ABSTRACT

Can business activities and decisions be virtuous?

This is the first business ethics textbook to take a virtue ethics approach. It explains how virtue ethics compares with alternative approaches to business ethics, such as utilitarianism and deontology, and argues that virtue ethics best serves the common good of society.

Looking across the whole spectrum of business—including finance, governance, leadership, marketing and production—each chapter presents the theory of virtue ethics and supports students’ learning with chapter objectives, in-depth interviews with professionals and real-life case studies from a wide range of countries.

Business Ethics: A Virtue Ethics and Common Good Approach is a valuable text for advanced undergraduates and masters-level students on business ethics courses.

chapter 1|23 pages

Virtues and the common good in business

ByAlejo José G. Sison, Ignacio Ferrero, Gregorio Guitián

chapter 2|27 pages

Virtues and the common good in leadership

ByMatthias P. Hühn, Marcel Meyer, Aliza Racelis

chapter 3|31 pages

Virtues and the common good in finance

ByAlejo José G. Sison, Ignacio Ferrero, Gregorio Guitián, Marta Rocchi, Andrea Roncella

chapter 4|17 pages

Virtues and the common good in production

ByGermán Scalzo

chapter 5|25 pages

Virtues and the common good in marketing

ByPablo García Ruiz, Carlos Rodríguez Lluesma

chapter 6|14 pages

Virtues and the common good in human resource management

ByJavier Pinto-Garay, María José Bosch

chapter 7|27 pages

Virtues and common good in corporate legal practice

ByKemi Ogunyemi, J. Brooke Hamilton

chapter 8|22 pages

Practical wisdom in corporate governance

ByAlejo José G. Sison, Matthias P. Hühn

chapter 9|14 pages

Confucian traditions in virtue ethics

ByRichard Kim, Reuben Mondejar, Richard Roque, Javier Calero Cuervo