Business and the Greater Good

Edited by Knut J. Ims, Professor and Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen, Associate Professor, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norway

• Contents:Introduction1. Rethinking Business Ethics in an Age of CrisisKnut J. Ims and Lars Jacob Tynes PedersenPART I: FROM INEQUALITY TO EQUALITY2. The Business of Inequality George Brenkert3. The Profit Maximization Mantra and the Challenge of Regaining Trust, Humanity and Purpose in an Age of Crisis Wesley Cragg4. Business and the Greater Good as a Combination of Private and Public Wealth Georges Enderle5. The Tortoise and the Hare: Alternative Approaches to Capitalism Eleanor O’HigginsPART II: FROM THE TECHNICAL-MATERIALISTIC TO THE ECOLOGICAL-SPIRITUAL6. Materialistic versus Non-materialistic Value-orientation in Management Laszlo Zsolnai7. The Source of Ethical Competency: Eastern Perspectives Provided by a Westerner Peter Pruzan8. Aesthetics, Human Rights and Economic Life: Temporal Perspectives Kevin T. Jackson9. Ecological Economics: A New Paradigm AheadOve JakobsenPART III: FROM COMPLIANCE AND ENFORCEMENT TO AUTONOMY AND RESPONSIBILITY10. Personal Responsibility for the Greater Good Knut J. Ims and Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen11. Developing a Framework for Critiquing Multi-stakeholder Codes of ConductS. Prakash Sethi and Donald H. Schepers12. Socratic Dialogue – Designed in the Nelson–Heckmann Tradition: A Tool for Reducing the Theory–Practice Divide in Business Ethics Johannes Brinkmann13. The Future of Business Ethics: A Structured Dialogue between the ParticipantsKnut J. Ims and Lars Jacob Tynes PedersenIndex

‘Bringing together business and the greater good is not a piece of cake. In Knut J. Ims‘ and Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen’s book, internationally known scholars from both sides of the Atlantic develop deep reflections on the relationship between business and society. The authors show conflicts between business and the greater good and also demonstrate how business can be transformed, in order to align the goals of business and society. This is not only a book about the future of business ethics, it is a book about the future of business in general.’