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1. Definition and Conditions of Business Legitimacy -- 2. Classical Theorists of Business Legitimacy -- 3. Business Legitimacy from the Point of View of Religion and Theology -- 4. Organization, Business Legitimacy and Business Ethics Theories -- 5. Sociology, Societal Change and Legitimation Paradigms -- 6. Public Governance, Co-Creation, Innovation, Taxation and Business Legitimacy -- 7. Law, Reflexive Law, Business Legitimacy and Corporate Social Responsibility -- 8. Public Relations, Marketing, the Public Sphere and Business Legitimacy -- 9. Communication and Public Constructions of Business Legitimacy -- 10. Philosophical Dimensions of Corporate Citizenship and Business Legitimacy -- 11. Business Legitimacy as Institutionalization of Responsibility -- 12. Management of Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Legitimacy -- 13. Accounting, Accountability, Stakeholders and Business Legitimacy -- 14. Legitimation Strategies for Business Corporations -- 15. Organizational Identity, HRM, Employee Motivation and Business Legitimacy -- 16. Business Economics, Finance, Governance and Business Legitimacy -- 17. Legitimation with Different Forms of Practice of Legitimacy in Complex Societies -- 18. Conflicting Notions of CSR and Business Legitimacy in Globalization -- 19. Business Legitimacy, Electronic Economy, Digital Work Life, and Surveillance -- 20. Business Legitimacy in Different Parts of the World -- 21. Polycentric Dimensions of Business Legitimacy in Complex Societies -- 22. Sustainable Development, Ecology, the Anthropocene and Business Legitimacy -- 23. Business Legitimacy and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part 1: Foundations and history of theory of moral blindness -- Chapter 2: For the Love for the world. The banality of evil in the light of Arendt's political and social theory. - Chapter 3: Judgment's Historical Responsibility: Hannah Arendt and our conception of the Holocaust -- Chapter 4: Adolf Eichmann as the prototype of the evil manager and administrator -- Part 2: Systematic elements of the concept of moral blindness in social theory -- Chapter 5: Interpretations of evil in modern philosophy and social theory: What significance for ethics and philosophy of management? -- Chapter 6: Moral Blindness and Modernity. Interpretations and developments of Arendt's concept of banality of evil -- Chapter 7: Moral Blindness and Modernity. Interpretations and developments of Arendt's concept of banality of evil -- Part 3: Towards a management philosophy of judgment and ethical formulation competency -- Chapter 8: Totalitarianism, practical reason and judgment: Philosophical foundations for business ethics and philosophy of management -- Chapter 9: Perspectives for Responsibility, Moral Thinking and Imagination in Management and Public Administration -- Chapter 10: Political philosophy of responsibility for democratic societies. Judgment in Politics, Management and Administration -- Chapter 11: Conclusion: Towards Moral Thinking Unlimited.

Part I: From CSR and Business Ethics to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) -- Chapter 1: Ethics and Justice in the International World: The Problem of Globalization and the Need for a Cosmopolitan Spirit -- Chapter 2: Sustainability and Business Ethics in a Global Society -- Chapter 3: Ethics of Administration: Towards Sustainability and Cosmopolitanism -- Chapter 4: Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, and Stakeholder Management -- Chapter 5: Business Sustainability and the un Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) -- Part II: Philosophy of Management and Ethical Economy of Sustainability -- Chapter 6: Philosophy of Management and Ethical Interdependence in the Anthropocene Age -- Chapter 7: Environmental Catastrophe and Challenges to Ethical Decision-making -- Chapter 8: From the Financial Crisis to a New Economics of Sustainability -- Chapter 9: Ethical Economy and the Environment -- Chapter 10: The Concept of Equality in Ethics and Political Economy -- Part III: Foundations of Philosophy of Management, Ethics, and Sustainability -- Chapter 11: The Dark Side of Sustainability: Evil in Organizations and Corporations -- Chapter 12: The Ethics of Integrity: A New Foundation of Sustainable Wholeness -- Chapter 13: Recognition between Cultures as the Foundation of Ethical and Political Sustainability -- Chapter 14: Philosophy of Management in the Hypermodern Experience Economy -- Part IV: Responsible Management of Sustainability -- Chapter 15: The Principle of Responsibility: Rethinking CSR as SDG Management

This book presents a selection of articles with focus on the theoretical foundations of business ethics, and in particular on the philosophy of management and on human rights and business. This implies identifying and discussing conflicts as well as agreement with regard to the philosophical and other foundations of business and management. Despite the general interest in corporate social responsibility and business ethics, the contemporary discussion rarely touches upon the normative core and philosophical foundations of business. There is a need to discuss the theoretical basis of business ethics and of business and human rights. Even though the actions and activities of business may be discussed from a moral perspective, not least in the media, the judgments and opinions relating to business and management often lack deeper moral reflection and consistency. Partly for this reason, business ethicists are constantly challenged to provide such moral and philosophical foundations for business ethics and for business and human rights, and to communicate them in an understandable manner. Such a challenge is also of scientific kind. Positions and opinions in the academic field need to be substantiated by thorough moral and theoretical reflection to underpin normative approaches. Far too often, business ethicists may agree on matters, which they approach from different and sometimes irreconcilable philosophical standpoints, resulting in superficial agreement but deeper-lying disagreement. In other cases, it may be of high relevance to identify philosophical standpoints that despite conflicting fundamentals may arrive at conclusions acceptable to everyone

