The current global financial crisis is a moral crisis as well, argue the editors (of Lund U., Sweden, and Copenhagen Business School, Denmark), and there is therefore a need to critically
investigate the limits of business ethics. They present ten papers approaching this issue from a range of perspectives. They include critical explorations of ethics and values in mainstream
sources of business education; the dilemmas and paradoxes of the conduct of value-based management in a Danish knowledge-intensive organization; processes of "ethical closure" ("sealing,
bracketing, double dehumanization, and moral commodification") in a Swedish media organization; the role of public opinion in defining corporate responsibilities; the possibilities and limits
of moral argument in informing the development of corporate legislation; a Jungian understanding of ethical development; a Levinasian ethics of the Other; the importance of bringing in empathic
response and honor into a moral foundation for management; the characteristics of the "organizational psychopath;" and the principal-agent notion of corruption. Annotation 穢2010 Book News,
Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
