| Title : | Business ethics : a European casebook / | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | John Donaldson | | Publisher: | London : Academic Press | | Publication Date: | 1992 | | Pagination: | 1 text xxvi,293pp | | Size: | 23cm. | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-12-220543-9 | | Class number: | 174.4 | | Abstract: | A follow-up to "Key Issues in Business Ethics", this book looks at the practical issues involved in business ethics and shows, using case material, how European firms are dealing with the problems of profit versus the environment, excess greed in the financial sector and public service versus profit in the public sector. It also addresses national concepts of ethical behaviour. | | Contents note: | 1. Ethics and business: international perspectives; 2. Making sense: some standpoints in business and in ethics; 3. Forms of argument in business and in ethics; 4. Codes of ethics and codes of practice; 5. Ethical structure for industry; 6. Business ethics: the institutional framework; 7. Some methods for analysing cases; 8. European environment issues; 9. The control of income, inflation and the labour market; 10. The ethics of the market; 11. The propagation of corporate values; 12. Financial services and normal values; 13. The significance of scandals in financial services; 14. Procedures for improvement; 15. Conclusions. |
Business ethics : a European casebook / [printed text] / John Donaldson . - London : Academic Press, 1992 . - 1 text xxvi,293pp ; 23cm. ISBN : 978-0-12-220543-9 | Class number: | 174.4 | | Abstract: | A follow-up to "Key Issues in Business Ethics", this book looks at the practical issues involved in business ethics and shows, using case material, how European firms are dealing with the problems of profit versus the environment, excess greed in the financial sector and public service versus profit in the public sector. It also addresses national concepts of ethical behaviour. | | Contents note: | 1. Ethics and business: international perspectives; 2. Making sense: some standpoints in business and in ethics; 3. Forms of argument in business and in ethics; 4. Codes of ethics and codes of practice; 5. Ethical structure for industry; 6. Business ethics: the institutional framework; 7. Some methods for analysing cases; 8. European environment issues; 9. The control of income, inflation and the labour market; 10. The ethics of the market; 11. The propagation of corporate values; 12. Financial services and normal values; 13. The significance of scandals in financial services; 14. Procedures for improvement; 15. Conclusions. |
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