B0072 - ETICA, STRATEGIA E POLITICA NELL’ECONOMIA DIGITALE

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Digital Innovation Policies and Governance (cod. 5889)

    Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Computer Science (cod. 5898)

Course contents

  1. Introduction to business ethics
  2. Corporate Social Responsibility
  3. Stakeholder theory
  4. Normative ethical theory
  5. Descriptive ethical theory
  6. Tools and techniques of business ethics management
  7. Typical ethical dilemmas in the economic activity of companies
  8. Ethical dilemmas in the relationship between firms and politics

Readings/Bibliography

Texts:

Crane, A., Matten, D., Glozer, S. and L. Spence. 5th Edizione. 2019. Business Ethics. Oxford University Press.

Arnold, D. G., Beauchamp, T. L. and N. E. Bowie. (2020). Ethical Theory and Business (10th Edition). Cambridge University Press.

Suggested further reading:

  • Coen, D., Grant, W., and G. Wilson. 2011. The Oxford Handbook of Business and Government. Oxford University Press.
  • Dardot, P. and C. Laval. 2009. La Nouvelle Riason du Monde. La Découverte.
  • Habermas, J. (1996). Between Facts and Norms. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Mitnick, B. M. 1993. Corporate Political Agency. Sage.
  • Picketty, T. 2020. Capital e Idéologie. Editions du Seuil.
  • Rasche, A., Morsing, M. and J. Moon. 2017. Corporate Social Responsibility. Cambridge University Press.
  • Rawls, J. (1971). A Theory of Justice. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.
  • Scherer, A.G., and G. Palazzo (2007). Toward a political conception of corporate responsibility: Business and society seen from a Habermasian perspective. Academy of Management Review, 32(4): 1096-1120.
  • Zuboff, S. 2019. The Age of Surveillance Capitalims. PublicAffairs.

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

Written exams

Office hours

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