Blackwell Encyclopedia of Business Ethics (University of International Business and Economics)

Author: Patrick Werhane
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Publish Date: 2000-05-01
Features: This dictionary is a comprehensive tool kit encompassing the most influential and powerful ideas from the Hundred Schools of Thought. It is a crystallization of knowledge that has long influenced our thinking patterns about internal organizational changes and has stood the test of time. You will also find that these concepts are becoming the guiding compass for the future development of organizations and management. However, this knowledge has not been well adopted, with one major obstacle being its limited audience to readers of professional magazines and books. Over the years, this limitation has led to a surge and proliferation of numerous professional concepts and terms that are difficult for non-professionals to understand, creating unnecessary difficulties for general readers and making it hard for them to fully benefit from the insights of scholars. This dictionary solves this problem: it systematically summarizes and compiles key concepts and provides clear explanations for them by internationally renowned experts. Tools like this dictionary can be used in many ways. The cross-reference system allows you to explore freely. If you select a topic, you can follow an interconnected line of thought to cover the main fields of business and management. This book is not only easy to read but also has significant practical value.
About the Author: Patricia H. Werhane is the Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics at the Darden School of the University of Virginia. She is the editor-in-chief of Business Ethics Quarterly and serves on the editorial boards of the American Philosophical Quarterly, the Journal of Value Inquiry, and Public Affairs Quarterly.