This book is a volume in Blackwell's Foundations of Business Ethics series. Books in this series, are authored by business ethicists and are intended to provide text materials for courses in business. Because of its major focus on official ethics pronouncements of regulatory and professional...

According to a widely credited model in the business ethics literature, ethical decisions are a function of two kinds of factors, personal(individual) and situational, and these factors interact with each other. According to a contrary view of decision making that is widely held in some areas of...

The few extant arguments concerning the autonomy of science in the rational acceptance of hypotheses are examined. It is concluded that science is not morally autonomous, and that the attendant notion of rationality in science decision making is inadequate. A more comprehensive notion of...

Both the economic efficiency and ethical aspects of insider trading have had a great deal of attention for a number of years. This experimental study bridges the economic and ethics literature by addressing the issue of whether market participants respond only to economic factors, or whether...