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1 online resource |
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Issues in business ethics ; volume 42 |
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Issues in business ethics ; v. 42.
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Machine generated contents note: pt. I Building a Casuistry for Business -- 1. Features and History -- Characteristics of Case-Based Reasoning -- History of Casuistry -- Ancient Greek Casuistry -- Muslim Casuistry -- Christian Casuistry -- 2. Casuistry versus Ethical Pluralism with Applied Principles -- Conventional Approach: Ethical Pluralism with Embedded Applied Principles -- Benefits of Applied Principles Approaches -- 3. Normativity and Analogy in Casuistry -- Normativity's Different Locations in Moral Reasoning -- Analogy as Reasoning Process Versus Tool for Principle Formation and Validation -- 4. Role of Principles in Casuistry -- Principles and the Proper End of Ethics -- Place of Principles in Casuistry -- 5. Reflective Equilibrium and Casuistry -- Reflective Equilibrium -- Narrow Reflective Equilibrium -- Wide Reflective Equilibrium -- Reflective Equilibrium and Casuistry's Similarities and Differences -- Similarities -- Differences -- Weighing the Disparities -- 6. Criticisms of Casuistry -- Aimless and Lacking Moral Force -- Unstructured -- Casuistry's Logic and Dynamics -- Conventional and Insular -- Arbitrary Taxonomies and Paradigmatic Cases -- Structure and Dynamics of Casuistry's Taxonomies -- Subjective Naming of Paradigm Cases -- From Paradigm to Marginal Case: The Ford Pinto Case -- Lax and Prone to Equivocation -- A). Catholic Concerns with Casuistic Caginess: Blaise Pascal versus The Jesuits -- B). Protestantism Chimes In: Concerns with Casuistry's Link to Authority -- Equivocation in Principle-Based Methods: Bill Clinton versus the American People -- Modern Trends Toward Other Approaches -- New Language of Modernity -- Conflation of Ethics and Law -- 7. Casuistry's Revival in Medicine and Now, Business -- Clinical Ethics: Casuistry's Restoration Begins -- Elsewhere: Casuistry's Revival Continues -- Casuistry and Law, Computer Ethics, and Journalism -- Casuistry and Business-Medicine Comparisons -- Casuistry and Business: The Road Ahead -- pt. II Virtue Ethics in the Context of Business -- 8. Aristotle's Virtue Ethics -- Background and Influence -- General Features of Virtue Ethics -- Final Good End and Striving for Perfection -- Habits that Define -- Flow State and Flourishing in the Present -- Moderation and the Shifting Golden Mean -- Virtue and Personal Integration: The Competitive Runner -- Aspiration and Nature's Limits -- Social Aspects of Virtue -- Summary: General Virtue -- Application to Business: The Tylenol Crisis and Virtue-based Management -- Particular Virtues -- Prudence -- Justice -- Courage (Fortitude) -- Temperance (Self-Control) -- Other Virtues -- 9. Building a Virtue Theory for Business -- Virtue's Various Expressions -- Stoicism -- Influential Moderns -- Virtues of Commerce of Adam Smith -- Sympathy of Fellow-Feeling -- Self-Command -- Proper Wealth Acquisition Versus Greed -- Prudence and Assiduity -- Justice and Natural Jurisprudence -- Universal Benevolence or Social Sympathy -- Comparison: Smith and Aristotle on Virtue in General -- Comparison: Smith and Aristotle on Particular Virtues -- Virtues Specific to Commerce -- 10. Virtue Ethics' Value -- Virtue Ethics' Strengths and Weaknesses -- Strengths -- Weaknesses -- pt. III Overlaps and Synergies of Methods -- 11. Synergy of Casuistry and Virtue Ethics -- Casuistry and Virtue Ethics' Similarities -- Casuistry and Virtue Ethics' Differences -- Casuistry-Imbued Virtue Ethics Versus Virtue-Imbued Casuistry -- Virtue-Imbued Casuistry's Synergies -- Synergy of Strengths -- Synergy of Offsetting Limitations -- 12. Bringing Casuistry and the Business Case Method Together -- Casuistry and Cases in Business -- Business Case and Case Method -- Business Case -- Business Case Method -- Business Case Method and Casuistry Compared -- Similarities -- Differences -- Synergies: Bringing the Methods Together -- Conclusion -- pt. IV Using Virtue-Imbued Casuistry in Business Practice -- 13. Breaking Stalemates: Using the Method to Upset the Genetically Modified Foods Impasse -- Background: Building to a Stalemate -- Proponents' Arguments -- Opponents' Arguments -- Entrenching the Stalemate -- Defusing the Stalemate -- Limping Toward Resolution -- 14. Cases Can Caution: Polio Eradication, Risk Exposure, and the Smallpox Case as Precedence -- Goal: Eradicating Polio -- Smallpox: A Cautionary Tale -- Killing a Deadly Disease -- Systematic Destruction -- Gone But Not Forgotten -- Effective Bioweapon -- Playing Catch-Up -- Lessons From a Near-Miss -- Polio Eradication in Perspective -- 15. Risk Exposure: Using Cases in Strategies Involving an Aging Medication -- Risk Exposure in an Environment of Experimentation -- Background: Tamoxifen Therapy -- Therapy with Risks -- Longstanding and Profitable -- Assessing the Risk Exposure of an Aging Drug -- Step One Weighing Losses Against Profits -- Step Two Recognizing that Something is Missing -- Step Three Augmenting With Cases -- Problems and Opportunities With Case Use in Business -- Impediments to Case Use in Business -- Overcoming the Impediments to Case Use in Business -- Criticisms of Using Ethics as a Tool of Risk Management -- Going Forward -- 16. Risk Management: Capturing the Right Situation with Prudent Case Use in Scenario-based Modeling -- Coming Full Circle: Cases [₂! Models [₂! Cases -- Sliding Toward Numbers -- What has been Helpful and What is Missing -- Case: Home Health Corporation -- Background: Home Health Corporation -- Big Question: To Pay or Not to Pay for Overtime -- Deterministic Approach -- Upset of a New Competitor -- Stochastic Approach -- Strategy and Modeling -- Strategy as a Guiding Process -- Descriptive Modeling: A Two-dimensional Snapshot -- Stochastic Modeling: A Three-dimensional Hologram -- Strategic Prescience -- Importance of Prudence in Case Selection -- Prudent Elders as Key to Effective Strategy -- Importance of Business Cases in Strategizing -- Complications Inhibiting, Case Vise in Business -- 17. Going Forward: Developing a Workable Virtue-imbued Casuistry for Business -- What has Been Done -- What Remains to be Done |
| Summary |
Casuistry, Virtue, and Business Ethics brings together three important processes for business ethics: casuistry, virtue ethics, and the business case method. In doing so, it considers the overlap and synergy of casuistry and virtue ethics, the similarities and differences of casuistry and the business case method, and the relationships between emerging and well-established cases. The goal of the book is twofold: to provide a distinctly practical method for moral decision-making within the context of business and to illustrate how contemporary vexing issues are similar to those of the past and |
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ethiek |
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ethics |
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filosofie |
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philosophy |
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religie |
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religion |
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bedrijfsvoering |
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management |
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Philosophy (General) |
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Filosofie (algemeen) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Business ethics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
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Droit.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Business ethics
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789401787246 |
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9401787247 |
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