Business Ethics - Softcover

"Very good, well researched, excellent case research integrated into the topics. I especially like that the book is applicable and current to today’s business manager."―Margot Palermo, Business Honors Program Director, College of Business, State University of New York at Stony Brook

"This book is very well written and covers the topics and concepts in a comprehensive and insightful manner. The examples used to illustrate concepts and ideas are current and interesting. In addition, it is a good idea to use links to information and developments on the internet. The figures and charts are clear and help in overall understanding."―Debi Mishra, State University of New York at Binghamton

"Business Ethics by Parboteeah and Cullen occupies a unique space among textbooks in the field. Its global orientation and focus on strategy, information technology, and sustainability keep pace with the latest issues and approaches to business ethics."― Bryan Husted, Schulich School of Business, York University and Tecnologico de Monterrey

"What I really like about the book is that it tells about all the different areas that matter for ethics in day to day business. In particular, the reader profits from the multitude of practical examples which underline different stakeholders’ perspective on business ethics. Also, the authors bring in an international perspective explaining how cultural differences affect behavioral expectations related to ethics."― Miriam Muethel, Professor for Organizational Behavior, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany

"This book is especially progressively relevant for emerging economies countries companies and management students. This book expeditious and in a lucid way captures the relationship between environment of business and its relations with organizations as well as helps in developing and cultivating the analytical skills and capabilities to deal with ethical perspectives. This book also gives a conceptual understanding of developing an ethical culture, which our emerging companies need to cultivate for sustaining theirs competitive advantage."―Prashant Salwan, Indian Institute of Management

"In appreciating the complexities of doing business K. Praveen Parboteeah and John B. Cullen’s Business Ethics presents a theoretically rigorous and practically oriented approach to business ethics education. While the domain has largely embraced stakeholder thinking this work is the first to explicitly utilize strategic stakeholder theory as its organizing structure." – Carlo Carrascoso, University of Redlands, USA, in Journal of Business Ethics Education

Business Ethics provides a thorough review and analysis of business ethics issues using several learning tools:

Strategic Stakeholder Management as the Theme: All chapters use a strategic stakeholder approach as a unifying theme. The text is thus the first text that adopts this approach. Most business ethics scholars and practitioners agree that successful ethical companies are the ones that can strategically balance the needs of their various stakeholders. By adopting this approach, students will be able to see how the various aspects of business ethics are connected.

Theory-based and Application-based: All chapters have important applicable theories integrated with discussion of how such theories apply in practice. Unlike other texts that are either too theoretical or too practical, this text provides the appropriate blend of theory and practice to provide deeper insights into the concepts covered in the chapter.

Global Perspective: Unless most other texts, this text provides a global perspective on business ethics. Most chapters include material pertaining to ethics in global contexts. Included are cases about companies in a wide range of countries including Japan, U.K., China and India among many others.

Cases: The text contains over 30 real world global cases. Each chapter ends with a short two page case as well as a longer case that varies in length. Each has discussions questions at the end. Finally each of the four parts ends with a Comprehensive Case; proven teaching cases from The Ivey School and other sources.