Critical Theory Ethics for Business and Public Administration (PB)

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-1-59311-785-6
Verlag: Information Age Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 412 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 623 g

Reihe: Ethics in Practice

A volume in Ethics in Practice Series Editors Robert A. Giacalone, Temple University and Carole L. Jurkiewicz, Louisiana State University The purpose of this book is to develop ethical traditions based on Kant, Horkheimer, and others, to extend beyond the level of individual behavior to address the social system level in business and public administration. It is not enough to try to be good or ethical as individuals when it is systemic processes which are fostering unethical behavior. Horkheimer's books Eclipse of Reason and Critique of Instrumental Reason, and his early and now classic essay Materialism and Morality, ask for a reformation of Kantian ethics. The reform is sought because the categorical imperative, within the context of an individualism capitalism, serves to worsen the difference between business ethics and moral philosophy. Therefore, Horkheimer asks that the maxims that would be made universal would be done at the level of people organizing with others. This is the level addressed in this volume, as we seek to change the system that is producing and reproducing unethical behaviors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boje, David M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors' Preface. Foreword: Critical Theory, Ethics, and the Critique of Business, Douglas Kellner.; PART I: INTRODUCTION TO CT ETHICS IN BUSINESS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION. Contributions of Critical Theory Ethics for Business and Public Administration, David M. Boje. Ethics in the World of Management?: Making the Case with Critical Theory, Adrian N. Carr. Practicing Critical Theory in Public Administration, Lisa A. Zanetti. Business Ethics and Its World, Martin Fuglsang and Ole Fogh Kirkeby.; PART II: CT ETHICAL ANSWERABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY. Story Ethics, David M. Boje. No Alibi in Ethics: Bakhtin's Philosophy of the Act and the Question of Answerability in Business, Olga Belova. The Critical Issue of Accountability, Harro M. Hopfl.; PART III: CT ETHICS FOR ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXTS. Legal Fictions: Critical Theory Criticality and the State of Economics and Management, Robin Matthews. Monsters of Accounting: An Ante-Ethics Approach, Alexis A. Downs, Rita A. Durant, and William L. Smith. Strategy and Critical Theory Ethics, David M. Boje and Usha C. V. Haley. International Business and Critical Ethics, George Cairns and Martyna Sliwa. Techno-Futurist Ethics, Stewart Clegg and Nelson Phillips.; PART IV: CT ETHICS FOR SOCIAL ISSUES. Morality in Context: Reflections on Voice and Exclusion, Gabrielle Durepos and Albert J. Mills. Ethics of Recognition: I / you (thou) / they, Hugo Letiche. Good Order: Ethics and Disposition, Heather Hopfl. Critical Spirituality, Moral Philosophy, and Business Ethics, Michael Whitty and Jerry Biberman. Critical Pedagogy and Ethics: An Epic Four-Quadrant Model, Grace Ann Rosile, Mark Horowitz, Stephen DeGiulio, and Janet Marta. Environmental Ethics and Business: Toward a Habermasian Perspective, Robert P. Gephart, Jr. and Michael Kulicki.