Author | Lozano, Josep M. author |
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Title | Ethics and Organizations [electronic resource] : Understanding Business Ethics as a Learning Process / by Josep M. Lozano |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2000 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3941-0 |
Descript | VIII, 192 p. online resource |
0. Introduction: like oil and water? -- 1. Business ethics as applied ethics -- 1.1. BE: a case of applied ethics? -- 1.2. BE as โappliedโ ethics: a preliminary proposal for integration -- 2. Business ethics: an on-going process -- 2.1. Introduction: a progressive Self-awareness -- 2.2. A first historical approach to BE -- 2.3. The recent development of BE in Europe -- 2.4. What issues should BE address? -- 2.5. BE: a first attempt at a systematic ordering -- 2.6. The acceptance or rejection of BE as a possible (il)legitimization of predominant practices and values -- 2.7.The impossible dissolution of BE in individual ethics -- 2.8. The ethics of organizations as the core of BE -- 3. BEโs self-awareness: unresolved tension and a call for integration -- 3.1. BE: one discipline or two? -- 3.2. Managersโ moral reasoning as a metaphor for and expression of the problem -- 3.3. Integration in the framework of BE: a demand -at least-acknowledged -- 3.4. Beyond ethics as a toolbox -- 3.5. A note about civic ethics as a possible framework for BE -- 4. An illustrative debate: corporate social responsibility -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. A preliminary question: Is the corporation a moral subject? -- 4.3. Corporate social responsibility -- 4.4. Is the corporation in question? -- 4.5. Friedman: the most controversial reference -- 4.6. The diversity of arguments about corporate social responsibility -- 4.7. Corporate social responsibility: a diversity of concepts -- 4.8. The place of corporate social responsibility in the framework of BE -- 5. Stakeholders: who are they and what are their interests? -- 5.1. Power in the corporation, power of the corporation -- 5.2. Stakeholders, an understanding of the corporation -- 5.3. Stakeholders: an analytical classification -- 5.4. Stakeholders: beyond analysis -- 5.5. Stakeholders in an ethics of organizations -- 6. Corporate codes: constructing criteria and goals? -- 6.1. Professional codes as a point of reference -- 6.2. Codes and their ambivalence -- 6.3. Management as a profession: a significant absence -- 6.4. Corporate codes of ethics: a descriptive approach -- 6.5. Codes of ethics: more ethics or more control? -- 7. Corporate cultures: managing values? -- 7.1. Some questions about the concept of organizational culture -- 7.2. Corporate culture and ethics: an ambigous relationship -- 7.3. Ambiguities in the search for excellence -- 7.4. Opening the door to Aristotelian tradition -- 7.5. Final considerations: the outlook for BE -- 8. Integrating ethics in organizations -- 8.1. The paths towards integration: decision-making, a fact or a process? -- 8.2. The paths towards integration: the organization as a project -- 8.3. The paths towards integration: institutionalizing ethics -- 9. Humanization (also) as a process of organizational learning -- 9.1. The emerging knowledge society -- 9.2. Transforming organizational paradigms -- 9.3. An understanding of organizations that includes acknowledging the value of individuals and individuals as value -- 10. The learning organization as the matrix of business ethics -- 10.1. BEโs three โmomentsโ as an organizational learning process -- 11. References -- 12. Index