Values, Nature, and Culture in the American Corporation

Contents......Page 16
Prologue......Page 22
1. Values in Business......Page 24
A Theory of Business Values: An Overview......Page 26
Economizing/Power-Aggrandizing Tensions......Page 29
Economizing/Ecblogizing Tensions......Page 30
Power-Aggrandizing/Ecologizing Tensions......Page 31
The Meaning of Value......Page 33
The Value Set of Business......Page 39
Found Values......Page 40
Original Values......Page 42
2. The Original Values of Business......Page 46
First Original Value: Economizing......Page 47
Economizing as an Energy Transformation Process......Page 49
Entropy and Thermodynamic Laws......Page 52
Economizing as Process and Value......Page 60
Second Original Value: Growth......Page 62
Intersecting and Conflicting Growth Paths......Page 64
Third Original Value: Systemic Integrity......Page 67
Is Profit an Original Business Value?......Page 70
Original Business Values—A Summation......Page 74
3. The Power-Aggrandizing Values of Business......Page 76
First Value: Hierarchical (Rank-Order) Organization......Page 78
Second Value: Managerial Decision Power......Page 82
Third Value: Power-System Equilibrium......Page 86
Fourth Value: Power Aggrandizement......Page 89
On the Instrumental Uses of Coercive Power......Page 93
Value Clusters I and II—A Summation......Page 95
4. The Structure of Corporate Values......Page 98
The Concept of Culture and Its Misuse......Page 99
Corporate Culture......Page 103
The Values of Corporate Culture......Page 109
Economizing Values in Corporate Culture......Page 110
Power-Aggrandizing Values in Corporate Culture......Page 111
The Value Core of Corporate Culture......Page 118
5. The Values of Managers......Page 120
Managers\' Values: The Research Picture......Page 121
Empirical Values Research......Page 123
Nonempirical Critical Commentary......Page 128
Managers\' Embodied Values......Page 129
Managers\' Organizational Commitments and Attitudes......Page 130
Ethical Climates and Organizational Values......Page 135
Value Uniformity and Variety: X-Factor Values......Page 138
The Value Dimension of Managerial Work......Page 145
6. Ecologizing Values and the Business Dilemma......Page 153
First Ecologizing Value: Linkage......Page 155
Second Ecologizing Value: Diversity......Page 158
Third Ecologizing Value: Homeostatic Succession......Page 161
Fourth Ecologizing Value: Community......Page 164
Anthropocentric Interpretations of Ecological Process......Page 167
The Interface of Economizing and Ecologizing......Page 170
Varieties of Ecological Process......Page 172
Competitive Economizing......Page 173
Mutualistic Economizing......Page 176
Power Aggrandizement and Ecologizing......Page 181
The Central Ecological Value Problem......Page 184
7. The Values Within Technology......Page 187
The Wellspring of Technology......Page 189
A Friendly Warning Label......Page 190
Technology and Economizing......Page 192
From Genetic Technology to Cultural Technology......Page 193
Genetic Technology......Page 194
Cultural Technology......Page 198
The Elaborations of Cultural Technology......Page 200
The Logics of Cultural Technology......Page 204
A Pragmatic Logic......Page 205
A Combinatory Logic......Page 206
A Cumulative Logic......Page 207
A Progressive Logic......Page 208
A Cooperative-Coordinative Logic......Page 209
An Organizational Logic......Page 211
A Unifying Logic......Page 213
A Civilizational-Humanizing Logic......Page 214
Techno-Logics—A Summation......Page 215
Technology in Society: The Mumford Principle......Page 216
Business and The Mumford Principle......Page 217
The Technological Value Cluster (Value Cluster IV)......Page 219
Toward Value Reconciliation......Page 223
8. The Business Ethics Question......Page 228
Responsibility Ethics......Page 229
Corporate Stakeholders......Page 232
Philosophic Ethics......Page 237
The Normative Code......Page 238
Social Contracts and Moral Communities......Page 242
Behavioral/Organizational Ethics......Page 249
A Value-Laden Workplace......Page 250
Plus ça change......Page 257
The Moral Mandate—and Its Missing Links......Page 260
Economics, Nature, and Technology—Quo Vadis?......Page 261
9. A New Normative Synthesis......Page 264
Repairing and Renovating Business Ethics Inquiry......Page 265
Rights: From Privileged Assertion to Experiential Values......Page 270
Justice: From Social Status to Social Involvement......Page 276
Utility: A Standard for All Seasons......Page 280
Choosing Grounded Premises......Page 282
Convergence Theorems......Page 285
The Social Contract Revisited......Page 289
Normative Cores and the Ghost of John Dewey......Page 292
What Does It Mean to Be Ethical While at Work?......Page 293
10. Business and the Moral Process......Page 296
The Culture of Ethics......Page 299
Common Morality......Page 301
Virtue Ethics......Page 302
International Human Rights......Page 303
Competing with Integrity......Page 304
International Policy Regimes......Page 305
Religious Universals......Page 306
The Moral Sense......Page 308
Feminist Morality......Page 309
The Culture of Ethics—A Summation......Page 312
On Judging and Advising Business......Page 313
Epilogue......Page 320
Bibliographic Note......Page 322
D......Page 324
L......Page 325
S......Page 326
W......Page 327
C......Page 328
H......Page 329
R......Page 330
V......Page 331
X......Page 332