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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483488503321

Autore

Newton Lisa

Titolo

Business ethics in the social context [[electronic resource] ] : law, profits, and the evolving moral practice of business / / by Lisa Newton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-319-00870-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (109 p.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Ethics, , 2211-8101

Disciplina

174.4

174.40973

174/.4

Soggetti

Ethics

Business ethics

Philosophy and social sciences

Law and economics

Business Ethics

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Law and Economics

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Prefatory Note -- Introduction:  The Nature of this text -- Chapter 1.   Can Business Be a Moral Enterprise? -- Chapter 2.  Employee Rights and Responsibilities The Internal Constituencies of Business -- Chapter 3: Customers, Community, and World: The External Constituencies of Business.

Sommario/riassunto

The book tracks the rise of Business Ethics as a discipline in the United States through a review of the basic understandings of the role of business practices in the operations of society, beginning with Aristotle and proceeding to a review of the formative concepts and cases in the history of American business.