Table of Contents

PART ONE: Business in Society 
Chapter 1: The Corporation and Its Stakeholders 
Chapter 2: Managing Public Issues and Stakeholder Relationships 
Chapter 3: Corporate Social Responsibility and Global Citizenship 
Chapter 4: Business in a Globalized World 

PART TWO: Business and Ethics 
Chapter 5: Ethics and Ethical Reasoning 
Chapter 6: Organizational Ethics
 
PART THREE: Business and Public Policy 
Chapter 7: Business–Government Relations 
Chapter 8: Influencing the Political Environment 

PART FOUR: Business and the Natural Environment 
Chapter 9: Sustainable Development and Global Business 
Chapter 10: Managing for Sustainability 

PART FIVE: Business and Technology 
Chapter 11: The Role of Technology 
Chapter 12: Regulating and Managing Technology 

PART SIX: Business and Its Stakeholders 
Chapter 13: Shareholder Rights and Corporate Governance 
Chapter 14: Consumer Protection 
Chapter 15: Employees and the Corporation 
Chapter 16: Managing a Diverse Workforce 
Chapter 17: Business and Its Suppliers 
Chapter 18: The Community and the Corporation 
Chapter 19: Managing the Public and the Corporate Reputation 

CASES IN BUSINESS AND SOCIETY 
1. Failure by Design: Boeing and the 737 Max
2. Profiting from Pain: Business and the U.S. Opioid Epidemic 
3. Banning American Parts in Chinese Mobile Phones: Economic Sanctions, 
    Political Influence, and Trump’s Trade War 
4. BP Blowout: The Aftermath of the Gulf Oil Disaster 
5. Wells Fargo’s Unauthorized Customer Accounts 
6. The Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster 
7. Starbucks at the Airport: Discrimination in Public Spaces 
8. Nestlé and Child Labor in the Cocoa Supply Chain 
9. The Boycott of Stoli Vodka  

About the Author

Anne T. Lawrence is professor of management emerita at San Josï¿ State University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed two years of post-doctoral study at Stanford University. Her articles, cases, and reviews have appeared in many journals, including the Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Case Research Journal, Journal of Management Education, California Management Review, Business and Society Review, Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, and Journal of Corporate Citizenship. Her cases in business and society have been reprinted in many textbooks and anthologies. She has served as guest editor of the Case Research Journal. She served as president of both the North American Case Research Association (NACRA) and of the Western Case writers Association and is a Fellow of NACRA, from which she received a Distinguished Contributor Award in 2014. She received the Emerson Center Award for Outstanding Case in Business Ethics (2004) and the Curtis E. Tate Award for Outstanding Case of the Year (1998, 2009, and 2015). At San Josï¿ State University, she was named Outstanding Professor of the Year in 2005. In 2015, she received a Master Teacher in Ethics Award from The Wheatley Institution at Brigham Young University. She currently serves as chair of the board of the Case Research Foundation.



James Weber is a professor of management and business ethics at Duquesne University.  He also serves as the executive director of the Institute for Ethics in Business, and coordinates the Masters of Science in Leadership and Business Ethics program at Duquesne.  He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and has taught at the University of San Francisco, University of Pittsburgh, and Marquette University.  His areas of interest and research include managerial and organizational values, cognitive moral reasoning, business ethics, ethics training and education, eastern religions' ethics, and corporate social audit and performance. His work has appeared in Organization Science, Human Relations, Business & Society, Journal of Business Ethics, Academy of Management Perspectives, and Business Ethics Quarterly.  He received the SIM Sumner Marcus Award for lifetime contribution to the Social Issues in Management division of the Academy of Management in 2013, and the Best Reviewer Award from Business & Society in 2015.  He was recognized by the Social Issues in Management division with the Best Paper Award in 1989 and 1994, and received the Best Article Award from the International Association for Business and Society (IABS) in 1998.  He has served as division and program chair of the Social Issues in Management division of the Academy of Management.  He has also served as president and program chair of the IABS.