Power and Principle in the Market Place

Jacob Dahl Rendtorff is Professor of the Responsibility, Ethics and Legitimacy of Corporations at the Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies at the Roskilde University Centre, Denmark. He is Director of Research and also Director of Business Studies at Roskilde University Centre. He published widely in the area of business ethics and corporate social responsibility.

1: Introduction; 2: Ethical Economy and Business Ethics: On the Relationships between Ethics and Economics; 3: Value Generalization 1 – Limitations and Possibilities of a Communication about Values; 4: Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic Optimality and the Interests of the Poor; 5: Stakeholders, Corporate Social Responsibility and Global Markets; 6: Economics and Ethics: How to Combine Ethics and Self-Interest; 7: Business Ethics between Politics, Ethics and Economics; 8: Developing Durability: A Re-Examination of Sustainable Corporate Social Responsibility 1; 9: Global Principles (as)(or) Ethical Responsiveness: The Case of Sustainability Rhetoric; 10: Society's Constitution and Corporate Legitimacy, or Why it Might be Unethical for Business Leaders to Think with Their Heart; 11: Hide and Seek in the Dark – On the Inherent Ambiguity of CSR; 12: “Ethics of Sensitivity” – Towards a New Work Ethic: New Age in Business Life; 13: Public-Private Development of CSR on the International Stage: Reflexivity and Legitimacy; 14: Business and Poverty – Bridges and Divides; 15: The Ethical Moment: Ethics and Economy in Public Administration; 16: On Witnessing Global Ethics: A Case of International Health Research Involving Human Subjects; 17: The Cosmopolitan Story; 18: Conclusion: Outline of an Epistemological Methodology for Integrating Ethics and Economics