Cosmopolitan Business Ethics Towards a Global Ethos of Management

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Themes for cosmopolitan business ethics

Cosmopolitan business ethics as future management science

CHAPTER 1. What is cosmopolitan business ethics?

Business ethics in private and public organizations

Cosmopolitan business ethics and creation of trust

Focus on global social responsibility

Social responsibility in Scandinavia: The inclusive labor market

Business ethics in practice

Business ethics in organization and management

Is business ethics profitable?

The purpose of the programs for ethics and values-driven leadership

CHAPTER 2. Business Ethics in the age of globalization

Ethics and globalization of the market economy

Neoliberalism, competition states, and globalization

Strengths and weaknesses of globalization

Social responsibility as risk management

Values and globalization

International codes of ethics and codes of conduct

International business ethics as a first dimension of cosmopolitan business ethics

Caux Round Table Principles: Guidelines for global ethics

CHAPTER 3. What are values?

Values in the late modern society

Business Ethics in experience society

Values in business organizations

Values-driven management as a strategic management communication

Values and values-driven management

Requirements for an ethical culture in the organization

Values-driven leadership, ethics, and organization theory

Code of conduct for leadership in the public sector

Organization, perceptions, values, and ethics

Different theoretical approaches to values-driven management

CHAPTER 4 Values-driven management in practice

V

Biography

Jacob Dahl Rendtorff is Senior Associate Professor of Responsibility, Ethics and Legitimacy of Corporations at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University, Denmark. Rendtorff is Member of the Executive Committee of EBEN (European Business Ethics Network), a Member of the Academy of Management, and European Editor of the Journal of Business Ethics Education. He has been a visiting professor at universities in Europe and the United States and has published several books.

'In an age of corporate scandals, tax evasion schemes and high-profile climate-change denial, Rendtorff reminds us that business activity is morally, politically and constitutionally justified if and only if it is socially responsible and globally conducive to the good life.' — Prof. Giorgio Baruchello, University of Akureyri

'Jacob Dahl proves that "business ethics" is not a standalone discipline and those who naturally practice "cosmopolitan corporate integrity" can readily produce win-win situations for all involved. Society needs this fascinating and insightful read to become a text book in every business school and a desk book for every executive.' — Julian Clarke, European Business Ethics Network Ireland

'What I found most valuable and most interesting was [Jacob Dahl Rendtorff's] description and discussion of business ethics in Germany. This is, as he points out, a tradition unknown in the English-speaking world but it is socially valuable. All in all, this book is a substantial contribution to business ethics in English.' — Guðmundur Heiðar Frímannsson, Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2019