B2913 - ETICA, STRATEGIA E POLITICA NELLE AZIENDE DELL’ECONOMIA DIGITALE

Academic Year 2024/2025

Course contents

 

What business ethics is?

Moral dilemma in business decision-making

Stakeholder theory

The concept of Corporate Sociale Responsibility

Traditional normative ethical theories

Alternative normative ethical theories

Descriptive ethical theories

Ethical management: Tools and processes

Specific ethical dilemmas: The relationship with shareholders

Specific ethical dilemmas: The relationship with employees

Specific ethical dilemmas: The relationship with consumers

Specific ethical dilemmas: The relationship with Suppliers and competitors

Specific ethical dilemmas: The relationship with civil society

Readings/Bibliography

Texts:

Crane, A., Matten, D., Glozer, S. e L. Spence. 5° 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.

 

Other materials:

  • Coen, D., Grant, W., e G. Wilson. 2011. The Oxford Handbook of Business and Government. Oxford University Press.
  • Dardot, P. e C. Laval. 2016. La Nuova Ragione del Mondo. DeriveApprodi.
  • Habermas, J. (1996). Between Facts and Norms. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Mitnick, B. M. 1993. Corporate Political Agency. Sage.
  • Picketty, T. 2020. Capitale e Ideologia. La Nave di Teseo.
  • Rasche, A., Morsing, M. e J. Moon. 2017. Corporate Social Responsibility. Cambridge University Press.
  • Rawls, J. (1971). A Theory of Justice. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.
  • Scherer, A.G., e 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. Il Capitalismo della Sorveglianza. LUISS University Press.

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

Written test and individual essay.

Office hours

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