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The future of business ethics : the corporate form, virtue ethics, and emerging issues /

This book presents not only many of Daryl Koehns historically well-known papers analyzing business ethics using Western and Asian virtue ethics, but also some of her more recent, previously unpublished work on the ethics and politics of the corporate form. Researching cutting edge issues emerging wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Koehn, Daryl, 1955- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, [2026]
Series:Issues in business ethics ; v. 57.
Issues in business ethics. Eminent voices in business ethics.
Subjects:
Business ethics.
Philosophy.
Management.
Morale des affaires.
Philosophie.
Gestion.
philosophy.
management.
Electronic books.
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Business Ethics, the Corporate Form, and Corporate Purposes
  • Chapter 1. Ontological Corporate Social Responsibility: What Does the History of Early American Corporations Teach Us about the Social Responsibility of Business Corporations?
  • Chapter 2. Are the New Benefit Corporations Likely to Prove Truly Beneficial? Some Grounds for Skepticism
  • Chapter 3. Ethical Issues Connected with Multi-Level Marketing Schemes (MLMs)
  • Chapter 4. Drawing upon Aristotle to Ground and Limit Political Corporate Social Responsibility (PCSR)
  • Part II: Agent-Centered Ethics: Virtues, Character, Narratives, and Leadership
  • Chapter 5. An Aristotelian and Confucian Virtue Ethics Approach to Humane Work within the Business Context
  • Chapter 6. Confucian Trustworthiness and the Practice of Business in China
  • Chapter 7. How Would Confucian Virtue Ethics for Business Differ from Aristotelian Virtue Ethics?
  • Chapter 8. Ethical Mismatches, Or Why Aristotelian Virtue Ethics May Have Limited Applicability to Modern Life and Work
  • Chapter 9. Rituals, Confucian Ethics, and the Workplace: Making the World More Habitable for Human Beings
  • Chapter 10. Dignity in Western vs. Chinese Cultures: Theoretical Overview and Practical Illustrations (Co-author Alicia Leung, Hong Kong Baptist University)
  • Chapter 11. Corporate Character: Is This Concept a Valid Moral Concept from a Kantian Point of View?
  • Chapter 12. Narrative Business Ethics Versus Narratives Within Business Ethics: Problems and Possibilities from an Aristotelian Virtue Ethics Perspective
  • Chapter 13. Leaders of Speech, Leaders of Silence: How Do They Differ, and Are They Equally Effective?
  • Part III: Rethinking How We Think about and Respond to Fraud and Other Corporate Wrongdoing
  • Chapter 14. Understanding Fraud Better: A Psychological Want Approach to Comprehending Who Gets Conned and Why
  • Chapter 15. The Ethics of CEO Apologies: Corporate Responses to Perceived Wrongdoing
  • Chapter 16. Evaluating the Evaluators: Should Investors Trust Corporate Governance Metrics Ratings?
  • Part IV: Emerging Issues in Business Ethics
  • Chapter 17. Techn versus Technology: A Virtue Ethics Perspective on Technological Threats to the Ethically Good Self
  • Chapter 18. A Virtue Ethics Critique of Ethical Dimensions of Behavioral Economics
  • Chapter 19. Epilogue: The Future of Business Ethics?.