Ethical Theory and Business

by Tom L. Beauchamp (Editor), Norman E. Bowie (Editor)

This book presents a comprehensive anthology of readings, legal perspectives, and cases in ethics in business. Focuses on providing and explaining the tools needed to deal with ethical dilemmas in business. The authors examine ethical theory and business practice, the purpose of the corporation, corporate character and individual responsibility, acceptable risk, the ethical treatment of employees, diversity and discrimination in the workplace, marketing and disclosure of information, ethical issues in information technology and, ethical issues in international business. For those interested in examining the ethical challenges we face today.

Genres: Business, Management

686 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1979

About the author

Tom Lamar Beauchamp was an American philosopher specializing in the work of David Hume, moral philosophy, bioethics, and animal ethics. He was Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Georgetown University, where he was Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics.
Beauchamp authored or co-authored several books on ethics and on Hume, including Hume and the Problem of Causation (1981, with Alexander Rosenberg), Principles of Biomedical Ethics (1985, with James F. Childress), and The Human Use of Animals (1998, with F. Barbara Orlans et al). He was the co-editor with R. G. Frey of The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics (2011). He was also the co-editor of the complete works of Hume, The Critical Edition of the Works of David Hume (1999), published by Oxford University Press.

Reviews

[Lane Wilkinson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have assigned this for my PHI 1120 class.

[Marks54 · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a well known and relatively up to date text on business ethics. As textbooks go, this is well crafted and readable.

[Joe · Rating 4 out of 5]

No I am not going back to school and yes this is a textbook.

[Nicole Lane · Rating 3 out of 5]

School text book with great case studies

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[Mills College Library]

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