Taking business ethics seriously : beyond "How much would you sell your mother for?" /

Of what does the ""good life"" consist? What do we owe each other? How should we distribute the product of our joint effort? For modern rationality, each of those timeless questions can be answered separately, and different disciplines have evolved to deal with them. This book pr...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Couchoud, Santiago Ojeda
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.
Subjects:
Online Access:CONNECT

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000 a 4500
001 in00006132269
006 m o d
007 cr cnu---unuuu
008 191102s2019 enk o 000 0 eng d
005 20240621134741.1
015 |a GBB9K3014  |2 bnb 
016 7 |a 019577970  |2 Uk 
020 |a 9781527540958  |q (electronic bk.) 
020 |a 1527540952  |q (electronic bk.) 
020 |z 9781527539600 
035 |a 1WRLDSHRon1124608269 
035 |a (OCoLC)1124608269 
037 |a 9781527540958  |b Cambridge Scholars Publishing 
040 |a EBLCP  |b eng  |e pn  |c EBLCP  |d N$T  |d OCLCF  |d YDX  |d OCLCQ  |d UKAHL  |d UKMGB  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCL 
049 |a TXMM 
050 4 |a HF5387 
082 0 4 |a 174.4  |2 23 
100 1 |a Couchoud, Santiago Ojeda. 
245 1 0 |a Taking business ethics seriously :  |b beyond "How much would you sell your mother for?" /  |c by Santiago Ojeda Couchoud. 
260 |a Newcastle-upon-Tyne :  |b Cambridge Scholars Publishing,  |c 2019. 
300 |a 1 online resource (223 pages) 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
347 |a data file  |2 rda 
588 0 |a Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 11, 2019) 
505 0 |a Intro; Table of Contents; Foreword; Section 1; Its Scope and Limitations; Definition of Ethics; Values; Selected Bibliography; Section 2; Why does it matter?; How were things back then?; How the Best Answered: The Classical Canon; Socrates; Plato; Aristotle; Epicureans, Stoics, Cynics; Selected Bibliography; Section 3; How were things then? How did they come to be so?; The Main Figures of the Utilitarian Canon; Hutcheson, Hume, Smith; Bentham; Mill(s) and Sidgwick; Selected Bibliography; Section 4; Why, in a landscape that produced utilitarianism, did some thinkers opt for different answers? 
505 8 |a The Deontological CanonKant; The Hegelian Response; The Contractualist and Dialogic Update; Where Things Stand Now; Selected Bibliography; Section 5; The Skeptical Canon; David Hume (again!); Sympathy for Horses, not so much for Humans (Nietzsche); Delegitimized Metanarratives (Postmodernism); So where does all that leave us?; Selected Bibliography; Section 6; The Organizational Problem and its (Dis)ingenuous Solution; A Sketch of how the Interests of Stakeholders may be Balanced; Employees vs. Owners; Employees vs. Consumers; Actual Employees vs. Potential Ones; Selected Bibliography 
520 |a Of what does the ""good life"" consist? What do we owe each other? How should we distribute the product of our joint effort? For modern rationality, each of those timeless questions can be answered separately, and different disciplines have evolved to deal with them. This book presents a forceful, passionate argument against such compartmentalization, tracing its origins to the demands of the socioeconomic system, born in Europe in the eighteenth century, which today rules the world. It makes the case for guiding our behavior in the professional realm by aligning it with the kind of life that. 
500 |a EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America  |5 TMurS 
500 |a EBSCO eBook Business Collection  |5 TMurS 
650 0 |a Business ethics. 
650 0 |a Management  |x Moral and ethical aspects. 
730 0 |a WORLDSHARE SUB RECORDS 
758 |i has work:  |a Taking Business Ethics Seriously (Text)  |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCYG7f4xFYQCCwFx4PctRDm  |4 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork 
776 0 8 |i Print version:  |a Couchoud, Santiago Ojeda.  |t Taking Business Ethics Seriously : Beyond How Much Would You Sell Your Mother For?  |d Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publisher, ©2019  |z 9781527539600 
856 4 0 |u https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2270849&authtype=ip,sso&custid=s4672406  |z CONNECT  |3 eBooks on EBSCOhost  |t 0 
949 |a ho0 
994 |a 92  |b TXM 
998 |a wi  |d z 
999 f f |s c7d51b01-5b60-46fa-a475-186f403fe553  |i c7d51b01-5b60-46fa-a475-186f403fe553  |t 0 
952 f f |a Middle Tennessee State University  |b Main  |c James E. Walker Library  |d Electronic Resources  |t 0  |e HF5387   |h Library of Congress classification