This book is a Chinese approach to business ethics. It describes and analyzes the emergence and development of business ethics in China from 1978 onwards,provides and explores a conceptual framework for business ethics and basic issues connected with these ethics; and evaluates the modem transformation of the traditional Chinese notion of integrity. It considers the moral capacity that market agents possess and can exercise when conducting business and addresses and analyzes ethical issues at the micro-, meso-, macro-, and global levels of business practice within China.

China's business ethics, as well as China's economy,have attracted worldwide attention. But, to date, there have been few books on business ethics written by Chinese scholars in English. What ethical issues have arisen as China has embraced a market economy and economic globalization? What is the current ethical situation of Chinese businesses, economic systems, and corporate management? As China's economy has integrated into the world economy, Chinese citizens have faced international business ethics issues equally being faced by non-Chinese market agents, especially Westerners. How do people in China see these emerging issues? What are the special manifestations or features of these issues as they have appeared in the Chinese context? In what ways have China's traditional ethics and moral values been changing? This book tries to answer these pressing questions.

This book is a Chinese approach to business ethics. It describes and analyzes the emergence and development of business ethics in China from 1978 onwards,provides and explores a conceptual framework for business ethics and basic issues connected with these ethics; and evaluates the modem transformation of the traditional Chinese notion of integrity. It considers the moral capacity that market agents possess and can exercise when conducting business and addresses and analyzes ethical issues at the micro-, meso-, macro-, and global levels of business practice within China.

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

PART ONE EMERGENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF BUSINESS ETHICS IN CHINA

 1. Business Ethics in China: Its Emergence and Development

 2. Business Ethics in China: Its Characteristics, Difficulties and Tasks

 3. Business Ethics in China: Now and in the Future

PART Two BUSINESS ETHICS AS A DISCIPLINE AND ITS RELEVANT ISSUES

 4. Conceptual Framework for and Academic Characteristics of Business Ethics

 5. Economic and Ethical Value: A Basic Relation Issue for Business Ethics

 6. Economic Development and Human Moral Capacity

 7. The Modern Transformation of Traditional Integrity and Its PostModern Trend

PART THREE ON PRACTICAL ISSUES OF BUSINESS ETIUCS

 8. Business Ethics and Karl Marx's Theory of Capital--Reflections on Making Use of Capital for Developing China's Socialist Market Economy

 9. Responsibility and Innovation: Shanghai Fuda's Exploration and Its Significance

 10. The Issue of Cultures in a Globalized Economy and the Value Orientation of Corporations in China

 11. Globalization, the Knowledge Economy and Ethical Issues in China

 12. On P2P File-Sharing: A Major Problem--A Chinese Perspective

PART FOUR BUSINESS ETHCS IN CHINA AND IN THE WORLD: REVIEWS,INTERVIEWS AND DISCUSSIONS

 13. Business Ethics Needs International Exchange of Ideas and Experiences--A Review of the International Conference on "Developing Business Ethics in China"

 14. Discussions with Richard T. De George, Kenneth Goodpaster and John Boatright on Lessons of the Enron Case Applicable to Business Ethics in China

 15. On the Market Economy, Rule of Law and Morality--An Interview with Daryl Koehn

Appendixes

 1. G.B. Vico and Contemporary Civil World

 2. The Author's Business Ethics Research Profile

Index