New Directions in Business Ethics

As problems such as corruption, financial scandals, food safety, human rights and pollution continue to hit the headlines, business ethics are becoming increasingly central to the global economy.

In this four-volume set, two of the leading international figures in the field bring together the most critical and up-to-date academic research in business ethics as it continues to proliferate in new and exciting directions.

Volume I, International Perspectives on Business Ethics, provides a comprehensive overview of business ethics in different parts of the world, acknowledging how, with the rise of countries such as Brazil, India, China and Russia as key global players, it is critical to capture the range of different ethical approaches represented by these different regions and cultures.

Volume II looks at the New Theoretical Directions that ...

Introduction

A compilation of volume Introductions.

Introduction to Volume I: International Perspectives on Business Ethics

AndrewCrane and DirkMatten

The first volume in our collection on New Directions in Business Ethics deals with the international dimension of business ethics. Although international issues have been present in business ethics research for some time (and indeed in the original three volume set on Business Ethics published by Sage in 2005 (Allhoff & Vaidya, 2005) there were a handful of internationally oriented articles included), the subject is now so completely rooted in an international context that further specialized attention is called for. Of course, the ‘international’ dimension is now omnipresent in most social phenomena, in particular business transactions and decisions, and most certainly in ethical norms and values. One might therefore argue ...

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