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This book shows that in business, moral questions are not just theoretical; they arise in practice and have to be dealt with in practice. It illustrates that 'ethics as practice' is an important area of study because it focuses on how ethics are enacted and embedded in everyday organizational reality. In contrast to the approaches dominating mainstream literature, the authors of this thought provoking volume focus on the tensions, paradoxes and ambiguities that underpin ethics in practice.Recent corporate scandals such as those involving Enron, Worldcom and Parmalat have brought to the fore a problem which mainstream economics and management studies have long ignored: the fact that neither rules, regulations, nor the laws of the market can ensure ethical behaviour. The authors of this fascinating book take the tension between 'morals or money' and 'profits or principles' as the starting point of their investigations into how ethical problems emerge and are managed. They show that ethics are at stake in ambiguous situations where different, often contradicting, sets of moral values and rules clash.
Business Ethics as Practice will prove a stimulating and fascinating read for scholars of organization theory, organizational behaviour, business and management, and more generally, humanities and the social sciences. Business practitioners will also find much illuminating material to reflect upon and consider within this book.
Contents
Contents:
1. Introduction
Chris Carter, Stewart Clegg, Martin Kornberger, Stephan Laske and Martin Messner
PART I: ORDER AND REPRESENTATION
2. Office as a Vocation? The Ethos of Bureaucratic Office and Public Service
Paul du Gay
3. Granting Disorder a Place in Ethics: Organization's Deviant Practices and Ethics
Olivier Babeau
4. Being Accountable and Being Responsible
Martin Messner
5. Letting Knowledge Go: Ethics and Representation of the Other in International and Cross-Cultural Management
Carl Rhodes and Robert Westwood
PART II: RELEXIVITY AND NORMS
6. Social Standards: Hybrids in Reflexive Modernity
Martin Müller and Thomas Beschorner
7. Managing for Compliance and Integrity in Practice
Andreas Rasche and Daniel E. Esser
8. Meeting Responsibilities 'On the Stage' and Claiming Rights 'Behind the Scenes': The Re-Casting of Companies
Sue Llewelyn
PART III: PERFORMING ETHICS
9. Integrity: Talking the Walk Instead of Walking the Talk
Wim Vandekerckhove
10. Practical Wisdom: Integrating Ethics and Effectiveness in Organizations
Matt Statler and Karin Oppegaard
11. The Constitution of Ethics: Discourse, Practice and Conflict in a Health-Care Center
Silke Seemann, Stephan Laske and Marin Kornberger
12. The Guest as a Friendly Foe? Hotel Service Encounters In-between the Face and the Gaze of the Guest
Dirk Bunzel
Index
