Business Ethics The State of the Art

This singular collection of essays by the leading scholars in the field examines the emergence of business ethics an an important element of managerial practice and as an integral area of scholarship. Insightful, comprehensive and uniquely accessible, Business Ethics is essential reading for students of business and applied ethics, as well as for practicing managers.

Contributors Introduction I. Business Ethics as an Academic Discipline 1. Business Ethics as a Discipline: The Search for Legitimacy,, Norman E. Bowie 2. Will Success Spoil Business Ethics?,, Richard T. DeGeorge 3. Commentary on Business Ethics as a Discipline: The Search for Legitimacy,, William C. Frederick 4. Autonomy and the Legitimacy of the Liberal Arts,, Jennifer Moore 5. Ethics as Character Development: Reflections on the Objective of Ethics Education,, Lynn Sharp Paine II. CORPORATE LEADERSHIP 6. Ethical Imperatives and Corporate Leadership,, Kenneth E. Goodpaster 7. Respect for Persons, Management Theory, and Business Ethics,, Daniel R. Gilbert, Jr. 8. Institutionalizing Ethical Motivation: Reflections on Goodpaster's Agenda,, Robbin Derry III. MULTINATIONAL CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY 9. Rights in the Global Market,, Thomas J. Donaldson 10. Donaldson on Rights and Corporate Obligations,, Edwin M. Hartman IV. WIDER RESPONSIBILITIES: BUSINESS AND LITERACY 11. The Role of Business in Three Level of Literacy,, Ezra F. Bowen 12. Business Ethics, Literacy, and the Education of the Emotions,, Robert C. Solomon 13. Business Ethics as Moral Imagination,, Joanne B. Ciulla Index