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Shadows : projecting left and right -- Truths : voting against Pythagoras -- Goods : freedom, justice and more -- Likes : the art of the cheeseburger -- Hopes : flying and singing -- Ethics : the gold that rules -- Timing : worry about that later -- Capitals : sacred cows and other forms -- Limits : the known limitations of markets -- Regulations : well-regulated capitalism -- Taxes : looking high and low -- Strategies : two sides, many arenas -- Dynamics : the evolution of death -- Intentions : the road to Hell -- Distractions : 500,000 is more than 43.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART I FRAMEWORKS (INTEGRATIVE FRAMEWORKS) -- 1 Christopher J. Robertson and William F. Crittenden (2003), 'Mapping Moral Philosophies: Strategic Implications for Multinational Firms', Strategic Management Journal, 24, pp. 385-92. -- 2 Scott J. Reynolds (2003), 'A Single Framework for Strategic and Ethical Behavior in the International Context', Business Ethics Quarterly, 13, pp. 361-79. -- 3 Alan E. Singer (1994), 'Strategy as Moral Philosophy', Strategic Management Journal, 15, pp. 191-213. -- 4 Mark S. Schwartz and Archie B. Carroll (2003), 'Corporate Social Responsibility: A Three-Domain Approach', Business Ethics Quarterly, 13, pp. 503-30. -- 5 Dennis P. Quinn and Thomas M. Jones (1995), 'An Agent Morality View of Business Policy', Academy of Management Review, 20, pp. 22-42. -- PART II ECONOMICS (ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES AND ETHICAL STRATEGIES) -- 6 M. Ali Khan (2004), 'Self-Interest, Self-Deception and the Ethics of Commerce', Journal of Business Ethics, 52, pp. 189-206. -- 7 Jan Narveson (2003), 'The "Invisible Hand"', Journal of Business Ethics, 46, pp. 201-12. -- 8 Abagail McWilliams and Donald Siegel (2001), 'Corporate Social Responsibility: A Theory of the Firm Perspective', Academy of Management Review, 26, pp. 117-27. -- 9 Amartya Sen (1997), 'Economics, Business Principles and Moral Sentiments', Business Ethics Quarterly, 7, pp. 5-15. -- PART III GLOBALIZATION (CORPORATIONS AS GLOBAL CITIZENS) -- 10 John Dobson (2001), 'The Battle in Seattle: Reconciling Two World Views on Corporate Culture', Business Ethics Quarterly, 11, pp. 403-14. -- 11 Jeanne M. Logsdon and Donna J. Wood (2002), 'Business Citizenship: From Domestic to Global Level of Analysis', Business Ethics Quarterly, 12, pp. 155-87

Technologies such as artificial-general-intelligence, nanotechnology and synthetic-biology are often considered to be emergent, but they are also convergent. Accordingly, one might expect that the principles of ethical governance would be essentially the same for all of them. It is duly argued in this paper that (i) those ethical principles are already embodied in the global stakeholder model (or variant of capitalism), and (ii) scientists and technologists who are employed by private corporations are in a good position to influence a wider transition towards stakeholder capitalism. More generally, there is a pressing need to inject scientific habits-of-thought into global governance and co-production processes.

Corporate-employed technologists and have a special moral responsibility to themselves and to others to help oppose the dynamics of accelerating inequality in the US and globally. They have distinctive capabilities in this respect and they are in a special position to do so. There exists a moral-responsibility-to-self in this context, involving meta-coherence and integrity. Responsibility-to-others can be enacted by attempting to inject scientific and ethical habits-of-thought into the global distributed governance process, but also d by standing in opposition to corporate-level strategies and practices that make inequality worse.

The debate about the moral status of corporations has been wide-ranging and complex. In this paper a way of structuring the debate is proposed. At the same time, arguments within the "corporate moral agency" debate are considered in relation to the notion of Artificial Moral Agency. The entire exercise points to the importance of philosophical pragmatism and the prospect of 'artificial ethics'.

An aspect of the relationship between philosophy and computer engineering is considered, with particular emphasis upon the design of artificial moral agents. Top-down vs. bottom-up approaches to ethical behavior are discussed, followed by an overview of some of the ways in which traditional ethics has informed robotics. Two macro-trends are then identified, one involving the evolution of moral consciousness in man and machine, the other involving the fading away of the boundary between the real and the virtual.

Many companies have attempted to lead ethically, by example, yet have nonetheless operated quite uncritically within the global market, despite that systems' known limitations. As a result, corporate communications that refer to the "common good" often lack credibility. At the present time, appeals of this type are especially open to skepticism and scrutiny. Accordingly, a conceptual framework is proposed for augmenting enterprise strategies and communications in several ways, but particularly at the level of politics and ideology. The application of the framework is illustrated, with reference to a well-known profitable Japanese company that also has an expressed social and environmental mission. Related cultural issues are then discussed.

"This volume brings together 18 innovative articles on business strategy and ethics. Originally appearing in reputed journals, the articles are interrelated and focus on complex linkages between ethics and strategy in business. The first of its three sections discusses various frameworks developed by the author that explicitly integrate strategy with ethics. The second section comprises articles placing business ethics relative to management-science models and systems thinking. The final section applies some of the foregoing ideas to strategic and social issues, including poverty alleviation, corruption reduction, political divestment decisions, intellectual property rights, and pharmaceutical industrial strategy."