Thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, Second Edition explores current topics, such as mass social media, cookies, and cyber-attacks, as well as traditional issues including accounting, discrimination, environmental concerns, and management. The new edition also includes an in-depth examination of current and recent ethical affairs, such as the dangerous work environments of off-shore factories for Western retailers, the negligence resulting in the 2010 BP oil spill, the gender wage gap, the minimum wage debate and increasing income disparity, and the unparalleled level of debt in the U.S. and other countries with the challenges it presents to many societies and the considerable impact on the ethics of intergenerational wealth transfers.
Key Features Include:
- Seven volumes, available in both electronic and print formats, contain more than 1, 200 signed entries by significant figures in the field
- Cross-references and suggestions for further readings to guide students to in-depth resources
- Thematic Reader′s Guide groups related entries by general topics
- Index allows for thorough browse-and-search capabilities in the electronic edition
Jadual kandungan
Volume 1
List of Entries
Reader’s Guide
About the Editor
Contributors
Introduction
Entries A
Entries B
Entries C
Volume 2
List of Entries
Entry C (Cont)
Entry D
Entry E
Volume 3
List of Entries
Entry E (Cont)
Entry F
Entry G
Volume 4
List of Entries
Entry G (Cont)
Entry H
Entry I
Entry J
Entry K
Entry L
Volume 5
List of Entries
Entry M
Entry N
Entry O
Entry P
Volume 6
List of Entries
Entry P (Cont)
Entry Q
Entry R
Entry S
List of Entries
Volume 7
Entry S (Cont)
Entry T
Entry U
Entry V
Entry W
Entry Z
Appendix
Index
Barter – Clark Farmer
Empathy – Clark Farmer
Pornography – Clark Farmer
Business Judgment Rule – John Holcomb
Golden Parachutes – John Holcomb
Interest Groups – John Holcomb
Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) – John Holcomb
Political Action Committees (PACs) – John Holcomb
Shareholder Resolutions – John Holcomb
Shareholders – John Holcomb
Airline Deregulation – William Martello
Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) – William Martello
Savings and Loan Scandal – William Martello
Mengenai Pengarang
Robert W. Kolb is Professor of Finance and the Frank W. Considine Chair of Applied Ethics in the business school at Loyola University Chicago. Kolb’s career as a finance professor spans almost three decades and includes appointments at the University of Florida, Emory University, and the University of Miami, where he served as department chair and as the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Finance. Recently he was Professor of Finance and Assistant Dean for Business and Society at the University of Colorado at Boulder. There he led the school’s program in business ethics and business and society. He has published more than 50 academic research articles and more than 20 books. In 1990, he founded Kolb Publishing Company to publish finance and economics university texts, built the company’s list over the ensuing years, and sold the firm to Blackwell Publishers of Oxford, England, in 1995. He also recently published the sixth edition of Understanding Futures Markets and the fifth edition of Futures, Options, and Swaps (both with James A. Overdahl). He recently edited three monographs: The Ethics of Executive Compensation, The Ethics of Genetic Commerce, and Corporate Retirement Security: Social and Ethical Issues. He is the general editor for the five-volume Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society. He earned two Ph.D.s from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (one in philosophy, in 1974, and the other in finance, in 1978).
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