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Business ethics and values : individual, corporate and international perspectives / / Colin Fisher, Alan Lovell, Néstor Valero-Silva
| Business ethics and values : individual, corporate and international perspectives / / Colin Fisher, Alan Lovell, Néstor Valero-Silva |
| Autore | Fisher C. M (Colin M.) |
| Edizione | [Fourth edition] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Harlow, England : , : Pearson, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (630 pages) : illustrations (some color), graphs |
| Disciplina | 174.4 |
| Collana | Always Learning |
| Soggetto topico | Business ethics |
| ISBN | 0-273-75793-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- PART A: Business ethics matters: what is it and why does it matter? -- Chapter 1 Perspectives on business ethics and values -- Learning outcomes -- Introduction -- Stories and business ethics -- Case study 1.1: The News of the World story -- The business case for business ethics -- Stakeholder theory -- Business and organisational ethics -- Case study 1.2: Biography and philosophy -- Boundaries of jurisdiction or spheres of justice -- Defining the boundaries of the economic sphere -- Reflections -- Summary -- Typical assignments -- Group activity 1.1 -- Useful websites -- Chapter 2 Ethical issues in business -- Learning outcomes -- Introduction -- Part one: The map of business ethics issues -- Part two: Encouraging goodness -- Case study 2.1: The Nationwide Foundation -- Case study 2.2: British Sugar and Sunday trucking -- Case study 2.3: Farepak -- Case study 2.4: AIDS drugs and patent rights in South Africa -- Case study 2.5: Child labour in developing countries -- Case study 2.6: David Shayler and whistleblowing on MI5 -- Part three: Creating a level playing field, benignness -- Case study 2.7: Paying for staff's professional training -- Case study 2.8: Executive fat cats and banker's bonuses -- Case study 2.9: The oil companies and the 2000 fuel crisis -- Case study 2.10: Providing new drugs on the NHS to people with multiple sclerosis -- Case study 2.11: Discriminating against employees - the Metropolitan Police Service -- Case study 2.12: The British railway system: priorities, profits and governance -- Part four: Preventing indifference to others -- Case study 2.13: The case of Shell's missing oil barrels -- Case study 2.14: BAT, Nottingham University and the honorary professor -- Case study 2.15: Lord Browne of Madingley.
Case study 2.16: Economy with the truth when dealing with the tax authorities -- Case study 2.17: Fraudulent businesses - Parmalat, Satyam & -- Madoff -- Case study 2.18: Lord Black and Hollinger International -- Case study 2.19: BAT and allegations of cigarette smuggling -- Case study 2.20: The retention of dead babies' organs in hospitals -- Part five: Discouraging badness -- Case study 2.21: British Airways and Virgin Atlantic -- Case study 2.22: The hospital consultants -- Case study 2.23: Supermarkets' treatment of their supply chains -- Case study 2.24: The Super Size Me sales promotion -- Case study 2.25: Sexual harassment -- Case study 2.26: The Firestone Tire recall issue -- Case study 2.27: Huntingdon Life Sciences -- Reflections -- Summary -- Typical assignments -- Group activity 2.1 -- Recommended further reading -- Useful websites -- Chapter 3 Ethical theories and how to use them -- Learning outcomes -- Introduction -- A map of ethical theories -- Applying ethical theories -- Reflections -- Summary -- Typical assignments -- Group activity 3.1 -- Recommended further reading -- Useful websites -- PART B: Individuals' responses to ethical issues -- Chapter 4 Personal values and heuristics -- Learning outcomes -- Introduction -- Perceptions of values -- Case study 4.1: Chris's managerial development: a fable -- Values and ethical thinking -- Heuristic thinking -- Decision-making heuristics -- Values as heuristics in ethical reasoning -- Value heuristics and priority setting -- Integrity and loyalty as value heuristics -- Discussion of the Dilemma simulation in Activity 4.4 -- Reflections -- Summary -- Typical assignments -- Group activity 4.1 -- Group activity 4.2 -- Recommended further reading -- Useful websites -- Chapter 5 Individual responses to ethical situations -- Learning outcomes -- Introduction. Categories of response to ethical issues -- Competing stances: the possibility of cognitive dissonance -- Case study 5.1: Disabled access -- Case study 5.2: Particularized and categorisation -- Influences on choice of stance -- Reflections -- Summary -- Typical assignments -- Group activity 5.1 -- Recommended further reading -- Useful websites -- Chapter 6 Whistleblower or witness? -- Learning outcomes -- Introduction -- When is a whistleblowing act performed? -- Why whistleblow? -- Case study 6.1: Paying a heavy price -- Case study 6.2: The Lyme Bay canoeing tragedy -- Case study 6.3: Dickensian practices, but in modern times -- Case study 6.4: What is a life worth? -- When might whistleblowing be justified? -- Case study 6.5: Victimisation and its consequences -- Whistleblowing: a positive or negative force within society? -- Case study 6.6: The engineering company and its overseas markets -- Case study 6.7: A postscript to Case study 6.6 -- Suppressed whistleblowing -- Case study 6.8: The charity -- Case study 6.9: The costs of whistleblowing -- Case study 6.10: The hospital case -- The Public Interest Disclosure Act (1998) (PIDA) -- Reflections -- Summary -- Typical assignments -- Group activity 6.1 -- Recommended further reading -- Useful websites -- PART C: Organisational responses to ethical issues -- Chapter 7 Corporate governance, an organisation's external accountability -- Learning outcomes -- Introduction -- The arguments for taking corporate governance seriously -- Developments in corporate governance -- Case study 7.1: Women on boards of directors -- What have the developments in corporate governance achieved? -- International best practice standards -- Shareholder activism -- Case study 7.2: A law professor, as citizen, takes action -- Case study 7.3: A judge, as citizen takes action -- Governance and bribery and corruption. Corporate manslaughter -- Case study 7.4: The Herald of Free Enterprise -- Reflections -- Summary -- Typical assignments -- Group activity 7.1 -- Recommended further reading -- Useful websites -- Chapter 8 Compliance and integrity: an organisation's internal accountability -- Learning outcomes -- Introduction -- An overview of the pressures upon organisations for ethical development -- Codes of conduct and codes of ethics -- Factors that will affect the impact of a code -- Writing a code of ethics -- Arguments against the employment of codes of conduct and ethics -- The difficulties of writing codes of conduct - the ethics of e-communication -- Ethical culture and ethos -- Reflections -- Summary -- Typical assignments -- Group activity 8.1 -- Recommended further reading -- Useful websites -- Chapter 9 Corporate Social Responsibility -- Learning outcomes -- Introduction -- The early calls for social responsibility (SR) -- The emergence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) -- Corporate citizenship, political donations and lobbying -- Corporate social responsibility -- Case study 9.1: The tobacco industry -- Case study 9.2: When can genetically modified crops be grown? -- Case study 9.3: Markets, prices and need -- Case study 9.4: An economically successful corporation with a view of its social position -- Case study 9.5: The U'wa and Oil Exploration -- Contemporary issues in CSR -- The future of CSR -- Summary -- Typical assignments -- Recommended further reading -- Useful websites -- Chapter 10 Sustainability -- Learning outcomes -- Introduction -- Case study 10.1: Herbal remedy from the Amazon rain forest -- Sustainability discourses and drivers -- Carbon market mechanisms -- Sustainable development (SD) -- The instrumental use of nature -- The future of sustainability -- Summary -- Typical assignments -- Group activity 10.1. Recommended further reading -- Useful websites -- PART D: The international context -- Chapter 11 Global and local values - and international business -- Learning outcomes -- Introduction -- Business and managerial values in different countries and societies -- The normative debate about ethical universalism and relativism in the business context -- When different sets of organisational and managerial values meet -- Case study 11.1: The college principal's new car -- Case study 11.2: Testing Maori employees for drugs in a New Zealand company -- Reflections -- Summary -- Typical assignments -- Group activity 11.1 -- Recommended further reading -- Useful websites -- Chapter 12 Globalisation and international business -- Learning outcomes -- Introduction -- Trickle down or just trickery? -- Case study 12.1: Anita Roddick's views on globalisation -- Developing institutions or taking advantage? -- Case study 12.2: The Bhopal disaster -- Case study 12.3: Indonesia -- Creating political tensions between and within states -- Case study 12.4: The oil industry and the Niger Delta -- Case study 12.5: The Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline -- Staying put or getting out? -- Case study 12.6: Businesses and South Africa in the apartheid era -- Cultural diversity or cultural homogenisation? -- Case study 12.7: McDonald's fries -- Global governance -- Case study 12.8: The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes -- Case study 12.9: Breastmilk substitutes in Malawi -- Reflections -- Summary -- Typical assignments -- Group activity 12.1 -- Recommended further reading -- Useful websites -- Chapter 13 Moral agency at work and a modest proposal for affecting ethics in business -- Learning outcomes -- Introduction -- Challenges to moral agency in modern organisations -- The corporation and democratic ideals -- Sustainability -- Business sustainability. Challenging central assumptions of economics, politics and human behaviour. |
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| Harlow, England : , : Pearson, , [2013] | ||
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Researching and writing a dissertation : an essential guide for business students / / Colin Fisher, John Buglear
| Researching and writing a dissertation : an essential guide for business students / / Colin Fisher, John Buglear |
| Autore | Fisher C. M (Colin M.) |
| Edizione | [Third edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Harlow, England ; ; New York, United States : , : Financial Times/Prentice Hall, , [2010] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 436 páginas) : ilustraciones |
| Disciplina | 808.02 |
| Soggetto topico |
Dissertations, Academic
Report writing Business - Research |
| ISBN |
1-5129-3906-4
1-282-66403-4 9786612664038 0-273-72345-6 |
| Classificazione | 81.54 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Choosing a topic and designing the project -- Writing a critical literature review -- Concepts, conceptual frameworks and theories -- Collecting and analysing research material -- Interpreting the research material -- Framing arguments and writing up -- Using software for research. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910150241003321 |
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Fisher C. M (Colin M.)
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| Harlow, England ; ; New York, United States : , : Financial Times/Prentice Hall, , [2010] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Resource allocation in the public sector : values, priorities, and markets in the management of public services / / C.M. Fisher
| Resource allocation in the public sector : values, priorities, and markets in the management of public services / / C.M. Fisher |
| Autore | Fisher C. M (Colin M.) |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Routledge, 1998 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Disciplina | 352.3/0941 |
| Soggetto topico |
Public administration
Markets Resource allocation |
| ISBN |
1-134-68309-X
0-203-00982-7 1-134-68310-3 1-280-19376-X 0-203-26637-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminaries; CONTENTS; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1 The problematics of public service resource allocation; 2 The heuristics of resource allocation: how people determine priorities; 3 The apologetics of public sector organisations; 4 The rhetoric of resource allocation; 5 The mechanics of making markets; 6 The dialectic of resource allocation; 7 A polemic: conclusions about resource allocation and public services; Appendix: cave rescue; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823603903321 |
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Fisher C. M (Colin M.)
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| New York, : Routledge, 1998 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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