Title | Business Ethics in Theory and Practice [electronic resource] : Contributions from Asia and New Zealand / edited by Patricia H. Werhane, Alan E. Singer |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1999 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9287-1 |
Descript | VIII, 248 p. online resource |
The Ethics of the New Managerialism -- 1. Managerialism and the economics of the firm -- 2. New organizational cultures and ethical employment practice: a critical discussion -- Strategic Discourses and Narratives -- 3. Environmentally sustainable business and the Rashomon effect -- 4. Strategic discourse as a technology of power -- Empirical Psychology and Business Ethics -- 5. Property ethics and starvation -- 6. The contributions of empirical research towards normative business ethics -- 7. Ethics, aesthetics and empiricism: the case of steroids and sports -- The New Zealand Context -- 8. Business ethics: is amoral good enough? -- 9. Perceptions of empowerment: insights from New Zealand organisations -- 10. Ethics in action: the management of intangibles -- The Asian Context -- 11. Business and culture in the Philippines: a story of gradual progress -- 12. Japanese philosophical traditions and contemporary business practices -- 13. Rethinking the presuppositions of business ethicsโfrom an Aristotelian approach to Confucian ethics -- 14. The traditions of the people of Hong Kong and their relationships to contemporary business practices -- Moral Progress in Business and Society -- 15. Varieties of progress: commercial, moral and otherwise -- 16. Synergy-orientation and the โThird Wayโ -- 17. Afterword -- Notes on the contributors