Efnisyfirlit

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of cases and ethical dilemmas
• List of figures and tables
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
  • Why study business ethics?
  • What the book is about
  • Who the book is for
  • What the book will enable readers to do
  • The approach to learning
  • Background to the book
  • Notes
• Part One Business ethics — principles
  • 1 Business ethics affect everyone
    • Learning outcomes
    • Ethical issues arise throughout the business world
      • Defining morality and ethics
    • Ethics are imbedded in and reflect cultures
    • The relationship between law and ethics
    • Philosophical theories provide a context
    • Business ethics involve choices
    • A stakeholder view of business ethics
    • Corporate governance and risk management involve ethics
    • Why do people behave the way they do?6
    • The importance of trust in business
    • Cases
      • Case 1.1 The employment of children in developing countries
      • Case 1.2 Pharmaceutical companies and generic drugs for poor countries
      • Case 1.3 The corporate culture at Goldman Sachs
      • Case 1.4 Enron
      • Notes
      • Further reading
      • Useful websites
      • Projects and exercises
      • Self-test questions
  • 2 The evolution of business ethics
    • Learning outcomes
    • Business has always needed sound ethics
    • Business ethics and ancient traders
    • Business ethics in the 19th century
    • Scandals and collapses in the 20th century
      • The 21st century turned the spotlight onto business ethics
    • Ethical failures and the response of business
    • Cases
      • Case 2.1 Fraud at Gray's Building Society
      • Case 2.2 Insider dealing at Drexel Burnham Lambert
      • Case 2.3 Ivan Boesky and the case of Guinness
      • Case 2.4 Robert Maxwell and his media empire
    • Noted
    • Further reading
    • Useful websites
    • Projects and exercises
    • Self-test questions
  • 3 On corporate social responsibility
    • Learning outcomes
    • Do companies have social responsibilities?
    • Balancing responsibilities between shareholders and stakeholders
    • Pros and cons of corporate social responsibility
      • The stakeholder perspective
      • The ethical perspective
      • The societal perspective
      • The political perspective
      • The enlightened shareholder value (ESV) perspective
      • The philanthropic perspective
    • Approaches to corporate social responsibility
    • The practice of corporate social responsibility
    • On sustainable development, the United Nations Global Compact and GRI
    • Corporate vision, mission and values
    • Cases
      • Case 3.1 Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the Yukos case
      • Case 3.2 The disaster at BP Deepwater Horizon
      • Case 3.3 Royal Bank of Scotland's IT systems breakdown
      • Case 3.4 Tokyo Electric Power and the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi
    • Notes
    • Further reading
    • Useful websites
    • Projects and exercises
    • Self-test questions
  • 4 Business ethics and corporate governance
    • Learning outcomes
    • What is corporate governance?
    • Board structures
    • Board functions
      • Corporate vision, mission, values, and strategy formulation
      • Policy making
      • Executive monitoring and supervision
      • Accountability, ensuring compliance and transparency
    • The regulation of corporate governance
    • Some theoretical insights — agency, stewardship and stakeholder ideas
      • Stewardship theory
      • Agency theory
      • Stakeholder ideas
    • The roles of the board chairman and chief executive officer
    • The role of the auditors, regulators and company secretary
    • Changing expectations in the governance of organizations
    • Cases
      • ase 4.1 Google harvests private data from Street View scan
      • Case 4.2 The Tyco case
      • Case 4.3 The case of Lord Black
      • Case 4.4 Toyota's corporate governance failings
      • Toyota and its problems
    • Appendix To Chapter 4
      • Additional information on corporate regulation
      • New York Stock Exchange listing rules
      • King 1 Report (1994)
      • King 2 Report (2002)
      • UK Corporate Governance Code (2010)
    • Notes
    • Further reading
    • Useful websites
    • Projects and exercises
    • Self-test questions
  • 5 Business ethics and enterprise risk
    • Learning outcomes
    • A new emphasis on corporate risk
    • Levels of risk — strategic, managerial and operational
    • The concept of ethical risk
    • The significance of strategic ethical risk
    • Moral hazards in business ethics
    • The concept of enterprise risk management
    • Managing risk throughout the organization
    • Risk recognition
    • Risk assessment
    • Risk evaluation
    • Determining risk strategy and policies
    • Risk monitoring and reporting
    • Developments in ERM
      • The COSO integrated framework for ERM
      • The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)9
      • The UK Corporate Governance code (2010)
      • The International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN)11
    • Case
      • Case 5.1 The Northern Rock Bank
      • Case 5.2 Network Rail
      • Case 5.3 The collapse of HBOS bank
      • Case 5.4 The collapse of the Andersen partnership
    • Notes
    • References and further reading
    • Useful websites
    • Projects and exercises
    • Self-test questions
• Part Two Business ethics — practice
  • 6 Creating a sound ethics culture
    • Learning outcomes
    • Different approaches to ethics management
      • The compliance approach to business ethics
      • The risk-reduction approach
      • The satisfying-stakeholders approach
      • Creating a values-orientated culture
    • What makes a business decision ethical?
