Business ethics in the 21st century : stability and change / Alan E. Singer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Singer, Alan E.

Series:

Ethical issues in the 21st century series.

Business issues, competition and entrepreneurship series.

Ethical Issues in the 21st Century

Business Issues, Competition and Entrepreneurship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Publishers, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the fifth book by Professor Alan E. Singer on business ethics and strategy. This book emphasizes aspects that are thought to be most likely to rise to prominence in the years to come. These include ecological-understandings at the conceptual level and the participation at the practical level in a distributed system of global governance system that strives to uphold all of the human goods, including the positive and negative freedoms, but in a reasonably balanced way. In a section on justice and politics, several issues related to social and environmental justice are duly viewed from bo

Contents:

""BUSINESS ETHICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY. STABILITY AND CHANGE""; ""BUSINESS ETHICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY. STABILITY AND CHANGE""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION""; ""PART 1: STABILITY AND CHANGE""; ""PART 2: JUSTICE AND ECOLOGY""; ""PART 3: ETHICS AND TECHNOLOGY""; ""PART 4: BUSINESS ETHICS EDUCATION""; ""PART 1: STABILITY AND CHANGE ""; ""Chapter 2: STABILITY AND CHANGE""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE STABLE FRAMEWORK""; ""CHANGING PHILOSOPHIES""; ""TOPICAL THEMES""; ""MACRO-TRENDS""; ""CONCLUSION""

""APPENDIX 1: SOME CONTESTED META-ETHICAL RELATIONSHIPS""""PART 2: JUSTICE AND POLITICS ""; ""Chapter 3: INEQUALITY ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""MACRO-TRENDS""; ""STABILITY""; ""INEQUALITY""; ""SOLUTIONS""; ""APPENDIX""; ""DISCUSSION""; ""Chapter 4: POLITICS ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""INTEGRATION""; ""BACKGROUND CONSTRUCTS""; ""STRATEGIC ACTIVITIES""; ""THE GENERAL STRATEGIC PROBLEM""; ""THE GLOBAL CONTEXT""; ""DISCUSSION""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""APPENDIX 1""; ""DISCUSSION""; ""APPENDIX 2""; ""THE CONCEPT OF A “CORPORATE LICENSE TO OPERATE�""; ""Chapter 5: JUSTICE ""; ""INTRODUCTION""

""�BLESSED UNREST� AND BUSINESS""""SOCIAL JUSTICE AND CULTURAL CAPITAL""; ""THE RESPONSIBILITY OF CONSUMERS""; ""APPENDIX""; ""Chapter 6: ECO-PRENEURSHIP""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""ENTREPRENEURSHIP VERSUS ETHICS""; ""ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS ETHICS""; ""SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION""; ""APPENDIX""; ""PART 3: ETHICS AND TECHNOLOGY""; ""Chapter 7: SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""DIRECTIONS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""APPENDIX""; ""Chapter 8: NANOTECHNOLOGY ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""APPENDIX 1""; ""Chapter 9: ROBOTICS ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE ENGINEERING OF PHILOSOPHY""; ""CONCLUSION""

""Chapter 10: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE """"INTRODUCTION""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""APPENDIX""; ""PART 4: TEACHING ETHICS""; ""Chapter 11: TEACHING CASES""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""A FRAMEWORK FOR CASE ANALYSIS""; ""TEACHING THE COMPONENTS""; ""TEACHING THE SPANNING THEMES""; ""BENEFITS OF THE APPROACH""; ""DISCUSSION""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""APPENDIX 1""; ""A CASE STUDY ILLUSTRATING DIVERSEPOLITICAL-ETHICAL VIEWPOINTS AND STRATEGIES""; ""Chapter 12: TEACHING THEORY""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""RATIONALITY AND META-RATIONALITY""; ""ETHICS AND META-ETHICS""; ""OPTIMALITY AND META-OPTIMALITY""

""MODELS AND META-MODELS""""RECURSIVITY""; ""SYNERGY AND DIALECTICS""; ""META-THEORIES AND PRACTICE""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""INDEX""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed August 20, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-62808-596-7

OCLC:

856017712