Ethical issues in business : a philosophical approach / edited by Thomas Donaldson, Patricia H. Werhane ; with contributions from Joseph D. Van Zandt.

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface -- Introduction to ethical reasoning / Thomas Donaldson, Patricia H. Werhane -- pt. 1. General issues in business ethics -- Introduction -- ch. 1. Business ethics : the controversy -- Case study : H.B. Fuller in Honduras : street children and substance abuse / Norman E. Bowie, Stefanie Ann Lenway -- The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits / Milton Friedman -- Managing for stakeholders / R. Edward Freeman -- ch. 2. Ethical reasoning in practice -- Case study : Italian tax mores / Arthur L. Kelly -- A Kantian approach to business ethics / Norman E. Bowie -- Corporate roles, personal virtues : an Aristotlean approach to business ethics / Robert C. Solomon -- Utilitarianism and business ethics / Andrew Gustafson -- Ethics and pragmatism : John Dewey's deliberative approach / John McVea --

ch. 3. Truth telling -- Case study : Cynthia Cooper and WorldCom / Emily Mead, Patricia H. Werhane -- Ethical duties toward others : "Truthfulness" / Immanuel Kant -- Trust, morality, and international business / George G. Brenkert -- Whistleblowing and professional responsibility / Sissela Bok -- Is business bluffing ethical? / Albert Carr -- pt. 2. Property, profit, and justice -- Introduction -- ch. 4. Traditional theories of property and profit -- Case study : New protocol : How drug's rebirth as treatment for cancer fueled price rises / Geeta Anand -- Case study : Plasma international / Thomas W. Zimmerer, Paul L. Preston -- The justification of private property / John Locke -- Benefits of the profit motive / Adam Smith -- Alienated labour / Karl Marx -- Wealth / Andrew Carnegie --

ch. 5. Contemporary challenges to property rights -- Case study : W.R. Grace & Co. and the Neemix patent / Kristi Severance, Lisa Shapiro, Patricia H. Werhane -- Needed : a new system of intellectual property rights / Lester C. Thurow -- Privacy / Deborah G. Johnson -- ch. 6. Case study : The oil rig / Joanne B. Ciulla -- Distributive justice / John Rawls -- The entitlement theory / Robert Nozick -- pt. 3. Corporations, persons, and morality -- Introduction -- ch. 7. The role of organizational values -- Case study : Merck & Co., Inc. / The Business Enterprise Trust -- Does business ethics make economic sense? / Amartya Sen -- Can socially responsible firms survive in a competitive environment? / Robert H. Frank -- Managing for organizational integrity / Lynn Sharp Paine -- The parable of the Sadhu / Bowen H. McCoy --

ch. 8. Values and the virtuous manager -- Case study : The Enron collapse / Stewart Hamilton -- Moral mazes : Bureaucracy and managerial work / Robert Jackall -- The moral muteness of managers / Frederick B. Bird, James A. Waters -- Legislative summary of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 -- Limited options / John C. Coffee Jr. -- ch. 9. Issues in employment -- Case study : United wins approval to dump pension plans / Mark Skertic -- Case study : Unkept promises hit retirees / Barbara Rose -- Case study : Working at Walmart / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Employment at will, employee rights, and future directions for employment / Tara J. Radin, Patricia H. Werhane -- In defense of the contract at will / Richard A. Epstein -- Employability security / Rosabeth Moss Kanter -- People, profits, and perspective / Jeffrey Pfeffer -- ch. 10. Diversity -- Case study : Foreign assignment / Thomas Dunfee, Diana Robertson -- Ways women lead / Judy B. Rosener -- White privilege and male privilege : a personal account of coming to see correspondences through work in women's studies / Peggy McIntosh --

pt. 4. International business -- Introduction -- ch. 11. Ethical relativism -- Case study : What price safety? / R.S. Moorthy, Richard T. De George, Thomas Donaldson, William S. J. Ellos, Robert C. Solomon, Robert B. Textor -- Case study : Facing face / R.S. Moorthy, Richard T. De George, Thomas Donaldson, William S.J. Ellos, Robert C. Solomon, Robert B. Textor -- The challenge of cultural relativism / James Rachels -- A social contracts approach to business ethics / Thomas Donaldson, Thomas W. Dunfee -- The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- ch. 12. Business values away from home -- Case study : Alchemist's dream come true / Barnaby J. Feder -- Case study : Gift giving and the African elder / James Gathii -- International business ethics and incipient capitalism : a double standard? / Richard T. De George -- Values in tension : ethics away from home / Thomas Donaldson --

pt. 5. Contemporary business themes -- Introduction -- ch. 13. Marketing -- Case study : Fingerhut's price strategy / Lee Anne Fennel, Gretchen A. Kalsow, June A. West -- Persuasive advertising, autonomy, and the creation of desire / Roger Crisp -- ch. 14. The environment -- Case study : Exxonmobil and the Chad/Cameroon pipeline / Jenny Mead, Andy Wicks, Patricia H. Werhane -- Scarcity or abundance? / Julian L. Simon -- Cost-benefit analysis : an ethical critique / Steven Kelman -- A boat for Thoreau / William McDonough -- ch. 15. Globalization -- Case study : global profits, global headaches / Mark Baker, Laura Hartman, Bill Shaw -- The market at the bottom of the pyramid / C.K. Prahalad -- The great non-debate over international sweatshops / Ian Maitland -- Biographical information.