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Features

• NEW - Ethical Issues in Information Technology chapter added—Contains articles on privacy and intellectual property.

  • Familiarizes students with important issues of privacy in Internet commercial transactions and prompts them to discuss free music downloading and MP3 technology.

• NEW - Updated and new information on capitalism.

  • Provides students with new material which builds upon and reinforces discussions found throughout the text.

• NEW - Accountability and responsibility focus in Regulation of Business chapter—Presents the contrast between the view that seeks to find and hold individuals responsible and the view that emphasizes systems failure rather than individual responsibility.

  • Enables students to decide when unanticipated emergencies require setting aside personal and corporate goals.

• NEW - Current coverage of harassment.

  • Presents students with arguments on the conflict between free speech in the workplace versus a hostile working environment.

• NEW - Revised cases and legal perspectives.

  • Provides students with more current perspectives and cases that address important issues and enhance opportunities for class discussion and research.

• NEW - Revised chapter introductions and supplementary readings.

  • Provides students with increased clarity of presentation and expanded opportunities for further study.

• NEW - Diversity material.

  • Provides students with the latest thinking on affirmative action and diversity.

• Third World issues—Contains articles on sweatshops and protecting human rights in countries where international companies do business.

  • Provides students with a realistic perspective on global business.

• Federal sentencing guidelines—Features articles which outline the impact of the guidelines on corporate compliance and self-regulation.

  • Shows students the uses and limits of policy making.

• Variety of approaches to business ethics.

  • Shows students the contrasts between compliance-based approach and value-based approach.

• Corporate social performance—Presents coverage organized around the debate between stockholder vs. stakeholder management.

  • Engages students in this important humanistic debate.

• Comparative study of U.S. and Japanese business ethics —Written by a noted Japanese scholar, Iwao Taka.

  • Promotes students' understanding of important cross-cultural analysis of world economic powers.

• Russia and Eastern Europe—Features articles on conducting business in Russia and Eastern Europe.

  • Prepares students to work in growing interdependent international business environment.

• Strong international and multicultural emphasis.

  • Helps students understand and appreciate diverse and consonant ethics in global business culture.

• Lower-priced paperback format.

  • Keeps students' budgets in mind.

New To This Edition

• Ethical Issues in Information Technology chapter added—Contains articles on privacy and intellectual property.

  • Familiarizes students with important issues of privacy in Internet commercial transactions and prompts them to discuss free music downloading and MP3 technology.

• Updated and new information on capitalism.

  • Provides students with new material which builds upon and reinforces discussions found throughout the text.

• Accountability and responsibility focus in Regulation of Business chapter—Presents the contrast between the view that seeks to find and hold individuals responsible and the view that emphasizes systems failure rather than individual responsibility.

  • Enables students to decide when unanticipated emergencies require setting aside personal and corporate goals.

• Current coverage of harassment.

  • Presents students with arguments on the conflict between free speech in the workplace versus a hostile working environment.

• Revised cases and legal perspectives.

  • Provides students with more current perspectives and cases that address important issues and enhance opportunities for class discussion and research.

• Revised chapter introductions and supplementary readings.

  • Provides students with increased clarity of presentation and expanded opportunities for further study.

• Diversity material.

  • Provides students with the latest thinking on affirmative action and diversity.

Table of Contents

(NOTE: Each chapter contains an Introduction, Legal Perspectives, Cases and Suggested Supplementary Readings).

1. Ethical Theory and Business Practice.

Courses

Business Ethics  (Philosophy)

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• Ethical Theory and Business, 8/E
  Beauchamp, Bowie & Arnold
  ©2009  |  Pearson  |  Paper; 704 pp  |  Out of Stock
  ISBN-10: 0136126022  |  ISBN-13: 9780136126027
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  For one-semester/quarter courses in Business Ethics, Corporate Responsibility, and Business and Society.

   

  This book is a comprehensive anthology of readings, legal perspectives, and cases in ethics in business. Ethical Theory and Business provides students with a strong understanding of ethics in business and the tools needed to address ethical situations in business.

   

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"For twenty-five years, successive editions of Beauchamp and Bowie have defined the state of the art in business ethics. With its masterful mix of classic and cutting-edge articles, relevant legal materials, and provocative cases, this business ethics text is the standard by which all others are judged." — John R. Boatright, Professor of Business Ethics, Loyola University Chicago

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Ethical Theory and Business by Beauchamp and Bowie, now in its Seventh Edition presents a comprehensive anthology 6f readings, legal perspectives, and cases in ethics in business. This edition focuses on providing and explaining the tools needed to deal with ethical dilemmas in business.

Brand new chapter on ethical issues in Information Technology
• Raises important issues of privacy in Internet commercial transactions and intellectual property
Regulation of Business chapter with a new focus on accountability and responsibility
• Contrasting approaches to ensuring safety
• Includes discussion of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines
Corporate social performance
• Presents coverage organized around the debate between stockholder vs. stakeholder management
Up-to-date coverage of Harassment
• Focuses on conflicts of free speech within a hostile working environment
Affirmative Action and Diversity
• New to this edition is material specifically on Diversity
Third World issues
• Contains articles on sweatshops and ,protecting human rights in countries where international companies do business
New and additional cases as well as new and revised legal perspectives
• Maintains currency and enhances opportunities for class discussion and research

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