Values, Nature, and Culture in the American Corporation.
William C. Frederick
Bok Engelsk 1995 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (332 pages)
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| Opplysninger | Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. Values in Business -- A Theory of Business Values: An Overview -- Economizing/Power-Aggrandizing Tensions -- Economizing/Ecblogizing Tensions -- Power-Aggrandizing/Ecologizing Tensions -- The Meaning of Value -- The Value Set of Business -- Found Values -- Original Values -- 2. The Original Values of Business -- First Original Value: Economizing -- Economizing as an Energy Transformation Process -- Entropy and Thermodynamic Laws -- Economizing as Process and Value -- Second Original Value: Growth -- Intersecting and Conflicting Growth Paths -- Third Original Value: Systemic Integrity -- Is Profit an Original Business Value? -- Original Business Values-A Summation -- 3. The Power-Aggrandizing Values of Business -- First Value: Hierarchical (Rank-Order) Organization -- Second Value: Managerial Decision Power -- Third Value: Power-System Equilibrium -- Fourth Value: Power Aggrandizement -- On the Instrumental Uses of Coercive Power -- Value Clusters I and II-A Summation -- 4. The Structure of Corporate Values -- The Concept of Culture and Its Misuse -- Corporate Culture -- The Values of Corporate Culture -- Economizing Values in Corporate Culture -- Power-Aggrandizing Values in Corporate Culture -- The Value Core of Corporate Culture -- 5. The Values of Managers -- Managers' Values: The Research Picture -- Empirical Values Research -- Nonempirical Critical Commentary -- Managers' Embodied Values -- Managers' Organizational Commitments and Attitudes -- Ethical Climates and Organizational Values -- Value Uniformity and Variety: X-Factor Values -- The Value Dimension of Managerial Work -- 6. Ecologizing Values and the Business Dilemma -- The Nature of Ecologizing Values -- First Ecologizing Value: Linkage -- Second Ecologizing Value: Diversity -- Third Ecologizing Value: Homeostatic Succession.. - Fourth Ecologizing Value: Community -- Anthropocentric Interpretations of Ecological Process -- The Interface of Economizing and Ecologizing -- Varieties of Ecological Process -- Competitive Economizing -- Mutualistic Economizing -- Power Aggrandizement and Ecologizing -- The Central Ecological Value Problem -- 7. The Values Within Technology -- The Wellspring of Technology -- A Friendly Warning Label -- Technology and Economizing -- From Genetic Technology to Cultural Technology -- Genetic Technology -- Cultural Technology -- The Elaborations of Cultural Technology -- The Logics of Cultural Technology -- A Pragmatic Logic -- A Combinatory Logic -- A Cumulative Logic -- A Progressive Logic -- A Cooperative-Coordinative Logic -- An Organizational Logic -- A Unifying Logic -- A Civilizational-Humanizing Logic -- Techno-Logics-A Summation -- Technology in Society: The Mumford Principle -- Business and The Mumford Principle -- The Values Within Technology -- The Technological Value Cluster (Value Cluster IV) -- Toward Value Reconciliation -- 8. The Business Ethics Question -- Responsibility Ethics -- Corporate Stakeholders -- Philosophic Ethics -- The Normative Code -- Social Contracts and Moral Communities -- Behavioral/Organizational Ethics -- A Value-Laden Workplace -- Plus ça change -- The Moral Mandate-and Its Missing Links -- Economics, Nature, and Technology-Quo Vadis? -- 9. A New Normative Synthesis -- Repairing and Renovating Business Ethics Inquiry -- Refurbishing the Philosophers' Formula -- Rights: From Privileged Assertion to Experiential Values -- Justice: From Social Status to Social Involvement -- Utility: A Standard for All Seasons -- A New Normative Synthesis -- Choosing Grounded Premises -- Convergence Theorems -- The Social Contract Revisited -- Normative Cores and the Ghost of John Dewey.. - What Does It Mean to Be Ethical While at Work? -- 10. Business and the Moral Process -- The Culture of Ethics -- The Search for Ethical Constants -- Common Morality -- Virtue Ethics -- International Human Rights -- Competing with Integrity -- International Policy Regimes -- Religious Universals -- The Moral Sense -- Feminist Morality -- The Culture of Ethics-A Summation -- On Judging and Advising Business -- Epilogue -- Bibliographic Note -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X.
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