This book offers both case studies and thorough analysis and reflection on business ethics. Drawing on eleven recent European cases, the book offers a unique vehicle for considering moral reasoning and personal and institutional dimensions.

Business cases are at the heart of business ethics as a discipline. Analysis and reflection on the morality of business often is triggered by concrete cases. After four introductory chapters into recent developments within business ethics and the value of case analysis, the present volume offers extensive description of eight recent European cases, mainly stemming from The Netherlands and Belgium and all of them with a clear moral impact. Among them are the Lernout and Hauspie speech technology disaster, Heineken 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. The 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 learn about business ethics by means of cases.

Extensive and nuanced case descriptions First case book of its kind Interdisciplinary approach to business ethics Advanced theoretical approaches to business ethics cases

Inhalt

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Table of Contents.- Part I: Theory.- Chapter 1 Business Ethics: Cases, Codes and Institutions; Henk van Luijk.- Chapter 2 Moral Competence; Henk van Luijk and Wim Dubbink.- Chapter 3 Institutions and The Institutional Turn in Business Ethics; Wim Dubbink.- Part II: Cases.- Chapter 4 The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Aids Crisis; Marcel Verweij.- Chapter 5 Heineken and Promotion Girls in Cambodia; Rosalie Feilzer and Frans Paul van der Putten.- Chapter 6 Heineken and Promotion Girls in Cambodia, Part 2; Frans Paul van der Putten.- Chapter 7 A Disputed Contract: IHC Caland in Burma; Frank de Bakker and Frank den Hondt.- Chapter 8 The ICE Train Accident near Eschede; Michiel Brumsen .- Chapter 9 A Matter of Involvement: Unilever and Indian Cottonseed Cultivation; Wim Dubbink.- Chapter 10 Rise And Fall Of Silicon Valley In Flanders: Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products; Marc Buelens and Eva Cools.- Chapter 11 The Construction Industry Fraud; Johan Graafland and Luc van Liedekerke.- Index.- About the authors