Managing Business Ethics: Straight Talk about How to Do It Right, 6th Edition

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

It takes a lot of work by a lot of people to make a project like this come together. We'll begin with some joint thank-yous. Then, because this process has been so meaningful for each of us, we will separately share our more personal thanks.

We both offer our heartfelt appreciation to current and former executives who helped us with this and previous editions, in particular, Larry Axline, Jeffrey Braun, Jacquelyn Brevard, Earnie Broughton, Craig Cash, Frank Daly, Srinivas Dixit, Ray Dravesky, Kent Druyvesteyn, Kim Ingham, Dennis Jorgensen, John O'Byrne, Kevin O'Connor, Joe Paterno, Robert Paul, Jo Pease, Shirley Peterson, Vin Sarni, Carl Skooglund, Phil Tenney, and George Wratney. All shared their valuable time and advice, some of them on multiple occasions. Their wisdom can be found throughout this book, but especially in Chapter 6. They helped bring the subject of managing business ethics to life.

We also wish to thank Gary Weaver (University of Delaware) for being our philosophy adviser for the first edition, and Dennis Gioia (Penn State faculty member and dear friend) for sharing his Pinto fire case and especially his reflections.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. is a fine publisher with a superb team. These people encouraged, nudged, nudged, and nudged again. We have many Wiley people to thank for helping to make this book a success.

The book's past and present reviewers also contributed significantly to making this a better book, and we thank them as well. We also ...