Rethinking Business Ethics A Pragmatic Approach [Hardcover]

Using classical American pragmatism, the authors provide a philosophical framework for rethinking the nature of the corporation--how it is embedded in its natural, technological, cultural, and international environments, emphasizing throughout its pervasive relational and moral dimensions. They explore the relationship of this framework to other contemporary business ethics perspectives, as well as its implications for moral leadership in business and business education.

Part One: A Conceptual Framework for Business Ethics
1. Moral Pluralism and the Decision Making Self
2. The Emergence of Value and the Nature of Moral Reasoning
3. The Normative-Empirical Split: Reality or Illusion?
4. Neo-Pragmatism Without Pragmatism: A Look at Rorty
Part Two: Business in its Diverse Model Environments
5. Business in its Cultural Environment: Changing Conceptual Frameworks
6. Business in its Natural Environment: Toward a Unifying Moral Framework
7. Business in its Technological Environment
8. Business in its Public Policy Environment
9. Business in its Global Environment
Part Three: The Nature of the Corporation
10. Pragmatism and Contemporary Business Ethics Perspectives on the Firm
11. A Pragmatic Theory of the Corporation
12. Corporate Leadership

Sandra Rosenthalis Provost Distinguished Professor of Philosophy andRogene Buchholtzis Legendre-Soule Professor of Business Ethics, both at Loyola University of New Orleans.