Business Ethics: An Economically Informed Perspective - Hardcover

Lutge, Christoph; Uhl, Matthias

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198864779 ISBN 13: 9780198864776

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2021

Synopsis

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In an increasingly globalized world, business ethics continues to gain importance as a field of study. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the essential concepts of business ethics related to the economy as a whole, as well as more closely understood corporate ethics related to the individual company. In contrast to more casuistic works on the topic, special emphasis is placed on a coherent theoretical foundation that puts economic analysis tools at the centre of the consideration. Both classical and experimental economic approaches and results are called upon. The importance of often-neglected dilemma structures and the resulting implications for an ethics of the modern age are given wide scope, while special attention is also paid to the value of empirical research for business ethics. A substantial portion of the book is devoted to corporate ethics and explores issues that encompass corporate responsibility in the context of compliance, corporate social responsibility, corporate citizenship, and creating shared value. This is intended to provide students and academics with an aid in the theoretical classification of the variety of concepts that often coexist incoherently in contemporary debate.

As the topic has evolved, it has extended far beyond narrow disciplinary boundaries. This book is intended for students in the social sciences, particularly economics, business, and psychology, as well as the computer sciences, engineering, and the natural sciences.

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About the Author

Christoph Lütge is Full Professor of Business Ethics and Director of the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence at Technical University of Munich (TUM). He has a background in philosophy and business informatics, having taken his PhD at the Technical University of Braunschweig in 1999 and his habilitation at the University of Munich (LMU) in 2005. Lütge has held visiting positions at Harvard, University of Pittsburgh, University of California (San Diego), Taipei, Kyoto and Venice. He is a member of the Scientific Board of the European AI Ethics initiative 'AI4People' as well as of the German Ethics Commission on Automated and Connected Driving.



Matthias Uhl is Junior Research Group Leader at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Economics and obtained his PhD in Economics in 2011 at the University of Jena, Germany. Afterwards, he worked for five years as a postdoc at the Chair of Business Ethics at TUM. He received his habilitation in philosophy there in 2019. His main research interests are in behavioural ethics, experimental economics, business ethics, and the ethics of digitization.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198864779
• ISBN 13: 9780198864776
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 348