Ethics and Business
An Introduction
Seiten
2023
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2nd Revised edition
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-09822-9 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-09822-9 (ISBN)
This updated introduction offers clear, accessible analysis of the ethical issues facing business in the contemporary world. Case studies include VW, Wells Fargo, the Boeing 737 Max, and the exploitation of rare earth minerals, and explores issues such as the gig economy, internet commerce, and racial and gender justice.
This updated introduction to business ethics offers a clear and accessible framework for understanding the important and complex ethical issues facing business in the contemporary world. Kevin Gibson explains ethical concepts in plain language, showing how terms such as responsibility, autonomy, justice, equality, rights, and beneficence are central to the ways in which business is and should be conducted. He provides numerous examples and discusses cases including VW, Wells Fargo, the Boeing 737 Max, and the exploitation of rare earth minerals, and he pays special attention to recent and emerging issues such as the gig economy, internet commerce, racial and gender justice, and concerns about the impact of business on global climate change. His lively and comprehensive book will give readers the tools to identify and understand a range of problematic ethical issues that affect us all.
This updated introduction to business ethics offers a clear and accessible framework for understanding the important and complex ethical issues facing business in the contemporary world. Kevin Gibson explains ethical concepts in plain language, showing how terms such as responsibility, autonomy, justice, equality, rights, and beneficence are central to the ways in which business is and should be conducted. He provides numerous examples and discusses cases including VW, Wells Fargo, the Boeing 737 Max, and the exploitation of rare earth minerals, and he pays special attention to recent and emerging issues such as the gig economy, internet commerce, racial and gender justice, and concerns about the impact of business on global climate change. His lively and comprehensive book will give readers the tools to identify and understand a range of problematic ethical issues that affect us all.
Kevin Gibson is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Business Administration at Marquette University. He is the author of Business Ethics: People, Profit and the Planet (2005) and An Introduction to Ethics, (2012), and co-author of Sustaining Living Cultures (2012).
1. An Overview of Business Ethics; 2. Insights from Ethical Theory; 3. Capitalism and Its Ethical Implications; 4. Responsibility; 5. Autonomy; 6. Justice and Equality; 7. Rights; 8. Beneficence; 9. Business and the World.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.12.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Applied Ethics |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 176 x 251 mm |
| Gewicht | 720 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-09822-5 / 1009098225 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-09822-9 / 9781009098229 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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