Business Ethics: Concepts & Cases

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Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006 - 437 pages

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This popular text on Business Ethics introduces the reader to the ethical concepts that are relevant to resolving moral issues in business; imparts the reasoning and anaytical skills needed to apply ethical concepts to business decisions; identifies moral issues specific to a business; provides an understanding of the social, technological, and natural environments within which moral issues in business arise; and supplies case studies of actual moral conflicts faced by businesses.

The ethical landscape of business is constantly changing and this edition has been revised to keep pace with those changes most effecting business: accelerating globalization, constant technological updates, proliferating of business scandals.

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... pollution problems are not rooted only in business activities . Pollution also results from the use that consumers make of products and from human waste products.80 A primary source of air pollution , for example , is automobile use ...
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... Pollution of the environment , then , is a violation of the utilitarian princi- ples that underlie a market system . Pollution also violates the kind of justice or fairness that characterizes a free com- petitive market . In a well ...
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... pollution control then ? Consider that the costs of controlling pollution and the benefits derived from pollution control are inversely related . 124 As one rises , the other falls . Why is this so ? Think for a moment that if a body of ...

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Contents

CASES FOR DISCUSSION
51
Ethical Principles in Business
57
Chapter 2
74
Copyright

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Manuel G. Velasquez
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About the author (2006)

Manuel Velasquez is the former Director of Santa Clara University's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. He is now chair of the Department of Management at the Leavey School of Business at SCU. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles on Business Ethics.

Bibliographic information

TitleBusiness Ethics: Concepts & Cases
AuthorManuel G. Velasquez
Edition6, illustrated
PublisherPearson Prentice Hall, 2006
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized27 Sep 2008
ISBN0131930079, 9780131930070
Length437 pages
  
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