Business Ethics
Dr. Smillie

Business Ethics Approved Book List
Fall, 2006

[availability] Key: CLR = Corrette Library Reserve; LC=available at Lewis and Clark Library; MS=I own a personal copy that you can borrow—come to my office.

Fiction:

The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck

Death of a Salesman, Miller

Atlas Shrugged, Rand

Babbitt, Lewis

The Way To Wealth, Benj Franklin

The Jungle, Upton Sinclair

Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe


Non-fiction:

Against the Grain: New Approaches to Professional Ethics, Michael Goldberg, Edt.

Aiming Higher: 25 Stories of How Companies Prosper by Combining Sound Management and Social Vision, David Bollier, et al. (1996) [MS]

Ben & Jerry’s Double-Dip: How to Run a Values-Led Business and Make Money, Too, Ben Cohen, et al. (1998)

Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development, Herman E. Daly

Beyond Success: Corporations and Their Critics in the 1990s (Ruffin Series in Business Ethics), James W. Kuhn, Donald W. Shriver (1991).

Beyond the Bottom Line: Putting Social Responsibility to Work for Your Business and the World, Joel Makower (1995)

Beyond the Bottom Line: The Search for Dignity at Work. Paula M. Rayman. [LC]

Boiler Room (The) and Other Telephone Sales Scams, Robert J. Stevenson

Business as a Calling: Work and the Examined Life, Michael Novak [MS]

Business Ethics: Profiles in Civic Virtue, James E. Liebig, Vaughn L. Beals

Business Ethics and Business Behaviour (Self Development for Mangers), Ken Smith, Editor; Phil Johnson.

Clever as Serpents: Business Ethics and Office Politics, Jim Grote, John McGeeney. [MS]

Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Wrong, Joseph L. Badaracco. [MS]

Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth, Lester R. Brown

Ecomonic Justice for All: Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy, National Conference of Catholic Bishops. [MS]

Ethical Imperative (The): Why Moral Leadership is Good Business, John Dalla Costa, et al.

Ethics and Excellence: Cooperation and Integrity in Business (The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics), Robert C. Solomon

Ethics: The Heart of Leadership, Joanne B. Ciulla, Edt.

Executives Compass (The): Business and the Good Society, James O’Toole

Ethical Edge (The): Tales of Organizations that Have Faced Moral Crises, Dawn-Marie Driscoll, Michael W. Hoffman, Edward Petry.

Ethical Conflicts in Finance, Adreas R. Prindl, Bimal Prodhan, Editors

Ethical Dimensions of Leadership, R.N. Kanungo, M. Mendonca

Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser

Ford Pinto Case (The): A Case Study in Applied Ethics, Business and Technology, Douglas Birsch, John H. Fiedler, Editors

Global Codes of Conduct: An Idea Whose Time has Come, by Oliver Williams [LC]

Good Work: When Executives and Ethics Meet. Howard Gardner, Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi, William Damon [LC]

How Good People Make Tough Choices, R. Kidder [LC]

If Aristotle Ran General Motors, Tom Morris [MS]

In Pursuit of Principle and Profit: Business Success through Social Responsibility, Alan Reder

It’s Good Business: Ethics and Free Enterprise for the New Millenieum, Robert C. Solomon. [MS]

Just Business: Business Ethics in Action, Elaine Sternberg.

Lying, Sissela Bok

Managing Corporate Ethics: Learning From America’s Ethical Companies..., Francis J. Aguilar.

Moral Courage: Taking Action when Your Values Are Put to the Test. Rushworth Kidder [LC]

Moral Mazes, Robert Jackal

Muted Conscience (The): Moral Silence and the Practice of Ethics in Business, Quorum Books.

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution: Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L.Hunter Lovins

New World of Business (The): Ethics and Free Enterprise in the Global 1990s, Robert C. Solomon

Organizational Ethics and the Good Life, Edwin Hartman

Our Emporers Have No Clothes, Alan Weiss

Small Decencies: Reflections and Meditations on Being Human at Work, Harper Business

Street-Smart Ethics: Succeeding in Business without Selling Your Soul, Clinton W. McLemore

The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans are doing Wrong to Get Ahead, David Callahan [LC]

The Moral Advantage: How to Succeed in Businessby Doing the Right Thing, by William Damon. [MS]

The Soul of a Business: Managing for Profit and the Common Good, Tom Chappell (President of Tom's of Maine) [MS]

Tricks of the Trade: A Consumer Survival Guide, Janice Lieberman

Wealth of Nations, Smith