporate social responsibility; and responsibility for the natural environment. the contributors to this volume include both scholars sympathetic to Bowie's Kantian business ethics and scholars critical of that perspective. As one of the foundational figures in the establishment and legitimization of the study of business ethics as a field of scholarship, Bowie casts a long shadow over the field. Over the last thirty years he has applied a distinctive, Kantian approach to the analysis of problems in business ethics and his work has had a substantial impact on a wide range of theory and scholarship in the field. Bowie argues in his work that economic value is not the only value that should inform managers, executives, and policy makers when making both business policy decisions and everyday management decisions. He utilizes a Kantian framework to support the position that additional values – such as human dignity and rational consistency – should inform business practice and influence managerial decision-making. He also shows that business practices that include these additional values are consistent with sound management theory and that such businesses can be financially successful. This volume of scholarly essays will be of considerable interest to students and scholars working in business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and organization studies.

Author : Richard M. Robinson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319997926

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Imperfect Duties of Management by Richard M. Robinson Pdf

This book uses Kant's idea of imperfect duty to extend the theory of the firm. Unlike perfect duty which is contractual or otherwise legally binding, imperfect duty consists of those commitments of choice that pursue some moral value, but that have practical limits to their pursuit. The author presents a broad view of the imperfect duties of management, defined as a nexus of all commitments to do good involving relations internal and external to the firm. This nexus consists of three overlapping categories of (i) building a virtuous managerial community, (ii) pursuing reasoned managerial discourse, and (iii) diligent and reasoned pursuit of the body of routine managerial duties such as capital budgeting and internal controls. Specific applications of the nexus theory for stakeholder relations via fair negotiation, and for analysis of the effects on the managerial team of perquisite consumption are presented. This book has major implications for research in business ethics and allows critical insights into managerial decision making.

Author : Robert E. Frederick
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470998380

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A Companion to Business Ethics by Robert E. Frederick Pdf

In a series of articles specifically commissioned for this volume, some of today's most distinguished business ethicists survey the main areas of interest and concern in the field of business ethics. Sections of the book cover topics such as the often easy relation between business ethics and capitalism, the link between business ethics and ethical theory, how ethics applies to specific problems in the business world, the connection between business ethics and related academic disciplines, and the practice of business ethics in modern corporations. Includes extensive, accessible discussion of all of the main areas of interest and debate in business ethics Features all original contributions by distinguished authors in business ethics Includes an annotated table of contents, bibliographies of the relevant literature and a list of internet sources of material on business ethics Perfect, comprehensive book for use in business ethics courses

Author : Al Gini,Alexei Marcoux
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442214347

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The Ethics of Business by Al Gini,Alexei Marcoux Pdf

In a field dominated by books that focus exclusively on the perspective of business in large corporations or that assume that business has a moral deficiency in need of reform, Al Gini and Alexei Marcoux offers students and business people alike a concise guide to what everyone ought to do when doing business. Where other books are organized topically, Gini and Marcoux look at the moral features of business that recur across topical areas, stressing the considerations that bear on business people whether they be corporate functionaries, principals in family businesses, or solo entrepreneurs who do it all, end to end. They present to students the essential concepts, ideas, and issues involved in ethics in business and emphasize the individual acting person and what it means to have character and integrity when doing business.

Author : Michael E. Berumen
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780595280018

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Do No Evil by Michael E. Berumen Pdf

"An effective integration of ethics, morality and business practices including extensive discussions of social justice, animal rights and the environment the author elucidates the many layers of the managerial and corporate environment, deftly analyzing the fiduciary, social and moral relationships between the players in a corporation. A fresh, convincing ethical examination." -Kirkus Discoveries Being good is not good enough to be moral. In Do No Evil, Michael Berumen debunks the notions that moral judgments are subjective preferences and that there are no universal standards of morality. He analyzes leading normative theories and gives biographical highlights on several important philosophers. Berumen then sets forth his own theory: the only basis for universal morality is the avoidance of death and suffering, in contrast to conventional conceptions of promoting good, which he shows cannot form a basis for universal rules of conduct. Berumen then examines the concepts of property, exchange, competition, and inequality, and shows why capitalism occupies the default position of morality, and why socialism is problematic. With that said, he also explains why property rights are not unlimited, and how morality serves to constrain capitalist acts. The last part of the book deals with business-related topics. Berumen demonstrates that a business is property and not primarily an instrument for delivering social justice, and he covers such areas as governance, fiduciary responsibility, marketing, globalism, the environment, duties to animals, and moral courage.

Author : Campbell Jones,Martin Parker,Rene ten Bos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134386291

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For Business Ethics by Campbell Jones,Martin Parker,Rene ten Bos Pdf

For Business Ethics is a daring adventure into the world of business ethics. It offers a clear and accessible introduction to business ethics and also expands business ethics beyond its current narrow confines. It is ground-breaking in the sense that it invites a distinctively critical approach to business ethics, an approach that the authors argue is part and parcel of ethics. With a thought-provoking glossary and recommendations for further readings, For Business Ethics is an essential purchase for students and practitioners alike. It is at once an introduction to business ethics and a challenge to anyone who wishes to take part in or change contemporary organized society.

