ESCP Europe

Item type

Book

Language

English

Publication year

2010

Edition no.

3rd ed.

ISBN

978-0-19-956433-0

"Andrew Crane and Dirk Matten award-winning textbook is firmly established as the business ethics text of choice for the twenty-first century. Crane and Matten cover the foundations of business ethics and apply these concepts to each of a corporations major stakeholders. This 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. from back cover.

PART A. UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS ETHICS ---- 1. Introducing business ethics --- 2. Framing business ethics: corporate responsibility, stakeholders, and citizenship --- 3. Evaluating business ethics: normative ethical theories --- 4. Making decisions in business ethics: descriptive ethical theories --- 5. Managing business ethics --- PART B. CONTEXTUALISING BUSINESS ETHICS: THE CORPORATE CITIZEN AND ITS STAKEHOLDERS --- 6. Contextualizing busyness ethic : the corporate citizen and its stakeholders --- 7. Shareholders and business ethics --- 8. Employees and business ethics --- 9. Consumers and business ethics --- 10. Suppliers, competitors, and business ethics --- 11. Civil society and business ethics --- 12. Government, regulation, and business ethics --- 13. Conclusions and future perspectives..