Business ethics : managing corporate citizenship and sustainability in the age of globalization / Andrew Crane and Dirk Matten

Contents

Understanding business ethics
Introducing business ethics
Framing business ethics
Evaluating business ethics
Making decisions in business ethics
Managing business ethics
Contextualizing business ethic : the corporate citizen and its stakeholders
Shareholders and business ethics
Employees and business ethics
Consumers and business ethics
Suppliers, competitors, and business ethics
Civil society and business ethics
Government, regulation, and business ethics
Conclusions and future perspectives.
Machine generated contents note: pt. A Understanding Business Ethics
1. Introducing Business Ethics
What is business ethics?
Why is business ethics important?
Business ethics in different organizational contexts
Globalization: a key context for business ethics?
Sustainability: a key goal for business ethics?
Summary
2. Framing Business Ethics
Corporate Responsibility, Stakeholders, And Citizenship
Towards a framework for business ethics
What is a corporation?
Corporate social responsibility
Stakeholder theory of the firm
Corporate citizenship
the firm as a political actor
3. Evaluating Business Ethics
Normative Ethical Theories
Introduction
The role of ethical theory
Normative ethical theories: International origins and differences
Normative ethical theories and religion
Western modernist ethical theories
Alternative perspectives on ethical theory
Summary: towards a pragmatic use of ethical theory.
Note continued: 4. Making Decisions in Business Ethics
Descriptive Ethical Theories
What is an ethical decision?
Models of ethical decision-making
Individual Influences on ethical decision-making
Situational influences on decision-making
5. Managing Business Ethics
Tools And Techniques Of Business Ethics Management
What Is business ethics management?
Setting standards of ethical behaviour: designing and implementing codes of ethics
Managing stakeholder relations
Assessing ethical performance
Organizing for business ethics management
pt. B Contextualizing Business Ethics
The Corporate Citizen and its Stakeholders
6. Shareholders and Business Ethics
Introduction: reassessing the importance of shareholders as stakeholders
Shareholders as stakeholders: understanding corporate governance
Ethical Issues in corporate governance
Shareholders and globalization.
Note continued: Shareholders as citizens of the corporation
Shareholding for sustainability
7. Employees and Business Ethics
Employees as stakeholders
Ethical issues In the firm-employee relation
Employing people worldwide: the ethical challenges of globalization
The corporate citizen and employee relations
Towards sustainable employment
8. Consumers and Business Ethics
Consumers as stakeholders
Ethical issues, marketing, and the consumer
Globalization and consumers: the ethical challenges of the global marketplace
Consumers and corporate citizenship: consumer sovereignty and the politics of purchasing
Sustainable consumption
9. Suppliers, Competitors, and Business Ethics
Suppliers and competitors as stakeholders
Ethical issues and suppliers
Ethical issues and competitors.
Note continued: Globalization, suppliers, and competitors: the ethical challenges of global business networks
The corporate citizen in business-to-business relationships: ethical sourcing and fair trade
Sustainability and business relationships: towards industrial ecosystems?
10. Civil Society and Business Ethics
Civil society organizations as stakeholders
Ethical issues and CSOs
Globalization and civil society organizations
Corporate citizenship and civil society: charity, collaboration, enterprise, or regulation?
Civil society, business, and sustainability
11. Government, Regulation, and Business Ethics
Government as a stakeholder
Ethical issues in the relationship between business and government
Globalization and business-government relations
Corporate citizenship and regulation: business as key player in the regulatory game
Governments, business, and sustainability.
Note continued: Summary
12. Conclusions and Future Perspectives
The nature and scope of business ethics
Globalization as a context for business ethics
Sustainability as a goal for business ethics
Corporate citizenship and business ethics
The contribution of normative ethical theories to business ethics
Influences on ethical decision-making
The role of management tools in business ethics
The role of different stakeholder constituencies in business ethics
Trade-offs and conflicts between different stakeholder groups
Summary.

Includes index