Business Ethics and Continental Philosophy

Mollie Painter-Morland, René ten Bos

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9780521199049
• eBook ISBN: 9781139153607
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Ethics
• Index: Business

Business ethics has largely been written from the perspective of analytical philosophy with very little attention paid to the work of continental philosophers. Yet although very few of these philosophers directly discuss business ethics, it is clear that their ideas have interesting applications in this field. This innovative textbook shows how the work of continental philosophers - Deleuze and Guattari, Foucault, Levinas, Bauman, Derrida, Levinas, Nietzsche, Zizek, Jonas, Sartre, Heidegger, Latour, Nancy and Sloterdijk - can provide fresh insights into a number of different issues in business ethics. Topics covered include agency, stakeholder theory, organizational culture, organizational justice, moral decision-making, leadership, whistle-blowing, corporate social responsibility, globalization and sustainability. The book includes a number of features designed to aid comprehension, including a detailed glossary of key terms, text boxes explaining key concepts, and a wide range of examples from the world of business.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Business Ethics and Continental Philosophy
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Figures
• Boxes
• Contributors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: critical crossings
• 1 Agency in corporations
• 2 Stakeholder theory
• 3 Organizational culture
• 4 Enron narrative
• 5 Moral decision-making
• 6 Organizational justice
• 7 Reward, incentive, and compensation
• 8 Leadership
• 9 Whistle-blowing
• 10 Marketing, bad faith, and responsibility
• 11 Corporate social responsibility
• 12 Corporate responsibility standards
• 13 Sustainability
• 14 Globalization
• Glossary
• Name Index
• Subject Index