Integrating ethics with strategy : selected papers of Alan E. Singer / Alan E. Singer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Singer, Alan E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business ethics.

Strategic planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (412 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume brings together 18 innovative articles on business strategy and ethics. Originally appearing in reputed journals, the articles are interrelated and focus on complex linkages between ethics and strategy in business.The first of its three sections discusses various frameworks developed by the author that explicitly integrate strategy with ethics. The second section comprises articles placing business ethics relative to management-science models and systems thinking. The final section applies some of the foregoing ideas to strategic and social issues, including poverty alleviation, co

Contents:

pt. I. Strategy and ethics. 1. Frameworks: an organising framework for ethics and strategy. 2. Correspondences: strategy as moral philosophy. 3. Synergies: competitiveness as "hyper-strategy". 4.Limitations: market limitations as strategic problems. 5. Ideals: managing human systems and advancing humane ideals. 6. Ecology: an ecological understanding of global business. 7. Wisdom: towards wise enterprise. 8. Conscience: consciousness and consciences as emergent properties

pt. II. Models. 9. Recursivity: strategy-models are self referential. 10. Games: game theory and the evolution of strategic thinking. 11. Optimality: optimisation and strategy. 12. Systems: Management-science and business ethics

pt. III. Contexts. 13. Poverty: business strategy and poverty alleviation. 14. Health: curing strategic myopia. 15. Knowledge: meta-theory and intellectual property.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-384)and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611937973

9781281937971

1281937975

9789812779175

9812779175