Just Business Practices in a Diverse and Developing World: Essays on International Business and Global Responsibilities - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 140392130X ISBN 13: 9781403921307

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

Synopsis

In a world unbalanced by extensive poverty, divided by conflicting interests and contrasting moral traditions, and vulnerable to environmental degradation, what difference can international businesses make? This book of essays addresses this urgent concern from a number of angles.Three initial essays consider ways of arriving at common ethical positions while still respecting diverse local cultural traditions. The next set of essays examines the emergence of morally responsible business practices in globally diverse contexts, particularly in developing areas. While considering the inherent tensions between moral ideals and contingent realities, the last set of essays discuss topics such as the transfer of technologies and the reduction of poverty where responsible practices are still being debated.

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Review:

'...the book is fitting for both academics and practitioners...provides much needed theoretical as well as practical guidance in responding to this unique challenge of gloabization.' - Min-Dong Paul Lee, Administrative Science Quarterly

About the Author:

FREDERICK BIRD holds the Concordia University (Montreal) Research Chair in Comparative Ethics. He is the co-editor of International Businesses and the Challenges of Poverty in the Developing World, the author of The Muted Conscience: Moral Silence and the Practice of Ethics in Business and co-author of Good Management: Business Ethics in Practice. He has also written a number of articles. He is a graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Divinity School, and the Graduate Theological Union.

MANUEL VELASQUEZ is the Charles J. Dirksen Professor of Business Ethics and Professor of Management at Santa Clara University, USA. The author of numerous articles and case studies on business ethics, he is also author of Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases, 6th edition, (Prentice Hall) and past President of the Society for Business Ethics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 140392130X
• ISBN 13: 9781403921307
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 321
• Editor: Bird F., Velasquez M.