Saving Human Lives

Lessons in Management Ethics
2005
ISBN: 978-94-007-8927-2
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 354 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 563 g

Reihe: Issues in Business Ethics

This is a pioneering work. Recent disasters such as the tsunami disaster continue to demonstrate Professor Allinson’s thesis that valuing human lives is the core of ethical management. His unique comparison of the ideas of the power of Fate and High Technology, his penetrating analysis of the very concept of an "accident", demonstrate how concepts rule our lives. His wide-ranging investigation of court cases and government documents from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, and from places as diverse as the USA, UK and New Zealand provide ample supporting evidence for the universality and the power of explanation of his thesis. Saving Human Lives will have an impact beyond measurement on the field of management ethics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allinson, Robert E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wirtschaftsethik, Unternehmensethik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Accidents, Tragedies and Disasters.- The Internal Relationship Between Ethics and Business.- The Buck Stops Here and it Stops Everywhere Else as Well.- Crisis Management and Disaster Prevention Management.- The Vasa Disaster.- The Titanic Disaster.- The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster.- Post-Challenger Investigations.- The Herald of Free Enterprise Disaster.- The King’s Cross Underground Fire.- The Disaster on Mt. Erebus.- Moral Responsibility and Techno-Organization.