Interdisciplinary Yearbook of Business Ethics

Citation

Mesure, H. (2007), "Interdisciplinary Yearbook of Business Ethics", Society and Business Review, Vol. 2 No. 3, pp. 334-335. https://doi.org/10.1108/17465680710825541

This title belongs to a collection that is directed by Laszlo Zsolnai, Zsolt Boda and Laszlo Fekete (Business Ethics Center. Corvinus University of Budapest). This collection aim is to present and summarize new perspectives and cutting‐edge results in business ethics and related fields. The yearbook reports on innovative practices and policy reforms and provides a forum for discussion about theories that break new ground.

This first opus sets 21 for contributions of scholars and practitioners from Europe, USA, Africa and Asia. Contributors present a diversity of fields from social sciences to ecology. All the papers stand for a more human and ethical approach to economics and business and that only a genuine ethics works in business. This collective book is divided in four parts. The first one, opened by James G. March, is called “New perspective and findings” is made of contributions that discuss about the myth of rationality, corporate social responsibility, critical pragmatism as an new approach to business ethics and ethical decision making. The second part “Innovative practices and reform” implements the collection project. Four subjects are developed: authenticity in business, sustainable investment, ethical consumerism, Gross National Happiness. The third part is the “Opinions section according Zsolnai focuses on the ecological sustainability of business.” The last and “debate” part concentrates on the “Ethics management paradox,” notion that has been proposed by Luk Bouckaert since 2002. This notion is may be the more interesting at least from a business ethics point of view.

This book can be recommended to those that are searching for a complete, valid and rapid bird eyes view of the fields as it is today. This book also confirms the surfacing of major (North and Central) European scholars on ethics or corporate social responsibility. It also points out an European renew of the business and society field.

Others books reviewed on the same subject: Council of Europe (2004) “Ethical, solidarity‐based citizen involvement in the economy: a prerequisite for social cohesion” Strasbourg, Council of Europe Publications. Laszlo Zsolnai and Knut Johannessen IMS (Ed.) (2006): Business within Limits. Deep Ecology and Buddhist Economics, Peter Lang, Oxford.