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National Conference on Business Ethics (7th : 1987 : Bentley College)
Imprint:New York : Quorum Books, 1989.
Descriptionxix, 355 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:"From the Seventh National Conference on Business Ethics, sponsored by the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College."
Note:Held Oct. 15-16, 1987.
Note:I. ETHICAL ISSUES IN ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS: AN OVERVIEW: 1. Corporate takeovers: the moral backdrop / Thomas Donaldson -- 2. Professional business ethics and mergers and acquisitions / Thomas W. Dunfee -- 3. Takeovers, makeovers, and destruction: the ethics of corporate transformation / Lisa H. Newton -- 4. Moral issues in corporate takeovers / Paul Steidlmeier -- II. ETHICAL ISSUES IN ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS: CORPORATE, LABOR, AND GOVERNMENT VIEWS: 5. Burial of the Golden Rule? / Robert E. Mercer -- 6. The fast buck, or faith in the future? The ethics of corporate restructuring / Edward L. Hennessy, Jr. -- 7. Ethics of organizational transformation in takeovers, plant closings, and cooperative ventures / William C. Norris -- 8. What is a corporation's responsibility in the U.S. today? / Andrew Sigler -- 9. Corporate restructuring: perspectives of organized labor / Daniel W. Sherrick -- 10. The economics and ethics of adjusting to a new competitive environment: mergers and takeovers / David T. Scheffman -- 11. Takeover reform: a view from Congress / Edward J. Markey -- III. ETHICAL ASPECTS OF STRATEGIES AND TACTICS IN MERGERS AND TAKEOVERS: 12. Ethics and transformation tactics: human resource considerations in mergers and acquisitions / Anthony F. Buono, James L. Bowditch -- 13. Understanding target management's role when facing an unsolicited takeover attempt / Peter Linneman, Elizabeth Callison -- 14. How to preserve and build your managerial core during corporate restructuring / Herbert W. Jarvis, Robert F. Pearse -- 15. Tender offers: an ethical perspective / John R. Boatright -- 16. Stakeholder welfare, managerial ethics, and management buyouts / Robert F. Bruner, Lynn Sharp Paine -- 17. Corporate restructuring and employee interests: the tin parachute / Diana C. Robertson -- 18. Demanagerialization of U.S. industry: corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and displacement of managerial level employees / S. Prakash Sethi, Bharat B. Bhalla -- 19. Insider trading: what we know and what we don't know / Michael S. Rozeff -- IV. CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING: ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES AND VIEWPOINTS: 21. The ideology of corporate restructuring / Willard F. Enteman -- 22. Let's restructure labour, too / Vincent Di Norcia -- 23. On regulating corporate takeovers: small may not be beautiful, but bigger is not necessarily better / John R. Danley -- 24. If colleges and universities could be restructured / Larue Tone Hosmer -- V. STUDIES IN CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING: CASES AND ANALYSES: 25. Ethical dilemmas of bankruptcy reorganization: the Manville case / W.T. Stephens -- 26. Manville's search for the Ring of Gyges / Arthur Sharplin -- 27. Organizational downsizing in 'MADD' times: balancing humanity and efficiency / Laurence J. Stybel -- 28. Dynamics versus CTS: a case study of the ethical questions in hostile takeovers / Fred J. Nafziger, Jeff Kurowski -- 29. Restructuring the airline industry: economics, ethics, and public policy / Duane Windsor.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
