Business Ethics - Softcover

Crane A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199697590 ISBN 13: 9780199697595

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Business Ethics is a lively and engaging textbook that tackles one of the most pressing issues facing business today: how to be a good corporate citizen in a complex multiple stakeholder world. It covers the foundations of business ethics and applies these concepts to each of the corporation's major stakeholders. Written from a truly international perspective, it explains the ethical challenges faced by business in different parts of the globe, and provides the tools and concepts necessary to understand and deal with ethical problems effectively wherever you are in the world. It is the only text on the market that fully considers the implications of three major ethical challenges facing business: corporate citizenship, globalization, and sustainability. This third edition offers fully integrated global perspectives, including increased coverage of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The book has been thoroughly updated and includes new content on climate change, water issues, financial markets, private equity, social enterprise, and global religions. The authors offer a wealth of new cases and examples as well as updates of old favourites including BAE, BP, Diageo, McDonald's, Greenpeace, and Siemens. Among the unique learning features included in the book are 'Ethics on Screen' boxes that describe recent movies involving business ethics issues, and 'Ethics online' - a new feature that provides cutting edge insight into the use of social media and online tools for understanding and participating in business ethics.

About this title

About the Author:

Professor Andrew Crane is the George R. Gardiner Professor of Business Ethics in the Schulich School of Business at York University in Canada. He holds a PhD from the University of Nottingham and a BSc from the University of Warwick. He has over ten years' experience of teaching and researching business ethics, and has spoken and published widely on the subject. Journals in which his work has been published include the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, and Organization Studies.

Professor Dirk Matten is Hewlett-Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility in the Schulich School of Business at York University in Canada. He has a PhD and the Habilitation from Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf in Germany. He has taught the subject at universities in Britain, France, Germany, Belgium and the Czech Republic. His work is published in leading journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies.

Review:

"This is a textbook with a clear and theoretically well grounded structure. It goes beyond a typical American or European approach and deals with crucial global challenges for business in different countries and regions around the worldin a lively and objective manner with easy access to abundant web resources for both instructors and students. The authors' approach to explaining and teaching business ethics in a truly global context is an astounding achievement!"--George Enderle, John T. Ryan Jr. Professor of International Business Ethics, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0199697590
• ISBN 13: 9780199697595
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 648