Skip to content

Business Resources at CSU Libraries

Business Ethics

Contents:

Encyclopedias - These are good for overviews

  • Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics
    BJ63 .E44 1998 Ref
  • Encyclopedia of Ethics
    BJ63. E45 2001 Ref
  • Ethics
    BJ63 .E54 2005 Ref

top

Keywords – some possible keywords to use in your search

Antitrust Corporate responsibility Sales ethics
Business ethics Corporate scandal Social responsibility
Codes of ethics Downsizing Wage discrimination
Corporate accountability Ethics Whistleblowing

top

Databases – Use these to find specific articles regarding business ethics

top

Web Sites – Resource Sites, Forums, Ethics Centers

  • Applied Ethics Resources on the WWW – Business Ethics Resources
    http://www.ethicsweb.ca/resources/business
    This site, a project of the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, provides business ethics information on a variety of issues and topics.
  • Businessethics.ca
    http://www.businessethics.ca/
    A Canadian-based resource site that provides links to web resources including articles, case studies, international resources, institutions & associations, and news.
  • Business Ethics
    http://www.web-miner.com/busethics.htm
    This amazingly extensive site was compiled by Sharon Stoerger from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and provides lists of business ethics sources online including articles and publications, case studies, corporate codes of ethics, professional organizations, and associations, etc.
  • Center for Business Ethics, Bentley College
    http://ecampus.bentley.edu/dept/cbe/
    From Bentley College, this academic ethics center web site has links to events, education, research, and publications.
  • E-Business Ethics Center (CSU – College of Business)
    http://www.e-businessethics.com/
    CSU’s College of Business sponsors this site which compiles ethics resources as well as presents information regarding their yearly Teaching Business Ethics conference and other ethics course offerings.
  • Markula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University
    http://www.scu.edu/Ethics/practicing/focusareas/business/
    This site provides online resources, center programs, articles, and cases in the area of business ethics.

top

Associations & Organizations

  • Business for Social Responsibility
    http://www.bsr.org
    Business for Social Responsibility is an organization that provides “its member companies with the expertise to design and implement successful, socially responsible business policies, practices, and processes” through advisory services, resources, conferences, etc.
  • Caux Round Table
    http://www.cauxroundtable.org
    A network that helps businesses implement CRT Principles for Business through training, self-assessment, and resources.
  • CorpWatch
    http://www.corpwatch.org/
    CorpWatch is a watchdog organization that fights corporate globalization.
  • Council for Ethics in Economics
    http://www.businessethics.org/
    Publishes Ethics in Economics, and provides programs, consulting services, and products.
  • Ethics Resource Center
    http://www.ethics.org
    A nonpartisan educational organization, the Ethics Resource Center’s mission is to foster ethical organizations and communities.
  • European Corporate Governance Institute
    http://www.ecgi.org/
    An international scientific nonprofit organization that researches corporate governance and provides “a forum for debate and dialogue between academics, legislators, and practitioners, focusing on major corporate governance issues…”
  • IBTE The Institute for Business, Technology & Ethics
    http://www.ethix.org/
    This organization was founded to study the inter-relationships of business, technology and ethics and produces a bi-monthly bulletin, Ethix.
  • Institute of Business Ethics
    http://www.ibe.org.uk/teaching/films.htm (films and teaching business ethics)
    British organization established to encourage ethical practices in business.
  • International Business Ethics Institute
    http://www.business-ethics.org/
    An organization that fosters best business practices globally.
  • Society for Business Ethics
    http://www.societyforbusinessethics.org/
    This society is an international organization of scholars who are studying business ethics. The society publishes Business Ethics Quarterly.

top

Codes of Ethics

  • Codes of Ethics Online
    http://ethics.iit.edu/codes/
    This site provides indexed and searchable access to an extensive collection of over 850 codes of ethics from the Illinois Institute of Technology and includes articles on useful topics such as using codes, authoring, etc.
  • Codes of Professional Responsibility:  Ethics Standards in Business, Health, and Law
    BJ1725 .C57 1997 Ref
    This is a reference guide to numerous codes of ethics.
  • Creating a Code of Ethics for Your Organization
    http://www.ethicsweb.ca/codes/
    This site provides general guidelines to writing a code of ethics by Chris MacDonald of St. Mary’s University in Halifax, Canada.

