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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782355403321

Autore

Painter-Morland Mollie

Titolo

Business ethics as practice : ethics as the everyday business of business / / Mollie Painter-Morland [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, UK : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008

ISBN

1-107-19884-4

1-281-94480-7

9786611944803

0-511-45617-4

0-511-48864-5

0-511-45748-0

0-511-45444-9

0-511-45346-9

0-511-45547-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 302 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Business, value creation and society

Disciplina

174/.4

Soggetti

Business ethics

Corporations - Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Jan 2016).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: the dissociation of ethics from practice; 2 Reconsidering approaches to moral reasoning; 3 Moral agency reconsidered; 4 Reconsidering values; 5 Leadership and accountability; 6 Reconsidering ethics management; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In recent years, a succession of corporate scandals has rocked the international business community. As a result, many companies have invested considerable time, money and effort on the development of ethics management programs. However, in many cases, such programs are nothing more than insurance policies against corporate liability, designed merely to limit the fallout of scandals should they occur. In Business Ethics as Practice, Mollie Painter-Morland urges us to take business ethics seriously by reconsidering the role of ethics



management within organizations. She redefines the typical seven-step ethics management program from within - challenging the reader to reconsider what is possible within each aspect of this process. In doing so, she draws on the insights of Aristotle, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault and numerous contemporary organizational theorists and sociologists to create the space for the emergence of a morally responsive corporate ethos.