Rothlin Stephan, McCann Dennis. International Business Ethics - Focus on China

Springer, 2016. — 511 p. — ISBN: 978-3-662-47433-4.With the emergence of an increasingly interconnected and globalized business world, business leaders, the companies they manage, and the government bodies that regulate them must face a host of ethical questions. The individuals exercising responsibility are challenged to make the right decisions often under considerable pressure and constraints of time and money. While the academic fi eld of business ethics has developed within American and European contexts at the intersection of liberal arts and business education, the rapidly growing economies of Asia have had a decisive impact in broadening its scope. In fact, the growing importance of economic developments in India and in China suggests the likelihood that a paradigm shift is under way in international business ethics. International Business Ethics: Focus on Asia is meant to address this need, by building on the momentum of the last 50 years in the fi eld of applied ethics, relating ethical theories to various problems of morality and law that arise in business, but now shifting the focus to the discussion of Asian problems and solutions. While the case study approach was certainly prominent in the development of theories and analyses in the academic fi eld of business ethics, business education as a whole tended to interpret its guidelines primarily in tune with conventional theories of business economics.