Enriching Business Ethics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Overview

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Business Ethics

      • Clarence C. Walton

      Pages 3-38

3. Perspectives from Religion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-41

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   2. Jewish Ethical Perspectives toward Business

      • Rabbi Gordon Tucker

      Pages 43-62

   3. Christian Religious Traditions

      • Paul Camenisch, Dennis McCann

      Pages 63-83

4. Perspectives from Law, Sociology, and Industrial Relations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-90

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   2. Ideals of Competition and Today’s Marketplace

      • Lynn Sharp Paine

      Pages 91-112

   3. America’s Neopluralism

      • Ivar Berg

      Pages 113-143

   4. Unions in the Nineties

      • James W. Kuhn

      Pages 145-184

5. Perspectives on Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-186

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   2. King Midas in America

      • Barry Schwartz

      Pages 187-212

   3. Business Students and Ethics

      • James R. Glenn Jr.

      Pages 213-231

6. A Special Perspective

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-234

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   2. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

      • Clarence J. Gibbs Jr.

      Pages 235-257

7. Conclusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 259-259

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   2. Retrospection

      • Clarence C. Walton

      Pages 261-276

8. Back Matter

   Pages 277-286

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Over thirty years ago, Alfred North Whitehead wrote: "If America is to be civilized, it has to be done (at least for the present) by the business class who are in possession of the power and the economic resources . . . . If the American universities were up to their job, they would be taking business in hand and teaching it ethics and professional standards. " * To the intellectual elites of his time, there was something of a minor in Whitehead's view. Few of them saw business as a civilizing force heresy and even fewer, feeling that business was not to be tamed, relished the role of the lion tamers. Not many today doubt Whitehead's wisdom. Organiza­ tions of wealth and power have accepted their corporate social responsibili­ ties, and universities have launched major efforts to provide ethical instruc­ tion for business personnel. So far as the scholars are concerned, they quickly came to realize the difficulty of an undertaking that seeks to redefine and apply moral criteria to a very complex corporate world. Philosophers, in particular, have learned (or perhaps have relearned) how their speculations on ethics must take into account the "living ethic" expressed in the American culture­ and here anthropologists, sociologists, and theologians were needed to provide an expertise that the moral manuals did not.

• Religion
• business ethics
• ethics
• morality

• The American College, Bryn Mawr, USA

  Clarence C. Walton

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