Corporate Ethics for Turbulent Markets

The Market Context of Executive Decisions

Oswald A. J. Mascarenhas, SJ, Oswald Mascarenhas

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781787561885
• eBook ISBN: 9781787561892
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Ethics
• Index: Business

The tapestry of human behaviour in the marketplace today is turbulent, unpredictable, and chaotic. Yet it is also so diverse, rich and global that it presents a rare ethical and moral opportunity, and challenge, to out-behave competition and create enduring value. This is corporate ethics for corporate advantage. 

Corporate Ethics for Turbulent Markets: The Market Context of Executive Decisions focuses on the HOW of doing business – the economic, social, ethical, moral and spiritual values we bring to our business ventures - and how thereby we impact the world.  

The book focuses on the LEMS (legality, ethicality, morality, and spirituality) technique that we submit as a prescriptive benchmarking tool for all corporate thinking, deliberation, explanation, evaluation, choices, strategic implementation, accountability and moral responsibility. It demonstrates that by going beyond the legal obligation (legality) to do the "right thing" (ethicality), to do the "right thing rightly" (morality), and doing the "right thing rightly and for the right intentions" (spirituality), we can create a sure strategy for good decision making and implementation that can heal the world from its current addictions to corporate fraud in all its evil forms. 

Envisioning a moral reawakening, this book will challenge business students and executives alike to re-evaluate the moral justification of business choices, decisions, actions and their consequences. LEMS as a four-dimensional cross-checking skill for all that we think, do, become and be takes time and patience but it can surely heal an otherwise divided and broken world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Prologue: Corporate Ethics for Turbulent Markets of Today
• Chapter 1 Characterizing Market Turbulence Today as a Source of Market Opportunity
• Chapter 2 The Domain and Context of Corporate Ethics: Introducing Concepts and Directions
• Chapter 3 A Systems Thinking Approach to Understand the Challenge of Corporate Ethics in the Turbulent Markets of Today
• Chapter 4 The Success of Free Enterprise Capitalist System When Designed and Deployed Rightly
• Chapter 5 The Destruction of Free Enterprise Capitalist System When Infected by Fraud, Corruption, and Bribery
• Chapter 6 The Turbulent Market of Modern Debt-overleveraged and Promoter-dominated Corporations
• Chapter 7 Artificial Intelligence and the Emergent Turbulent Markets: New Challenges to Corporate Ethics Today
• Chapter 8 The Ethics of Reinventing the Morally Embattled Corporation
• Epilogue: The Twenty-first Century Legal, Ethical, Moral, and Spiritual (LEMS) Challenges of Corporate Governance
• References
• Author Index
• Case Index
• Subject Index