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Content Inside: Vol. 31 No. 2 Grace Reviews JONES PARKER & TEN BOS Review: For Business Ethics by Campbell Jones Martin Parker and Ren ten Bos 2005 (Routledge London & New York) paperback 210 pages. ISBN 0415311357 th pu disp E ics has always had a somewhat uneasy place in business education. Is its rpose to inform and enlighten; to impart a moral turn to technical skills; to el vice and inculcate virtue? The history of business ethics provides few answers to these questions. Early opponents claimed that ethics was not teachable or should have been learned elsewhere and earlier. Since the 1980s the subject has gained an increasing if sometimes grudging acceptance but its rationale has remained hazy. One hope was that ethics courses would lessen the incidence of corporate failure and reduce public pressures for stronger regulation and tougher policing of business. Unfortunately the corporate crashes and ethical failures of the past two decadesEnron HIH WorldCom Tyco OneTelhave disappointed such hopes and confirmed the suspicions of those who opposed ceding valuable curriculum space to ethics. For Business Ethics by Jones Parker and ten Bos is one kind of response to these disappointments. While conventional business ethics continues to try to rein in aberrant business practices this book argues that such efforts are based on mistaken beliefs about business and ethics. The authors declare their hand on the first page: We are not particularly fond of business ethics. Most of what we read under the name business ethics is either sentimental common sense or a set of excuses for being unpleasant. business ethics in its present form is at best window dressing and at worst a calculated lie. (p. 1) The kind of business ethics these authors are for bears almost no resemblance to current business school offerings; they reject the conventional curriculum. Their central point is that business ethics has failed in what should be its central functionchanging the ways in ...

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