This book offers new and challenging approaches to business ethics that successfully link theory and practice thereby overcoming lacunae and inadequacies in much of the literature concerning ethics and governance, a theme that recurs with remarkable frequency in the history of business ethics as an academic discipline. This work provides imaginative and innovate proposals for the indispensable coupling of virtue, integrity, and character with global business, finance, and banking. The volume seeks to overcome the marginal status of business ethics in universities, business, and enterprise by demonstrating that virtue ethics is an important step in the direction of an adequate response to the leadership issue. This new edition of a popular work points to new ways of achieving an ever more urgent coalescence of ethics and business. It proposes practical advice and viable suggestions to business people on what is right and wrong in business. The volume makes a vital contribution in thearea of education that should serve the ongoing development of top leaders. In the important domain of women in leadership, the volume provides new solutions that break boundaries on the global stage. The work challenges unethical marketing of human images with important implications for citizenship and society. The volume contains creative suggestions for the use of spirituality and human development for the enhancement of business and society. The significantly extended second edition includes an exciting line up of leading academics and practitioners in the audacious hope that something may change for the better in the realms of business and banking.

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Gabriel Flynn completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2000. He is the editor of the first edition of Leadership and Business Ethics, Issues in Business Ethics Series 25 (First Edition, Springer, 2008). Flynn is a reviewer of papers at the Journal of Business Ethics (JBE) and Business Ethics: A European Review and elsewhere. He is a member of the organizing committee for the International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference (IVBEC), a forum where he seeks to refocus conceptual work about commerce and business practices in a way that overcomes disparities between theory and practice in the era of global enterprise. 

Zusammenfassung
Gabriel Flynn and Patricia H. Werhane This book points to a necessary relationship between ethics and business; the success of such an alliance depends directly on sound business leadership. Without the sort of leadership that upholds the dignity and rights of employees and clients, as well as the interests of shareholders, even the most meticulously prepared ethics statements are destined to founder, as evidenced at Enron and elsewhere. Over the past 30 years or so, since business ethics became established as a discipline in its own right, much progress has been made in the ethical conduct of business at all levels. In short, business people, like politicians, doctors and church leaders, have come to realize that it is not possible to avoid involvement in ethics, for much of what business people do and cannot do may be subject to ethical evaluation. While the history of business ethics as currently practised may be traced to the medieval and ancient periods; our principal concern is with developments in the ?eld over recent decades. A consideration of how the topic has been treated by the Harvard Business Review, the business world'sleadingprofessionaljournal,provideshelpful insights into past progress and present challenges. In 1929, just as business ethics was beginning to evolve, Wallace B.

Inhalt

Introduction; Gabriel Flynn & Patricia H. Werhane.- Business Ethics: Europe versus America; Domènec Melé.- Part I Individual Level Business Leadership.- Leadership and the Challenge of Character and Corporate Reputation; Miguel Alzola.- The Virtuous Manager: A Vision for Leadership in Business; Gabriel Flynn (Revised).- Socratic Questions and Aristotelian Answers: A Virtue-based Approach to Business Ethics; Edwin M. Hartman.- Business Ethics beyond the Moral Imagination: A Response to Richard Rorty; Paul T. Harper (Revised).- Inspirational Leadership and Strategic Vision in the Business World; Brian Leavy (Revised).- Using Discernment to make Better Business Decisions; Margaret Benefiel.- Responsible Leadership beyond Managerial Rationality: The Necessity of Reconnecting Ethics and Spirituality; Johan Verstraten.- People in Business: Context and Character; James G. Murphy (Revised).- Part II: Organizational Level Business Leadership.- Ethical Leadership Challenges as refracted through the OCAI Model: An Instrument for Analysing an Organisation's Culture; Daryl Koehn (New).- How Losing Soul Leads to Ethical Corruption in Business; Ronald Duska and Julie Anne Ragatz.- Corporate Culture and Organizational Ethics; David Smith and Louise Drudy.- Values in the Marketplace: What is Ethical Retailing? Paul Whysall.- Part III: Societal Level Business Leadership.- Global Women Leaders and the Challenge of Ethics; Regina Wentzel Wolfe (New).- The Marketing of Human Images as a Challenge to Ethical Leadership; Robert Audi.- Management and the Challenge of Ethical Leadership; Patrick Flood and Johan Coetsee (New).- Alternative Business Ethics: A Challenge for Leadership; Donal Dorr (Revised).- Overcoming the Disparities between Theory and Practice in Corporate Governance: The Role of Ethical Leaders in Business, Finance, and Commerce; Stephen Bloomfield (New).- The UN Global Compact: The Challenge and the Promise; Oliver F. Williams (new).- Corporate Citizenship: The Dark-Side Paradoxes of Success; Sandra Waddock.- Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Moral.-Responsibility, and Systems Thinking: Is There a Difference and the Difference it Makes; Patricia H. Werhane.- Public Policy: The Global Parameters of Governance and Information Technology; Con Power and Vincent J. McBrierty (New).