      • Who could be affected by this decision?
      • Aspects of business ethics can arise when least expected
      • What effects might this decision have on others?
      • What might others think about the ethics of this decision?
      • What makes people act the way they do?
      • Age
      • Gender
      • Education
      • Employment experience
      • Personal values and integrity
      • Context-related factors
      • National cultural characteristics
      • Corporate cultural characteristics
      • Reward systems
      • Authority structure and bureaucracy
      • Work roles
      • Establishing an ethics culture
      • Essentials for a successful ethics policy
      • The vital importance of business leadership
      • Ethics and stakeholder relations
      • Antagonistic or collaborative relations with stakeholders
      • Ethical codes for different organizations
      • Corporate codes of ethics
      • Codes of ethics for professional bodies
      • Industry-wide codes of ethics
      • Codes of ethics for groups
      • Drafting an ethics code
      • The management of business ethics
      • On whistle-blowing and whistle-blowers
    • Cases
      • Case 6.1 Conflicts of interest at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
      • Case 6.2 Board failings at Olympus Japan
      • Case 6.3 Should Terry be a whistle-blower?
      • Case 6.4 US company considers an acquisition in Brazil
    • Notes
    • Further reading
    • Useful websites
    • Projects and exercises
    • Self-test questions
  • 7 Uniting business ethics, governance and risk
    • Learning outcomes
    • The 21st century's emphasis on business ethics, governance and risk
    • Uniting business ethics, corporate governance and risk management
    • Creating a corporate vision and mission
    • Building core corporate values
    • Codes of business ethics
      • Rolls-Royce Global Code of Business Ethics
      • TOTAL South Africa code of ethics
      • Wells Fargo code of ethics and business conduct
    • Preventing bribery and corruption
      • The US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (1977)14
      • The OECD Anti-Bribery Convention (1997)
      • Hong Kong Prevention of Bribery Ordinance (1997)17
      • The UN Convention against Corruption (2004)18
      • China's bribery blacklist (2009)
      • UK Bribery Act (2010)19
    • Other anti-bribery and corruption initiatives
    • Cases
      • Case 7.1 Shell Oil, the Nigerian authorities and the Ogoni people
      • Case 7.2 Lehman Brothers Inc
      • Case 7.3 Questionable behavior at News International
      • Case 7.4 Alleged vote-rigging at Pacific Century Cyber Work, Hong Kong
    • Notes
    • Further reading
    • Useful websites
    • Projects and exercises
    • Self-test questions
  • 8 Business ethics in finance
    • Learning outcomes
    • What is involved in business finance
    • Ethics in financial strategy
      • Leverage/gearing strategies
      • Anti-predator strategies
      • Share price protection strategies
      • Tax avoidance strategies
    • Ethical relationships with investors in public companies
      • Present reality — the separation of ownership from control
    • Insider dealing and trading
    • Ethical investment and ethical funds
      • The UN Principles for Responsible Investment
    • Money laundering, combating global crime and terrorism
    • Ethical relationships with shareholders in non-listed companies
      • Ethical issues in groups of companies
      • Ethical issues in government-controlled companies
      • Ethics in family firms
      • The management of shareholder relations
    • Ethical relationships with non-equity sources of finance
    • Ethical challenges for independent outside auditors
      • Close relationships with clients affecting independence
      • Cross-selling consulting services
      • The market domination of the ‘big four'
      • Auditing failing companies
      • Is accountancy a profession or a business?
