Business Ethics and Society

Global challenges and opportunities
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-4739-0806-2
Verlag: Sage Publications Ltd.

Buch, Englisch

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fotaki, Marianna

Kenny, Kate

Reinecke, Juliane

Inhaltsverzeichnis

SECTION I. APPLICATION OF ETHICAL THEORIES TO BUSINESS IN SOCIETY
1. Introduction. Business ethics or business in society: What is the difference and why does it matter?

2. Ethics in classic and modern philosophy and its relevance to business in society
3. Moral relativism and post-modern ethics in business and society
4. Religion and ethics: Business ethics in Islamic and Confucian societies
SECTION II. KEY ISSUES AND IMPLICATIONS OF BUSINESS IN SOCIETY
5. Globalisation, value chains and conspicuous consumption

6. The power of interest groups: Intertwining business with politics

7. Whistle-blowing: public and personal duty

8. Social entrepreneurship: business and community responses

9. Diversity and otherness: gender, race and ethnicity in organisations
SECTION III: FUTURE CHALLENGES FOR BUSINESS IN SOCIETY
10. Social justice and human rights – are these business issues?
11. Doing good by doing well: poverty reduction and addressing global inequalities?
12. Technology, economic growth and ethics: what are the challenges?
13. Conclusions – the future of business in society