Daniel Webster College :: Library :: Business Ethics Resources

Scope: Business ethics focuses on examining conduct and policies and promoting appropriate conduct and policies within the context of commercial enterprise, both at the individual and organizational level. ( Malonis, Encyclopedia of Business) The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for the student in locating library resources that deal with the topic of business ethics. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing of all the sources that are available in the library, but as a selective sampling of just some of the many kinds of materials that are available on this topic.

SUBJECT HEADINGS

Books dealing with the subject of business ethics are listed in the Baddour Library's online catalog under the following subject headings:

Corporations corrupt practices
Business ethics
Business ethics Case studies
Business enterprise Ethics

There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF HF 5387.B55 2002 The Blackwell Guide to Business Ethics

REF 1001 .E466 2000 Encyclopedia of Business

REF HF 1001.B466 2001 Encyclopedia of Business and Finance

Some representative books from the Circulating Collection that are located upstairs in the library are:

CIRCULATING BOOKS

Barth, Steven R. Corporate Ethics: The Business Code of Conduct for Ethical Employees. Boston: Aspatore, 2003.

Carroll, Stephen J. Ethical Dimensions of International Management. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications, 1997.

Ciulla, Joanne B. Ethics, the Heart of Leadership. Westport,Conn: Quorum Books, 1998.

Clark, Ralph W. Workplace Ethics: Winning the Integrity Revolution. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1993.

Dalla Costa, John. The Ethical Imperative: Why Moral Leadership is Good Business. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley, 1998.

Di Norcia, Vincent. Hard Like Water: Ethics in Business. Toronto: Oxford University Press Canada, 1998.

Harvard Business Review on Corporate Ethics. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2003.

Michalos, Alex C. A Pragmatic Approach to Business Ethics. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications, 1995.

Schminke, Marshall. Managerial Ethics: Moral Management of People and Processes. Mahwah,N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Assocs; 1998.

Sims, Ronald R. Ethics and Organizational Decision Making: A Call for Renewal. Westport,Conn: Quorum Books, 1994.

Sternberg, Elaine. Just Business: Business Ethics in Action. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Terris, Daniel. Ethics at Work: Creating Virtue in an American Corporation. Waltham,
MA: Brandeis University Press, 2005.

Velasquez, Manuel G. Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases. Upper Saddle River,N.J: Prentice-Hall, 1998.

Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focus on the subject of business ethics are:

JOURNALS, PERIODICALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Business Horizons
Harvard Business Review
Journal of Business Strategy
Journal of World Business

VIDEOS

HD60.E85 2002 Ethics in the Marketplace: A Business Challenge

HF5387 .E83 1994 Ethics in the Workplace

WEB SITES

BELL: The Business Ethics Links Library
http://libnet.colorado.edu/Bell/

Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/
Website created "to foster beneficial and ethical advancement of technology by promoting the understanding and guuiding the development of intellectual property and related fields of law and policy and they intersect with business, science and techncology." The Scout Report

Business Ethics
http://www.web-miner.com/busethics.htm
Easy to navigate site containing an abundance of information of case studies, corporate code of ethics, bioethics, plagiarism and research ethics.

Business Ethics at the Better Business Bureau (BBB)
http://www.bbb.org/BizEthics/index.asp

Business Ethics in the Movies
http://westcgi.west.asu.edu/johnso/ethics.cfm

Business Ethics - Language and Civil Society (article)
http://exchanges.state.gov/forum/journal/business.htm

Business.gov - The Official Business Link to the U. S. Government
http://www.business.gov/phases/managing/lead/business_ethics.html

Center for Ethics and Business at Loyola Marymount University
http://www.ethicsandbusiness.org/links/

Ethics Resources on the Web
http://www.defenselink.mil/dodgc/defense_ethics/resource_library/resourcesindex.html

Ethics Updates
http://ethics.acusd.edu/index.html

International Business Ethics Forum
http://www.pitt.edu/~ethics/index.htm

International Business Ethics Institute (IBEI)
http://www.business-ethics.org

Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
http://www.scu.edu/ethics/homepage.html

Society for Business Ethics
http://www.societyforbusinessethics.org

United States Small Business Administration
http://www.sba.gov/managing/leadership/ethics.html

Updated 07/29/2008