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| Preface | |
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| Ethical Theory and Business Practice | |
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| Corporate Responsibility | |
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| Ethical Treatment of Employees | |
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| Diversity and Discrimination in the Workplace | |
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| Marketing and the Disclosure of Information | |
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| Ethical Issues in Finance and accounting | |
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| Ethical Issues regarding Emerging Technologies | |
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| Environmental Sustainability | |
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| Ethical Issues In International Business | |
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| Social and Economic Justice | |
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| Preface | |
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| Ethical Theory and Business Practice | |
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| Fundamental Concepts and Problems | |
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| Approaches to the Study of Morality and Ethical Theory | |
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| Contemporary Trends in Ethical Theory | |
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| Cases | |
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| the Training Program | |
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| Should Company Policy Apply to All? | |
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| Should Everything Be for Sale? | |
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| Corporate Responsibility | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Stockholder Management Versus Stakeholder Management | |
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| The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits | |
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| Managing for Stakeholders | |
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| What's Wrong--- and What's Right -- with Stakeholder Management | |
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| Decency Means More than "Always Low Prices": A Comparison of Costco to Wal- | |
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| Putting a Stake in Stakeholder Theory | |
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| Ethical Cultures & Moral Responsibility | |
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| Ethics as Organizational Culture | |
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| Individual Responsibility in the American Corporation System: Does Sarbanes Oxley Strike the Right Balance? | |
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| Legal Perspectives | |
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| Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. | |
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| Supreme Court of New Jersey, A. P. Smith Manufacturing Co. v. Barlow | |
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| Johnson & Johnson: Our Credo | |
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| Cases | |
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| the NYSEG Corporate Responsibility Program | |
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| Outsourcing at Any Cost? | |
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| H. B. Fuller in Honduras: Street Children and Substance Abuse | |
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| Merck & River Blindness | |
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| From Tension to Cooperative Dialogue: Holcim | |
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| the Bachelor Party | |
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| the Deepwater Horizon Disaster: Challenges in Ethical Decision Making | |
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| Suggested Supplementary Readings | |
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| Ethical Treatment of Employees | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Hiring and Firing of Employees | |
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| Employment at Will and Due Process | |
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| In Defense of the Contract at Will | |
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| Occupational Risk | |
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| The Right to Risk Information and the Right to Refuse Workplace Hazards | |
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| Occupational Health and Safety | |
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| Whistleblowing | |
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| Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty | |
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| Whistleblowing, Moral Integrity, and Organizational Ethics | |
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| Legal Perspectives | |
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| Superior Court of New Jersey, Warthen v. Toms River Community Memorial Hospital | |
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| Supreme Court of the United States, Automobile Workers v. Johnson Controls, Inc. | |
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| Superior Court of New Jersey, Potter v. Village Bank of New Jersey | |
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| Cases | |
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| Off-duty Smoking | |
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| Fired for Drinking the Wrong Brand of Beer | |
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| Exposing Workers to Plutonium | |
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| BP Workers Ill Trained for Dangers | |
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| the Reluctant Security Guard | |
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| A Matter of Principle | |
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| Suggested Supplementary Readings | |
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| Diversity and Discrimination in the Workplace | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Diversity and Affirmative Action | |
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| Affirmative Action and Diversity Goals in Hiring and Promotion | |
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| A Defense of Diversity Affirmative Action | |
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| Diversity | |
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| Sexual Harassment | |
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| Sexual Harassment and Solidarity | |
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| Jaimie Leeser and William O'Donohue, Normative Issues in Defining Sexual Harassment | |
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| Legal Perspectives | |
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| Supreme Court of the United States, Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Worker's International Association v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | |
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| Supreme Court of the United States, Grutter V. Bollinger | |
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| Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Opinion of the Court | |
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| Justice Clarence Thomas, Dissenting Opinion | |
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| Brief for 65 Leading American Businesses [Amici Brief] | |
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| Supreme Court of the United States, Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson, et al. | |
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| Supreme Court of the United States, Teresa Harris, Petitioner v. Forklift Systems, Inc. | |
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| Cases | |
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| Kaiser Aluminum and the United Steelworkers | |
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| Promotions at Uptown Bottling and Canning Company | |
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| How Would You Vote if You Lived in Michigan? | |
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| Gay and Lesbian Rights at Friendly Motors | |
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| Freedom of Expression at American Plastics Products | |
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| Harassment at Brademore Electric | |
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| Suggested Supplementary Readings | |
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| Marketing and the Disclosure of Information | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Advertising and Disclosure | |
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| Information Disclosure in Sales | |
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| Advertising and Behavior Control | |
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| Marketing and the Vulnerable | |
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| Pharmaceutical Marketing | |
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| The Drug Pushers | |
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| Denis G. Arnold, the Ethics of Direct to Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising | |
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| Legal Perspectives | |
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| United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Irving A. Backman v. Polaroid Corporation | |
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| United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, B. Sanfield, Inc. v. Finlay Fine Jewelry Corp. | |
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| United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Coca-Cola Company v. Tropicana Products, Inc | |
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| Supreme Court of California, Kasky v. Nike, Inc. | |
