Conscience and Corporate Culture - Softcover

Goodpaster, Kenneth E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405130407 ISBN 13: 9781405130400

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006

Synopsis

Conscience and Corporate Culture advances the constructive dialogue on a moral conscience for corporations. Written for educators in the field of business ethics and practicing corporate executives, the book serves as a platform on a subject profoundly difficult and timely.

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• Written from the unique vantage point of an author who is a philosopher, professor of business administration, and a corporate consultant
  
• A vital resource for both educators in the field of business ethics and practicing corporate executives
  
• Forwards the constructive dialogue on a moral conscience for corporations
  
• Offers a philosophical and practical approach to considering business ethics

About this title

From the Back Cover

To what ethical standards can we hold corporations? In the past few years, monumental corporate scandals have been emblazoned on every front page, but people have largely responded with ambivalence to events such as Enron’s collapse and the tragedy of NASA’s Columbia. In Conscience and Corporate Culture, Goodpaster sets out to identify the common patterns among such recent events, and argues for the development of an ethical response. Reporting on more than three decades of professional evolution, the book serves as a platform for communication between doers and thinkers on a subject that is profoundly difficult and important.

A vital resource for both educators in the field of business ethics and practicing corporate executives, this volume is an important step in advancing the constructive dialogue on corporate conscience. Perhaps we should ask no more of corporations than we ask of ourselves morally, but neither should we ask less.

About the Author

Kenneth E. Goodpaster is Koch Endowed Chair in Business Ethics at the University of St. Thomas.His research has spanned a wide range of topics, from conceptual studies of ethical reasoning to empirical studies of the social implications of management decision making. He is author of Perspectives on Morality (1976), Ethics and Problems of the 21st Century(1979), and the casebook Business Ethics: Policies and Persons (4th edn., 2006).

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1405130407
• ISBN 13: 9781405130400
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336