From the Universities to the Marketplace: The Business Ethics Journey: The Second Annual International Vincentian Conference Promoting Business Ethics [Hardcover]

From the Universities to the Marketplace: The Business Ethics Journey arose from the awareness of the slow progression of academic theory into market practice. The contributions in this volume reflect a diversity of disciplines and approaches to research, study and teaching business ethics, such as philosophy, accounting, theology, marketing, management and finance. The contributors represent a wide variety of professional and geographical backgrounds, creating a fruitful discussion of a large number of issues related to implementation and measurement of business ethics, and feedback from all parties involved.Corporate Social Performance, Stakeholder Orientation, and Organizational Moral Development.- Globalizing Corporate Ethics Programs: Perils and Prospects.- Private Parts: A Global Analysis of Privacy Protection Schemes and a Proposed Innovation for Their Comparative Evaluation.- The Ethical Management Practices of Australian Firms.- Ethical Dilemmas of Doing Business in Post-Soviet Ukraine.- Teaching Business Ethics Through Meditation.- Factors that Influence the Moral Reasoning Abilities of Accountants: Implications for Universities and the Profession.- Do Complex Moral Reasoners Experience Greater Ethical Work Conflict?.- Re-examining the Influence of Individual Values on Ethical Decision Making.- Using the Ethical Environment Paradigm to Teach Business Ethics: The Case of the Maquiladoras.- Service Learning in Business Ethics.- Caveat Emptor: Ethical Chauvinism in the Global Economy.- Corporate Ethics Codes: A Practical Application of Liability Prevention.- An Ethical Approach to Lobbying Activities of Businesses in the United States.- How Relationality Shapes Business and Its Ethics.- Suggested Management Responses to Ethical Issues Raised by Technological Change.- The Whys of Business Revisited.- Business Ethics: A Compromise Between Politics and Virtue.- Honesty, Individualism, and Pragmatic Business Ethics: Implications flc2