Author : Tobey Scharding
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119055204

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This is Business Ethics by Tobey Scharding Pdf

Take a seat in the boardroom. What will you decide? Corporations make difficult decisions about the right thing to do every day, but as an organization made up of people with different perspectives and values, how can a business behave ethically? This is Business Ethics offers a dynamic and engaging introduction to the study of corporate morality. Offers real-world practical advice for navigating ethical dilemmas in business, developed and explained through illustrative high-profile case studies like the Ford Pinto case, Enron, Walmart and British Petroleum. Explores how ethical theory informs business policy and practice. Presents unresolved contemporary case studies for consideration, inviting readers to participate in the decision-making and offer their own recommendations. The latest in the This is Philosophy series, This is Business Ethics features supplemental online resources for instructors and students at www.thisisphilosophy.com.

Author : Tibor R. Machan,James Chesher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742513890

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A Primer on Business Ethics by Tibor R. Machan,James Chesher Pdf

The authors begin their discussion of business ethics with the notion that business is an honorable profession, not a wild beast driven by crass self-interest.

Author : George G. Brenkert,Tom L. Beauchamp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199916221

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The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics by George G. Brenkert,Tom L. Beauchamp Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics is a comprehensive treatment of the field of business ethics as seen from a philosophical approach. The volume consists of 24 essays that survey the field of business ethics in a broad and accessible manner, covering all major topics about the relationship between ethical theory and business ethics.

Author : Throstur Olaf Sigurjonsson,Robert H. Haraldsson,Jordan Mitchell
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781803825335

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Corporate Governance and Business Ethics in Iceland by Throstur Olaf Sigurjonsson,Robert H. Haraldsson,Jordan Mitchell Pdf

Corporate Governance and Business Ethics in Iceland provides real-world case studies of how institutions approach governance and ethics in a country where one organization’s actions often have a massive ripple effect throughout the entire nation.

Author : Samuel Hollander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000584424

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Immanuel Kant and Utilitarian Ethics by Samuel Hollander Pdf

Adopting a view of utilitarian ethics in which motivation in the public interest takes on greater weight than is generally appreciated, this book explores the extent to which the philosophy of Immanuel Kant is consistent with this nuanced version of utilitarianism. Kant’s requirement that full ethical merit needs an agent to act purely ‘from duty’ to forward ‘the universal end of happiness’ rather than from a personal inclination to achieve that end clearly distinguishes his position from the version of utilitarian ethics adopted here. But this book also demonstrates, by reference to his formal ethical works and his lectures on ethics and anthropology, Kant’s approval of a secondary category of conduct – conduct ‘in conformity with’ duty – entailing other-regarding or ‘sympathetic’ motivation to advance general happiness, differing from the utilitarian position only in its meriting a qualified degree of ethical credit. After comparing Kant with eighteenth-century utilitarian writers from Locke to Smith, and also with Bentham and Malthus, the book evaluates reactions to Kant by J.S. Mill and Karl Marx and proposes Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) as a ‘precursor’ for maintaining a ‘Kantian’ doctrine of conduct ‘from duty’ and for other shared features. In terms of public policy, the work demonstrates Kant’s justification of poor relief and reduced inequality, his proposal for a state education plan and his opposition to paternalism. This book provides essential reading for academic specialists and students concerned with the interface of political economy and ethics, as well as the history of economic thought, history of political thought and intellectual history.

Author : Sandra L. Dwyer
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847602633

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Thinking Ethically in Business by Sandra L. Dwyer Pdf

Author : Eugene Heath,Byron Kaldis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226443850

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Wealth, Commerce, and Philosophy by Eugene Heath,Byron Kaldis Pdf

Humanomics in business ethics / Deirdre N. McCloskey -- Introduction / Eugene Heath and Byron Kaldis -- Wealth and commerce in archaic Greece: Homer and Hesiod / Mark S. Peacock -- Aristotle and business: friend or foe? / Fred D. Miller, Jr -- Confucian business ethics: possibilities and challenges / David Elstein and Qing Tian -- The earthly city and the ethics of exchange: spiritual, social, and material economy in Augustine's theological anthropology / Todd Breyfogle -- Thomas Aquinas: the economy at the service of justice and the common good / Martin Schlag -- The ethics of commerce in Islam: Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah revisited / Munir Quddus and Salim Rashid -- Hobbes's idea of moral conduct in a society of free individuals / Timothy Fuller -- John Locke's defense of commercial society: individual rights, voluntary cooperation, and mutual gain / Eric Mack -- As free for acorns as for honesty: Mandevillean maxims for the ethics of commerce / Eugene Heath -- "Commerce cures destructive prejudices": Montesquieu and the spirit of commercial society / Henry C. Clark -- Hume on commerce, society, and ethics / Christopher J. Berry -- The fortune of others: Adam Smith and the beauty of commerce / Douglas J. Den Uyl -- Why Kant's insistence on purity of the will does not preclude an application of Kant's ethics to for-profit businesses / Norman Bowie -- Tocqueville: the corporation as an ethical association / Alan S. Kahan -- J.S. Mill and business ethics / Nicholas Capaldi -- Karl Marx on history, capitalism, and ... business ethics? -- William H. Shaw -- Friedrich Hayek's defense of the market order / Karen I. Vaughn -- The power and the limits of Milton Friedman's arguments against corporate social responsibility / Alexei Marcoux -- Beyond the difference principle: Rawlsian justice, business ethics, and the morality of the market / Matt Zwolinski -- Commitments and corporate responsibility: Amartya Sen on motivations to do good / Ann E. Cudd