Developing Business Ethics in China

1. Introduction

1. Introduction
Georges Enderle

Part I. Foundational Questions

2. On China’s Traditional Business Ethics and Its Modern Transformation
Yiting Zhu

3. The Ethics of an Ecological Economy
Zeying Wang

4. Confucian and Christian Ethics about the Market Economy
Kit-Chun Joanna Lam

5. Economic Motivation and Its Relevance for Business Ethics
Xiuyi Zhao

6. On the Moral Principles of Contract Ethics
Huizhu Gao

7. Fundamental Business Ethics Issues in Contemporary China
Zhenping Hu, Kaifeng Huang

8. Business Ethics in China: A Systemic Perspective
Jane Collier

9. Toward an Integrative Theory of Business Ethics: With Special Reference to the East Asian Region
Yukimasa Nagayasu

10. Business Ethics, Globalization, and the Information Age
Richard T. George

Part II. Macro-Issues

11. China’s Ethical Challenges after Joining the WTO
Xiaoxi Wang

12. Ethical Concepts of Consumption in China and the West in the Context of Globalization
Zhongzhi Zhou

13. Ethical Evaluation of the Income Distribution in China According to Its Five Income Sources
Jianwen Yang

14. Business Corruption in China’s Economic Reform and Its Institutional Roots
Dajian Xu

15. Rules, Roles, and Moral Disparity: The Problem of Corruption
George G. Brenkert

16. Confidence in the Financial Reporting System: Easier to Lose than to Restore
Georges Enderle

17. Speculation and Insider Trading as a Problem of Business Ethics
Peter Koslowski

18. The Problems of Declining Birth Rate and Aging in the Japanese Welfare State and Its Implications for Business and Economic Ethics
Koichi Matsuoka

Part III. Perspectives of Corporate Ethics

19. “Moral Reticence”: Corporate Management’s Tendency to Avoid Addressing Ethical Issues
Lanfen Li

20. The Necessity and Prospects of Promoting Ethics in Chinese Enterprises: Experiences of Dazhong Transportation Group
Xiuhua Zhou

21. The Moral Values of “Joint-Forces Culture”: The Example of Xuchang Relay Group
Farong Qiao

22. Corporate Citizenship Behavior in a Transitional Economy: An Exploratory Study in the People’s Republic of China
Hanlong Lu, Chi Kwan Warren Chiu

23. The Corporation’s Evolving Personality
Lynn Sharp Paine

24. Corporate Ethics in Germany: A Republican View and Its Practical Consequences
Horst Steinmann

25. Business Ethics and Corporate Governance in the King II Report: Light from the Tip of a Dark Continent?
Deon Rossouw

26. “Global Corporate Citizenship” for a Globalization with a Human Face
Urs Baerlocher

Keywords: Business and Management, International Business, Asian Economics, Business Ethics, International Economics, Management, Business Ethics