Business Ethics A Virtue Ethics Approach [Hardcover]

Can business activities and decisions be virtuous?

This is the first business ethics textbook to take a virtue ethics approach. It explains how virtue ethics compares with alternative approaches to business ethics, such as utilitarianism and deontology, and argues that virtue ethics best serves the common good of society.

Looking across the whole spectrum of businessincluding finance, governance, leadership, marketing and productioneach chapter presents the theory of virtue ethics and supports students learning with chapter objectives, in-depth interviews with professionals and real-life case studies from a wide range of countries.

Business Ethics: A Virtue Ethics and Common Good Approach is a valuable text for advanced undergraduates and masters-level students on business ethics courses.

1. Virtues and the Common Good in Business

Alejo Jos? G. Sison, Ignacio Ferrero and Gregorio Guiti?n

2. Virtues and the Common Good in Leadership

Matthias P. H?hn, Marcel Meyer and Aliza Racelis

3. Virtues and the Common Good in Finance

Alejo Jos? G. Sison, Ignacio Ferrero, Gregorio Guiti?n, Marta Rocchi and Andrea Roncella

4. Virtues and the Common Good in Production

Germ?n Scalzo

5. Virtues and the Common Good in Marketing

Pablo Garc?a Ruiz and Carlos Rodr?guez Lluesma

6. Virtues and the Common Good in Human Resource Management

Javier Pinto-Garay and Mar?a Jos? Bosch

7. Virtues and Common Good in Corporate Legal Practice

Kemi Ogunyemi and J. Brooke Hamilton

8. Practical Wisdom in Corporate Governance

Alejo Jos? G. Sison and Matthias P. H?hn

9. Confucian Traditions in Virtue Ethics