Business Ethics: Case Studies and Selected Readings, 7th ed.

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4.25 Westland/Hallmark Meat Packing Company and the Cattle Standers 288
5.5 Product Dumping 325
7.9 Tylenol: Decades of Dilemmas 444
7.11 Ford and Its Pinto and GM and Its Malibu: The Repeating Exploding Gas Tank Problem 452
7.12 Toyota: Sudden Acceleration or Bad Drivers or Pesky Floor Mats? 458
7.13 E. coli, Jack-in-the-Box, and Cooking Temperatures 461
7.14 Peanut Corporation of America and Salmonella 462
7.20 Sears and High-Cost Auto Repairs 481
Regulation
2.7 Martha Stewart: Not Such a Good Thing 63
4.4 The Effects of Compensation Systems: Incentives, Bonuses, Pay, and Ethics 172
4.6 HealthSouth: The Scrushy Way 183
4.9 Stock Options, Backdating, and Disclosure Options: What Happened Here? 200
4.14 Bausch & Lomb and Krispy Kreme: Channel Stuffing and Cannibalism 228
4.20 The Ethics of Bankruptcy 272
4.25 Westland/Hallmark Meat Packing Company and the Cattle Standers 288
5.2 Chiquita Banana and Mercenary Protection 319
5.5 Product Dumping 325
5.11 Siemens and Bribery, Everywhere 342
7.1 Joe Camel: The Cartoon Character Who Sold Cigarettes and Nearly Felled an Industry 425
7.3 Cheerios and Cholesterol and Rice Krispies and Immunity 432
7.5 Hollywood Ads 438
7.7 Craigslist and Ad Screening 439
8.7 Jonathan Lebed: The Middle School Tycoon 510
8.9 Tiffany, Louis Vuitton, eBay, Landlords, and Knock-Offs 514
9.13 The My Tai Concession and the County Supervisor 546
Social Responsibility
2.8 On Leaving to Spend More Time with Family 69
3.1 The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits 86
3.2 A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation 96
3.3 Business with a Soul: A Reexamination of What Counts in Business Ethics 101
3.8 Adelphia: Good Works via a Hand in the Till 113
3.9 The Regulatory Cycle, Social Responsibility, Business Strategy, and Equilibrium 117
3.10 Fannie, Freddie, Wall Street, Main Street, and the Subprime Mortgage Market: Of Moral Hazards 121
3.11 Whole Foods, John Mackey, and Health Care Debates 132
3.12 Ice-T, the Body Count Album, and Shareholder Uprisings 133
3.14 Michael Vick, Dogs, Rush Limbaugh, and the NFL 145
3.15 Dayton-Hudson’s Contributions to Planned Parenthood, and Target and the Bell-Ringers 146
3.16 The New Environmentalism 149
3.17 Herman Miller and Its Rain Forest Chairs 151
3.18 The Death of the Great Disposable Diaper Debate 153
4.17 The New Shareholder: Taking Over to Change the Culture 253
5.6 On Sweatshops, Nike, and Kathie Lee 326
5.7 Bhopal: When Safety Standards Differ 333
5.8 Nestlé: When Products Translate Differently 335
6.2 Sleeping on the Job and on the Way Home 353
6.4 Aaron Feuerstein and Malden Mills 356
6.5 Plant Closings, Downsizings, Company Closings, Government Takeovers, Bankruptcies, and Pensions 358
6.24 Exxon and Alaska 405
6.25 BP: Pipeline, Refinery, and Offshore-Drilling Safety 411
7.1 Joe Camel: The Cartoon Character Who Sold Cigarettes and Nearly Felled an Industry 425
7.2 Spring Break, Beer, and Alcohol on Campus 430
7.6 Kraft, Barney Rubble, and Shrek 438
7.7 Craigslist and Ad Screening 439
7.21 The Mommy Doll 487
7.22 Stem-Cell Research 487
7.23 Toro and Its Product Liability Program 489
7.24 Fast Food Liability 490
8.10 Copyright, Songs, and Charities 518
9.6 “I Was Just Following Orders”: The CIA, Interrogations, and the Role of Legal Opinions in the
Conduct of Organizations 536
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