Corporate citizenship, contractarianism and ethical theory; on philosophical foundations of business ethics.

9780754673835

Corporate citizenship, contractarianism and ethical theory; on philosophical foundations of business ethics.

Ed. by Jesus Conill et al.

Ashgate Publishing Co.

2008

196 pages

$99.95

Hardcover

Law, ethics, and economics

HF5387

The ten chapters presented here by Conill (U. of Valencia, Spain), Christoph Luetge (Technical U. of Braunschweig, Germany), and Schonwalder-Kuntze (U. of Munich, Germany) are broad in their conceptual, methodological, and theoretical approach to business ethics, but many focus on the idea of corporate citizenship. Opening chapters address the recent development of the idea of corporate citizenship through debates on the relationship between business and society and the social responsibility of professions and their members. The next group of contributions reviews the history and foundations of business ethics. The final four chapters explore the implications of established theories of ethics for business behavior, addressing the concept of social dilemmas, the impact of different ethical approaches to pharmaceutical distribution, and the interplay in mutual ethical and economic theory building.

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