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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equilibrium point The point at which the amount of goods buyers want to buy exactly equals the amount of goods sellers want to sell , and at which the highest price buyers are willing to pay exactly equals the lowest price sellers are ...
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Ethics and Perfectly Competitive Markets As we have seen , perfectly competitive free markets incorporate forces that inevitably drive buyers and sellers toward the so - called point of equilibrium . In doing so , they achieve three ...
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sellers are not free to enter . ... Third , monopoly markets are dominated by a single seller whose decisions determine the prices and quantities of a ... First , instead of many sellers , there are only a few significant sellers .

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Contents

Ethical Principles in Business
57
Chapter 2
74
CASES FOR DISCUSSION
118
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Business Ethics: Concepts & Cases
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.

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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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