Business Ethics in the Social Context Law, Profits, and the Evolving Moral Practice of Business /

• Main Author: Newton, Lisa (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Ethics,
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Business ethics.; Ethics.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Law and economics.; Business Ethics.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Law and Economics.

The book tracks the rise of Business Ethics as a discipline in the United States through a review of the basic understandings of the role of business practices in the operations of society, beginning with Aristotle and proceeding to a review of the formative concepts and cases in the history of Amer...

Table of Contents:

• Prefatory Note
• Introduction:  The Nature of this text
• Chapter 1.   Can Business Be a Moral Enterprise?
• Chapter 2.  Employee Rights and Responsibilities The Internal Constituencies of Business
• Chapter 3: Customers, Community, and World: The External Constituencies of Business.