Ethical Issues in Business: A Philosophical Approach - Softcover

Donaldson, Thomas; Werhane, Patricia H.; Cording, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130923877 ISBN 13: 9780130923875

Publisher: Pearson, 2001

Synopsis

For undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Business Ethics, Business and Society, and Ethical and Legal Environment of Business.

Widely used text on business ethics; begins with intro to moral reasoning and includes collection of readings and cases which apply ethical theory to real contemporary managerial situations―including issues facing managers in the next century.

About this title

About the Author

MARGARET CORDING is a doctoral candidate at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia, specializing in business ethics and strategy. She earned her MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Previously she worked in financial services for over 15 years, most recently as a managing director for The Chase Manhattan Bank.

THOMAS DONALDSON is the Mark O. Winkelman Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he is the director of the Wharton Ethics Program. From 1990 to 1996 he held the position of the John F. Connelly Professor of Business Ethics in the School of Business, Georgetown University. Professor Donaldson has written broadly in the area of business values and professional ethics including The Ties that Bind: A Social Contract Approach to Business Ethics, co-authored with Thomas W. Dunfee (Harvard University Business School Press, 1999), and Ethics in International Business (Oxford University Press, 1989).

PATRICA H. WERHANE is the Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics and senior fellow of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics in the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. She was formerly the Wirtenberger Professor of Business Ethics at Loyola University Chicago. She has been a Rockefellor Fellow at Dartmouth, Arthur Anderson Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge, and Erskine Visiting Fellow at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand). Professor Werhane has published numerous articles and is the author or editor of 13 books including Persons, Rights and Corporations, and Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism. Her latest books are Moral Imagination and Managerial Decision-Making, and Organization Ethics for Health Care (with E. Spencer, A. Mills and M. Rorty) both with Oxford University Press. She is also founder and former editor-in-chief of Business Ethics Quarterly, the journal of the Society for Business Ethics

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130923877
• ISBN 13: 9780130923875
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 623