Business Ethics: a reading list

Arnold, D. G., Bowie, N. E., ‘Sweatshops and Respect for Persons’, Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 13, Issue 2 (2003), pp. 221-242 

Audi, R., ‘Can Utilitarianism be Distributive? : Maximization and Distribution as Criteria in Managerial Decisions’, Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 17, Issue 4 (2007), pp. 593-611 

Bakan, J., The Corporation: The pathological pursuit of profit and power (Constable, 2004) 

Beauchamp, T. L., Bowie, N. E. (eds.), Ethical Theory and Business 7th ed. (Prentice Hall, 2004) 

Bragues, G., ‘The Ancients against the Moderns’, Journal of Business Ethics, Vol.78 (2008), pp. 373-387 

Brealey, A. R., Myers, C. S., Allen, F., (eds.), Corporate Finance 8th ed. (McGraw-Hill, 2006) 

Chryssides, G., Kaler, J., An Introduction to Business Ethics (Chapman & Hall, 1995) 

Crane, A., Matten, D., Business Ethics 2nd ed. (OUP, 2007) 

Donaldson, J., Key Issues in Business Ethics (Academic Press, 1989) 

De George, R. T., Business Ethics 3rd ed. (MacMillian, 1990) 

Fisher, C., Lovell, A., Business Ethics and Values 2nd ed. (Prentice Hall, 2006) 

Frederick, R. E. (ed.), A Companion to Business Ethics (Blackwell, 2002) 

Friedman, M., Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago University Press, 1982)

Hartman, E. M., ‘Socratic Questions and Aristotelian Answers’, Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 78 (2008), pp. 313-328

Jones, C., Parker, M., ten Bos, R., For Business Ethics (Routledge, 2005)

King, R. H., ‘Virtue and Community in Business Ethics: A critical assessment of Solomon’s Aristotelian approach to social responsibility’, Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 32, No. (2001), pp. 487-499

 LaFolette, H. (ed.), Ethics in Practice 2nd ed. (Blackwell, 2002)

Marks, K., Howden, D., ‘The Worlds Rubbish Dump: A garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan’ in The Independent (Tuesday, 5 February 2005)

 Marmor, Andrei, “The Nature of Law”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2007 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2007/entries/lawphil-nature/

Pratley, P., The Essence of Business Ethics (Prentice Hall, 1995)

Reynolds, S. J., Bowie, N. E., ‘A Kantian Perspective on the Characteristics of Ethics Programs’, Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 14, Issue 2 (2004), pp. 275-292

Singer, P. (ed.), Applied Ethics (OUP, 1986)

Singer, P., Practical Ethics 2nd ed. (CUP, 1995)

Smith, A., An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, edited by Campbell R.H., Skinner, A.S., Todd W.B. (Liberty, 1981)

Sollars, G. G., Englander, F., ‘Sweatshops: Kant and Consequences’, Business Ethics Quarterly, Volume 17, Issue 1 (2007), pp. 115-133

Solomon, R. C., ‘Corporate Roles, Personal Virtues’, Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 2, Issue 2 (1992), pp. 317-339

Solomon, R. C., A Better Way to Think About Business (OUP, 2003)

Solomon, R. C., Introducing Philosophy (OUP, 2005)

Sorell, T., Hendry, J., Business Ethics (Butterworth Heinemann, 1996)

Stackhouse, M., McCann, D., Roels, J., Williams, N., (eds.), On Moral Business (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1995)

This article was updated on January 20, 2024