On the (Im)Possibility of Business Ethics Critical Complexity, Deconstruction, and Implications for Understanding the Ethics of Business /

• Main Author: Woermann, Minka (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Issues in Business Ethics, 37
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Management.; Leadership.; Ethics.; Education > Philosophy.; Physics.; Complex Networks.; Business Strategy/Leadership.; Philosophy, general.; Educational Philosophy.

Corporations, and the environments in which they operate, are complex, with changing multiple dimensions, and an inherent capacity to evolve qualitatively. A central premise of this study is that a postmodern reading of ethics represents an expression of, and an engagement with, the ethical complexi...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Part I   Theoretical foundation
• 1. Towards a postmodern understanding of business ethics.- 2. The ethics of complexity and the complexity of ethics
• 3. Introducing a deconstructive ethics.-  4. ‘Virtues’ for a complex world
• Part II  Practical application 5. Reconsidering the meaning of corporate social responsibility
• 6. Towards a theory and model of corporate social responsibility and implications for management and leadership practices.-7. Implications for teaching business ethics
• Index.