Developing Business Ethics in China

Xiaohe Lu is Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Executive Director of the Centre for Business Ethics, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. Georges Enderle is Arthur and Mary O'Neil Professor of International Business Ethics at the Mendoza College of Business, Univershy;sity of Notre Dame.

Xiaohe Lu is Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Executive Director of the Centre for Business Ethics, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. Georges Enderle is Arthur and Mary O’Neil Professor of International Business Ethics at the Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame.

Acknowledgments

viii

Introduction

An Overview of the Essays as a Platform for Further Dialogue

3

(9)

Georges Enderle

Good Beginnings: A Review of the International Conference on ``Developing Business Ethics in China''

12

(11)

Xiaohe Lu

Part I Foundational Questions

On China's Traditional Business Ethics and Its Modern Transformation

23

(12)

Yiting Zhu

The Ethics of an Ecological Economy

35

(9)

Zeying Wang

Confucian and Christian Ethics about the Market Economy

44

(8)

Kit-Chun Joanna Lam

Economic Motivation and Its Relevance for Business Ethics

52

(10)

Xiuyi Zhao

On the Moral Principles of Contract Ethics

62

(7)

Huizhu Gao

Fundamental Business Ethics Issues in Contemporary China

69

(9)

Zhenping Hu

Kaifeng Huang

Business Ethics in China: A Systemic Perspective

78

(12)

Jane Collier

Toward an Integrative Theory of Business Ethics: With Special Reference to the East Asian Region

90

(9)

Yukimasa Nagayasu

Business Ethics, Globalization, and the Information Age

99

(14)

Richard T. De George

Part II Macro-Issues

China's Ethical Challenges after Joining the WTO

113

(10)

Xiaoxi Wang

Ethical Concepts of Consumption in China and the West in the Context of Globalization

123

(10)

Zhongzhi Zhou

Ethical Evaluation of the Income Distribution in China According to Its Five Income Sources

133

(10)

Jianwen Yang

Business Corruption in China's Economic Reform and Its Institutional Roots

143

(10)

Dajian Xu

Rules, Roles, and Moral Disparity: The Problem of Corruption

153

(10)

George G. Brenkert

Confidence in the Financial Reporting System: Easier to Lose than to Restore

163

(11)

Georges Enderle

Speculation and Insider Trading as a Problem of Business Ethics

174

(10)

Peter Koslowski

The Problems of Declining Birth Rate and Aging in the Japanese Welfare State and Its Implications for Business and Economic Ethics

184

(13)

Koichi Matsuoka

Part III Perspectives of Corporate Ethics

``Moral Reticence'': Corporate Management's Tendency to Avoid Addressing Ethical Issues

197

(10)

Lanfen Li

The Necessity and Prospects of Promoting Ethics in Chinese Enterprises: Experiences of Dazhong Transportation Group

207

(7)

Xiuhua Zhou

The Moral Values of ``Joint-Forces Culture'': The Example of Xuchang Relay Group

214

(9)

Farong Qiao

Corporate Citizenship Behavior in a Transitional Economy: An Exploratory Study in the People's Republic of China

223

(14)

Hanlong Lu

Chi Kwan Warren Chiu

The Corporation's Evolving Personality

237

(10)

Lynn Sharp Paine

Corporate Ethics in Germany: A Republican View and Its Practical Consequences

247

(11)

Horst Steinmann

Business Ethics and Corporate Governance in the King II Report: Light from the Tip of a Dark Continent?

258

(11)

Deon Rossouw

``Global Corporate Citizenship'' for a Globalization with a Human Face

269

(8)

Urs Baerlocher

Notes on Contributors

277

(3)

Name Index

280

(3)

Subject Index

283

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