Information technology and the ethics of globalization : transnational issues and implications /

• Main Author: Schultz, Robert A., 1942-
• Format: Electronic
• Published: Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, 2010
• Subjects: Information technology.; Technology > Moral and ethical aspects.; Globalization > Moral and ethical aspects.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

"This book summarizes the main theories of globalized ethics and show their inadequacies in dealing with IT-enabled global ethical problem"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Section I. IT-enabled globalized ethical problems : IT-enabled global ethical problems
• Current ethically globalized institutions
• IT's contribution to globalization
• Section II. Theories of globalized ethics : The basis of ethical principles
• Domestic theories of justice
• Political realism and the society of societies
• Cosmopolitanism
• The ethical status of globalized institutions
• IT and globalized ethics
• Section III. A social contract for globalized institutions
• Globalized ethics and current institutions
• New global institutions
• Ethical implications for IT
• Section IV. Ultimate questions : IT-enabled globalization and the environment
• The value of IT-enabled globalization
• Conclusion.