Ethics and Organizations

0. Introduction: like oil and water?. - 1. Business ethics as applied ethics. - 1. 1. BE: a case of applied ethics?. - 1. 2. BE as applied ethics: a preliminary proposal for integration. - 2. Business ethics: an on-going process. - 2. 1. Introduction: a progressive Self-awareness. - 2. 2. A first historical approach to BE. - 2. 3. The recent development of BE in Europe. - 2. 4. What issues should BE address?. - 2. 5. BE: a first attempt at a systematic ordering. - 2. 6. The acceptance or rejection of BE as a possible (il)legitimization of predominant practices and values. - 2. 7. The impossible dissolution of BE in individual ethics. - 2. 8. The ethics of organizations as the core of BE. - 3. BE's self-awareness: unresolved tension and a call for integration. - 3. 1. BE: one discipline or two?. - 3. 2. Managers' moral reasoning as a metaphor for and expression of the problem. - 3. 3. Integration in the framework of BE: a demand -at least-acknowledged. - 3. 4. Beyond ethics as a toolbox. - 3. 5. A note about civic ethics as a possible framework for BE. - 4. An illustrative debate: corporate social responsibility. - 4. 1. Introduction. - 4. 2. A preliminary question: Is the corporation a moral subject?. - 4. 3. Corporate social responsibility. - 4. 4. Is the corporation in question?. - 4. 5. Friedman: the most controversial reference. - 4. 6. The diversity of arguments about corporate social responsibility. - 4. 7. Corporate social responsibility: a diversity of concepts. - 4. 8. The place of corporate social responsibility in the framework of BE. - 5. Stakeholders: who are they and what are their interests?. - 5. 1. Power in the corporation power of the corporation. - 5. 2. Stakeholders an understanding of the corporation. - 5. 3. Stakeholders: an analytical classification. - 5. 4. Stakeholders: beyond analysis. - 5. 5. Stakeholders in an ethics of organizations. - 6. Corporate codes: constructing criteria and goals?. - 6. 1. Professional codes as a point of reference. - 6. 2. Codes and their ambivalence. - 6. 3. Management as a profession: a significant absence. - 6. 4. Corporate codes of ethics: a descriptive approach. - 6. 5. Codes of ethics: more ethics or more control?. - 7. Corporate cultures: managing values?. - 7. 1. Some questions about the concept of organizational culture. - 7. 2. Corporate culture and ethics: an ambigous relationship. - 7. 3. Ambiguities in the search for excellence. - 7. 4. Opening the door to Aristotelian tradition. - 7. 5. Final considerations: the outlook for BE. - 8. Integrating ethics in organizations. - 8. 1. The paths towards integration: decision-making a fact or a process?. - 8. 2. The paths towards integration: the organization as a project. - 8. 3. The paths towards integration: institutionalizing ethics. - 9. Humanization (also) as a process of organizational learning. - 9. 1. The emerging knowledge society. - 9. 2. Transforming organizational paradigms. - 9. 3. An understanding of organizations that includes acknowledging the value of individuals and individuals as value. - 10. The learning organization as the matrix of business ethics. - 10. 1. BE's three moments as an organizational learning process. - 11. References. - 12. Index. Language: English