European Business Ethics Cases in Context: The Morality of Corporate Decision Making

By Wim Dubbink

Book Overview

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 4.1 The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Aids Crisis; Marcel Verweij.- 4.2 The Struggle against AIDS and the Pharmaceuticals Industry: Are There Limits to the Moral Obligation to Do Good? Mari?tte van den Hoven.- 4.3 Special duties and the AIDS-crisis: a commentary on the Roche case Jan Vorstenbosch.- Chapter 5.1 Heineken and Promotion Girls in Cambodia; Rosalie Feilzer and Frans Paul van der Putten.- 5.2 Obscured authority; Raoul Wirtz, Edgar Karssing, Gemma Crijns.- 5.3 Heineken between Moral Motives and Self-interest; Frank den Hond.- Chapter 6.1 Heineken and Promotion Girls in Cambodia, Part 2; Frans Paul van der Putten.- 6.2 Legitimacy as Moral Exchange? Frank de Bakker.- 6.3 How to Deal with the Side Effects of Delivering Beer? Peter Koslowski.- Chapter 7.1 A Disputed Contract: IHC Caland in Burma; Frank de Bakker and Frank den Hondt.- 7.2 Dredgers on land; Pieter Ippel.- 7.3 IHC Caland in Burma: An Analysis; Johan Graafland.- Chapter 8.1 The ICE Train Accident near Eschede; Michiel Brumsen .- 8.2 Collective Responsibility and the Virtue of Accuracy; Bert van de Ven.- 8.3 Technology as material ethics; Tsjalling Swierstra.- Chapter 9.1 A Matter Of Involvement: Unilever and Indian Cottonseed Cultivation; Wim Dubbink.- 9.2 The Scope of Chain Responsibility; Jos Kole.- 9.3 Child labour, companies, and precautions; Robert Heeger.- Chapter 10.1 Rise and Fall of Silicon Valley in Flanders: Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products; Marc Buelens and Eva Cools.- 10.2 Law versus Community; Luc Van Liedekerke.- 10.3 Lernout & Hauspie: Chronicle of a Bankruptcy foretold; Dick de Gilder.- Chapter 11.1 Construction Fraud; Johan Graafland and Luc van Liedekerke.- 11.2 The Moral Assimilation of the Market; Bert Musschenga.- 11.3 Fraud, Excuse and Responsibility; Marcel Verweij.- Index.- About the authors.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400735162
• ISBN13: 9789400735163
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"