Leadership and Business Ethics: Edition 2

· Issues in Business Ethics Livre 60 · Springer Nature
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Gabriel Flynn and Patricia H. Werhane This book points to a necessary relationship between ethics and business; the success of such an alliance depends directly on sound business leadership. Without the sort of leadership that upholds the dignity and rights of employees and clients, as well as the interests of shareholders, even the most meticulously prepared ethics statements are destined to founder, as evidenced at Enron and elsewhere. Over the past 30 years or so, since business ethics became established as a discipline in its own right, much progress has been made in the ethical conduct of business at all levels. In short, business people, like politicians, doctors and church leaders, have come to realize that it is not possible to avoid involvement in ethics, for much of what business people do and cannot do may be subject to ethical evaluation. While the history of business ethics as currently practised may be traced to the medieval and ancient periods; our principal concern is with developments in the ?eld over recent decades. A consideration of how the topic has been treated by the Harvard Business Review, the business world’sleadingprofessionaljournal,provideshelpful insights into past progress and present challenges. In 1929, just as business ethics was beginning to evolve, Wallace B.

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Gabriel Flynn completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2000. He is the editor of the first edition of Leadership and Business Ethics, Issues in Business Ethics Series 25 (First Edition, Springer, 2008). Flynn is a reviewer of papers at the Journal of Business Ethics (JBE) and Business Ethics: A European Review and elsewhere. He is a member of the organizing committee for the International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference (IVBEC), a forum where he seeks to refocus conceptual work about commerce and business practices in a way that overcomes disparities between theory and practice in the era of global enterprise.

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