90435 - NUOVA ETICA D'IMPRESA

Learning outcomes

The course reviews in a critical way the three major steps concerning the entrance of ethical discourse into the economics of the firm. With the advent of the modern corporation, the shareholder value principle gets the centere of the stage: the responsible firm is the one that succeeds in maximizing the value for the shareholders within the bounds fixed by law. The second step, starting at the end of the sixties, sees the advent of buisiness ethics: the responsible firm is the one that aims at harmonizing the intrests of the various classes of stakeholdes. This is the "good business is good ethics" principle. Finally, at the end of the XX century a major change occurs: the corporate civil responsibility, according to which "good ethics is good business". This is the content of the "new" business ethics. At the end of the course the student will master the hot debate about a sustainable model of market economy.

Readings/Bibliography

A. Ablela, J. Capizzi, Etica e business, Soveria Mannelli, Rubettino, 2016.

AA.VV., Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics, OUP, 2017

R. Baldwin, La grande convergenza, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2018

D. Baron, "A Positive Theory of Moral Management", Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2009, 18.

P. Bianchi, 4.0. La nuova rivoluzione industriale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018

G. Brenkert, T. Beauchamp, The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics, OUP, 2010

L. Bruni, S. Zamagni, L'economia civile, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016

A. Carr, Is business bluffing Ethical?, "Harvard Business Review, XI, 1968

A. Fabris (a cura di), Etiche applicate, Roma, Carocci, 2018

B.M.R. Ferrarese, Promesse mancate, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018

M. O'Hara, Something for Nothing, Norton Co., New York, 2016

K. Pistor, The code of capital. How the law creates wealth and inequality, Princeton, PUP, 2019.

M. Porter, M. Kramer, "Creating Shared Value", Harvard Business Review, 2011

L. Sacconi (a cura di), La responsabilità sociale d'impresa, Roma, ABI, 2005

A. Sen, "Does Business Ethics Make Economic Sense?", Business Ethics Quarterly, 1993, 3

Z. Teachout, Corruption in America, Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press, 2014.

S. Zamagni, Impresa responsabile e mercato civile Bologna, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2013

S. Zamagni, Responsabili. Come civilizzare il mercato, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019

Office hours

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