Business Ethics Book List

Fiction:

The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck

Death of a Salesman, Miller

Atlas Shrugged, Rand

Fountainhead, Rand

Babbitt, Lewis

Heart of Darkness, Conrad

Hard Times, Dickens

Little Dorrit, Dickens

The Way To Wealth, Benj Franklin

Autobiography, Benj Franklin

Germinal, Zola

The Jungle, Upton Sinclair

Octopus, Norris

Horatio Alger books

Memoirs of An American Citizen, Robert Herrick

Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe

 

Non-fiction:

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

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

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

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

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

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

7.     Business as a Calling: Work and the Examined Life; New York: The Free Press (1996) ISBN 0684827484.

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

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

1    Clever as Serpents: Business Ethics and Office Politics, Jim Grote, John McGeeney.

11.  Computer Technology and Social Issues, David G. Garson, G. David Garson.

12.  Controlling Technology: Ethics and the Responsible Engineer, Stephen H. Unger.

13.  Corporate Abuse: How ‘Lean and Mean’ Robs People and Profits, Lesley Wright.

14.  The CPA Profession:   Opportunities, Responsibilities and Services, Harry T. Magill.

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

16.  Durable Goods: A Covenantal Ethic for Managements and Employees, Stewart W. Herman.

17.  Emperor’s Nightingale (The): Restoring the Integrity of the Corporation in the Age of Shareholder Activisim, Dean Lebaron;  Robert A.G. Monks

18.  Essence of Business Ethics (The)(Essence of Management), Peter Pratley

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

20.  Ethical Process: A Strategy for Making Good Decisions, Marvin T. Brown

21.  Ethical Dimensions of International Management, Stephen J. Carroll.  Thousand Oaks, CA, (Sage Publ., 1997)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

29.  How Good People Make Tough Choices, R. Kidder

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

31.  It’s A Good Business: Ethics and Free Enterprise for the New Millenieum, Robert C. Solomon.

32.  Just Business: Business Ethics in Action, Elaine Sternberg.

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

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

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

36.  Organizational Ethics and the Good Life, Edwin Hartman

37.  Politics of Ethics: Methods for Acting , Learning...Addressing Ethics in Organizational Life, Richard P. Nielsen

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

  1. Communist Manifesto, Marx
  1. Wealth of Nations, Smith
  1. A Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith
  2. Lying, Sissela Bok