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Business Ethics: References for Investigation

Biz/ed has provided the following references for investigation to help you research the problem. These are suggestions only and are not the only sources you may wish to use; indeed, you are not obliged to use any of them!

Web sites

• Biz/ed Presentations:
  • Business Ethics(http://www.bized.co.uk/educators/16-19/business/external/presentation/ethics.ppt)
  • The Stakeholder Model(http://www.bized.co.uk/educators/16-19/business/external/presentation/stakeholdermodel.ppt)
  • External Influences on Business(http://www.bized.co.uk/educators/16-19/business/external/presentation/stakeholderinf.ppt)
• Biz/ed mind map on ethics(http://www.bized.co.uk/cgi-bin/chron/chron.pl?id=2756)
• Tobacco firm wins payout appeal - BBC article on the Supreme Court decision (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6379767.stm?ls)
• Philip Morris - home page (http://www.philipmorrisusa.com/en/home.asp)
• Businesses hail court ruling on jury awards - report by the Chicago Tribune (http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0702210230feb21,0,131908.story?coll=chi-bizfront-hed)
• Philip Morris USA v. Williams, Mayola - Summary of the Williams case (http://docket.medill.northwestern.edu/archives/003687.php)
• More information on the Williams case - from the Oregon Judicial Department(http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/A106791.htm )
• McTear vs Imperial Tobacco: decision day for historic legal case - litigation case in Scotland (http://www.ashscotland.org.uk/ash/ash_display.jsp?pContentID=4258&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show&)
• Court ruling reignites tobacco suits - LA Times article (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-smoking16feb16,0,7651606.story?coll=la-home-local)
• Institute of Business Ethics (http://www.ibe.org.uk/home.html)
• International Business Ethics Institute (http://www.business-ethics.org/)
• Markkula Centre for Applied Business Ethics (http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/business/)
• Stakeholder model - commentary from Alan F Kay (http://www.alanfkay.com/successes/stakeholder_model.shtml)

Books

• Crane, A. and Matten, D. (2003) Business Ethics. Oxford, Oxford University Press
• Crane, A. and Matten, D. (2006) Business Ethics: Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalisation (2nd revised edition). Oxford, Oxford University Press
• Lovell, A. and Fisher, C. (2005) Business Ethics and Values (2nd revised edition). London, FT Prentice Hall
• Derthick, M.A. (2004) Up in smoke: from legislation to litigation in tobacco politics (2nd revised edition). C.Q. Press
• Marcouse et al. (2003) Business Studies (2nd Edition) Abingdon Oxon, Hodder & Stoughton