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| Cases | |
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| Advice for Sale | |
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| Sales at World Camera and Electronics | |
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| Hucksters in the Classroom | |
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| Kraft Foods Inc.: the Cost of Advertising on Children's Waistlines | |
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| Merck & Company: the Vioxx Recall | |
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| Pfizer, Repeat Offender | |
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| Suggested Supplementary Readings | |
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| Ethical Issues in Finance and Accounting | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Accounting Ethics | |
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| Ethics in Auditing: the Auditing function | |
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| Colin Boyd, The Structural Origins of Conflicts of Interest in the Accounting Profession | |
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| Financial Services | |
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| Ethical Issues in Financial Services | |
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| The Moral Problem of Insider Trading | |
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| High Leverage Finance Capitalism: Ethical Issues and Potential Reforms | |
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| Legal Perspectives | |
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| U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. v. O'Hagan | |
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| American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Code of Professional Conduct | |
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| Cases | |
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| An Auditor's Dilemma | |
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| Accounting for Enron | |
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| Enron and Employee Investment Risk | |
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| Predatory Lending at Countrywide Financial | |
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| Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.: An Accusation of Insider Trading | |
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| Suggested Supplementary Readings | |
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| Ethical Issues regarding Emerging Technologies | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Information and the World Wide Web | |
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| Privacy & Internet Ethics | |
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| Internet Content Providers and Complicity in Human Rights Abuse | |
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| Pharmaceutical Patents | |
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| Intellectual Property and Pharmaceutical Drugs: An Ethical Analysis | |
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| Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Life-Enhancing Drugs, and Corporate Moral Responsibilities | |
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| Legal Perspectives | |
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| U.S. Supreme Court, Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios Inc. | |
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| United States District Court for the Northern District of California, A & M Records v. Napster | |
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| World Trade Organization, Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights | |
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| Cases | |
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| Social Media and the Modern Worker: the Use of Facebook as an Organizational Monitoring and Management Tool | |
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| Privacy at MyFriends.com | |
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| Patents and the African Aids Epidemic | |
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| Aventis: Partnerships for Health | |
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| Suggested Supplementary Readings | |
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| Environmental Sustainability | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Environmental Obligations and Climate Change | |
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| Morality, Money and Motor Cars | |
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| Business, Ethics, and Global Climate Change | |
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| Sustainability and Natural Capitalism | |
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| Sustainability | |
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| Natural Capitalism | |
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| Taking the Green Leap to the Base of the Pyramid | |
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| Legal Perspectives | |
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| United States Supreme Court, United States v. Best Foods et al. | |
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| United States Supreme Court, Whitman, et al. v. American Trucking Associations, Inc. | |
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| Cases | |
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| Royal Caribbean: Exotic Promises & Toxic Waters | |
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| Texaco in the Ecuadorean Amazon | |
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| BP: Beyond Petroleum Spills? | |
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| Maintaining a Seat at the Table: the Shell Group | |
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| Interface Corporation and Sustainable Business | |
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| What Does it Mean to be Truly Green?: Environmental Sustainability at Frito Lay North America | |
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| Ethics and Sustainability at Alcoa: A Symbiotic Relationship | |
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| Suggested Supplementary Readings | |
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| Ethical Issues in International Business | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Universalism, Relativism and Human Rights | |
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| Relativism and the Moral Obligations of Multinational Corporations | |
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| Human Rights and Multinational Corporations | |
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| Exporting Mental Models: Global Capitalism in the 21st Century | |
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| Sweatshops and Bribery | |
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| The Great Non-Debate Over International Sweatshops | |
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| Sweatshops and Respect for Persons | |
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| Taking Responsibility for Bribery: the Multinational Corporation's Role in Combating Corruption | |
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| Legal Perspectives | |
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| Supreme Court of Texas, Dow Chemical Company and Shell Oil Company v. Domingo Castro Alfaro et al. | |
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| U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, Doe 1 vs. Unocal | |
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| The U.N. Global Compact | |
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| Cases | |
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| Foreign Assignment | |
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| Facilitation or Bribery: Cultural and Ethical Disparities | |
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| Chrysler and Gao Feng: Corporate Responsibility for Religious and Political Freedom in China | |
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| Should Wal-Mart Do More? A Case Study in Global Supply Chain Ethics | |
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| adidas: Application of Standards of Engagement to Child Labor Dilemma | |
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| Tackling HIV/AIDS: Unilever Tea Kenya | |
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| Suggested Supplementary Readings | |
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| Social and Economic Justice | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Economic Justice | |
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| An Egalitarian Theory of Justice | |
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| The Entitlement Theory | |
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| Justice At Work | |
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| Do CEOs Get Paid Too Much? | |
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| Global Justice | |
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| Why Globalization Works | |
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| Priorities of Global Justice | |
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| Legal Perspective | |
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| Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
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| Cases | |
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| Sapora's Patriarchical Society | |
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| Cocaine at the Fortune-500 Level | |
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| Wages of Failure: the Ethics of Executive Compensation | |
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| Shareholder Losses and Executive Gains: Bank of America's Acquisition of Merrill Lynch | |
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| SC Johnson: Pyrethrum Sourcing from Kenya | |
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| Coca-Cola: the Entrepreneur Development Program - South Africa | |
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| Suggested Supplementary Readings | |