Machine generated contents note: pt. A Understanding Business Ethics -- 1. Introducing Business Ethics -- What is business ethics? -- Why is business ethics important? -- Business ethics in different organizational contexts -- Globalization: a key context for business ethics? -- Sustainability: a key goal for business ethics? -- Summary -- 2. Framing Business Ethics -- Corporate Responsibility, Stakeholders, And Citizenship -- Towards a framework for business ethics -- What is a corporation? -- Corporate social responsibility -- Stakeholder theory of the firm -- Corporate citizenship -- the firm as a political actor -- Summary -- 3. Evaluating Business Ethics -- Normative Ethical Theories -- Introduction -- The role of ethical theory -- Normative ethical theories: International origins and differences -- Normative ethical theories and religion -- Western modernist ethical theories -- Alternative perspectives on ethical theory -- Summary: towards a pragmatic use of ethical theory. Note continued: 4. Making Decisions in Business Ethics -- Descriptive Ethical Theories -- Introduction -- What is an ethical decision? -- Models of ethical decision-making -- Individual Influences on ethical decision-making -- Situational influences on decision-making -- Summary -- 5. Managing Business Ethics -- Tools And Techniques Of Business Ethics Management -- Introduction -- What Is business ethics management? -- Setting standards of ethical behaviour: designing and implementing codes of ethics -- Managing stakeholder relations -- Assessing ethical performance -- Organizing for business ethics management -- Summary -- pt. B Contextualizing Business Ethics -- The Corporate Citizen and its Stakeholders -- 6. Shareholders and Business Ethics -- Introduction: reassessing the importance of shareholders as stakeholders -- Shareholders as stakeholders: understanding corporate governance -- Ethical Issues in corporate governance -- Shareholders and globalization. Note continued: Shareholders as citizens of the corporation -- Shareholding for sustainability -- Summary -- 7. Employees and Business Ethics -- Introduction -- Employees as stakeholders -- Ethical issues In the firm-employee relation -- Employing people worldwide: the ethical challenges of globalization -- The corporate citizen and employee relations -- Towards sustainable employment -- Summary -- 8. Consumers and Business Ethics -- Introduction -- Consumers as stakeholders -- Ethical issues, marketing, and the consumer -- Globalization and consumers: the ethical challenges of the global marketplace -- Consumers and corporate citizenship: consumer sovereignty and the politics of purchasing -- Sustainable consumption -- Summary -- 9. Suppliers, Competitors, and Business Ethics -- Introduction -- Suppliers and competitors as stakeholders -- Ethical issues and suppliers -- Ethical issues and competitors. Note continued: Globalization, suppliers, and competitors: the ethical challenges of global business networks -- The corporate citizen in business-to-business relationships: ethical sourcing and fair trade -- Sustainability and business relationships: towards industrial ecosystems? -- Summary -- 10. Civil Society and Business Ethics -- Introduction -- Civil society organizations as stakeholders -- Ethical issues and CSOs -- Globalization and civil society organizations -- Corporate citizenship and civil society: charity, collaboration, enterprise, or regulation? -- Civil society, business, and sustainability -- Summary -- 11. Government, Regulation, and Business Ethics -- Introduction -- Government as a stakeholder -- Ethical issues in the relationship between business and government -- Globalization and business-government relations -- Corporate citizenship and regulation: business as key player in the regulatory game -- Governments, business, and sustainability. Note continued: Summary -- 12. Conclusions and Future Perspectives -- Introduction -- The nature and scope of business ethics -- Globalization as a context for business ethics -- Sustainability as a goal for business ethics -- Corporate citizenship and business ethics -- The contribution of normative ethical theories to business ethics -- Influences on ethical decision-making -- The role of management tools in business ethics -- The role of different stakeholder constituencies in business ethics -- Trade-offs and conflicts between different stakeholder groups -- Summary.

The fourth edition of 'Business Ethics' explores throughout the text, in the context of business ethics, the three major challenges that businesses face when making ethical decisions: * Globalization * Sustainability * Corporate citizenship. Crane and Matten provides a truly global approach with a strong European perspective as well as examples from emerging economies and all around the world. The text's accessible style and easy-to-follow narrative ensure it is engaging for students new to the subject. The text features excellent case studies and unique pedagogical features that show how theory relates to real-life practice, including Ethics on Screen, Ethics Online and Ethics in Action. It also focuses on skills, such as key decision-making skills, through in-text features including Skill Checks, Think Theory boxes and Key Concept boxes. This text is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre, which provides: Student resources - Additional case study web links - Additional 'Ethics in Action' web links - Additional 'Ethics on Screen' web links - Useful ethics web links - Further reading - Link to Crane & Matten blog and feeds from new blogs - Think Theory Answers - short responses to the 'Think Theory' features that are currently in the text - Trailers of movies featured in the Ethics on Screen boxes - Video links - 'Ethics careers' section for students Lecturer resources: * Teaching notes for case studies * Teaching notes for 'Ethical Dilemmas' * Teaching notes for 'Ethics in Action' * Teaching notes for 'Ethics on Screen' * PowerPoint slides * Think Theory Answers - short responses to the 'Think Theory' features that are currently in the text * Crane and Matten 'Case Bank' - cases no longer in book will be provided on the ORC for use by instructors * Additional Week 1 PowerPoint slides with details of book, ORC, and blog * Test bank * Sample course outline for instructors specifying course aims, student skills, weekly subjects and key readings.