For courses in Business Ethics, Moral Issues in Business, Social Issues in Business, Business and Society, International Business Ethics, and Issues in International Business.

This systematic, integrated investigation of the field of business ethics is presented from an informed philosophical point of view. It argues that ethics is the glue as well as the oil that makes business possible, addressing the full gamut of issues: from such macro considerations as the moral justification of economic systems to such micro issues as proper computer use by employees.

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Auteur

Richard T. De George is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the International Center for Ethics in Business at the University of Kansas. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and he has been a research fellow at Yale University, Columbia University, Stanford University, and the Hoover Institution. He was the Charles J. Dirksen Professor of Business Ethics at Santa Clara University in 1986, and a Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland in 1985.

He is the author of over 200 articles and the author or editor of twenty books, including The Ethics of Information Technology and Business (2003); Business Ethics (also available in Japanese, Russian, Serbian and Chinese); and Competing With Integrity in International Business (1993), also translated into Chinese. He has been the President of several academic organizations, including the American Philosophical Association, the Metaphysical Society of America, the Society for Business Ethics, and International Society for Business, Economics, and Ethics. He has given invited lectures on six continents at a great many universities and keynote addresses to a variety of organizations both here and abroad, including such places as Tokyo, Como, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, and Perth. He has been a consultant for Motorola, Hallmark Cards, Kansas City Power and Light, Koch Industries, and General Motors, among others, and is a specialist in international business ethical issues and codes. In 2009 the Society for Business Ethics presented him with a special award "In recognition of a career of outstanding service to the field of business ethics"

In November, 1996, he received an honorary doctorate from Nijenrode University in the Netherlands together with Bill Gates and Nelson Mandela.

Contenu

Introduction
Chapter 1: Ethics and Business
Chapter 2: Conventional Morality and Ethical
Chapter 3: Utility and Utilitarianism
Chapter 4: Moral Duty, Rights, and Justice
Chapter 5: Virtue Ethics and Moral Reasoning
Chapter 6: Moral Responsibility: Individual and Corporate
Chapter 7: Justice and Economic Systems
Chapter 8: American Capitalism: Moral or Immoral?
Chapter 9: The International Business System, Globalization, and Multinational Corporations
Chapter 10: Corporations, Morality, and Corporate Social Responsibility
Chapter 11: Corporate Governance, Disclosure, and Executive Compensation
Chapter 12: Finance, Accounting, and Investing
Chapter 13: Safety, Risk, and Environmental Protection
Chapter 14: Whistle-Blowing
Chapter 15: Marketing, Truth, and Advertising
Chapter 16: Workers' Rights: Employment, Discrimination, and Affirmative Action
Chapter 17: Workers' Rights and Duties Within a Firm
Chapter 18: Workers' Rights and International Business
Chapter 19: The Information Age: Property and New Technologies
Chapter 20: Information, Computers, the Internet, and Business
Chapter 21: The New Moral Imperative for Business
Chapter 22: Global Issues and International Obligations