Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Sheed & Ward
Pages: 384
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7425-5011-7 • Paperback • November 2006 • $60.00 • (£46.00)
978-1-4616-6777-3 • eBook • November 2006 • $57.00 • (£44.00)
Thomas O'Brien and Scott Paeth are professors at DePaul University and have worked extensively on the intersection of religion and business ethics.
Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Acknowledgments
Chapter 4 Using this Book in a Classroom Setting
Chapter 5 Introduction
Chapter 6 A Brief Introduction to Ethical Theory
Part 7 Part One: Religious Ethics and Normative Theories
Chapter 8 On Monopoly in Business Ethics: Can Philosophy Do it All?
Chapter 9 Manager-Employee Relationships: Guided by Kant's Categorical Imperative or by Dilbert's Business Principle?
Chapter 9 Business Ethics: Oxymoron or Good Business?
Chapter 11 Smith, Friedman, and Self-Interest in Ethical Society
Chapter 12 Conscience and its Counterfeits in Organizational Life: A New Interpretation of the Naturalistic Fallacy
Chapter 12 Victims of Circumstance? A Defense of Virtue Ethics in Business
Chapter 14 Casuistry and the Business Case Method
Part 16 Part Two: Religious Approaches to Economic Life
Chapter 17 The Brave New World of Business Ethics?
Chapter 17 Business Ethics After MacIntyre
Chapter 18 Six Economic Myths Heard From the Pulpit
Chapter 19 Zen in the Workplace: Approaches to Mindful Management
Chapter 20 Confucian Trustworthiness and the Practive of Business in China
Part 21 Part Three: Religion and Questions of Contemporary Business
Chapter 22 The Potential for Building Covenants in Business Organizations
Chapter 23 How Green is Judaism? Exploring Jewish Environmental Ethics
Chapter 24 The Spirit of Place: The Columba River Watershed Letter and the Meaning of Community
Chapter 25 Bridge Discourse on Wage Justice: Roman Catholic and Feminist Perspectives on the Family Living Wage
Chapter 26 Sneakers and Sweatshops: Holding Corporations Accountable
Chapter 27 Global Capitalism: The New Context of Christian Social Ethics
This series itself is an exciting happening. I agree with Paeth's point in his introduction that religion shapes the whole of a believer's life. Faith cannot be compartmentalized....I look forward to seeing how future volumes address this question.
— 2007; Journal of Markets & Morality
The volume contains an impressive list of contributors....The variety of authors makes for a very eclectic and interesting compilation....A very useful manual.
— Culture and Religion, January 2009
O'Brien and Paeth provide an exceptional companion volume to the traditional business ethics textbook. Complete with a helpful table that breaks down the topics and thinkers covered in each chapter, the text provides eighteen in-depth articles on a number of issues at the nexus of religion and business . . . The chapters are engaging and demonstrate the vital relevance of religious ethics to contemporary business.
— Religious Studies Review, September 2009
Finally, a well-annotated anthology that addresses the spiritual dimension of business ethics. This is for students who elect business not merely as a career but a vocation.
— Dennis Moberg, President, Society for Business Ethics (2004-2006)
It makes an excellent resource for persons, whether as individual readers or classroom participants, who want to grapple with the issues addressed in the book's three parts….The editors provide solid pedagogical guidance for using the book in a classroom setting, a superb introductory treatment of ethical theory, and an excellent foray into the way religious ethics affects the practice of business.
— Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics