Handbook of Business Ethics

This is a completely revised edition of the classic Ethics in the Economy. With new content and revised material, the authors question the idea that ethics is only an instrument for improving business efficacy. Instead ethics are presented as fundamental to economic activities and relevant at all levels of economic activity, from individual and organizational to societal and global.

The Handbook of Business Ethics is a substantially revised new edition of Ethics in the Economy, currently in its third printing. With new content and revised material, the contributors rally against the concept that ethics is only an instrument for improving business efficacy. They see ethics as fundamental to all levels of economic activity, from individual and organizational to societal and global. Globally, the ethicality of economic actions is often highly questionable and in many respects unacceptable. The ethical nature of the economy should be considerably improved, but there is an inherent paradox: if we want to develop the ethicality of our economic affairs only as a means of achieving higher efficiency, in the final analysis we will fail. We have the chance to improve the ethical quality of our economic activities only if our motivation is genuinely ethical, that is, only if we want to realize ethical conduct for its own sake.

Autorentext

Laszlo Zsolnai is professor and director of the Business Ethics Center at the Corvinus University of Budapest. He is chairman of the Business Ethics Faculty Group of the CEMS The Global Alliance in Management Education.

Inhalt

Contents: Laszlo Zsolnai: New Agenda for Business Ethics Peter Ulrich: Ethics and Economics Laszlo Zsolnai: The Moral Economic Man Aloy Soppe: Ethics and the Theory of the Firm Thomas Beschorner/Christoph Schank: The Citizenship and Responsibility of Corporations Josep M. Lozano: Organizational Ethics Knut J. Ims/Lars Jacob Pedersen: Personal Responsibility and Ethical Action Doirean Wilson/Laszlo Zsolnai: Gender Issues in Business Zsolt Boda: International Ethics and Globalization Antonio Tencati: The Sustainability-Oriented Company Knut J. Ims: From Welfare to Well-Being and Happiness Laszlo Zsolnai: Future of Capitalism.