Morality, competition, and the firm : : the market failures approach to business ethics / / Joseph Heath.

"In this collection of provocative essays, Joseph Heath provides a compelling new framework for thinking about the moral obligations that private actors in a market economy have toward each other and to society. In a sharp break with traditional approaches to business ethics, Heath argues that...

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Place / Publishing House:Oxford ;, New York : : Oxford University Press, USA,, [2014]
2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (423 pages)
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Table of Contents:
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  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: The Corporation and Society
  • 1. A Market Failures Approach to Business Ethics
  • 2. Stakeholder Theory, Corporate Governance and Public Management (with Wayne Norman)
  • 3. Business Ethics Without Stakeholders
  • 4. An Adversarial Ethic for Business: or, When Sun-Tzu met the Stakeholder
  • 5. Business Ethics and the 'End of History' in Corporate Law
  • Part 2: Cooperation and the Market
  • 6. Contractualism: Micro and Macro
  • 7. Efficiency as the Implicit Morality of the Market
  • 8. The History of the Invisible Hand
  • 9. The Benefits of Cooperation
  • Part 3: Extending the Framework
  • 10. The Uses and Abuses of Agency Theory
  • 11. Business Ethics and Moral Motivation: a Criminological Perspective
  • 12. Business Ethics After Virtue
  • 13. Reasonable Restrictions on Underwriting
  • Bibliography
  • Index.