Business Ethics Concepts and Cases (5th Edition) (Original English Version of the Contemporary Top MBA Textbook Series in the United States)

Author: ManuelG.Velasquez
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Publish Date: 2002-01-18
Features: This book is the original English version. It is one of the classic textbooks in the Contemporary American MBA Series (Original English Version). This series of textbooks is co-published by Peking University Press and Pearson Education, the world's largest educational publishing group. It selects the most outstanding portion of foreign textbooks, with most of them published in 2002, synchronized with the original foreign versions, and includes textbooks used by renowned universities such as Harvard University, Stanford University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The book selection process received support and assistance from many experts and scholars. Every book is meticulously reviewed by experts and scholars on the front lines of teaching, and almost all of them are among the top-selling textbooks in their respective fields. It includes in-depth theoretical guidance and rich teaching cases, truly making it a series of selected excellence. The book is divided into four parts and eight chapters, starting with fundamental theories and elaborating on the relationship between ethics and business operations, as well as ethical principles in real-world business activities. It specifically covers: Business Ethics Principles, Business and Markets, Business and Its Exchange (Ecology and Consumers), and Business and Its Internal Support (Employee Issues). The book features a concise and clear writing style, sufficient arguments, detailed cases, modern data, and statistical methods. It aims to introduce students to ethical concepts relevant to solving moral problems in real-world business processes; help students improve their ability to apply ethical concepts in making business decisions through argumentation and analysis; and explore the social and environmental factors that trigger business ethics issues. Based on the theoretical framework of the previous edition, this new edition has undergone a comprehensive revision, adding new discussions, examples, tables, data, illustrations, statistical tables, etc., with a focus on the internet and statistics throughout the book. New cases have been added at the end of each chapter, and some online resources are provided to encourage students to obtain more up-to-date information and data on their own.