Business challenging business ethics : new instruments for coping with diversity in international business : the 12th annual EBEN conference

Increasingly companies' stakeholders require organisations to observe international standards prescribed by international laws, treaties, conventions, recommendations, and/or codes of conduct. The papers selected for this volume explore 1) the ethical pressures on international business to meet the challenges of diversity, 2) suggested methods of coping with diversity, and 3) the challenges required to overcome corporate self-interest in the search for new instruments. Collectively these articles reflect scholarly insights and corporate responses to diversity in international business, a topic of wide interest in contemporary business ethics. Front Matter....Pages i-iv Business Challenging Business Ethics: New Instruments for Coping with Diversity in International Business....Pages 1-1 In Search of Instruments. Business and Ethics Halfway....Pages 3-8 Business Ethics Auditing — More Than a Stakeholder’s Toy....Pages 9-19 Is It Ethical to Use Ethics as Strategy?....Pages 21-31 Coercion, Guidance and Mercifulness: The Different Influences of Ethics Programs on Decision-Making....Pages 33-42 Communicating about Ethics with Small Firms: Experiences from the U.K. and Spain....Pages 43-53 Corporate Communication and Impression Management — New Perspectives Why Companies Engage in Corporate Social Reporting....Pages 55-68 The Dialogical Turn of Public Relation Ethics....Pages 69-77 Values in Decision-Making Processes: Systematic Structures of J. Habermas and N. Luhmann for the Appreciation of Responsibility in Leadership....Pages 79-88 Cross-Cultural Methodological Issues in Ethical Research....Pages 89-104 Managing Cross Cultural Business Ethics....Pages 105-115 International Enterprises and Trade Unions....Pages 117-123 An Ethics of Care or an Ethics of Justice....Pages 125-136 The Limits of Shareholder Value....Pages 137-148 Ethical Business and Investment: A Model for Business and Society....Pages 149-160 Reasons To Be Ethical: Self-Interest and Ethical Business....Pages 161-173 The Spanish Code for Good Corporate Governance (Olivencia Report): An Ethical Analysis....Pages 175-180 The Cultural Dimension of Codes of Corporate Governance: A Focus on the Olivencia Report....Pages 181-192 Innovation and Ethics Ethical Considerations in the Innovation Business....Pages 193-203 Human Rights and Business Ethics: Fashioning a New Social Contract....Pages 205-214