top

Cases

  • Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making and Cases
    HF5387 .F47 2005
    O.C. Ferrell
    Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 2005
  • Case Place
    http://www.caseplace.org
  • Case Studies in Business Ethics (from Inc.com)
    http://www.inc.com/guides/growth/20806.html
  • Case Studies in Business Ethics (electronic resource)
    HF5387 .C366 2003eb
    London; New York:  Routledge, 2003
  • Cause for Success: 10 Companies that put profit second and came in first: How solving the World’s problems improves corporate health, growth, and competitive edge
    HD60 .A74 2004
    Arena, Christin
    Novato, CA:  New World Library, 2004
  • Corporate Accountability: With case studies in pension funds and in the banking industry
    HD2741 .C54 2004
    Chorafas, Dimitris N.
    Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York;  Palgrove Macmillan, 2004
  • Ethics Case Studies
    http://ethics.sandiego.edu/resources/cases/HomeOverview.asp

top

Journals & Magazines

  • Business & Professional Ethics Journal
    Bibliographic record citations available in Business Source Premier (1981-present)
  • Business & Society Review
    Full-text available through Business Source Premier (1972 – present)
  • Business Ethics: The Magazine of Corporate Responsibility
    http://www.business-ethics.com/
  • Business Ethics: A European Review
    Full-text available through Business Source Premier (12 mo. delay, 1998-present)
  • Business Ethics Quarterly
    Full-text available through Business Source Premier (1991-present)
  • EJBO Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies
    http://ejbo.jyu.fi/index.cgi?page=cover
  • Journal of Business Ethics
    Available full-text via Springer. Check under e-journals in library web pages.

top

Books - Recent

  • Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics
    HF5387 .D39 2005
    DesJardins, Joseph R.
    Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005
  • Ethics for International Business Decision Making in a Global Political Economy
    HF5387 .K578 2005eb (Electronic book available through NetLibrary)
    Kline, John M.
    London; New York: Routledge, 2005
  • The Committed Enterprise: Making Vision, Values, and Branding Work
    HD58.9 .D375 2005
    Davidson, J.H.
    Oxford; Boston: Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005
  • Business Ethics: New Challenges for Business Schools and Corporate Leaders
    HF5387 .B8725 2005
    Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2005
  • Management Ethics
    HF5387 .B684 2005
    Bowie, Norman E.
    Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2005
  • Business Ethics: Ethical decision making and cases
    HF5387 .F47 2005
    Ferrell, O.C.
    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005
  • Business Ethics: A Global & Managerial Perspective
    HF5387 .F75 2005
    Fritzsche, David J.
    Boston: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2005
  • Perspectives in Business Ethics
    HF5387 .H3744 2005
    Hartman, Laura Pincus
    Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2005

top

Cyberethics/Information Ethics

  • Cyberethics: Morality and Law in Cyberspace
    TK5105.875 .I57 S68 2000
    Spinello, Richard A.
    Boston: Jones & Bartlett, 2000
  • Cyberethics:  Social and Moral Issues in the Computer Age
    QA76.9 .C66 C92 2000
    Amherst, NY:  Prometheus Books, 2000
  • Ethics and Social Issues in the Information Age
    T58.5 .K59 2003
    Kizza, Joseph Migga
    New York: Springer-Verlag, 2003
  • Ethics and Technology:  Ethical Issues in an age of information and communication technology
    TK5105.5 .T385 2004
    Tavani, Herman T.
    Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2004
  • Information Systems Ethics
    http://cyberethics.cbi.msstate.edu/
  • ICIE International Center for Information Ethics
    http://icie.zkm.de/
    This center provides an international academic-based platform for information on teaching and research in information ethics.

top