Corporate Citizenship, Contractarianism and Ethical Theory On Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics

Contents: Introduction, Jesús Conill, Christoph Luetge and Tatjana Schönwälder-Kuntze; Part 1 Theorizing Corporate Citizenship: Corporate power and responsibility: a citizenship perspective, Jeremy Moon, Andy Crane and Dirk Matten; Governing the corporate citizen: reflections on the role of professionals, Christopher J. Cowton; 'Corporate citizenship' from a (systems)-theoretical point of view, Tatjana Schönwälder-Kuntze. Part 2 Founding Business Ethics and (Corporate) Social Responsibility: Corporate social responsibility and business ethics, Adela Cortina; Profit and morality in global responsibility, Karl Homann; Ordo-responsibility - conceptual reflections towards a semantic innovation, Markus Beckmann and Ingo Pies. Part 3 Reflecting the Impact of Ethical Theory: Contractarianism, Ethics and Economics: Civilising the barbarians? On the apparent necessity of moral surpluses, Christoph Luetge; Social dilemmas and the social contract, Sören Buttkereit and Ingo Pies; Ethical economy as the economy of ethics and as the ethics of the market economy, Peter Koslowski; Why the international market for pharmaceuticals fails and what to do about it: a comparison of 2 alternative approaches to global ethics, Ingo Pies and Stefan Hielscher; Indexes.

Biography

Prof. Dr. Jesus Conill is based in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Valencia, Spain, Reinhard Mohn is Acting Professor, Chair of Management, Business Ethics and Social Change at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany and Dr. Tatjana Schonwalder-Kuntze is based in the Institute of Philosophy and Economics at the University of Munich, Germany.