The Corporation, Ethics, and the Environment

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Title Page ix
• Foreword xi
• Acknowledgments xv
• Introduction xvii
• I BUSINESS, ETHICS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT: AN OVERVIEW 1
• 1: Terre Gaste 3
• 2: Animism Redivivus: Are New Visions of Nature a Threat to Homo Sapiens? 11
• NOTES 22
• 3: Can a Corporation Have an Environmental Conscience? 25
• Conclusion 38
• NOTES 38
• 4: Hazardous Wastes: Ethical Dilemmas of Ends and Means, Heroes and Villains 39
• References 55
• 5: Straws in the Wind: The Nature of Corporate Commitment to Environmental Issues 57
• Conclusion 64
• NOTES 65
• II CORPORATIONS AND THE ENVIRONMENT: CASES AND ANALYSES 67
• 6: Du Pont and Corporate Environmentalism 69
• 7: Total Quality: Ethics and the Environment 77
• 8: Martin Marietta's Commitment to Environmental Protection 83
• 9: The Chainsaws of Greed: The Case of Pacific Lumber 91
• Conclusion 111
• NOTES 111
• 10: The Exxon Valdez Crisis 115
• 11: Rational Risk and Moral Outrage: Arthur D. Little, Inc., and the Toxic Alert 119
• References 128
• 12: Union Carbide Limited and the Bhopal Gas Incident: Issues and Commentary 129
• Conclusion 139
• NOTE 140
• 13: Business Ethics When a Crisis Occurs 141
• 14: Union Carbide Corporation's Liability for the Bhopal Disaster: Multinational Enterprise Liability 145
• 15: The Proposal of Multinational Enterprise Liability in the Bhopal Litigation 151
• III NEW CORPORATE STRATEGIES FOR CONTROLLING ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS 155
• 16: Environment and Business in the 1990s: Threats, Opportunities, and Prospects for Cooperation 157
• 17: The Development and Implementation of Industry-wide Environmental Codes of Practice 163
• Conclusions 170
• NOTES 170
• 18: Dilemmas of Disclosure: Ethical Issues in Environmental Auditing 173
• Conclusion 185
• NOTES 187
• References 188
• 19: Anthropocentric Ethics in Organizations: How Different Strategic Management Schools View the Environment 189
• References 199
• 20: Explaining Corporate Responses to Environmental Crises: A Game Theoretical Approach 203
• Conclusions 213
• References 213
• IV LOOKING TO THE FUTURE: NEW APPROACHES TO THE PROBLEMS OF BUSINESS, ETHICS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT 215
• 21: Economics, Ethics, and the Environment 217
• 22: The Principle of Integrity and The Economy of the Earth 227
• Conclusion 236
• 23: From Environment to Biosphere: The Necessary Reanimation of Ethical Discourse 241
• 24: Ecological Sabotage and the Ethics of Radical Environmentalism 249
• 25: Getting the Environment into the Business School 259
• Conclusion 267
• NOTE 267
• 26: Environmental Attitudes, Behaviors, and Decision Making: Implications for Management Education and Development 269
• Conclusion 283
• NOTES 284
• 27: From Environmentalism to Ecophilosophy: Retooling Cultures for the Twenty-First Century 287
• Index 317
• About the Editors and Contributors 321

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