People and profits: the ethics of capitalism
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Preface ix
I. Ethics as a Positive Quest ix
II. The Tasks of Business Ethics Today xi
III. The Approach of This Book xii
IV. Acknowledgments xv
ONE
Business Ethics Today: U.S. Perspectives and Agenda 1
I. Introduction: Business and the Businessperson in American Society 1
II. The Tradition of Moral Questioning of Business Activities 2
III. Dreams of a Golden Age: Is Today the Nadir of Business Ethical
Practices? 3
IV. The Modern Corporation: A New State of the Question 5
V. The State of the Business Ethics Literature Today 8
Types of Studies 8 Evolution of Conceptual Frameworks and Language 9
Some Enduring Problems 13
VI. Business Ethics in the Twenty First Century: Exciting New
Challenges 15
PART ONE A FRAMEWORK FOR BUSINESS ETHICS TWO
Ethics as a Positive Quest for Human Happiness and Fulfillment 19
I. Introduction: Hopes and Dreams 19
II. Morality As Wholeness 20
Wholeness and Fulfillment 21
III. The Ethical Tasks 22
IV. Specifying the Meaning of Human Fulfillment: A Heuristic
Model 22
Norms 23 Different Moral Compasses 24
V. Why People Make Different Moral Judgments Regarding the Same
Data 26
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VI. The Relation of Worldview to Daily Actions 28
The Path and the Compass 28 Dilemma I: Objective versus Subjective 32
Dilemma II: Order versus Conflict 34
VII. Methods of Reasoning 36
VIII. Problems of Bias and Growth in Moral Sensitivity 37
Anticipating Bias 39 Grmvth in Moral Sensitivity 41
IX. Ethics as Artisanship 42
Creatively Imagining Alternatives 43 Methodology of Case Analysis 44
THREE
Human Happiness and Fulfillment: A Communitarian Approach 48
I. Introduction: Human Solidarity 48
II. Is There Something Common to All Which Is Normative? 48
A Starting Point of Reflection: Relatedness 49 Caring and Relatedness 52
Community, Equality, and Class 53
III. Communality as Contract, Rights, and Duties 54
The Social Contract 55
IV. Religious Critique: Contract and Covenant, Freedom and Calling 58
Some Aspects of Jewish Social Ethics 59 Christianity: The Catholic Bishops
Letter on the Economy and the Business Response 61 Islamic Social Ethics:
The Example of Usury 65
V. The Individual and the Common Good: A Debate Underway 66
The Justice of Social Processes 68 The Justice of Social Outcomes 69
Individual Freedom and Communal Authoritarianism 71
VI. Conclusion: A Statement of Normative Ethics 72
FOUR
A Business Ethics Framework 75
I. Making Ethical Sense out of Business 75
Ethical Issues in Business: An Example from the Meat Industry 75
II. Typologies of Business and Society Problems 78
Business Caused Business and Society Problems 78 Socially Caused
Business and Society Problems 79 Leading Issues 80
III. Traditional American Business Creeds 80
IV. Criteria for Evaluating Business Performance: Contemporary Management
Literature and New Social Dissent 83
V. A General Analytical Framework 86
An Illustrative Case: Bribery 86
VI. Application of the Framework: Activity Analysis—What Are
Businesspeople Doing? 90
Moral Aspects of Business Economic Activities: Accumulation 91
Allocation 93 Exchange 94 From Issues to System: What is Fair to Ask of
Business? 94
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VII. Application of the Framework: Analysis of the Agent—The Economic
Person and Motivation 97
VIII. Sociological and Historical Transformations of the Ethical Framework:
Changing Institutional Forms of Business and Ethical Action 99
New Forms of Agency 100 Neu Structures of Corporate Moral Activity 101
IX. Conclusion 103
PART TWO THE QUEST FOR HAPPINESS AND FULFILLMENT
ON INDIVIDUAL LEVELS FIVE
Ethics of the Individual 106
I. Introduction: Friendship as the Basis for Ethics 106
II. Individual Autonomy 107
III. Self Actualization: Growth toward Fulfillment 108
IV. The Unfolding of the Intrapersonal Self 112
V. Friendship: The Unfolding of the Interpersonal Self
Friendship as Commitment 115 Processes of Friendship 116
VI. Solidarity: The Unfolding of the Social Self 119
VII. Growth in the Freedom to Act Ethically: Moral Character and
Responsibility 121
Prudence, Openness, and Dialogue 121 Burnout 122
Growth in Freedom to Act Ethically 123
SIX
Individual Moral Character: Not Harming Others 128
I. Introduction 128
The Individual and Others: Levels of Analysis 128
Growth in Attitudes toward Others 128
II. Individual against Individual 131
III. Individual against Group 138
IV. Issues of Compensation and Liability 141
Excuses 143
V. A Paradox: People Drawing Evil out of Good 144
SEVEN
Individual Moral Character: Doing Good 147
I. The Needs of Others 147
II. The Ethical Problem of Being a Bystander 148
HI. Doing Good: The Individual Helping Other Individuals 151
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IV. Doing Good: The Individual Helping Society—The Case of Whistle
Blowing 153
Whistle Bloiuing as a Business Management Issue 154 The Challenger
Disaster 155
V. Establishing Support for Doing Good 158
Measures to Provide Safety for Whistle Bloiuers 159 Moral Intention of Whistle
Blowers 162
VI. Moral Responsiveness to Others and a Good Society 162
