Ethics and Consultancy: European Perspectives

Ethics and Consultancy: European Perspectives
Author: Heidi von Weltzien Hoivik
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9401102511

This volume explores consultancy at many levels, in different fields and in different countries, including Eastern Europe. The focus is on the ethics of consultants in government, private enterprises, or those who are lobbying large organizations, with an emphasis on Eastern Europe. This book gives readers an insight into just how difficult it can be to behave `properly' in today's consulting world.

The European Difference

The European Difference
Author: László Zsolnai
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1461555957

The European Difference: Business Ethics in the Community of European Management Schools aims to present the business ethics provisions, programs and experiences of member universities of the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS). This book also attempts to demonstrate the distinctiveness and cultural integrity of European business ethics. Not surprisingly, the character and the level of development of business ethics in the represented European countries are diverse. However, common characteristics can be discovered in the business ethics experiences described in this volume. One principal theme that emerges is that European business ethics is deeply rooted in culture and less influenced by abstract principles and ideas. Some critical distance from the mainstream American approach to business ethics is also a common characteristic of contributions in this book. This book was born from the fruitful exchange of the CEMS Inter-faculty Group in Business Ethics. CEMS was founded in 1988 as an association of top-level schools of management education throughout Europe, and inter-faculty groups were established to develop joint teaching materials and to encourage collaboration among the researchers at the various CEMS schools.

Business Ethics

Business Ethics
Author: Brian Harvey (M.A.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Corporate responsibility, governance and business ethics are 'leading edge' issues in contemporary management. Their recent origins are in the concern about the social legitimacy of the corporation, the rights of stakeholders versus shareholders, and specific developments including consumerism, environmentalism and the management search for quality and excellence. The book focuses on practical issues, with illustrations and mini-cases. It provides an effective introduction to ethical concepts and their applications for the student or professional manager.

Business Ethics in a New Europe

Business Ethics in a New Europe
Author: John Mahoney
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1992-09-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780792319313

The new business opportunities and prospects emerging in Europe within the Common Market and other Western and European countries also raise important ethical challenges. This work comprises a collection of ethical insights to enhance the conduct of business in an evolving Europe.

European Business Ethics Casebook

European Business Ethics Casebook
Author: Wim Dubbink
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2011-01-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9048189667

Business cases are at the heart of business ethics as a discipline. Analysis and reflection on the morality of business often is triggered by concrete cases. After four introductory chapters into recent developments within business ethics and the value of case analysis, the present volume offers extensive description of eight recent European cases, mainly stemming from The Netherlands and Belgium and all of them with a clear moral impact. Among them are the Lernout and Hauspie speech technology disaster, Heineken struggle with the promotion girls selling beer in Cambodia, cartels in the Dutch construction industry, the pharmaceutical industry and the Aids crisis, and Unilever allegedly making use of child labour in the cotton industry in India. The book will be of interest to researchers as well as teachers of undergraduate and graduate courses in Business Ethics, Business in Society, Management and Organisation Theory and Strategic Management. It will also be useful for business practitioners eager to learn about business ethics by means of cases.

Business Ethics in East Central Europe

Business Ethics in East Central Europe
Author: Peter Koslowski
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642608833

The transformation process from the planned to the market economy in the East Central European countries is a laboratory of applying economic theory and business ethics to an enormous historical transition in the economic and political system. Authors from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia analyse the economic, philosophical and political problems of the transition process. They discuss the economic and legal questions of the privatization of socialized property, examine critically whether pure Liberalism has been and is able to cope with the transition problems, and investigate the role and impact of business ethics in the transition process. This volume contributes to the theory of the role of business ethics in periods of institutional change.

Business Ethics in the 21st Century

Business Ethics in the 21st Century
Author: Norman Bowie
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2013-05-16
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9400762232

This work provides a critical look at business practice in the early 21st century and suggests changes that are both practical and normatively superior. Several chapters present a reflection on business ethics from a societal or macro-organizational point of view. It makes a case for the economic and moral superiority of the sustainability capitalism of the European Union over the finance-based model of the United States. Most major themes in business ethics are covered and some new ones are introduced, including the topic of the right way to teach business ethics. The general approach adopted in this volume is Kantian. Alternative approaches are critically evaluated.

Business Ethics

Business Ethics
Author: Johan Verstraeten
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Total Pages: 10
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789042908963

This book is part of the core materials project of the 'European Ethics Network'. This project has made it possible to produce texts and fundamental frameworks for the development of courses in professional ethics, business ethics, egineering ethics and medical ethics. In this volume on business ethics we try to present a coherent vision which takes into account the tension between three levels of analysis. The first chapter, written by Joseph Lozano, focuses on the interaction between companies and society, with special attention to their social responsibility. In the second chapter Jef Van Gerwen treats the meso-level of analysis: of companies as organizations which are in a process of becoming institutions. In this text he gives a survey of different ways of approaching corporate ethics: social contract theory, stakeholder model, corporate governance ethics, the cognitive-developmental approach, the Socratic method and the narrative method, with a special attention to discernment and the problem of tragic choices. In the first part of the third chapter, which is a transition from the meso to the micro level, Thomas Brytting describes how companies can function as moral spaces in which individuals can acquire moral competence. According to him companies function as moral spaces in which individuals develop the dialogical ability to perceive, reflect and act on moral issues with preserved integrity. In the second part Johan Verstraeten analyzes business ethics on the individual level. He demonstrates that it is not only important to make concrete moral decisions, but also to integrate moral choices in a meaningful life.

Business Ethics

Business Ethics
Author: Andrew Crane
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 633
Release: 2016
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199697310

The fourth edition of this book introduces business ethics concepts, tools and theories, then applies them to key stakeholder groups. It takes a global approach in a market dominated by US texts. The accessible style and thorough pedagogy ensure the book is both student- and teacher-friendly.