Business Ethics

List of Case Studies Preface Acknowledgments About the Author Ethical Decision-Making Framework PART I. THEORIES AND PRINCIPLES Chapter 1. Why Capitalism? What Is Capitalism? Archetypes of Capitalism Capitalism and Its Critics Government Institutions and Market Failures Moral Culture and Modern Managers Conclusion Key Terms Review Questions Discussion Questions Chapter 2. Corporate Moral Agency, Purpose, and Responsibilities The Corporation and the Triumph of Corporate Rights Corporate Moral Agency Corporate Purpose Corporate Accountability and Economic Mission Conclusion Key Terms Review Questions Discussion Questions Chapter 3. Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Plato, Aristotle, and Virtue Ethics Consequences and Utilitarianism Ethics as Duty Natural Rights Synthesis and Application Scope of Corporate Social Responsibility Conclusion Key Terms Review Questions Discussion Questions PART II. PERSONAL INTEGRITY IN THE WORKPLACE Chapter 4. The Person and the Corporation An Overview of the Cases CASE STUDY 4.1: Trouble in the Recruiting Office CASE STUDY 4.2: Conscience and the Workplace CASE STUDY 4.3: Karen Preston's New Boss CASE STUDY 4.4: Confessions of an Appliance Salesman CASE STUDY 4.5: The "Perfect" Job Offer CASE STUDY 4.6: The Product Manager CASE STUDY 4.7: Telling the Truth about the Probable Sale of a Division CASE STUDY 4.8: Should an Engineer Inform the FAA about a Defective Fuselage Design? CASE STUDY 4.9: Who's Responsible? Conclusion Review Questions Discussion Questions Appendix: How to Analyze a Case PART III. CORPORATE VALUES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Chapter 5. The Rights of the Modern Corporation An Overview of the Cases CASE STUDY 5.1: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission CASE STUDY 5.2: The Hobby Lobby Case Conclusion Review Questions Discussion Questions Chapter 6. Ethics in the Investment and Financial Services Industries An Overview of the Cases Briefing on Insider Trading CASE STUDY 6.1: Texas Gulf Sulphur CASE STUDY 6.2: All in the Family: The Stewart Insider Trading Case CASE STUDY 6.3: Manipulating the LIBOR CASE STUDY 6.4: Fraud or Shrewd Business? The Case of Goldman Sachs CASE STUDY 6.5: The Wells Fargo Sales Scam Conclusion Key Terms Review Question Discussion Questions Chapter 7. Patients, Patents, and the Pharmaceutical Industry An Overview of the Cases A Note on Patents and Intellectual Property Rights Briefing on Big Pharma and Industry Regulations CASE STUDY 7.1: The New Economics of Drug Pricing: Valeant Pharmaceuticals International CASE STUDY 7.2: Big Pharma Confronts AIDS CASE STUDY 7.3: Myriad Genetics: Patenting the Genome Conclusion Key Terms Review Questions Discussion Questions Chapter 8. Protecting the Consumer: Product Safety and Marketing An Overview of the Cases Briefing: Spotlight on the Tobacco Industry CASE STUDY 8.1: Plain Packaging and the Ongoing Trials of Big Tobacco Briefing on Safety and the U.S. Automotive Industry CASE STUDY 8.2: The Chevy Cobalt Ignition Switch Crisis CASE STUDY 8.3: Takata's Airbag: Unsafe in Any Car? CASE STUDY 8.4: The Samsung Recall: A Galaxy of Troubles Conclusion Review Questions Discussion Questions PART IV. GLOBAL CAPITALISM, CULTURE, AND JUSTICE Chapter 9. Business and the Environment An Overview of the Cases CASE STUDY 9.1: Poisoned Land: The Tragic History of Love Canal CASE STUDY 9.2: Deepwater Horizon: BP on the Edge CASE STUDY 9.3: Volkswagen's Dieselgate CASE STUDY 9.4: Chevron in the Amazon: Anatomy of Environmental Degradation and Its Aftermath Conclusion Key Terms Review Question Discussion Questions Chapter 10. Informational Privacy and Cybersecurity An Overview of the Cases Briefing on Privacy Rights and Security CASE STUDY 10.1: Data Breaches at Yahoo CASE STUDY 10.2: Going Dark: Apple versus the FBI Conclusion Key Terms Review Question Discussion Questions Chapter 11. Fair Competition in the Era of Informational Capitalism An Overview of the Cases CASE STUDY 11.1: Microsoft Accused: The Browser Wars and the Antitrust Case CASE STUDY 11.2: Challenging the Google Monopoly Conclusion Key Terms Review Question Discussion Questions Chapter 12. Employee Rights and Sexual Harassment An Overview of the Cases Briefing on Duties to Employees CASE STUDY 12.1: Sexual Harassment or Imprudence? CASE STUDY 12.2: Voluntary Redundancies at PSA Group CASE STUDY 12.3: GPS Monitoring and Employee Privacy Rights: Excerpts from Cunningham v. New York State Department of Labor Conclusion Key Terms Review Question Discussion Questions PART V. GLOBALIZATION AND CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY Chapter 13. Global Politics and Disinvestment Strategies An Overview of the Cases Briefing on the History and Challenges of Globalization CASE STUDY 13.1: ITT in Chile: Corporate Executives and Marxist Presidents CASE STUDY 13.2: Rubber at Any Price: Firestone and the African Strongman Conclusion Key Terms Review Question Discussion Questions Chapter 14. Bribery and Corruption in Foreign Markets An Overview of the Cases Briefing on Bribery and the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act CASE STUDY 14.1: GlaxoSmithKline in China CASE STUDY 14.2: Seeds of Scandal at Monsanto CASE STUDY 14.3: The Resource Curse and Equatorial Guinea Conclusion Key Terms Review Question Discussion Questions Chapter 15. Responsible Outsourcing: Fair Wages and Worker Safety An Overview of the Cases CASE STUDY 15.1: Worker Abuses in the Supply Chain: The Disturbing Case of Apple in China CASE STUDY 15.2: Sweatshops and Deathtraps: The Garment Industry in Bangladesh Conclusion Review Question Discussion Questions Glossary Notes Selected Bibliography Index