PART THREE THE QUEST FOR HAPPINESS AND FULFILLMENT
ON INSTITUTIONAL LEVELS EIGHT
Ethical Strategies of the Business Enterprise 165
I. If Good Ethics Is Good Business, Then What Is the Problem? 165
II. The Individual in Society: The Traditional Business Approach 166
Individual Interests in Foundational Paradigms of Capitalism 167 Economic
Rationality and Freedom 167 Individual Interests and Agency Theory 169
Transaction Cost Governance 172
HI. Society in the Individual: Elements of an Institutional Approach 173
Institutionalism in General 173
IV. Belief Systems, Perception of the Operating Environment, and
Strategy 176
The Business Operating Environment 176
V. Processes of Corporate Social Responsibility 179
VI. Refashioning Corporate Culture in an Ethical Mode 183
Leadership 185 Importance of a Code 187 Implementation 188
Involvement and Commitment of Personnel at All Levels 189 Measuring
Results 192
VII. Conclusion: Socially Constructive Management 193
Failure 194 Healing: System, Organization, and Person 194
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Business Ethics as Doing No Harm 199
I. The Kaleidoscope of Consequences of Business Actions and Policies 199
Mapping Out Consequences 199 Analysis of Consequences 200
II. Institutionalizing Ethical Possibilities: Four Cases 203
HI. Business Decisions That Harm Others: Products and Processes 204
Products That Harm People: The Dalkon Shield 204 Processes That Harm
People: The Testing of Generic Drugs 209 Harming While Doing Good:
Environmental Pollution 211 The Extent of the Problem 211 American
Electric Pmver 213 Ethical Protagonists: A Frameivork 215 Compensation
and Liability 217 Continuing Dilemmas and Neiu Factors in the Equation 218
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TEN
Business, Socially Caused Problems,
and the Obligation to Do Good 220
I. Introduction: Assessing Business s Obligations to Do Good 220
II. Business Decisions to Do Good: Products and Processes 222
Products That Do Good: Burroughs Wellcome and the AZT Drug 223
Processes That Do Good: Employee Assistance Programs 228
Corporate Social Philanthropy 233
III. What Is to Be Done? 236
PART FOUR PERSONAL HAPPINESS AND FULFILLMENT
AT THE SOCIAL SYSTEM LEVEL ELEVEN
Ethics of the Economic and Social System 241
I. Introduction: Evaluating a Social System 241
The Modern Western Experiment 242
II. Utopia ( No Place ): Capitalist and Marxist World Visions 243
Knowledge 248 Ultimate Reality or Worldview 249 Nature 249
III. Confinement and Release: Creating Space Where It Is Possible for the
Individual to Flourish 250
The Right and the Good 253 The Person in Capitalism and Socialism 257
IV. The Politics of Social Ethics: The Law and the State 259
Society in Capitalism and Socialism 262
V. Toward a Caring Society: Individualism and Bureaucracy 264
TWELVE
The Adequacy of Property Institutions 268
I. Property in Society 268
II. The Dispute over Intellectual Property 269
Leading Areas of Contention 271
III. Toward a Model of Property Rights 274
IV. The Moral Legitimacy of a Set of Property Rights 276
Right to Livelihood 276 Rights to the Fruit of One s Labor 277 Property as
the Means to Liberty and Self Realization 277 Efficiency and Social Benefits
Related to Private Property 278
V. Legitimation of the U.S. Business Position 278
VI. The Developing Country Position 280
VII. Some Contemporary Developments 281
Means of Acquisition and Protection 282 Responsibility to Others 282
Strategies to Protect Intellectual Property 283
VIII. Issues of Organization and Control 288
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THIRTEEN
Poverty and the Meeting of Basic Needs 293
I. Poverty: The Plight of the Underclass 293
II. Wealth of Nations, Poverty of People 294
III. The Reality of Many Poverties 295
IV. Poverty in the United States 300
V. Poverty in Developing Countries 301
VI. The Myth of Progress: Hope for a Solution 303
VII. Why Poverty Belongs on the Business Agenda 306
VIII. The Poverty Agenda and Corporate Mission:
Crafting a Strategic Fit 307
IX. Some Specific Roles of Business in the Poverty and Empowerment
Matrix 309
PART FIVE BUSINESS ETHICS UNDERWAY FOURTEEN
Social Processes of Business Ethics 314
I. Power: Might and Right 314
II. Social Discourse 318
Sense Making 318 Argumentation: Determining the Goals
of the Business and Society Relation 319 Legitimation 325
HI. Dynamics of Social Change 325
The Requirements of Policy 326 Mechanisms of Social Change 327 Models
of Social Change 329 Generic Strategies 330 Getting Things Done: Reality
Principles 332
IV. Corporate Management Options in Dealing with Opposition 334
V. Institutionalizing Ethical Practices in Society 337
FIFTEEN
Business Ethics and American Culture 340
I. American Traditions: Beyond Issue Life Cycles 340
Community and Civilization in American Fiction 340
II. Elements of a Philosophy of History: Good, Evil, and Hope 344
Philosophy of History 345 Hope 348
III. Modeling the Future 350
IV. Along Life s Way: Business Ethics in the Making 355
Artisanship 357 Hypocrisy 357 Fear and the Courage to Be 358
Index 360
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