Saving Human Lives : Lessons in Management Ethics

Robert E. Allinson

ISBN 10: 1402029055 / ISBN 13: 9781402029059

Published by Springer Nature B.V. Nov 2005, 2005

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Neuware - This is a pioneering work. Recent disasters such as the tsunami disaster continue to demonstrate Professor Allinson's thesis that valuing human lives is the core of ethical management. His unique comparison of the ideas of the power of Fate and High Technology, his penetrating analysis of the very concept of an 'accident', demonstrate how concepts rule our lives. His wide-ranging investigation of court cases and government documents from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, and from places as diverse as the USA, UK and New Zealand provide ample supporting evidence for the universality and the power of explanation of his thesis. Saving Human Lives will have an impact beyond measurement on the field of management ethics.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Saving Human Lives : Lessons in Management Ethics
• Publisher: Springer Nature B.V. Nov 2005
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402029055
• ISBN 13: 9781402029059
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 249W x 167H x 19D millimeters 249 millimeters width by 167 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 792 grams

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Synopsis

This is a pioneering work. Recent disasters such as the tsunami disaster continue to demonstrate Professor Allinson’s thesis that valuing human lives is the core of ethical management. His unique comparison of the ideas of the power of Fate and High Technology, his penetrating analysis of the very concept of an "accident", demonstrate how concepts rule our lives. His wide-ranging investigation of court cases and government documents from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, and from places as diverse as the USA, UK and New Zealand provide ample supporting evidence for the universality and the power of explanation of his thesis. Saving Human Lives will have an impact beyond measurement on the field of management ethics.

About the Author

Robert Elliott Allinson is Professor of Philosophy at Soka University of America, USA and former Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He has been invited to be Visiting Professor or Fellow at Peking University, Fudan University, Waseda University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Canterbury, Yale University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Copenhagen Business School, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration. He has been a Professor of Philosophy in the Far East for several decades and this book contains information gathered first hand from Chinese sources. He has published poetry on adjoining pages with Nobel laureates Boris Pasternak and Odysseus Elytis and has won an Academy of Poet's Award judged by Octavio Paz.