UID:
almafu_9960117607602883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 221 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Second edition.
ISBN:
1-108-13198-0
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1-108-13366-5
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1-316-34321-9
Content:
It is more important than ever that a business must be both ethical and profitable. In this thoroughly revised and updated second edition, Norman E. Bowie shows that by applying Kant's three formulations of the categorical imperative, and by doing the right thing for the right reason, a business can achieve success in both of these fields. Bowie uses examples such as building trust, transparency through open book management, and respecting employees by providing a living wage and meaningful work. This new edition, for graduates and academic researchers in the field of business ethics, has been heavily revised to include the newest scholarship on Kantian ethics, with a new emphasis on Kant's later moral and political theory, a workable account of Kantian capitalism, and additional accounts on corporate social responsibility, Kantianism and human rights, corporate moral agency, and the Kantian theory of meaningful work.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Mar 2017).
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1 Self-Defeating Immoral Business Practice -- Inconsistency and Immorality -- Applications to Business -- Objections to This Kantian Analysis -- The Challenge of Behavioral Ethics -- Extending the Reach of the Categorical Imperative: Pragmatically Inconsistent Maxims -- Why Neither Being Trustworthy Nor Not Trusting in Business Involves a Pragmatic Contradiction -- Transition to Chapter 2 -- Notes -- 2 Treating Stakeholders with Respect -- The Respect-for-Persons Principle -- Not Using Employees: Neither Coercion Nor Deceit -- How Managers Can Reduce the Adverse Impact of Coercive Conditions and Reduce Information Asymmetry -- Codes of Ethics, Ethics Programs, and Autonomy -- Open Book Management -- What about Deception in Advertising? -- A Brief Summary -- Positive Freedom and Meaningful Work: Respecting the Humanity in a Person -- Kantian Ethics and Meaningful Work -- Objections and Replies -- Summary -- Notes -- 3 The Firm as a Moral Community -- Creating the Kantian Moral Firm: The Kingdom-of-Ends Formulation of the Categorical Imperative -- Principles of a Moral Firm -- The Principles Explained, Applied, and Defended -- The Nature of Organizations, Leadership, and Reciprocity -- Can Kantian Moral Theory Apply to an Organization? -- Transition to Chapter 4 -- Notes -- 4 Acting from Duty and Seeking Profit -- Kant's Position on the Purity of Moral Motives -- Should Business Change the Way It Talks about Its Good Deeds? -- The Moral Obligation to Seek Profits -- A Complicating Implication of This Analysis -- Kantian Capitalism: Moral Profit Seeking -- Kantian Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility -- Transition to Chapter 5 -- Notes -- 5 Kantian Ethics and International Business -- The Morality of the Market.
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An Argument for Universal Ethical Values -- An Argument for Truly Universal Standards of Business Ethics -- An Anti-Bribery Ethic -- A Nondiscrimination Ethic -- Honesty and Trust -- Can Kantian Capitalism Contribute to Universal Rights, Democracy, and World Peace? -- The Argument That Capitalism Supports Democratic Institutions -- The Argument That Capitalism Supports World Peace -- Multinationals, Human Rights, and the United Nations -- Beneficence and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals -- Objections and Replies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-54395-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-12090-X
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316343210
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