Business Ethics

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Business Ethics is a lively and engaging textbook that tackles one of the most pressing issues facing business today: how to be a good corporate citizen in a complex multiple stakeholder world. It covers the foundations of business ethics and applies these concepts to each of the corporation's major stakeholders. Written from a truly international perspective, it explains the ethical challenges faced by business in different parts of the globe, and provides the tools and concepts necessary to understand and deal with ethical problems effectively wherever you are in the world. It is the only text on the market that fully considers the implications of three major ethical challenges facing business: corporate citizenship, globalization, and sustainability. This third edition offers fully integrated global perspectives, including increased coverage of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The book has been thoroughly updated and includes new content on climate change, water issues, financial markets, private equity, social enterprise, and global religions. The authors offer a wealth of new cases and examples as well as updates of old favourites including BAE, BP, Diageo, McDonald's, Greenpeace, and Siemens. Among the unique learning features included in the book are 'Ethics on Screen' boxes that describe recent movies involving business ethics issues, and 'Ethics online' - a new feature that provides cutting edge insight into the use of social media and online tools for understanding and participating in business ethics. An award-winning textbook, written by two of the world's leading experts on business ethics Covers the topics of globalization, sustainability and corporate citizenship throughout the text as a whole, enabling students to see how issues are treated when embedded in the context of business ethics Offers a truly global perspective on business ethics that offers a refreshing alternative in a market dominated by American texts. Crane & Matten therefore provides relevant examples that students are able to relate to and demonstrates how business ethics applies to a real variety of organizations Offers a clear, easy-to-follow structure based around core business ethics themes and distinct stakeholder applications Key Features New pedagogical feature 'Ethics online' provides insight into the use of social media and online tools for understanding and participating in business ethics. Extensive content from Ethical Corporation Magazine featured to demonstrate the latest real life issues in global business ethics, including private military companies in the Middle East, black economic empowerment in South Africa, fraud in India, and Islamic finance in the UK. New digital resources including short responses to the 'Think Theory' features in the textbook; trailers of films featured in the 'Ethics on Screen' boxes; and 'Case Bank' Expanded coverage of key global business ethics issues, including climate change, poverty, water, financial markets, private equity and global religions.

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Andrew Crane International Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Nottingham University Business School Dirk Matten School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London Table of Contents Part A: Understanding business ethics 1: Introducing business ethics 2: Framing business ethics: corporate responsibility, stakeholders, and citizenship 3: Evaluating business ethics: normative ethical theories 4: Making decisions in business ethics: descriptive ethical theories 5: Managing business ethics: tools and techniques of business ethics management Part B: Contextualizing business ethics: the corporate citizen and its stakeholders 6: Shareholders and business ethics 7: Employees and business ethics 8: Consumers and business ethics 9: Suppliers, competitors, and business ethics 10: Civil society and business ethics 11: Government, regulation, and business ethics 12: Conclusions and future perspectives