    • Ethical relationships with regulators
    • Ethics and credit-rating agencies
    • Ethics in financial management
    • Ethics in financial operations
    • Cases
      • Case 8.1 Bankers criticized in Farepak collapse
      • Case 8.2 Spoofing at Swift Trade
      • Case 8.3 JPMorgan Chase and the Voldemort black hole
    • Notes
    • Further reading
    • Useful websites
    • Projects and exercises
    • Self-test questions
  • 9 Ethics in business operations
    • Learning outcomes
    • Ethical issues in procurement
      • Suppliers as stakeholders
      • Ethical issues with suppliers
      • Ethical sourcing, fair trade and sustainable consumption
    • Ethical aspects of business operations and information technology
      • Ethics in product technology
      • Ethics in research and development
      • Ethics in manufacturing technology
      • Ethics in information technology
    • Ethical issues in marketing and market research
      • Customers and consumers as stakeholders
      • Consumer activism
      • From caveat emptor to consumer protection
      • Ethical issues in market communications
      • Misleading and false descriptions
      • Ethical issues in advertising
      • Ethical issues in pricing
      • Customer boycotts
      • Ethical issues in market research
      • Individuals‘ right to privacy
      • Coping with international sanctions
    • Competitors as stakeholders
      • Industrial espionage
      • Negative advertising
      • Anti-competitive behavior
    • Ethical challenges of the global market
    • On bribery and corruption around the world
    • Cases
      • Case 9.1 The loss of a Nimrod aircraft-the ethical culture at BAE systems
      • Case 9.2 Should Jean-Paul accept his friend's proposal?
      • Case 9.3 HP and the Autonomy acquisition
      • Case 9.4 Food safety in Taiwan
    • Notes
    • Further reading
    • Useful websites
    • Projects and exercises
    • Self-test questions
  • 10 Business ethics and employees
    • Learning outcomes
    • Employees as stakeholders
      • Contract and commitment in the employee relationship
      • Risks in the employer-employee relationship
    • Employers' relations with employees
    • Employees' relations with employers
      • Employees' duty to employer — legal and moral
      • Senior management and directors' remuneration
    • Employment and human rights
      • The right to work
      • National cultures and moral values
    • Cases
      • Case 10.1 Foxconn and Apple13
      • Case 10.2 Drug testing of employees
      • Case 10.3 Employee rights to privacy
      • Case 10.4 Construction company faces competition and corruption
    • Notes
    • Further reading
    • Useful websites
    • Projects and exercises
    • Self-test questions
  • 11 Business ethics, society and the state
    • Learning outcomes
    • What we mean by society
    • Societal organizations as stakeholders in business
      • Co-operative partnerships between companies and societal stakeholders
    • Ethical issues in relations between business and society
      • Identifying societal stakeholders and their interests
      • Societal stakeholders' tactics — indirect and direct action
    • The state as a business stakeholder
      • Government representing society's interests
      • Government as regulator of business
      • Government as facilitator of business
      • Government as player on the business stage
    • Ethical issues in government — business relations
      • Legitimacy, accountability, and influence
      • Lobbying and pressure groups to influence government action
      • Business staff advising government on policy or regulation
      • Financing political parties and candidates to obtain their support
      • Privatization and deregulation
    • Globalization and business-government relations
      • The power of multinational corporations
      • The influence of meta-state organizations
    • Cases
      • Cases 11.1 When Kraft acquires Cadbury promises melt
      • Case 11.2 Waste Management — the crown jewel for Andersen
      • Case 11.3 Southern Cross Healthcare Group
      • Case 11.4 Chiquita goes bananas
    • Notes
    • Further reading
    • Useful websites
    • Projects and exercises
    • Self-test questions
  • 12 The future of business ethics
    • The essence of business ethics
      • Business ethics provide the bedrock on which sound business practices are built
      • Business ethics are concerned with relationships with the stakeholders of a business
      • Business ethics apply to every organizational level
      • Business ethics lie at the heart of corporate governance
      • Business ethics usually call for the balancing of risk
      • Every organization develops an ethics culture
      • Corporate social responsibility has (CSR) become an essential element of business ethics
      • Environmental protection and sustainability have become goals in business ethics
      • Globalization is amplifying challenges in business ethics
    • Why business ethics have become so important
    • The power of business oligarchies
    • Frontier issues in business ethics
      • Gender diversity
      • Excessive executive remuneration
      • Aggressive tax avoidance
      • The role and responsibilities of auditors8
      • Penalties for ethical failure
      • Stakeholders' short-term or long-term interests
      • Rethinking the role of business in society
      • Limited liability — a privilege not a right
    • Some final thoughts
      • Personal values in business ethics
      • The need for a new paradigm for the corporation
    • Cases
      • Case 12.1 Aggressive tax avoidance
      • Case 12.2 Barclays Bank and the LIBOR rate-rigging scandal
      • Case 12.3 GOME retail challenges in China
      • Case 12.4 Quotas for women directors
    • Notes
    • Further reading
    • Useful websites
    • Projects and exercises
    • Self-test questions
  • Answers to self-examination questions
    • Chapter 1
    • Chapter 2
    • Chapter 3
    • Chapter 4
    • Chapter 5
    • Chapter 6
    • Chapter 7
    • Chapter 8
    • Chapter 9
    • Chapter 10
    • Chapter 11
    • Chapter 12
• Index

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