Business ethics : contemporary issues and cases /: contemporary issues and cases. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Richard A. Spinello.
• Authors: Spinello, Richard A
• Contents: PART I. THEORIES AND PRINCIPLES; 1. Why Capitalism?; Introduction; What is Capitalism?; Archetypes of Capitalism; Capitalism and Its Critics; Government Institutions and Market Failures; Moral Culture and Modern Managers; Conclusion; 2. Corporate Moral Agency, Purpose, and Responsibilities; Introduction; The Corporation and the Triumph of Corporate Rights; Corporate Moral Agency; Corporate Purpose; Corporate Accountability and Economic Mission; Conclusion; 3. Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility; Introduction; Plato, Aristotle, and Virtue Ethics; Consequences and Utilitarianism; Ethics as Duty; Natural Rights; Synthesis and Application; Scope of Corporate Social Responsibility; Conclusion; PART II. PERSONAL INTEGRITY IN THE WORKPLACE; 4. The Person and the Corporation; Introduction; Case Study 4.1: Trouble in the Recruiting Office; Case Study 4.2: Conscience and the Workplace; Case Study 4.3: Karen Preston’s New Boss; Case Study 4.4: Confessions of an Appliance Salesman; Case Study 4.5: The Perfect Job Offer; Case Study 4.6: The Product Manager; Case Study 4.7: Telling the Truth about the Probable Sale of a Division; Case Study 4.8: Should an Engineer Inform the FAA about a Defective Fuselage Design?; Case Study 4.9: Who's Responsible?; Conclusion; Appendix A: How to Analyze a Case; PART III. CORPORATE VALUES AND RESPONSIBILITIES; 5. The Rights of the Modern Corporation; Introduction; Case Study 5.1: Citizens United vs. The Federal Elections Commission; Case Study 5.2: The Hobby Lobby Case; Conclusion; 6. Ethics in the Investment and Financial Services Industries; Introduction; Briefing on Insider Trading; Case Study 6.1: Texas Gulf Sulphur; Case Study 6.2: All in the Family: The Stewart Insider Trading Case; Case Study 6.3: Manipulating the LIBOR; Case Study 6.4: Fraud or Shrewd Business? The Case of Goldman Sachs; Case Study 6.5: The Wells Fargo Sales Scam; Conclusion; 7. Patient’s, Patents, and the Pharmaceutical Industry; Introduction; Note on Patents and Intellectual Property Rights; Briefing on Big Pharma and Industry Regulations; Case Study 7.1: The New Economics of Drug Pricing: Valeant Pharmaceuticals International; Case 7.2: Big Pharma Confronts AIDS; Case Study 7.3: Myriad Genetics: Patenting the Genome; Conclusions; 8. Marketing, Product Liability, and Safety; Introduction; Briefing: Spotlight on the Tobacco Industry; Case Study 8.1: Plain Packaging and the Ongoing Trials of Big Tobacco; Briefing on Safety and the U. S. Automotive Industry; Case Study 8.2: The Chevy Cobalt Ignition Switch Crisis; Case Study 8.3: Takata’s Airbag: Unsafe in Any Car?; Case Study 8.4: The Samsung Recall: A Galaxy of Troubles; PART IV. GLOBAL CAPITALISM, CULTURE, AND JUSTICE; 9. Business and the Environment; Introduction; Case Study 9.1: Poisoned Land: The Tragic History of Love Canal; Case Study 9.2: Deepwater Horizon: British Petroleum on the Edge; Case Study 9.3: Volkswagon’s Dieselgate; Case Study 9.4: Chevron in the Amazon: Anatomy of Environmental Degradation and its Aftermath; Conclusions; 10. Informational Privacy and Cybersecurity; Introduction; Briefing on Privacy Rights; Case Study 10.1: Data Breaches at Yahoo; Case Study 10.2: Going Dark: Apple Versus the FBI; Conclusions; 11. Fair Competition in the Information Economy; Introduction; Case Study 11.1: Microsoft Accused: The Browser Wars and the Anti-Trust Case; Case Study 11.2: Challenging the Google Monopoly; Conclusions; 12. Employee Rights and Sexual Harassment; Introduction; Briefing on Duties to Employees; Case Study 12.1: Sexual Harassment of Imprudence?; Case Study 12.2: Voluntary Redundancies at PSA Group; Case Study 12.3: GPS Monitoring and Employee Privacy Rights: Excepts from Cunningham v. New York State Department of Labor; Conclusions; PART V. GLOBALIZATION AND CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY; 13. Global Political Activism and Disinvestment; Introduction; Briefing on the History and Challenges of Globalization; Case Study 13.1: ITT in Chile: Corporate Executives and Marxist Presidents; Case Study 13.2: Rubber at any Price: Firestone and the African Strongman; Conclusions; 14. Bribery and Corruption in Foreign Markets; Introduction; Briefing on Bribery and the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA); Case Study 14.1: GlaxoSmithKline in China; Case Study 14.2: Seeds of Scandal at Monsanto; Case Study 14.3: The Resource Curse and Equatorial Guinea; Conclusion; 15. Responsible Sourcing: Fair Wages and Worker Safety; Introduction; Case Study 15.1: Worker Abuses in the Supply Chain: The Disturbing Case of Apple in China; Case Study 15.2: Sweatshops and Deathtraps: The Garment Industry in Bangladesh; Conclusion;
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (520 pages)
• Subjects: 174/.4; Business ethics; Business ethics -- Case studies; Business ethics; Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781506368061; 1506368069
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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