Business ethics : mistakes and successes /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Hoboken, N.J. :
Wiley,
c2005.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction and perspective
- 2. MetLife : deceptive sales tactics
- 3. Ford Explorers with Firestone tires : a killer scenario
- 4. ADM : price fixing, political cronyism, and a whistleblower
- 5. Al Dunlap savages Scott Paper and Sunbeam
- 6. United Way : A CEO batters a giant nonprofit
- 7. Tobacco : long callousness to public health
- 8. The savings and loan disaster : managements repudiation of responsibility
- 9. WorldCom/MCI : massive accounting fraud
- 10. General Motors' Corvair versus Ralph Nader : triggering the age of consumerism
- 11. Union Carbide : assaulting the Ohio Valley
- 12. Union Carbide's Bhopal catastrophe
- 13. Nestle's infant formula : pushing an unsafe product in third-world countries
- 14. The Dalkon Shield : ignoring user safety
- 15. Exxon's Alaskan oil spill : environmental destruction on a giant scale
- 16. ITT : heavy-handed interference in a foreign government
- 17. Lockheed Corporation : overseas bribery gone rampant
- 18. General Dynamics : fleeing U.S. taxpayers
- 19. Wal-Mart : a big bully?
- 20. Nike : is using cheap overseas labor ethical?
- 21. DaimlerChrysler : flagrant misrepresentation of a merger
- 22. Johnson and Johnson's Tylenol scare : the classic example of responsible crisis management
- 23. Herman Miller : role model in employee and environmental relations
- 24. Conclusions : lessons from the past.