Business Ethics is a lively and engaging textbook that tackles one of the most pressing issues facing business today: how to be a good corporate citizen in a complex multiple stakeholder world. It covers the foundations of business ethics and applies these concepts to each of the corporation's major stakeholders. Written from a truly international perspective, it explains the ethical challenges faced by business in different parts of the globe, and provides the tools and concepts necessary to understand and deal with ethical problems effectively wherever you are in the world. It is the only text on the market that fully considers the implications of three major ethical challenges facing business: corporate citizenship, globalization, and sustainability. This third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated and includes new content on climate change, water issues, financial markets, private equity, and global religions. It offers a wealth of new cases and vignettes as well as updates of favourites from previous editions, including features on BAE, Diageo, McDonald's, Nestle, Rio Tinto, and Siemens. Among the unique learning features included in the book are 'Ethics on Screen' boxes that describe recent movies involving business ethics issues, and 'Ethics online' - a new feature that provides cutting edge insight into the use of social media and online tools for understanding and participating in business ethics. Further links and web resources are also provided on the book's dedicated Online Resource Centre.

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Professor Andrew Crane is the George R. Gardiner Professor of Business Ethics in the Schulich School of Business at York University in Canada. He holds a PhD from the University of Nottingham and a BSc from the University of Warwick. He has over ten years' experience of teaching and researching business ethics, and has spoken and published widely on the subject. Journals in which his work has been published include the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, and Organization Studies. Professor Dirk Matten is Hewlett-Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility in the Schulich School of Business at York University in Canada. He has a PhD and the Habilitation from Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf in Germany. He has taught the subject at universities in Britain, France, Germany, Belgium and the Czech Republic. His work is published in leading journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies.

"Crane and Matten is the clear market leader. The clarity of writing, number and length of cases, and the European perspective set it apart." --Dr Simon Brooks, University of Glamorgan

"Crane and Matten offer an integrated, theory-oriented introduction into the whole area of business ethics. In my opinion, there is no other textbook available that offers a similarly comprehensive overview and introduction." --Stefan Schwarzkopf, Copenhagen Business School

"Crane and Matten is contemporary, covering relevant and topical issues relating to business ethics. The writing is very accessible and the text contains some great innovations such as the Ethics on Screen boxes." --Mike Marinetto, University of Cardiff

"The range of pedagogical features are very useful when teaching with this text. Crane and Matten is also well supported through a website; the provision of lecturer support notes is most useful in teaching practice. The authors clearly have a great deal of experience and a good 'feel' for the learning capabilities and teaching approaches that will engage today's' students." --Richard Warren, Manchester Metropolitan University