Mollie Painter-Morland & Patricia Werhane 
Cutting-edge Issues in Business Ethics 
Continental Challenges to Tradition and Practice

Business ethics originated in the United States as an offshoot of theoretical ethics and as part of a movement in applied ethics that was initiated with medical ethics. Although a few small religious-based colleges and universities offered courses in business ethics just after the Second World War, business ethics as an academic ?eld developed most seriously in many universities in the early 1970s. The ?eld of medical ethics was well-developed by then, and it was a natural step to think about ethical issues in business as well. There was also a public reaction to a number of corporate scandals (e.g., price ?xing, the Lockheed Japanese bribery allegations, the Goodyear airbrake scandal, etc. that encouraged universities to begin teaching the subject). Business ethics as an academic ?eld was originally developed by philosophers, most of whom had come out of the analytic or Anglo-American philosophical tra- tions and who had been trained in classical ethics, on Aristotle, Kant, Mill, Bentham and perhaps Dewey. The resulting ?eld then, has been dominated by this thinking. Although to date there are over 50 textbooks in business ethics, most textbooks in business ethics do not take into account contemporary continental philosophy. Although Marxism is sometimes taught in these courses, other more contemporary continental thinkers who could contribute substantially to the ?eld have been – nored. This phenomenon is iterated in the professional journals and in theoretical books on the topic.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Are We Victims of Circumstances? Hegel and Jean-Paul Sartre on Corporate Responsibility and Bad Faith.- “It’s Business; We’re Soldiers”: The Sopranos, Liberal Business Ethics, and this American Thing of Ours.- Redefining Accountability as Relational Responsiveness.- Hegel on the Place of Corporations Within Ethical Life.- Abjection, Ambiguity, and Female Sweatshop Workers: Is Alienated Labor Really an Ethical Problem?.- The Grameen Bank and Capitalist Challenges.- Building an Ethics of Visual Representation: Contesting Epistemic Closure in Marketing Communication.- Of Dice and Men.- Business, Ethics and the Hope of Society in Hannah Arendt: The Notion of Responsible Business Entrepreneurship.- Continental Philosophy: A Grounded Theory Approach and the Emergence of Convenient and Inconvenient Ethics.- Contribution Towards a Phenomenological Approach to Business Ethics.- Mental Models, Moral Imagination and System Thinking in the Age of Globalization: A Post-Colonial Proposal.- Business Ethics Beyond the Moral Imagination: A Response to Richard Rorty.- An Arendtian Approach to Business Ethics.- A Marxist in the Business Ethics Classroom.