Business Ethics and Values - Softcover

Lovell, Alan; Fisher, Colin; Valero-Silva, Néstor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0273757911 ISBN 13: 9780273757917

Publisher: Pearson, 2012

Synopsis

- How do corporate social responsibilities, and good or bad corporate practice, impact on business success in a global economy?

- Are individuals responsible for the ethical outcomes of companies’ actions, or are companies themselves responsible?

- How do you determine what course of action has the best ethical outcome for any given business situation?

 

Fisher, Lovell and Valero-Silva offer the reader a comprehensive introduction to the ideas and complexities of the subject of ethics in the contemporary business world whilst making it relevant to today’s business students through the inclusion of frequent interesting examples and activities that put the reader in a position where ethical questions must be considered and debated. 

This fourth edition has been comprehensively updated and offers more chances for illustration and discussion of ethics in the messy day to day practicalities of modern business through a wide range of case studies, examples and exercises. Online support material, including new interactive tools and exercises, can be found for this book at www.pearsoned.co.uk/fisherlovellvalerosilva

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Fisher and Lovell, Business Ethics and Values 4th edition

 

- How do corporate social responsibilities, and good or bad corporate practice, impact on business success in a global economy?

- Are individuals responsible for the ethical outcomes of companies’ actions, or are companies themselves responsible?

- How do you determine what course of action has the best ethical outcome for any given business situation?

 

Fisher, Lovell and Valero-Silva offer the reader a comprehensive introduction to the ideas and complexities of the subject of ethics in the contemporary business world whilst making it relevant to today’s business students through the inclusion of frequent interesting examples and activities that put the reader in a position where ethical questions must be considered and debated. 

This fourth edition has been comprehensively updated and offers more chances for illustration and discussion of ethics in the messy day to day practicalities of modern business through a wide range of case studies, examples and exercises. Online support material, including new interactive tools and exercises, can be found for this book at www.pearsoned.co.uk/fisherlovellvalerosilva

 

“’Business Ethics and Values’ is one of the few available textbooks that allows students to move from understanding more abstract moral argument to concrete business and political context.”
– Matthias Klaes, Professor of Commerce, Keele University.

 

Colin Fisher is Professor of Managerial Ethics and Values, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University.

Professor Alan Lovell is former Dean of Glamorgan Business School, University of Glamorgan.

Dr Néstor Valero-Silva is Principal Lecturer, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University

 

 

Business Ethics and Values is suitable for any Business related Ethics, Sustainability or Corporate Social Responsibility course at an upper-undergraduate or Masters level.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0273757911
• ISBN 13: 9780273757917
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 656