Ferrero Ignacio - Business ethics a virtue ethics and common good approach

Can business activities and decisions be virtuous?

This is the first business ethics textbook to take a virtue ethics approach. It explains how virtue ethics compares with alternative approaches to business ethics, such as utilitarianism and deontology, and argues that virtue ethics best serves the common good of society.

Looking across the whole spectrum of businessincluding finance, governance, leadership, marketing, and productioneach chapter presents the theory of virtue ethics and supports students learning with chapter objectives, in-depth interviews with professionals and real-life case studies from a wide range of countries.

Business Ethics: A Virtue Ethics and Common Good Approach is a valuable text for advanced undergraduates and Masters-level students on business ethics courses.

Alejo Jos G. Sison is Professor (School of Economics and Business, University of Navarra) and former president of the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) (20092012). He is Section Editor at the Journal of Business Ethics and editorial board member of Business Ethics Quarterly.

Ignacio Ferrero is Professor of Business Ethics (School of Economics and Business, University of Navarra) and Visiting Scholar at Bentley, Harvard and Notre Dame University. He is co-founder of the research group on virtue ethics in business and management.

Gregorio Guitin is Associate Professor of Moral Theology (School of Theology, University of Navarra). He has published several books and articles on Catholic Social Teaching in international journals. His research interest includes Catholic Social Teaching on economic issues. He is Associate Editor of the journal Scripta Theologica.

Introducing virtue ethics to the business practices that surround us all may reinvigorate the language of virtue by providing vivid illustrations of virtue in practice. [] Business Ethics: A Virtue Ethics and Common Good Approach will certainly help in that effort.

Barry Schwartz, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, USA

The contributors are leading thinkers around Catholic Social Teaching and Business. They analyze this tradition and explain why it is important for the 21st century. They redefine business, putting virtues and the common good at the center of management thinking.

R. Edward Freeman, University Professor, The Darden School, University of Virginia, USA

This excellent text is unique because its international cast of authors shows students and practitioners how to promote the common good by applying virtue ethics to particular business functions.

Joanne B. Ciulla, Professor and Director of the Institute for Ethical Leadership, Rutgers Business SchoolNewark and New Brunswick, USA

This book explores virtue ethics in a systematic way, evaluating what Aristotle, Catholic Social Teaching and Alasdair MacIntyre have to say about the virtues, character, leadership, finance, and other timely topics. There simply is no better introduction to the subject.

Daryl Koehn, Wicklander Chair in Business Ethics, DePaul University, USA

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Sison, Alejo Jos G., Ph.D., is Professor of Business Ethics at the School of Economics and Business of the University of Navarra. He was president of the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) between 2009 and 2012. He has been Fulbright Senior Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and has received fellowships from the 21st Century Trust Foundation (London); the Academic Council on the United Nations System (Yale University); the American Society of International Law (Washington, DC); the Salzburg Seminar, Bentley University (Waltham, MA); the Policy and Leadership Studies Department of the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore); and the Institute of Education of the University of London. He is editor of the Journal of Business Ethics and Business Ethics Quarterly. His research deals with the issues at the juncture of ethics with economics and politics, such as the virtues and the common good. His latest books include Happiness and Virtue Ethics in Business (Cambridge University Press, 2015), The Challenges of Capitalism for Virtue Ethics and the Common Good (Edward Elgar, 2016), co-edited with Kleio Akrivou, and the Handbook of Virtue Ethics in Business and Management (Springer, 2016) of which he is editor in chief.

Ferrero, Ignacio is Professor of Business Ethics and the Dean of the School of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Navarra. He has been Visiting Scholar at Bentley University, Harvard University (Real Colegio Complutense) and Notre Dame University (Mendoza College of Business). He has published several books on the History of Economic Thought and articles in such academic journals as