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The Role of Business Ethics in Economic Performance is a major edited collection of papers on why and how the conduct of business behaviour effects its commercial success. The book offers a comprehensive introduction to the issues looking at the lessons from economic theory, the institutional setting and the supply and demand side conditions which are forcing firms to take ethics seriously. Lord Eatwell considers the ethical foundations of the market economy. Mark Casson analyses the economic importance of leaders, while Simon Deakin and Frank Wilkinson empirically examine the role of contractual obligation in the UK. Adrian Cadbury and Norman Barry examine voluntary institutions and government's importance in setting ethics. Maurie Cohen and Russell Sparkes look at the ethical consumers and ethical investors increasing influence on business conduct. Finally Clive Wright and Neil Hood examine the internal organisation of national and transnational firms which increasingly build an ethical dimension into their corporate decision making.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Reviews
'This book is a serious and valuable contribution to a very important issue...' - Dr Neville C. Bain, Chairman of Hogg Robinson PLC
' ...a stimulating contribution to what must be an extremely important area for future research.' - Professor Geoffrey Whittington, University of Cambridge
' This book is...a major contribution to the continuing debate.' - The Rt. Reverend Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
JOHN EATWELL
MARK CASSON Department of Economics, University of Reading
SIMON DEAKIN Centre for Business Research, Cambridge University
FRANK WILKINSON Centre for Business Research, Cambridge University
ADRIAN CADBURY
NORMAN BARRY Faculty of Politics, University of Buckingham
MAURIE COHEN Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics and Society
RUSSELL SPARKES Central Board of Finance of the Methodist Church
CLIVE WRIGHT Consultant
NEIL HOOD Department of Marketing, Strathclyde University
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Role of Business Ethics in Economic Performance
Editors: Ian Jones, Michael Pollitt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379794
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1998
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-71741-7Published: 03 June 1998
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37979-4Published: 03 June 1998
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 227
Topics: Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Business Ethics, Business Ethics