The Ethics of Organizational Transformation: Mergers, Takeovers, and Corporate Restructuring
- Book Review,
by W. Michael Hoffman
From Library Journal
As the title states, these essays are concerned with the ethics of business. The focus is primarily on mergers, acquisitions, and takeovers as viewed by both corporate executives and academic experts. Considering all the talk about insider trading, etc., appearing in the news daily, this book should get lots of use.-- MRCopyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
This book seeks to relate ethical and philosophical considerations to the pragmatic concerns of business operation. Its audience is corporate executives and financial planners involved in mergers and takeovers. In five sections, corporate executives and academic specialists discuss the ethical issues involved in mergers, acquisitions, and takeovers. Corporate, labor, and government views of the issues involved are presented after an overview section. In other chapters, the ethical aspects of the strategies and tactics used to effect mergers and takeovers are addressed. Here, particular attention is paid to the impact on management and employees. Section four presents some alternative approaches to corporate restructuring, while the final section includes case studies and analyses.Business Information Alert
Book Description
"This volume represents discussion and comments from a conference of academics, corporate executives, and federal officials examining the ethics of mergers, acquisitions, and takeovers. Topics addressed are timely considering the massive restructuring occurring in corporate America as well as the trend to more fully integrate ethics into business school curriculums. . . . This book provides a thought-provoking and wide-ranging survey of the issue of ethics in US business. Highly recommended." Choice "This book seeks to relate ethical and philosophical considerations to the pragmatic concerns of business operation. Its audience is corporate executives and financial planners involved in mergers and takeovers." Business Information Alert
About the Author
W. MICHAEL HOFFMAN is Professor of Philosophy, Chair of the Philosophy Department, and Director of the Center for Business Ethics, Bentley College. ROBERT FREDERICK is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and the Assistant Director of the Center for Business Ethics, Bentley College. EDWARD S. PETRY, JR., is Instructor of Philosophy at Bentley College and Clark University and the Research Associate for the Center for Business Ethics, Bentley College.
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