Developing business ethics in China / edited by Xiaohe Lu and Georges Enderle ; with the linguistic assistance of Jonathan Noble

Selected papers from the International Conference on Developing Business Ethics in China, held in Shanghai on May 29-31, 2002

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

An overview of the essays as a platform for further dialogue / Georges Enderle 3 Good beginnings : a review of the international conference on "developing business ethics in China" / Xiaohe Lu 12 1 On China's traditional business ethics and its modern transformation / Yiting Zhu 23 2 The ethics of an ecological economy / Zeying Wang 35 3 Confucian and Christian ethics about the market economy / Kit-Chun Joanna Lam 44 4 Economic motivation and its relevance for business ethics / Xiuyi Zhao 52 5 On the moral principles of contract ethics / Huizhu Gao 62 6 Fundamental business ethics issues in contemporary China / Zhenping Hu, Kaifeng Huang 69 7 Business ethics in China : a systemic perspective / Jane Collier 78 8 Toward an integrative theory of business ethics : with special reference to the East Asian region / Yukimasa Nagayasu 90 9 Business ethics, globalization, and the information age / Richard T. De George 99 10 China's ethical challenges after joining the WTO / Xiaoxi Wang 113 11 Ethical concepts of consumption in China and the west in the context of globalization / Zhongzhi Zhou 123 12 Ethical evaluation of the income distribution in China according to its five income sources / Jianwen Yang 133 13 Business corruption in China's economic reform and its institutional roots / Dajian Xu 143 14 Rules, roles, and moral disparity : the problem of corruption / George G. Brenkert 153 15 Confidence in the financial reporting system : easier to lose than to restore / Georges Enderle 163 16 Speculation and insider trading as a problem of business ethics / Peter Koslowski 174 17 The problems of declining birth rate and aging in the Japanese welfare state and its implications for business and economic ethics / Koichi Matsuoka 184 18 "Moral reticence" : corporate management's tendency to avoid addressing ethical issues / Lanfen Li 197 19 The necessity and prospects of promoting ethics in Chinese enterprises : experiences of Dazhong transportation group / Xiuhua Zhou 207 20 The moral values of "joint-forces culture" : the example of Xuchang relay group / Farong Qiao 214 21 Corporate citizenship behavior in a transitional economy : an exploratory study in the people's Republic of China / Hanlong Lu, Chi Kwan Warren Chiu 223 22 The corporation's evolving personality / Lynn Sharp Paine 237 23 Corporate ethics in Germany : a republican view and its practical consequences / Horst Steinmann 247 24 Business ethics and corporate governance in the King II report : light from the tip of a dark continent? / Deon Rossouw 258