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Accounting Ethics
3rd Floor, 174.9657 D97a
Ethical business accounting topics such as "Accounting Codes of Ethics" and "Ethics in Auditing" are covered. The book contains articles about Arthur Anderson's role in the Enron scandal and chronicles the company's role.

Business Ethics: Readings and Cases in Corporate Morality
3rd Floor, 174.4 B9795b
This edition includes new thought on ethical issues in business and includes the strongest points from the previous editions. Chapters include "individual investor, accounting fraud, the ethics of the information age, and competitive intelligence."

Business: Its Legal, Ethical, and Global Environment
3rd Floor, 346.7307 J54b
This edition addresses new issues of law and ethics some of which are a result of the events of September 11, 2001. New topics include cyber law, internet security, and business strategy.

Encyclopedia of Ethics
1st Floor, Ref 170
E56e
This encyclopedia covers ethical theory studied among primarily English-speaking philosophers. It includes "metaethics, applied ethics, ethical issues ...important to theory, as well as biographical entries" of significant contributors to ethical theory.

Encyclopedia of Ethics
1st Floor, Ref 170.3 E561e
This book provides an extensive collection of ethics vocabulary to help readers understand important terms and movements in the study of ethics.

Ethical Business Leadership: Balancing Theory and Practice
3rd Floor, 658.408 K64e
The author theorizes about the relation of famous philosophers and ethical business leadership. The author also discusses the problems with idealism and realism in business ethics.

Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
3rd Floor, 174.4 S61et

"This book is concerned with 'doing the right thing' and more specifically with increasing our understanding of why organizations stray from 'doing the right thing'." It addresses the past and current state of business ethics, approaches to social responsibility, ethical turnaround, and restoring ethics in the workplace. The book includes specific case studies of Enron, Beech-Nut, and Warren Buffet at Salomon Brothers.

Ethics and Spirituality At Work: Hopes and Pitfalls of the Search For Meaning in Organizations
3rd Floor, 174 E84e
This book "attempts to look both at the promises and dangers offered by the integration of ethical and spiritual values at work". It includes case studies on the introduction of ethics in management.

Ethics and the CPA: Building Trust and Value-Added Services
3rd Floor, 174.4 C15e
This book is divided into three parts. The first part concerns the ethical services that can be provided by CPAs and the different "competencies" they have developed. The second part contains a study of the "Contemporary Environment" in which problems and demands result in ethical failures among organizations. The third part covers the idea of "Value-Added Ethical Services" which lays out possible solutions to the problems in business ethics.

Ethics in the Economy: Handbook Of Business Ethics
3rd Floor, 174.4 E846e
This comprehensive handbook of ethics "attempts to provide a European perspective" about the issue of business ethics. It is structured so that each chapter opens with a brief summary of the topic and a glossary of the most important terms.

Ethics in the Post-Enron Age
3rd Floor, 174.4 S92e
This book presents cases that "help students recognize ethical dilemmas and moral problems that present themselves in the 'messy' world of accounting." The cases are divided into specific topics such as income statement, balance sheet, corporate governance, reporting and disclosure, management fraud, and professional conduct.

Ethics of Information Technology and Business
3rd Floor, 174.4 D31e
New ethical problems are being discovered and they are developing at an increasing speed as a result of rapid advances in Information Technology. Areas covered include the protection of personal privacy, marketing privacy, and the changing nature of work is revealed.

Holding Corporations Accountable: Corporate Conduct, International Codes, and Citizen Action
3rd Floor, 658.408 R53h
The author presents a global look at the role corporations play in society. Among other things, she examines codes of marketing, corporate social responsibility, managing issues, and international regulation.

How Come Every Time I Get Stabbed in the Back My Fingerprints Are on the Knife? And Other Meditations on Management
3rd Floor, 658.4092 H34h
The author of this book addresses such issues as organizational backstabbing, organizational dynamics, bizarre organizational behavior, and no-nonsense management.

Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America
2nd Floor, 364.168 H88p
"Political commentator Arianna Huffington yanks back the curtain on the unholy alliance of CEO's politicians, lobbyists, and Wall Street bankers..." to answer how and why the United States is being run down by corrupt business and government leaders.

Managing Ethics in Business Organizations: Social Scientific Perspectives
3rd Floor, 174.4 T81m
This book presents the findings of a research program that is intended to further the understanding of organizational ethics. Chapters discuss metatheoretical issues, organizational ethics as institutions, managing ethical conduct, and the future of business ethics research.

Rethinking Business Ethics: A Pragmatic Approach
3rd Floor, 174.4 R81r
"This book will use the vision offered by classical American pragmatism as a conceptual framework for rethinking business ethics, tracing the manner in which the paradigmatic novelty of the position weaves its way through fundamental issues within the field undercutting old alternatives and offering constructive new directions for advancing beyond them."

A Short Course in International Business Ethics: Combining Ethics and Profits in Global Business
3rd Floor, 17434 M68s

Chapters in this book cover codifying business ethics, personal ethics, managing corporate ethics, e-ethics, global bribery and corruption, and regional ethics.

Understanding How Issues in Business Ethics Develop
3rd Floor, 174.4 U55u
This book addresses ethics and the information revolution. It also covers such topics as marketing, personal and communication privacy, e-business, and the changing nature of work.

Value Shift: Why Companies Must Merge Social and Financial Imperatives to Achieve Superior Performance
3rd Floor, 174.4 P14v
"This book is about changing notions of corporate performance - what it is and how to achieve it." It discusses the "emerging new standard of corporate performance...both moral and financial".

Whistleblowing: When It Works and Why
3rd Floor, 174.4 J68w
This book covers whistleblowing history, decisions, processes, policies, impacts, and protections.


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Revised (July 9, 2007)
Created (February 2004)
Original Author: Joyce Meldrem and Eric Grantham