Business ethics / editor, Michael Shally-Jensen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shally-Jensen, Michael, editor.

Series:

Defining documents in American history (Salem Press)

Defining documents in American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business ethics--United States--History--Sources.

Business ethics.

Corporations--Moral and ethical aspects--United States--History--Sources.

Corporations.

Commercial law--United States--History--Sources.

Commercial law.

United States--Economic conditions--History--Sources.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 volumes (xv, 515 pages)) : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, portraits.

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, [2019]

Summary:

efining Documents in American History: Business Ethics offers an in-depth analysis of 67 primary source documents at the foundation of the study of business ethics. These include letters, newspaper accounts, book excerpts, speeches, political debates, testimony, firsthand accounts, memoirs, court rulings, legal texts, legislative acts, excerpts from both fiction and nonfiction books, and dialogues from dramatic works. More and more, the specific ethics policies that have many businesses and corporations developed in the 1970s and 80s are not enough today. Transparency related to sources and materials, pricing strategies, and the public good are crucial for the success of any business. The material in this two-volume reference work is organized into five sections, and each section begins with a brief introduction that defines questions and problems underlying the subjects addressed in the historical documents. These documents provide an overview of business ethics and how it affects all of society, from the heads of corporations in industries like oil, energy, social media, food, and transportation to the workers that produce the goods and services to the consumers of those goods and services. They present a wide array of legal and moral opinions, descriptions of the effects that business ethics can play in the national and global economy, and they take a closer look at the way that business ethics relates to politics. Each historical document is supported by a critical essay, written by historians and teachers, that includes a Summary Overview, Defining Moment, Author Biography, Document Analysis, and Essential Themes. An important feature of each essay is a close reading of the primary source that develops broader themes, such as the author s rhetorical purpose, social or class position, point of view, and other relevant issues. Each essay also includes a Bibliography and Additional Reading section for further research. The detailed document analysis begins with early essays instrumental in the creation and development of the field of business ethics and continues to 2019 by examining issues relevant right now, from harassment and discrimination to technology and privacy. This two-volume set includes in-depth chapters that provide a thorough commentary of significant primary source documents. -- Amazon.com

Contents:

Volume 1. Early efforts

and failings ; Moving toward the modern

Volume 2. Crisis and renovation ; Enterprise and ethics in the late twentieth century ; Big business and big government today.

From The Prince

"Advice to a Young Tradesman"

Adam Smith, from The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Fletcher v. Peck

Lowell Mill Girls

From "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street"

From The Life of P.T. Barnum

Presidential Proclamations on Blockade and Commercial Trade

From Utilitarianism

"The Money Power"

Documents Relating to Black Friday, 1869

Verse and Cartoon about Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall

Crédit Mobilier Scandal

Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act

Andrew Carnegie: "The Gospel of Wealth"

Eugene Debs: "What Can We Do for Working People?"

Sherman Antitrust Act

"Wall Street Owns the Country"

Frick's Fracas

Henry Frick Makes His Case

"The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over"

From The Theory of the Leisure Class

Coal Strike Hearings: The Miners Testify

An Immigrant Garment Worker's "Days and Dreams"

Theodore Roosevelt on Corporate Trusts

"Echoes from the Recent Pennsylvania Coal Strike"

Jane Addams: "Child Labor and Other Dangers of Childhood"

From The Jungle

Fire Hazards in New York City Factories

Clayton Act

On the Teapot Dome Scandal

From My Life and Work, by Henry Ford

President Hoover Responds to the Stock Market Crash

Stuart Chase: Waste and the Machine Age

Memories of the Flint Sit-Down Strike

From What Makes Sammy Run?

From The Fountainhead

From The Road to Serfdom

From The Hidden Persuaders

Eisenhower's Farewell Address

Rachel Carson: Silent Spring

Equal Pay Act

From Unsafe at Any Speed

"The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits"

The "Powell Memo": Attack on the Free Enterprise System

Bill Gates: Letter to Hobbyists

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

U.S. Justice Department Overview

From The Culture of Narcissism

"What Is Business Ethics?"

United States v. Kelly

An "Abscam" Case

"Greed Is Good"

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: A Report to the President

From Glengarry Glen Ross

Testimony from the 1994 Tobacco Hearings

Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña

Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Halliburton Overcharges Report

Charging Document in the Case of Bernie Madoff

Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

A Synopsis

Report on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

"Countrywide Protected Fraudsters by Silencing Whistleblowers..."

EPA Notice of Violation of Clean Air Act to Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.

Wells Fargo Account Fraud Scandal

Summary of Letter Requesting Further Review of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and Memorandum Opinion re. Vacatur

Equifax Data Breach Announcement

Statement to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee concerning Cambridge Analytica

From Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero.

Notes:

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781642652840

1642652849

OCLC:

1140751001