Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics

Christoph Lütge is Full Professor of Business Ethics at Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Director of the TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (IEAI). He is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Tokyo University and has held further visiting positions at Harvard, Taipei, Kyoto, Stockholm and others. He has a background both in philosophy as well as information studies, having taken his PhD at the Technical University of Braunschweig in 1999 and his habilitation at the University of Munich (LMU) in 2005. In 2007, he was awarded a Heisenberg Fellowship by the German Research Foundation. He has published extensively on business ethics, including his books “AI with Integrity: At the Intersection of AI Ethics and Business Ethics” (Springer, 2026) and “Business Ethics: An Economically Informed Perspective” (Oxford University Press, 2021, with Matthias Uhl).Marianne Thejls Ziegler is a post-doctoral researcher at the Technical University of Munich and completed her PhD in business ethics at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School. Her research interests lie within business ethics in relation to public discourses, ethics of digital technologies and the social and organizational consequences of video conference and digital decision making, corporate social responsibility and PCSR.

• Aristotelian Foundations of Business Ethics.- Scholastic Thought and Business Ethics.- Morality and Self-Interest I: Hume, Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment.- Morality and Self-Interest II: Contemporary Perspectives.- Kantian and Hegelian Thoughts on Business Ethics.-  Marxist Thoughts on Business Ethics.- Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Business Ethics.- Christian Foundations of Business Ethics.- Jewish Foundations of Business Ethics.- Islamic Foundations of Business Ethics.- Eastern Cultural, Philosophical and Religious Foundations of Business Ethics.- Discourse Ethics and Business.- Contractarianism.-  Sen’s “Capabilities”, Poverty and Economic Welfare.- Human Rights, Globalization and Business Ethics.- Gender Issues and Business Ethics.- Justice and Business Ethics.- Philosophical Issues of Sustainability and the Environment.- Free Markets, Morality and Business Ethics.- Property Rights: Material and Intellectual.- Philosophical Issues of Management and Corporations.- Methodology and Business Ethics.