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Now in its fourth edition, this lively and engaging text tackles one of the most pressing issues facing businesses today: how to be a good corporate citizen in a complex multiple-stakeholder world. Written from a truly international perspective, Business Ethics explains the ethical challengesfaced by businesses in different parts of the globe, and provides the tools and concepts necessary to understand and deal with ethical problems effectively wherever you are in the world.

• Explores throughout the text - in the context of business ethics - the three major challenges that businesses face when making ethical decisions: globalization, sustainability, and corporate citizenship


• Offers an accessible style and easy-to-follow narrative, ensuring the text is engaging for students new to the subject


• Provides a truly global approach including a strong European perspective as well as examples from emerging economics and all around the world


• Focuses on skills, such as key decision-making skills, through in-text features including Skill Checks, Think Theory boxes, and Key Concept boxes


• Features excellent case studies and unique pedagogical features that show how theory relates to real-life practice, including Ethics on Screen, Ethics Online, and Ethics in Action


• Includes a comprehensive set of web resources for both instructors and students, including the Crane and Matten website and blog - a unique opportunity for ongoing interactive exchange with the authors

New to this Edition:

• Extended coverage of SMEs and social enterprise, world religions and business ethics, whistleblowing and personal decision-making


• Updated cases, examples, and vignettes throughout featuring recent cases that have raised complex ethical issues including the News International phone-hacking scandal, the ethical challenges presented by social media, and changes to banking regulations to avert another financial crisis


• Extended coverage of Asian, Arabian, Latin American, and African perspectives on the ethical debates and dilemmas faced by businesses in their regions


• New in-text features highlight the business skills covered in each chapter


• Enhanced resources on the website including, for students, related video links for each chapter, a careers advice section, all EoS have been updated to feature a new recent film, to help engage students with business ethics through the very latest cultural coverage, and, for lecturers, a test bank of multiple choice questions