1. Introduction / Jacob Dahl Rendtorff -- 2. Ethical economy and business ethics : on the relationships between ethics and economics / Peter Koslowski -- 3. Value generalization - limitations and possibilities of a communication about values / Hans Joas -- 4. Corporate social responsability, economic optimality and the interests of the poor / Niels Kærgård -- 5. Stakeholders, corporate social responsability and global markets / Maria Bonnafous-Boucher -- 6. Economics and ethics : how to combine ethics and self-interest / Christoph Luetge -- 7. Business ethics between politics, ethics and economics / Jacob Dahl Rendtorff -- 8. Developing durability : a re-examination of sustainable corporate social responsibility / Guler Aras and David Crowther -- 9. Global principles (as)(or) ethical responsiveness : the case of sustainability rhetoric / Mollie Painter-Morland -- 10. Society's constitution and corporate legitimacy, or why it might be unethical for business leaders to think with their heart / Susanne Holmstrom -- 11. Hide and seek in the dark - on the inherent ambiguity of CSR / Ole Thyseen -- 12. "Ethics of sensitivity" - towards a new work ethic : new age in business life / Kirsten Marie Bovbjerg -- 13. Public-private development of CSR on the international stage : reflexivity and legitimacy / Karin Buhmann -- 14. Business and poverty - bridges and divides / Michael Blowfield -- 15. The ethical moment : ethics and economy in public administration / Ove K. Pedersen -- 16. On witnessing global ethics : a case of international health research involving human subjects / Janet L. Borgerson -- 17. The cosmopolitan story / Peter Kemp -- 18. Conclusion : outline of an epistemological methodology for integrating ethics and economics / Jacob Dahl Rendtorff.

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.

In this paper I would like to show the importance of the concept of responsibility as the foundation of ethics in particular in the fields of politics and economics in the modern civilisation marked by globalization and technological progres. I consider the concept of responsibility as the key notion in order to understand the ethical duty in a modern technological civilisation. We can indeed observe a moralization of the concept of responsibility going beyond a strict legal definition in terms of imputability. The paper begins by discussing the humanistic foundations of such a concept of responsibility. It treats the historical origins of responsibility and it relates this concept to the concept of accountability. On the basis of this historical determination of the concept I would like to present the definition of the concept of responsibility as fundamental ethical principle that has increasing importance as the foundation of the principles of governance in modern welfare states. In this context the paper discusses the extension of the concept of responsibility towards institutional or corporate responsibility where responsibility does not only concerns the responsibility of individuals but also deals with the responsibility of institutional collectivities. In this way the paper is based on the following structure : 1) The ethical foundation of the concept of responsibility 2) Responsibility in technological civilisation 3) Political responsibility for good governance in the welfare state 4) Social responsibility of business corporations in times of globalization 5) Conclusion and discussion : changed conditions of responsibility in modern times.

How should we define the ethics of information technology? It is not a new field of study in the sense that it requires an entirely new ethical thinking. Rather, it is a field where we can try to use our traditional philosophical notions and apply them to this field of computer technology, information science, and knowledge society in order to define responsibility and accountability. Although relations of causalities may be blurred and complex because of the auto-poetic development of computers and information systems we may still have to face the fact that human beings are fundamentally responsible behind the responsibilities of the computers. So we can say that the concept of reliability and accountability is related to human responsibility in the field of Internet technology. Indeed, issues of hacking, viruses and intervention in computers also pose the problems of responsibility and violation of property and copyrights and here we face similar issues as when we talk about physical property rights although what happens is going on in cyberspace. Also we face fundamental problems about transparency, power and democracy of society as the result of the information revolution in knowledge. This shows how it becomes more and more difficult for governments and organizations to hide information and that information is becoming more and more public. We can also talk about the present development as a technology-driven information revolution in knowledge society. The information overload is a result of this revolution that is expressed in the Internet and that changes the relation of human beings to society where human beings need to access information technology and tools in order to be able to live and work in society. ; How should we define the ethics of information technology? It is not a new field of study in the sense that it requires an entirely new ethical thinking. Rather, it is a field where we can try to use our traditional philosophical notions and apply them to this field of computer technology, information science, and knowledge society in order to define responsibility and accountability. Although relations of causalities may be blurred and complex because of the auto-poetic development of computers and information systems we may still have to face the fact that human beings are fundamentally responsible behind the responsibilities of the computers. So we can say that the concept of reliability and accountability is related to human responsibility in the field of Internet technology. Indeed, issues of hacking, viruses and intervention in computers also pose the problems of responsibility and violation of property and copyrights and here we face similar issues as when we talk about physical property rights although what happens is going on in cyberspace. Also we face fundamental problems about transparency, power and democracy of society as the result of the information revolution in knowledge. This shows how it becomes more and more difficult for governments and organizations to hide information and that information is becoming more and more public. We can also talk about the present development as a technology-driven information revolution in knowledge society. The information overload is a result of this revolution that is expressed in the Internet and that changes the relation of human beings to society where human beings need to access information technology and tools in order to be able to live and work in society.

Case studies can be an important methodology for ethics and philosophy in humanistic management and liberal education as well as in the social sciences because they integrate a deeper, reflective, philosophical, and ethical understanding of the organization. A case study approach based on philosophy of management contributes to putting into practice the Carnegie Foundation report Rethinking Undergraduate Education: Liberal Learning for the Profession. This approach is both inductive and deductive and very different from a soft Socratic approach to case studies such as the one often used in business schools following the Harvard method, wherein students are supposed to get knowledge through the reading of a case prepared by the teacher or from a business textbook. The aim of the case study is to analyze a concrete case and get general knowledge through the integrated analysis of the different ethical, philosophical, and economic dimensions of the case. This article presents an argument for case studies that highlight ethics and philosophy in the following parts: (1) Introduction, (2) Historical and Philosophical Definitions of Case Studies, (3) The Quality and Structure of the Case Study, (4) Scientific Validity of Case Studies, (5) Application and Use of Case Studies in Philosophy of Management and Ethics of Organizations, and (6) Conclusion.