Conscience and Corporate Culture
Foundations of Business Ethics Series

Conscience and Corporate Culture advances the constructive dialogue on a moral conscience for corporations. Written for educators in the field of business ethics and practicing corporate executives, the book serves as a platform on a subject profoundly difficult and timely.

• Written from the unique vantage point of an author who is a philosopher, professor of business administration, and a corporate consultant
• A vital resource for both educators in the field of business ethics and practicing corporate executives
• Forwards the constructive dialogue on a moral conscience for corporations
• Offers a philosophical and practical approach to considering business ethics

Foreword by Thomas E. Holloran.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part I Conscience: Response to a Pathology:

1. Teleopathy: The Unbalanced Pursuit of Purpose.

2. Mindsets and Culture.

3. Conscience as a Mindset: Personal and Organizational.

4. Challenges to the Very Idea.

Part II: The Moral Agenda of Leadership:

5. Orienting Corporate Conscience.

6. Institutionalizing Corporate Conscience.

7. Sustaining Corporate Conscience.

8. Conscience and Three Academies.

Epilogue.

Notes.

Index.

Kenneth E. Goodpaster is Koch Endowed Chair in Business Ethics at the University of St. Thomas.His research has spanned a wide range of topics, from conceptual studies of ethical reasoning to empirical studies of the social implications of management decision making. He is author of Perspectives on Morality (1976), Ethics and Problems of the 21st Century(1979), and the casebook Business Ethics: Policies and Persons (4th edn., 2006).