On the (Im)Possibility of Business Ethics Critical Complexity, Deconstruction, and Implications for Understanding the Ethics of Business /

• Main Author: Woermann, Minka. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Issues in Business Ethics, 37
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Ethics.; Education > Philosophy.; Industrial management.; Philosophy.; Management/Business for Professionals.; Complex Networks.; Business Strategy/Leadership.; Educational Philosophy.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5131-6

Corporations, and the environments in which they operate, are complex, with changing multiple dimensions, and an inherent capacity to evolve qualitatively. A central premise of this study is that a postmodern reading of ethics represents an expression of, and an engagement with, the ethical complexi...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Part I ��Theoretical foundation
• 1.�Towards a postmodern understanding of business ethics.-�2.�The ethics of complexity and the complexity of ethics
• 3.�Introducing a deconstructive ethics.-� 4.�Virtues for a complex world
• Part II��Practical application 5.�Reconsidering the meaning of corporate social responsibility
• 6.�Towards a theory and model of corporate social responsibility and implications for management and leadership practices.-7.�Implications for teaching business ethics
• Index.