edited by Patrick Flanagan, Patrick Primeaux and William Ferguson.
Oxford :
Elsevier JAI,
2007.
1 online resource (1 volume).
Research in ethical issues in organizations ;
v. 7
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: Insurance ethics for a more ethical world / Patrick Flanagan, Patrick D. Primeaux, William L. Ferguson -- Spitzer's allegations of unethical/illegal behavior: has the insurance industry's ethical environment really changed dramatically? / Robert W. Cooper -- AIG: accounting and ethical lapses / Mary D. Maury, Irene N. McCarthy, Victoria Shoaf -- Insurance ethics, an oxymoron? / James Barrese -- Responsibility sharing (elements of a framework for understanding insurance business ethics) / Johannes Brinkmann -- Insurance, risk assessment and fairness: an ethical analysis / Daniel E. Palmer -- Reasonable restrictions on underwriting / Joseph Heath -- Health insurance: economic and ethical issues / Alfonso R. Oddo -- A medical dilemma: how should physicians respond to patients' questions about pay? / Chalmer E. Labig, Kenneth Zantow -- An eye for an eye: investigating the impact of consumer perception of corporate unfairness on aberrant consumer behavior / Kyoko Fukukawa, Christine Ennew, Steve Diacon -- At the movies with the health insurance industry: ethical and environmental issues / Minnette A. Bumpus -- Walker Percy: a prophet for profit-makers / Robert E. Lauder -- Workplace romances: a platonic perspective / Martin J. Lecker.
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This series explores the central and unique role of organizational ethics in creating and sustaining a flourishing, pluralistic, free enterprise economy. It examines how profit seeking and not-for-profit organizations can be conceived and designed to satisfy legitimate human needs in an ethical and meaningful way. The authors submit rigorous research studies from a wide variety of academic perspectives including: business management, philosophy, sociology, psychology, religion, accounting, finance, and marketing.