Activist Business Ethics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780387228488)

This book asks the question, how could we convince or compel modern business to apply ethical standards and it is essential to the success of economy? In order to answer the question, this book examines the evolution of the activist business ethics in business, in democracies, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, in philosophy, psychology and psychoanalysis. The book examines international aspects, the personification of stakeholders, the predominance of values and ethics for CEOs and the inefficient safeguards of the stakeholders' interests.