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Business, Institutions, and Ethics: A Text with Cases and Readings is the first text to use the analysis of social institutions to examine business ethics. It explains fundamental concepts in ethics and how to apply them to business and economics. The author shows how social institutions are constituted by an integrated set of ethical, economic, and legal principles, and then uses these principles to study the ethics of commerce at the individual, organizational, and market levels. This unique work features thirty-four cases and articles that are organized into economic categories, providing a conceptual unity and flexibility not found in similar texts. The first half of the text focuses on theory, beginning with a case study that illustrates and unifies the theoretical discussions that follow. It examines market institutions, organizational structure, and individual decision making; interprets moral development as a process within institutional settings; and explains egoism, care, utilitarianism, right, and pluralistic ethical theories. It also discusses how economic analyses of markets and firms incorporate ethical principles, and argues that law reinforces ethical and economic aspects of social institutions important to the continued existence and well-being of society. The second half of the text consists of cases and articles organized by the economic categories of property, risk-reward relationships, information, and competition. Topics covered include corporate control, workplace dangers, marketing, and manufacturing relocation. Applicable in both business schools and philosophy departments, Business, Institutions, and Ethics shows how ethical principles can help us gather, sort, and interpret information necessary for making sound business decisions. Ideal for courses in business ethics and business and society, it is also a valuable reference for business professionals and philosophers.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Foreword
• Preface
• Unifying Diverse Issues
• Building a Model of the Business Environment
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• A Unifying Case Study: S and R Electronics (A)
• Part I Markets, Organizations, and Individuals
• Part II Ethics, Economics, and Law: An Institutional Approach to Decision Making
• Part III Applying the Framework: Cases and ArticlesS and R Electronics (A): Case Study for Parts I and IIUsing the S and R Case
• Part I Markets, Organizations, And Individuals
• 1 Market Institutions, Organizational Practices, and Individual Decision Making
• Institutions
• Managing for Organizational Integrity
• Ethical Leadership and the Psychology of Decision Making
• Part II Ethics, Economics, and Law: An Institutional Approach to Decision Making
• 2 Ethical Decision Making: Psychological Foundations
• Ethics in Personal and Business Settings
• Ethical Conflicts and Their Context
• Understanding Institutions: Kohlberg''s Rights-Based Theory of Moral Development
• Understanding Institutions: Gilligan''s Care-Based Theory of Moral Development
• Three Conditions of a Successful Decision-Making Strategy
• Moral Imagination and Expanding the Domain of Post-Conventional Reasoning
• Ethical Decision Making: Opportunities and Constraints in Organizations
• Organizing Decision Making
• Summary and Transition to Chapter 3
• 3 Ethical Decision Making: Exploring Alternative Values
• Ethical Rules and Principles: The Need for Interpretation
• Self-Interest and Decision Making: Epicurus and Ayn Rand
• Caring and Decision Making: Mary Midgley, Nel Noddings, and Marilyn Friedman
• David Hume and John Stuart Mill: Group Well-Being and Decision Making
• Immanuel Kant, Robert Nozick, and John Rawls: Intrinsic Value and Decision Making
• Adam Smith and Aristotle: Ethical Pluralism and Decision Making
• Summary and Transition to Chapter 4
• 4 Economics and Ethical Decision Making
• From Ethics to Economics: Markets as Ethical Engines
• Economic Institutions
• Institutions and Market Conditions: Property, Risk-Reward Relationships, Information, and Competition
• Individuals in Organizations: Goals or Contracts?
• Making Decisions within Economic Institutions
• Summary and Transition to Chapter 5
• Appendix: Pareto Efficiency
• 5 Law and Ethical Decision Making
• Integrating Ethical, Economic, and Legal Principles
• The Reinforcement View of Law: Institutions and Social Stability
• The Content of Law: Reinforcing Ethical Values and Economic Relationships
• The Challenge of Public Choice Theory
• A Closer Look at Government Regulation: Three Views
• Environmental Regulatory Law: Command and Control, Market Based, and Reflexive
• S and R Electronics (B): Integrating Individuals, Organizations, and Markets
• Summary of Chapter 5 and Transition to Part III
• Part III Applying The Framework: Cases And Articles
• Introduction
• Using the Framework Developed in
• Part II to Understand and Evaluate Cases and Articles
• 6 Property
• Introduction
• The Control and Use of Corporate Property
• Property and the Environment
• International: The Control and Use of Corporate Property
• International: Property and the Environment
• Case: Agrico, Inc.
• The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits
• Deriving Ethical Principles from Theories of the Firm
• A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation
• Getting Real: Stakeholder Theory, Managerial Practice, and the General Irrelevance of Fiduciary Duties Owed to Shareholders
• Case: Diablo Canyon: Nuclear Energy and the Public Welfare
• People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution
• Morality, Money, and Motor CarsCase: Plasma International
• Ethical Dilemmas for the Multinational Enterprise: A Philosophical Overview
• The Moral Responsibility of Multinational Corporations to Be Socially Responsible
• International Business Ethics: The Aluminum Companie

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