Editors:
- Extensive and nuanced case descriptions
- Multi perspective, in-depth comments on cases
- Interdisciplinary approach to business ethics
- Advanced theoretical approaches to business ethics cases
Part of the book series: Issues in Business Ethics (IBET, volume 28)
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Case D: A Disputed Contract: Ihc Caland In Burma
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Case E: The Ice Train Accident near Eschede
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Front Matter
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Case E: The Ice Train Accident Near Eschede
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Case F: A Matter of Involvement – Unilever and Indian Cottonseed Cultivation
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Front Matter
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Case F: A Matter Of Involvement: Unilever And Indian Cottonseed Cultivation
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Case G: Rise and Fall of Silicon Valley in Flanders – Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
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Front Matter
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Case G: Rise And Fall Of Silicon Valley In Flanders:Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
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Case H: Construction Fraud
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Business ethics as a discipline leans on cases but flourishes by thorough analysis and reflection. The present volume offers both. After three introductory chapters into business ethics eight recent European cases, mainly stemming from The Netherlands and Belgium and all of them with a clear moral impact, are extensively described and analysed. Among them are the Lernout and Hauspie speech technology disaster, Heineken’s struggle with the promotion girls selling beer in Cambodia, cartels in the Dutch construction industry, the pharmaceutical industry and the Aids crisis, and Unilever allegedly making use of child labour in the cotton industry in India. Each case is followed by two expert comments, from the fields of general ethics, but also of law, economics, management and organisation theory, sociology and social psychology. Cases and comments together offer an unique entrance in varieties of moral reasoning and in the personal and institutional dimensions to be taken into account when facing a corporate case saturated with moral ambiguities. This book will be of interest to researchers as well as teachers of undergraduate and graduate courses in Business Ethics, Business in Society, Management and Organisation Theory and Strategic Management. It will also be useful for business practitioners eager to find moral guidance in their specific field.
Keywords
- Aids Crisis
- Business Cases
- Business Ethics
- Business Morality
- Business in Society
- Cartels
- Child Labour
- Economic Policy
- Economics
- European Business Cases
- Financial Crisis
- Institutional Theory
- Law
- Management Theory
- Management and Organisation
- Management and Organisation Theory
- Moral Competences
- Moral Problems in Business
- Moral Reason
- Morality
- Pharmaceutical Industry and Aids
- Theory and Strategic Management
Editors and Affiliations
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, Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands
Wim Dubbink
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Fac. Business & Economics, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Luc Liedekerke
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Henk Luijk
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: European Business Ethics Cases in Context
Book Subtitle: The Morality of Corporate Decision Making
Editors: Wim Dubbink, Luc Liedekerke, Henk Luijk
Series Title: Issues in Business Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9334-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9333-2Published: 10 February 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3516-3Published: 21 April 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9334-9Published: 09 February 2011
Series ISSN: 0925-6733
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1680
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 298
Topics: Ethics, Law and Economics, Philosophy, general