Business Ethics: Readings and Cases in Corporate Morality

Can corporations have a conscience? What constitutes blowing the whistle ethically?  How does a corporation build an ethical culture? Hoffman, Frederick, and Schwartz address many current, intriguing, often complex issues in corporate morality in the fifth edition of Business Ethics: Readings and Cases in Corporate Morality . This introductory text contains a thorough introduction to ethical theory, 53 readings, and 30 case studies. Divided into five parts, each with an introduction presenting the major themes of its articles and cases, the text contains an impartial, point–counterpoint presentation of different perspectives on the most important and highly contended issues of business ethics. Chapters end with questions that can be used for student discussion, review, tests or quizzes, or student assignments. The new textbook retains the very best features of previous editions, but is now substantially updated with new leading articles, the latest subject areas from the last decade, and pertinent case studies; also new are mini–cases based on MBA student dilemmas.

W. Michael Hoffman is the founding Executive Director of the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Dr. Hoffman is also the Hieken Professor of Business and Professional Ethics at Bentley University and is the author or editor of 16 books. Robert E. Frederick is professor of philosophy and chair of the Philosophy Department at Bentley University in Waltham, MA. He is also Research Scholar at the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley and editor of the Center’s journal Business and Society Review . Mark S. Schwartz is a professor of business ethics and corporate social responsibility at the School of Administrative Studies at York University (Toronto, Canada), and is a Research Fellow for the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University. He has published in a range of journals, including the Journal of Business Ethics , Business Ethics Quarterly , and Business & Society

Publicitgy Grading– B [BOLD – AUTHOR REQUESTS] NORTH AM Business Ethics Quarterly (co–author formally on Editorial Board) Business and Society Business and Society Review Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Teaching Philosophy UK/EMEA Journal of Business Ethics (International Editorial Board – co–author formally on Editorial Board ) Business Ethics: A European Review Philosophy of Management Teaching Business Ethics Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies