Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Brief Contents -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I Problems in Business Ethics -- Chapter 1 Ethics: Doing the Right Thing -- Introduction to Ethics -- What are ethical questions? -- How to answer ethical questions? -- Introductory Case Studies -- Sam and the substandard notes -- Casey and the overly-demanding internship -- Tatiana and the fair distribution of chores -- Alex and the too-easy-to-cheat course -- Evaluating the Case Studies -- Non-ethical guidelines for thinking about the cases -- Ethical guidelines for thinking about the cases -- Limitations of ethical evaluation: the problem of controversy -- Reference -- Chapter 2 Business: Maximizing Profit -- Theory of the Firm -- Firm organization -- Why the firm exists at all -- Problems for firm organization -- Business Decision-Making: Shareholders and Cost-Benefit Analysis -- The Dominant Model -- Shareholder Theory -- Cost-benefit analysis -- Business in Society: Consumers, Employees, and Community -- References and Further Reading -- Chapter 3 Classic Business Ethics Dilemmas: When Doing The Right Thing Does Not Maximize Profits -- Doing Right by Consumers: The Ford Pinto Case -- Doing Right by Employees: The Walmart Case -- Doing Right by the Community: The B.P. Case -- Doing Right by Shareholders: The Enron Case -- References and Further Reading -- Case Cited -- Part II Tools to Solve Business Ethics Dilemmas -- Chapter 4 Ethical Theories -- The Three Major Ethical Theories -- Utility-based ethics -- Kant's duty-based ethics -- Aristotle's virtue-based ethics -- Other Bases for Ethics -- Natural law theory -- Contract theory -- Ethics of care -- Feminist ethics -- References and Further Reading -- Chapter 5 Theories of Corporate Personhood -- Businesses as Ethical Persons -- Businesses as Bureaucracies -- Businesses as Collective Persons
