Just Business - Business Ethics in Action

By Elaine Sternberg

Just Business provides a thorough and invaluable framework for those facing questions of business ethics and corporate governance. What are business's proper responsibilities? Is bribery ever moral? When are takeovers and redundancy ethical? Every business needs to know.
Featuring a central Ethical Decision Model that is both theoretically powerful and widely applicable, Just Business explains why being ethical is fully compatible with doing business, discusses what business has to do in order to be ethical, and looks at how properly structured systems can promote ethical business conduct that maximizes owner value.
Highly accessible and with global appeal, Just Business is essential reading for students of business, ethics, law, and economics, and an invaluable tool for everyone who has contact with the business world.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198296622
• ISBN13: 9780198296621
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Packed With Knowledge!

Elaine Sternberg has written an important, fascinating look at business ethics. Despite its academic presentation, it hooks you right away, and keeps you hooked. She is not fuzzy in her ethical analysis; there is no moral posturing to be found. This book is a practical decision-making guide for businesspeople. Sternberg builds an ethical framework that starts with the fundamental premise that the goal of business is to increase owner value. If an ethical issue relates to that goal, it's one you must address. If not, it's not your problem. Once you've identified an ethical dilemma that you must resolve, Sternberg guides you through a series of intellectual exercises that narrow your options, identify your constraints and ultimately help you arrive at the correct answer. We [...] recommend this book as a seminal introduction to ethical decision making for business men and women that should be read by all and referred to often.