Global Perspectives on Ethics of Corporate Governance [Hardcover]

This volume takes a hard look at the soft practice of corporate governance. It grew out of a series of contributions from the Third ISBEE World Congress on Business Ethics that took place on July 2004 in Melbourne.Introduction; G.J.D. Rossouw & A.J.G.Sison PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE ETHICS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Ethical Investing: Implications for Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility; I.B. Lee Towards Ethical Compliance: Lessons from Enron; D.McBarnet Stakeholder Theory and Imperfect Duties; D. Lea Trust in the Mind and Heart of Corporate Governance; J.Little The Common Good of the Firm as the Fiduciary Duty of the Manager; P. Koslowski Governance and Government from an Aristotelian Perspective; A.J.G. Sison The Ethical Issue of Corporate Governance and the Management Sciences Theories; W.W. Gasparski PART II: A GLOBAL SURVEY OF BUSINESS ETHICS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Business Ethics and Corporate Governance in Africa; G.J.D.Rossouw Business Ethics and Corporate Governance in the Asia-Pacific Region; D. Kimber & P.Lipton Business Ethics and Corporate Governance in Japan; N.Demise Business Ethics and Corporate Governance in Europe; J.Wieland Business Ethics and Corporate Governance in Latin America; H.Bedicks & M.C. Coutinho de Arruda Business Ethics and Corporate Governance in North America; L.V.Ryan

This book provides a cogent perspective into the ethical aspects of governance, a concept that implies stewardship and accountability in terms of stakeholders and their vital economic and material interests. Stewardship must also have ethical and moral underpinnings that define duties and responsibilities of those who govern. The second part of the book extends the theoretical dimension of ethics and governance into different regions. It provides a highly useful filter of culture that lends meaning and practicality to the theoretical perspective. This book is an important contribution to the study of ethics and govlc°