FOREWORD
Think about the recent headlines. Several who’s who of American businesses have been dragged through scandal after scandal. Is there no ethics in business? Haven’t business schools been teaching business ethics? Haven’t the last 25 years of teaching and research in business ethics by philosophers and management thinkers made a difference? What’s missing are a range of useful ideas and theories that managers can use to make better decisions. Robert Phillips has helped to remedy this situation with a very practical book.
He cuts through many vexing questions to propose a theory of organizational ethics that takes two important ideas seriously. The first is that organizations are dependent on their stakeholders for their successes and ...
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