Elgar Encyclopedia of Business Ethics

This Encyclopedia is a comprehensive guide for understanding the intersection between ethics and economics as well as persons and institutions. In-depth entries adopt historical, critical, philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives to assess business ethics and explore how to improve the field.Highlighting the lack of doctrinal homogeneity across business ethics, contributors address a range of topics including ethical implications for humans and societies, sustainability ethics and vocabulary tools for ethical business-management. They examine ontological and anthropological questions, drawing on key theoretical approaches such as virtue ethics, deontological theory, consequentialism and personalism to foreground the ethical implications of corporate activity and management.Acting as a vital reference for both contemporary ethics debates and influential foundations, the Elgar Encyclopedia of Business Ethics is an indispensable resource for scholars and students in business, management, and organizational behaviour. It is also a valuable read for practitioners and policymakers in corporate social responsibility and governance.Key features:Clear, alphabetised entries written in an accessible styleBroadens the scope of business ethics studies to include sustainabilityFeatures contributions from almost 100 experts across global institutionsEngages with key debates across philosophy, management, and organization studies within business ethics