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Resolving Moral Issues in Business. The ethical landscape of business is constantly changing, and the new edition of Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases has been revised to keep pace with those changes most effecting business: accelerating globalization, constant technological updates, proliferating of business scandals. Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases introduces the reader to the ethical concepts that are relevant to resolving moral issues in business; imparts the reasoning and analytical skills needed to apply ethical concepts to business decisions; identifies moral issues specific to a business; provides an understanding of the social, technological, and natural environments within which moral issues in business arise; and supplies case studies of actual moral conflicts faced by businesses. Teaching and Learning Experience Personalize Learning - MyThinkingLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.
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Contents
IN THIS SECTION:
1.) BRIEF
2.) COMPREHENSIVE
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Contents
Preface
PART ONE Basic Principles
Chapter 1 Ethics and Business
Chapter 2 Ethical Principles in Business
PART TWO The Market and Business
Chapter 3 The Business System: Government, Markets,
Chapter 4 Ethics in the Marketplace
PART THREE Business and Its External Exchanges:
Ecology and Consumers
Chapter 5 Ethics and the Environment
Chapter 6 The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing
PART FOUR Business and Its Internal Constituencies
Chapter 7 The Ethics of Job Discrimination
Chapter 8 Ethics and the Employee
Notes
Index
COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:
ContentsPreface
PART ONE Basic Principles
Chapter 1 Ethics and Business
Introduction
1.1 The Nature of Business Ethics
ON THE EDGE: Was National Semiconductor Morally Responsible?
1.2 Ethical Issues in Business
ON THE EDGE: A Traditional Business
1.3 Moral Responsibility and Blame
ON THE EDGE: WorldCom's Whistleblower
ON THE EDGE: Gun Manufacturers and Responsibility
CASES FOR DISCUSSION
Slavery in the Chocolate Industry
Aaron Beam and the HealthSouth Fraud
Chapter 2 Ethical Principles in Business
Introduction
2.1 Utilitarianism: Weighing Social Costs and Benefits
2.2 Rights and Duties
ON THE EDGE: Should Companies Dump Their Wastes In Poor
Countries?
ON THE EDGE: Working for Eli Lilly & Company
ON THE EDGE: Conflict Diamonds
ON THE EDGE: ExxonMobil, Amerada Hess, and Marathon Oil in
Equatorial Guinea
CASES FOR DISCUSSION
Traidos Bank and Roche's Drug Trials in China
PART TWO The Market and Business
Chapter 3 The Business System: Government, Markets,
and International Trade
Introduction
3.1 Free Markets and Rights: John Locke
3.2 Free Markets and Utility: Adam Smith
3.3 Free Trade and Utility: David Ricardo
3.4 Marx and Justice: Criticizing Markets and Free Trade
ON THE EDGE: Commodification or How Free Should Free Markets Be?
ON THE EDGE: Marx's Children
3.5 Conclusion: The Mixed Economy, the New Property,
and the End of Marxism
ON THE EDGE: Napster's Lost Revolution
ON THE EDGE: Brian's Franchise
CASES FOR DISCUSSION
The GM Bailout
Accolade versus Sega
Chapter 4 Ethics in the Marketplace
Introduction
4.1 Perfect Competition
4.2 Monopoly Competition
ON THE EDGE: Drug Company Monopolies and Profits
4.3 Oligopolistic Competition
4.4 Oligopolies and Public Policy
ON THE EDGE: Fixing the Computer Memory Market
ON THE EDGE: Oracle and Peoplesoft
CASES FOR DISCUSSION
Intel's "Rebates" and Other Ways It "Helped" Customers
Archer Daniels Midland and the Friendly Competitors
PART THREE Business and It
