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by Christoph Lutge (Author), Matthias Uhl (Author)
In an increasingly globalized world, business ethics continues to gain importance as a field of study. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the essential concepts of business ethics related to the economy as a whole, as well as more closely understood corporate ethics related to the individual company. In contrast to more casuistic works on the topic, special emphasis is placed on a coherent theoretical foundation that puts economic analysis tools at the centre of the consideration. Both classical and experimental economic approaches and results are called upon. The importance of often-neglected dilemma structures and the resulting implications for an ethics of the modern age are given wide scope, while special attention is also paid to the value of empirical research for business ethics. A substantial portion of the book is devoted to corporate ethics and explores issues that encompass corporate responsibility in the context of compliance, corporate social
responsibility, corporate citizenship, and creating shared value. This is intended to provide students and academics with an aid in the theoretical classification of the variety of concepts that often coexist incoherently in contemporary debate.
Author Biography
Christoph Lutge, Professor of Business Ethics and Director of the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence, Technical University of Munich, Matthias Uhl, Junior Research Group Leader, Technical University of Munich
Matthias Uhl is Junior Research Group Leader at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Economics and obtained his PhD in Economics in 2011 at the University of Jena, Germany. Afterwards, he worked for five years as a postdoc at the Chair of Business Ethics at TUM. He received his habilitation in philosophy there in 2019. His main research interests are in behavioural ethics, experimental economics, business ethics, and the ethics of digitization.
