For Business Ethics

By Campbell Jones, Martin Parker, Rene ten Bos

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About the Book

For Business Ethics is a daring adventure into the world of business ethics. It offers a clear and accessible introduction to business ethics and also expands business ethics beyond its current narrow confines. It is ground-breaking in the sense that it invites a distinctively critical approach to business ethics, an approach that the authors argue is part and parcel of ethics.

With a thought-provoking glossary and recommendations for further readings, For Business Ethics is an essential purchase for students and practitioners alike. It is at once an introduction to business ethics and a challenge to anyone who wishes to take part in or change contemporary organized society.

Reviews

'This book is amazing. The field of business ethics has received a wake-up call.' - David Boje, New Mexico State University

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Against Business Ethics 2. Common Sense Business Ethics 3. 'Business Ethics' I: Consequences 4. 'Business Ethics' II: Intentions 5. 'Business Ethics' III: Virtues 6. The Meaning of Ethics 7. Denying Ethics I: Bureaucracy 8. Denying Ethics II: Global Capital 9. Business Ethics Today 10. Conclusion: For Business Ethics

About the Author(s)

Campbell Jones joined the Management Centre in August 2002, after having taught and researched at Keele University, the University of Warwick and the University of Otago. His research is principally concerned with developments in the critical analysis of organization and the politics of management and organization theory. He has written on a range of topics in contemporary 'theory' and the philosophy of organization, and has written on women actors, entrepreneurship, violence, automobility and the relations between vampirism, capital and time. Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory and Business Ethics

Martin Parker is Professor of Organisational Sociology in the Management Centre at Leicester University. He joined Leicester in 2003, having previously taught in further education and then holding posts at the Universities of Staffordshire (in sociology) and Keele (in management). He has written about ethics, politics and utopias; social and organisational theory; higher education; the culture of organisations; and various aspects of the representation of organisations in contemporary culture.

René ten Bos is a philosopher and management teacher who works for Schouten & Nelissen. He is also a professor in 'Philosophy and organizational theory' at the University of Nijmegen. He is the author of 'Fashion and Utopia in Management Thinking' (2000) and several other books in his own language. His research interests include poststructuralism and organization, organizational hygiene, ethics and globalization.