| Enriching Business Ethics 1990 Edition Contributor(s): Walton, Clarence C. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0306434504 ISBN-13: 9780306434501 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Business & Economics | Management Science - Political Science |
| Dewey: 174.4 |
| LCCN: 90-34656 |
| Series: Springer Studies in Work and Industry |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.34 lbs) 286 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Over thirty years ago, Alfred North Whitehead wrote: "If America is to be civilized, it has to be done (at least for the present) by the business class who are in possession of the power and the economic resources . . . . If the American universities were up to their job, they would be taking business in hand and teaching it ethics and professional standards. " * To the intellectual elites of his time, there was something of a minor in Whitehead's view. Few of them saw business as a civilizing force heresy and even fewer, feeling that business was not to be tamed, relished the role of the lion tamers. Not many today doubt Whitehead's wisdom. Organiza- tions of wealth and power have accepted their corporate social responsibili- ties, and universities have launched major efforts to provide ethical instruc- tion for business personnel. So far as the scholars are concerned, they quickly came to realize the difficulty of an undertaking that seeks to redefine and apply moral criteria to a very complex corporate world. Philosophers, in particular, have learned (or perhaps have relearned) how their speculations on ethics must take into account the "living ethic" expressed in the American culture- and here anthropologists, sociologists, and theologians were needed to provide an expertise that the moral manuals did not. |