ISBN:
9789048189663
,
128308564X
,
9781283085649
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XVI, 182p. 10 illus., 5 illus. in color, digital)
Series Statement:
Issues in Business Ethics 29
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. European business ethics casebook
Keywords:
Unternehmensethik
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Philosophy (General)
;
Ethics
;
Humanities
;
Commercial law
;
Philosophy
;
Philosophy (General)
;
Ethics
;
Humanities
;
Commercial law
;
Commercial law
;
Ethics
;
Humanities
;
Philosophy (General)
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Unternehmensethik
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; Part I Theory; 1 Business Ethics: Cases, Codes and Institutions; 2 Moral Competence; 3 Institutions and the Institutional Turn in Business Ethics; Part II Cases; 4 The Pharmaceutical Industry and the AIDS Crisis; 5 Heineken and Promotion Girls in Cambodia; 6 Heineken and Promotion Girls in Cambodia, Part 2; 7 A Disputed Contract: IHC Caland in Burma; 8 The ICE Train Accident Near Eschede; 9 A Question of Involvement: Unilever and Indian Cottonseed Production; 10 Rise and Fall of Silicon Valley in Flanders: Lernout Hauspie Speech Products
Description / Table of Contents:
11 Construction FraudAbout the Authors; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1007/978-90-481-8966-3
URL:
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