Reading for Ethics

For a crash course in understanding the issues in business ethics, consider the following:

Aquinas, Thomas St. “Summa Theologica,” Questions 55, 58, 61-63, from THE MORAL TEACHING OF ST. THOMAS (Burns & Oates:1896), pp. 155, 167-74,197-187.

Aristotle, “Moral Virtue,” in THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS OF ARISTOTLE (Oxford University Press:1959), as translated by W.D. Ross, originally written circa 340 B.C., pp. 28-29.

Aristotle, “Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1,” in ARISTOTLE’S ETHICS (Oxford University Press: 1973), originally written circa 384 B.C., pp. 41-60.

Baucus, Melissa S. and David A. Baucus, “Paying the Piper: An Empirical Examination of Longer-Term Financial Consequences of Illegal Corporate Behavior,” 40 Academy of Mgt. J. 129 (1997).

Bok, Sissela, LYING: MORAL CHOICE IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE (Random House:1978).

Carr, Albert Z., “Is Business Bluffing Ethical?” 46 Harvard Business Review(1968).

Confucius, ANALECTS (Oxford University Press:1993), originally written in the 6th to 5th century B.C., pp. 58 and 62.

Drucker, Peter, “The Ethics of Responsibility,” from MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (Harper Row:1973)

Freeman, R.E. and D. L. Reed 1983. Stockholders and Stakeholders: a New Perspective on Corporate Governance. California Management Review (25): 88

Rock, I. 1990. The Legacy of Solomon Asch. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, p. 3
Franklin, Benjamin, THE ART OF VIRTUE (Acorn:1996).

Friedman, Milton, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits,” New York Times Sunday Magazine, September 13, 1970.

Hammurabi (The Code), ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN TEXTS RELATING TO THE OLD TESTAMENT, ed. by James Pritchard (Princeton University Press:1969), written in 1792-1750 B.C., p. 175.

Hatano, Daryl, “Should Corporations Exercise Their Freedom of Speech Rights?” 22 American Business Law Journal 165 (1984).

Hayek, F.A., THE ROAD TO SERFDOM (50th anniversary edition 1994)) (University of Chicago Press:1972).

Hobbes, Thomas, LEVIATHAN (Dent:1914), first published in 1651, pp. 289-297.

Jennings, Marianne M., “The Tony Bennett Factor,” Wall Street Journal, June 26, 1995, A12.

Jennings, Marianne M., “Trendy Causes No Substitute for Virtue in Business,” Wall Street Journal, Dec. 1, 1997, A22.

Jennings, Marianne M., “Confessions of a Business Ethicist,” Wall Street Journal, September 25, 1995, A14.

Jennings, Marianne M., BUSINESS ETHICS: CASE STUDIES AND SELECTED READINGS, 7th ed. (Cengage:2011).

Jennings, Marianne M., SEVEN SIGNS OF ETHICAL COLLAPSE, 353 pp. St. Martin’s Press (2006).

Jennings, Marianne M., A BUSINESS TALE: A STUDY OF ETHICS, CHOICES, SUCCESS – AND A VERY LARGE RABBIT, 127 pp., Amacom Books (2003).

Jennings, Marianne M., BUILDING A BUSINESS THROUGH GOOD TIMES AND BAD: LESSONS FROM 15 COMPANIES, EACH WITH A CENTURY OF DIVIDENDS, 259 pp. Greenwood Press, with Louis Grossman (2002).

Jennings, M. 2003. Restoring Ethical Gumption in the Corporation: A Federalist Paper on Corporation Governance: Restoration of Active Virtue in the Corporate Structure to Curb the “Yeehaw Culture” in Organizations, forthcoming in Wyoming Law Review.

Jennings (2), M.M. 2001. Are Business Schools Antibusiness. Across the Board (38):29.

Jesus, “The Sermon on the Mount,” MATTHEW 5:1-20

Kant, Immanuel, “The Categorical Imperative,” from “The Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals,” in THE PHILOSOPHY OF IMMANUEL KANT, as translated by L.W. Beck (University of Chicago Press:1949) first published in 1785, pp. 55-63, 180-186.

Locke, John, Second Treatise on Civil Government, in SOCIAL CONTRACT (Oxford University Press:1960), originally published in 1690, pp. 7-9, 14-15, 23-26.

McCoy, Bowen (“Buzz”), “The Parable of the Sadhu,” 61 Harvard Business Review (1983).

Mill, John Stuart, THE ETHICS OF JOHN STUART MILL (Blackwood & Sons: 1897), pp. 89-127.

Morris, Tom, IF ARISTOTLE RAN GENERAL MOTORS: THE NEW SOUL OF A BUSINESS (Henry Holt:1997).

Nash, Laura, “Ethics Without the Sermon,” 59 Harvard Business Review (1981).

Nietzsche, Frederick on herd mentality in BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL (Henry Regnery:1955), pp. 110-111, originally published in 1886.

Novak, Michael, BUSINESS AS A CALLING (Free Press: 1994).

Novak, Michael, THE FIRE OF INVENTION: CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE FUTURE OF THE CORPORATION (Rowman & Littlefield: 1996).

Plato, “Morality as Good In Itself,” THE REPUBLIC (Macmillan:1892), pp. 18-25.

Plato, Gorgias, (Penguin:1960), , originally written circa 427 B.C., pp. 77-79, 84-105.
Rand, Ayn, THE VIRTUE OF SELFISHNESS (Signet:1961).

Rand, Ayn, CAPITALISM: THE UNKNOWN IDEAL (Signet: 1967).

Rawls, John, A THEORY OF JUSTICE (Harvard University Press:1972), pp. 26-27.

Smith, Adam, AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS (Dent:1776) (1910 republication).

Smith, Adam, THE THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS (Wells & Lilly: 1817)

Stark, Andrew, “What’s the Matter With Business Ethics?” 71 Harvard Business Review(1993).

Stearns, J.M. and S. Borna. 1998. A Comparison of the Ethics of Convicted Felons and Graduate Business Students: Implications for Business Practice and Business Ethics Education. Teaching Business Ethics 2(1):175-195.

Torah, THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD: SHABBATH (The Soncino Press:1938), translated by M. Freedman, written circa 30 A.D., p. 140.

CASES (Harvard Business School)
Marriott International and Marriott Host: The Debt Spin-Off
Pepsi in India
Otis Elevator in Vietnam
Ford Motor Company Earnings
Al Dunlap at Sunbeam
OTHER CASES
FINOVA Capital Corporation
Dell Corporation: pre- and post-contract and earnings restatements
Enron: pre-collapse and post-collapse
Martha Stewart
Tyco International
Goldman Sachs: pre-2008 and post-2008
Baptist Foundation of Arizona
New Era Philanthropy
WorldCom: pre- and post-collapse