Business ethics in East Asia : examples in historical context
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Business ethics in East Asia : examples in historical context
Routledge, 2018, c2017
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
First published in hardback, 2017
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
For organisations and management the role of business ethics is of key importance, but to what extent business ethics are actually new or fashionable or universally applicable are interesting questions. Asia has been the site of contests between competing economic and ethical views of how economic norms and institutions are organized. This book examines the evolutionary similarities and differences of institutionalizing business ethics in Asia in a historical context and in comparison to better-explored business ethics literature, both empirically and theoretically.
This collection uses both historical and contemporary cases in Japan, Korea and China to show that these countries have tried to balance their traditional business ethics norms and values with those that have been introduced from the West. Underpinning the case studies is the fact that these countries have historically pursued ethical mandates in running private corporations, although corruptive practices were also rampant during different historical periods. The contributions to the book analyse how the theories and models of New Institutionalism and Modes of Exchange fare in their attempts to explain Asian business ethics. As the results indicate, historical methods must accompany any analysis of business ethics. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Asia Pacific Business Review.
Table of Contents
1. Business ethics and the role of context: institutionalism, history and comparisons in the Asia Pacific region 2. Political economy and business ethics 3. Work ethic formed by pedagogical approach: evolution of institutional approach to education and competitiveness 4. The state as a regulator of business ethics in Edo Japan: the Tokugawa authority structure and private interests 5. A sociocognitive approach to business ethics: lessons from early industrializing Japan 6. Confucian business ethics in Korea: pre-modern welfare state 7. Overcoming ethical issues through symbolic management, cultivating proponents and storytelling: the institutionalization of Korea's horseracing industry 8. The institutionalization of Korean traditional music: problematic business ethics in the construction of genre and place 9. Understanding the rise and decline of shareholder activism in South Korea: the explanatory advantages of the theory of Modes of Exchange 10. Corporate governance and the institutionalization of socially responsible investing (SRI) in Korea 11. Educational inequality among Chinese urban schools: the business ethics of private schools 12. Relinquishing business ethics from a theoretical deadlock: the requirement for local grounding and historical comparisons in the Asia Pacific region
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