Business Ethics in Theory and Practice Contributions from Asia and New Zealand
This book originated in a symposium on business ethics that took place in the Faculty of Commerce at the University of Canterbury in September of 1997. Professor Werhane, who was a visiting Erskine Fellow, provided the keynote address, and many of the papers in this collection were originally presen...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1999, 1999
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1999 |
| Series: | Issues in Business Ethics
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- The Ethics of the New Managerialism
- 1. Managerialism and the economics of the firm
- 2. New organizational cultures and ethical employment practice: a critical discussion
- Strategic Discourses and Narratives
- 3. Environmentally sustainable business and the Rashomon effect
- 4. Strategic discourse as a technology of power
- Empirical Psychology and Business Ethics
- 5. Property ethics and starvation
- 6. The contributions of empirical research towards normative business ethics
- 7. Ethics, aesthetics and empiricism: the case of steroids and sports
- The New Zealand Context
- 8. Business ethics: is amoral good enough?
- 9. Perceptions of empowerment: insights from New Zealand organisations
- 10. Ethics in action: the management of intangibles
- The Asian Context
- 11. Business and culture in the Philippines: a story of gradual progress
- 12. Japanese philosophical traditions and contemporary business practices
- 13. Rethinking the presuppositions of business ethics—from an Aristotelian approach to Confucian ethics
- 14. The traditions of the people of Hong Kong and their relationships to contemporary business practices
- Moral Progress in Business and Society
- 15. Varieties of progress: commercial, moral and otherwise
- 16. Synergy-orientation and the “Third Way”
- 17. Afterword
- Notes on the contributors