Shaw, William H. (2007). Business Ethics. Wadsworth Publishing, 6th edition.

Book Description: Combining engaging discussions and stimulating case studies, BUSINESS ETHICS brings you a comprehensive survey of business ethics that will guide you toward becoming an ethical professional-even if you've never studied philosophy before. Rich with real-world examples and introductions, the text introduces you to important philosophical concepts and principles via a range of perspectives that will help you begin to grapple with the compelling theoretical and practical issues of the evolving commercial landscape. In addition, this edition of the text features an updated two-color design and new pedagogical features.

About the Author: The author and editor of numerous books in the areas of ethics and social and political philosophy, William H. Shaw obtained a Ph.D. in Political Philosophy from the London School of Economics and currently teaches at San Jose State University. He was selected by SJSU's President Robert Caret as the 1998-99 President's scholar and is the author of several other successful books with Wadsworth.

Jennings, Marianne M. (2008) Business Ethics: Case Studies and Selected Readings, South-Western College/West, 6th edition.

"Product Description: Packed with real-life examples, BUSINESS ETHICS: CASE STUDIES AND SELECTED READINGS, 6th Edition explores the complex issues of ethics from the inside. Offering a unique perspective, this market-leading text gets behind the decision-making process of today’s business leaders -- from prominent players to everyday professionals. It helps you dissect what makes people cross lines they would not ordinarily cross. A combination of short and long cases, readings, hypothetical situations, and current ethical dilemmas, BUSINESS ETHICS provides a thorough training and thought-provoking experience on business ethics. Applying theory to real-world practice, it reinforces a vital sense of values in future business leaders.

Book Info: Provides real-life examples of ethical dilemmas, poor ethical choices, and wise ethical decisions from newspapers, business journals and the author's experiences as a consultant and board member. Case studies included. " (From Amazon)

O'Brien, Thomas and Scott Paeth (Eds.). (2007) Religious Perspectives on Business Ethics. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

In the first anthology of its kind, Thomas O'Brien and Scott Paeth have gathered unique pieces from across religious perspectives to illustrate the growing influence and contribution of religion to the field of business ethics. Events in the recent past make it clear that people in business urgently need to focus on the moral dimension of practices and behaviors. Courses in business ethics are increasingly prevalent in business schools and in departments of philosophy and religious studies, and yet texts for these courses normally pay scant attention to the much-needed religious perspective on what constitutes ethical practice and behavior. O’Brien and Paeth now fill that need with this text. (From book's back cover)

Review: "Finally, a well-annotated abthology that address the spiritual dimension of business ethics. This is for students who elect business not merely as a career but as a vocation." Dennis Moberg, president, Society for Business Ethics (2004-2006)

Contributors: Paul J. Borowski, M. L. Brownsberger, Douglas Burton-Christie, Martin Calkins, Paul F. Camenisch, Ronald Duska, Christine Firer-Hinze, Kenneth E. Goodpaster, Christopher Gryzen, Stewart W. Herman, Harvey S. James Jr., Robin Klay, Daryl Koehn, M. D. Litonjua, Dennis McCann, Laura L. Nash, Farhad Rassekh, David M. Schilling, Gerry Shishin Wick Sensei, Robert C. Solomon, Particia Werhane, David Vogel.

“The purpose of the present volume, the first in a series on the topic of business ethics from a religious perspective, is to bring together in one book a number of excellent, recently published articles that incorporate religious perspectives into their discussion of business ethics. This reader was developed in order to simplify the process of supplementing secularized business ethics text­books with appropriate religiously oriented resources. Although we have tried to incorporate the perspectives of as many different traditions as we could, this collection of previously published articles is predominantly Christian. This apparent Christian bias is simply the result of the vast number of articles on business ethics published from this tradition, in relation to the relative dearth of materials from most other traditions. In future editions, we look forward to publishing more resources from a greater variety of traditions as these appear in the literature.” (From the Preface, p. xi)

Ahner, Gene (2007). Business Ethics: Making a Life, Not Just a Living. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

This book is from an author with thirty years' experience as an executive and corporate officer, Business Ethics addresses students and those engaged in business to help them understand their work as an integral form of human development as well as an authentic Christian vocation.

Gene Ahner teaches philosophy, theology, and ethics at Catholic theological Union and Dominican University in Chicago, Illinois. He has been an executive in an electronics firm and is now an executive of a manufacturing company.

Here is an excerpt from the Introduction of the book:

“When I was asked recently about how long I had been working on this book, I answered, without much hesitation, a lifetime.

Some forty years ago I began my professional career teaching the abstract and somewhat esoteric disciplines of philosophy and theology to college and graduate students. While the teaching was satisfying enough, I felt a personal need to move beyond the academic world and enter into the “real” world. What better way than to enter the world of business. What could be more real than business!

For the past twenty-eight years that decision has led me from being a personnel administrator to a director of human resources to an officer of a public corporation to the corporate secretary of a board of directors—and back to being a teacher of college and graduate students! The circle is complete, except it looks more like a spiral. While business is indeed about the specific and the concrete, it is also about purpose and meaning. And that brought me back to philosophy, ethics, and, ultimately, to theology.
There is a tension here that is usually relieved by focusing totally on one or the other extreme—either business or ethics. When I would tell anyone I was writing a book on business and ethics, I would usually be greeted with a laugh or a flip remark about oxymorons.

Business, by its nature, is about the nitty-gritty, the day-to-day struggle of making something very specific with a group of people who may hardly know one another, for a customer who may be far away and who has at least some idea what he wants, and for a predetermined amount of money. It is messy, full of approximations, if not actual mistakes, and riddled with ambiguity and all sorts of mixed motives. The problem comes when it is considered to be only that. On that showing, business is “just business,” driven by impersonal “market forces,” “competition,” and “bottom-line profitability.”

On the other hand, academic types, whether philosopher, theologian, or moralist, tend to keep their distance from the inner workings of business precisely because it is so messy, so ambiguous, and, to most people in academics, so far removed from their own interests. The result is a lot of general pronouncements that may be true but have little direct impact on concrete business operations. Christianity itself is much better at pronouncing on the generalities than giving directions on the specifics. On that showing, there is much talk about “justice and peace,” “equality and fairness,” and lofty moral principles. […]” (pp. xi-xii)