R. Edward Freeman Boeken

The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics provides clear, concise and highly informative definitions and explanations of the key concepts in one of the most important fields in contemporary business.

From the author of the landmark 1984 title, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach, comes a response to the resultant literature in the intervening years. Stakeholder Theory: The State of the Art examines this body of research and assesses its relevance for our understanding of modern business. Beginning with a discussion of the origins and development of stakeholder theory, it shows how this corpus of theory has influenced a variety of different fields, including strategic management, finance, accounting, management, marketing, law, health care, public policy, and environment. It also features in-depth discussions of two important areas that stakeholder theory has helped to shape and define: business ethics and corporate social responsibility.

Discusses the connection between corporate ethics and planning for success, and assesses the importance of ethical reasoning