Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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978-0-7425-4842-8 • Hardback • October 2008 • $113.00 • (£87.00)
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Jeffery D. Smith is assistant professor and director of the Banta Center for Business, Ethics and Society at the University of Redlands.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Past and Present: The Role of Normative Theory in Business
Chapter 2
Chapter 1: Business-Focused Business Ethics
Chapter 3
Chapter 2: Virtue Ethics and Business Organizations
Chapter 4
Chapter 3: The Human Rights Obligations of Multinational Corporations
Chapter 5
Chapter 4: Contractarian Business Ethics Today
Chapter 6
Chapter 5: The Normative Study of Business Organizations: A Rawlsian Approach
Chapter 7
Chapter 6: Deserving Jobs, Deserving Wages
Chapter 8
Chapter 7: Institutions and Organizations: Communicative Ethics and Business
Chapter 9
Chapter 8: On the Need for Theory in Business Ethics
Chapter 10
Chapter 9: Values and Capitalism
Jeffery Smith brings together some of the field's rising stars and ably highlights the points they have to make about the importance of normative theory. There are a lot of people in business ethics who really need to read this book.....
— Edwin Hartman
This important collection of original essays by a new generation of business ethics scholars offers a variety of perspectives on the possibilities and the limitations of ethical theory in business ethics teaching and research. As business ethics has become more interdisciplinary and practice-focused, the role of ethical theory in the field has been both challenged and transformed. So the publication of these essays comes at an opportune time for a fresh assessment of old developments and new directions for ethical theory in business ethics...
— John R. Boatright
Jeff Smith has done the field of business ethics a great service by collecting these provocative and foundational essays in one volume. It is a wonderful collection of fresh voices on the normative foundations of business ethics. These are significant contributions to the literature that truly add value....
— Kenneth E. Goodpaster