Responsibility, Ethics and Legitimacy of Corporations -- Table of Contents -- Part 1 Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- 1. Background -- 2. Major theoretical concepts -- 3. Research methodology: Scope and boundaries -- Part 2 Globalization, values-driven management, and business ethics -- 1. Values, markets and global capitalism -- 1.1. Universalization of capitalist market economy -- 1.2. Cultural and social consequences of economic globalization -- 1.3. Principles of a global market economy -- 1.4. Values of the market system: Corporations as key actors -- 1.5. Business ethics and values-driven management in global community -- 2. Values, organizations,and management -- 2.1. The concept of value -- 2.2. The Place of values in corporations -- 2.3. Values-driven management and organizational systems -- 2.4. The ideology of management: The case against values-driven management -- 2.5. Values, moral development, and organizational learning -- 2.6. Strategies for values-driven management -- 2.7. Ethical values-driven management: From rules to values -- 3. From values-driven management to business ethics -- 3.1. Liberal property rights theory of business ethics -- 3.2. Extension of values: Stakeholder theory -- 3.3. Communitarian values-driven management -- 3.4. Kantian and universalistic perspectives on business ethics -- 3.5. Values and social contract theory -- 3.6. A republican concept of business ethics -- Part 3 Business ethics and corporate social responsibility in different fields of business -- 1. Corporate social responsibility and principles of stakeholder justice -- 1.1. Corporate social responsibility between ethics, law, and economics -- 1.2. Business ethics and the many faces of corporate social responsibility -- 1.3. Corporate social responsibility in sustainability management -- 1.4. CSR, Corporate governance, and stakeholder justice.

1.5. Basic Ethical Principles in Responsible Stakeholder Management -- 1.5.1. Autonomy -- 1.5.2. Dignity -- 1.5.3. Integrity -- 1.5.4. Vulnerability -- 1.6. From principles of ethics to corporate social performance and responsiveness -- 2. Ethics of the internal constituencies of the corporation -- 2.1. Internal constituencies and the theory of the firm -- 2.2. Corporate Governance: Between shareholders and stakeholders -- 2.3. Ownership and shareholders: Ethics of finance -- 2.4. Shareholder ethics: Socially responsible investments (SRI) -- 2.5. Ethics in the workplace: Management and employees -- 3. Ethics of the external constituencies of the corporation -- 3.1. The ethics of business-to-business relations -- 3.2. Responsibilities and ethical relations to consumers -- 3.3. The ethics of advertising and marketing -- 3.4. The ethics of public relations -- 3.5. The inclusive corporation and the social and ethical audit -- 4. Sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and ethical principles: Environmental dimensions of business ethics -- 4.1. Ecology, sustainability, and capitalism -- 4.2. Ethical principles as the basis for sustainability -- 4.3. Beyond anthropocentric environmental ethics -- 4.4. Towards environmental values-driven management -- 4.5. From ethics to law: How to sentence environmental crime? -- 5. Towards the good corporate citizen -- 5.1. Republican business ethics as corporate citizenship -- 5.2. An institutional argument for corporate moral agency -- 5.4. Individualist criticism of the idea of corporate moral responsibility -- 5.5. Towards an institutional concept of the good corporate citizen -- Part 4 Legal and political developments: Challenges to global business ethics -- 1. Values-driven management and ethics programs in the United States -- 1.1. Background for FSGO.

1.2. The FSGO Requirements for a meaningful compliance program -- 1.3. The FSGO and American business life -- 1.4. FSGO and the paradox of ethics and compliance programs -- 1.5. From the FSGO to Sarbanes-Oxley -- 2. Business ethics, CSR, and corporate citizenship in Europe -- 2.1. European values as the background for corporate social responsibility -- 2.2. Concepts of corporate social responsibility in Europe -- 2.3. EU efforts on social responsibility: The EU green paper on social responsibility -- 2.4. From CSR to corporate governance -- 2.5. The future of the European approach -- 3. Towards ethical guidelines for international business corporations -- 3.1. The problems facing international business organizations -- 3.2. Towards cosmopolitan business ethics: Responsibility, integrity, and trust -- 3.3. Ethical guidelines for multinational corporations -- 3.4. Corporate citizenship as global cosmopolitan citizenship -- 3.5. Values-driven management for the corporate citizenship of multinational corporations -- Part 5 Policy proposals for corporate strategy: Basic ethical principles for business ethics and corporate citizenship -- 1. Strategizing GlobalBusiness Ethics -- 1.1. Strategic foundations of policy proposals -- 1.2. Corporate Governance and stakeholder management -- 1.3. Basic Principles of values-driven management -- References -- Subject index -- Name index.