Business Ethics

Understanding Business Ethics
1. Introducing business ethics
2. Framing business ethics: Corporate responsibility, stakeholders, and citizenship
3. Evaluating business ethics: Normative ethical theories
4. Making decisions in business ethics: descriptive ethical theories
5. Managing business ethics: tools and techniques of business ethics management
Contextualizing Business Ethics
6. Shareholders and business ethics
7. Employees and business ethics
8. Consumers and business ethics
9. Suppliers, competitors, and business ethics
10. Civil society and business ethics
11. Government, regulation, and business ethics
12. Conclusions and future perspectives

Companion Site
Instructor's Resources:
- Sample course outline
- Teaching notes
-- Case studies
-- Ethical Dilemmas
--Ethics in Action
-- Ethics on Screen
- Think Theory answers
- PowerPoint slides
- Test bank
- Case bank
- VLE Content
- Ideas for structured workshops
Student Resources:
- Multiple-choice questions
- Practitioner Spotlight videos and web links
- Think Theory answers
- A list of careers in ethics
- Useful web links
-- Additional case studies
-- Additional Ethics in Action boxes
-- Additional Ethics on Screen boxes
-- Video links
-- Crane and Matten blog and feeds from new blogs
- Film List
- Ethics career guide
- Suggested further reading

Andrew Crane is Professor of Business and Society at the University of Bath, UK. Dirk Matten is Professor of Strategy and Hewlett-Packard Chair at York University, Canada. Sarah Glozer is Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Business, and Society at the University of Bath, UK. Laura Spence is Professor of Business Ethics at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

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Special Features

• An award-winning textbook, written by four of the world's leading experts on business ethics, offers a fresh perspective while maintaining a highly-praised, straightforward writing style.
• Combines a theoretical and practical approach by first covering the foundations of business ethics (Part A: Understanding Business Ethics) and then showing their applications to corporations' major stakeholders (Part B: Contextualizing Business Ethics).
• Truly global perspective provides examples from international economies, giving students a broad perspective of business ethics and demonstrating how business ethics applies to a real variety of organizations.
• Covers the topics of globalization, sustainability, and corporate citizenship throughout, enabling students to see how issues are treated when embedded in the context of business ethics.
• Accessible writing style and easy-to-follow narrative based on core business ethics themes and distinct stakeholder applications engages students with complex concepts.
• Engaging box features focus on theory and key decision-making skills.
• - Ethical Dilemma boxes ask students to question their decisions and values by having them work out ethically correct actions within situations involving ethical issues.
• - Ethics Online boxes provide insight into the use of social media and online tools for understanding and participating in business ethics.
• - Ethics in Action boxes show applications of ethics through real-world examples.
• - Ethics on Screen boxes discuss ethical dilemmas from films.
• - Skill Check boxes highlight the business skills covered in each chapter.
• - Think Theory boxes highlight theories discussed in the text.
• - Key Concept boxes reinforce key ideas from the chapter.
• Unique pedagogical features - including in-text business examples, end-of-chapter case studies, research exercises, and study questions - help students understand how theory relates to real-life practice and evaluate ethical behaviour in the real world.
• Coverage of key topics, including SMEs and social enterprise; feminist ethics; world religions and business ethics; and whistleblowing and personal decision-making.

New to this Edition

• Practitioner Spotlights feature prominent businesswomen and men, exploring the ethical challenges faced in the workplace and the skills employed to tackle them.
• Substantially refreshed Ethics in Action boxes provide new examples exploring ethical considerations at organizations such as Nudie Jeans Co., Brewdog, and indigenous Bangladeshi tanneries, as well as complex issues including digital currency, modern slavery, and Big Data.
• Newly added Case Studies address the latest developments in the business environment, such as the sharing economy and sustainability.
• New text design enhances the content throughout, making the learning features more engaging and accessible.