Gill’s Briefly-Annotated Business Ethics Bibliography

© David W. Gill (www.ethixbiz.com)

Management, Leadership and Business Ethics

Francis J. Aguilar, Managing Corporate Ethics: Learning From America’s Ethical Companies How to Supercharge Business Performance  (New York: Oxford, 1994).  Practical, holistic approach.

Wayne Alderson & Nancy McDonnell, Theory R Management  (Thomas Nelson, 1994). People matter; Alderson turned around a steel company twenty years ago; PA-based consultant since then.

Dennis W. Bakke, Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach to Fun on the Job  (Seattle: PVG, 2005). Great ideas and lessons from Bakke’s tenure (1981-2002) as co-founder/executive at AES Corp.

Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr., Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right (Harvard Business School Press, 1997).   Some good insights but unsatisfying as overall argument.

David Batstone, Saving the Corporate Soul (SF: Jossey-Bass, 2003). Entrepreneur, USF professor, and Sojourners executive editor.;  great counsel for both success and good ethical business.

Warren Bennis & Burt Nanus, Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge (HarperBusiness, 1985; rev.ed 1997). Forget the platitudes;  here is the real story on how to lead organizations.

Ken Blanchard & M. O’Conner, Managing by Values SF:Berrett-Koehler, 1997.  Building mission-driven, value-embedded cultures.  Aligning values, practices, decisions. Excellent little book.

Marvin T. Brown, Corporate Integrity: Rethinking Organizational Ethics and Leadership. Cambridge, 2005). Consultant and USF prof argues for “corporation as citizen” perspective; deep, rich, compelling argument.

Marvin T. Brown, The Ethical Process: An Approach to Disagreements and Controversial Issues. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice-Hall. 2003.  Interactive, team process.  Good, practical advice.

Stephen L. Carter, Integrity(Basic Books, 1996).  Interesting insights from Yale law prof/author.

Jose Caruso, The Power of Losing Control (New York: Penguin/Gotham, 2003).  An important insight about healthy leadership and corporate cultures.

James C. Collins & Jerry I. Porras. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies.  New York: HarperBusiness, 1994.  Deservedly a best-seller.  Preserve the core purpose & values; stimulate Progress through BHAGs, etc.  Lessons from great, long-term business successes.

Jim Collins.  Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap . . . and Others Don’t.   (New York:  HarperBusiness, 2001). Leadership with personal humility & professional will; and “get right people in right seats on the bus.”

John Dalla Costa. The Ethical Imperative: Why Moral Leadership is Good Business. (Addison-Wesley, 1998).  A wise, thoughtful, strong case.

Terrence E. Deal & Allan A. Kennedy, Corporate Cultures: The Rites and Rituals of Corporate Life  (Addison-Wesley, 1982).  A good, basic introduction to corporate culture.

Terrence E. Deal & Allan A. Kennedy, The New Corporate Cultures: Revitalizing the Workplace after Downsizing, Mergers, and Reengineering (Cambridge, MA: Perseus, 1999).  Computers, globalization, and other huge impacts on corporate cultures.

Max DePree, Leadership is An Art  (New York: Doubleday, 1989) Best of several little books on leadership by former Herman Miller CEO.

A. Larry Elliott and Richard J. Schroth.   How Companies Lie:  Why Enron is Just the Tip of the Iceberg  (New York: Crown, 2002).  Hard hitting but hard to refute.

Francis Fukuyama.  Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity   (NY: Free Press, 1995). Big historical study of how prosperous societies are built on trust-based business relationships.

Jeffrey E. Garten.  The Mind of the CEO.   (New York: Basic Books, 2001).  Interesting to read what CEOs Themselves think about their challenges, priorities etc.

Rob Goffee & Gareth Jones, The Character of A Corporation: How Your Company’s Culture Can Make or Break Your Business (HarperBusiness, 1998).  Good intro to what corp. culture is and various common cultural styles.

Jim Grote & John McGeeney.  Clever as Serpents:  Business Ethics and Office Politics.  Collegeville MN: Liturgical Press, 1997.  Fascinating approach inspired by Rene Girard.

Craig Hall.  The Responsible Entrepreneur: How to Make Money and Make a Difference (Franklin Lakes NJ: Career Press, 2001).   Amazing guy.  A born social and business entrepreneur.

Michael Hammer & James Champy, Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution  (New York: HarperBusiness, 1993). 90s cult classic; radically “reengineering” business processes to streamline, exploit technology; get lean, fast, and objective oriented

Frances Hesselbein & Rob Johnston, eds.  On Mission and Leadership  (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002). Excellent essays  on mission and vision oriented leadership.  One of best little books out there.

Jeffrey Hollender, What Matters Most: How A Small Group of Pioneers is Teaching Social Responsibility to Big Business (Basic Books, 2004).  CEO of Seventh Generation (non-toxic home cleaning products).  Examples of successful responsible business.

Larry Johnson & Bob Phillips, Absolute Honesty (2003) Building a culture that supports ethics & Excellence; six laws of honest and open communication.

John P. Kotter & James L. Heskett, Corporate Culture and Performance (New York: Free Press, 1992).  A basic intro to corporate culture, leadership, performance.

James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner, The Leadership Challenge (SF: Jossey-Bass, 3rd ed., 2002).  This may be the single best guide to business leadership.  Two Santa Clara univ. profs are right on.

Susan Kuczmarski & Thomas Kuczmarski, Values-based Leadership (Prentice-Hall, 1995). Lots of good advice and strategies on how (and why) to do it.

George Labovitz & Victor Rosansky, The Power of Alignment: How Great Companies Stay Centered and Accomplish Extraordinary Things (New York: John Wiley, 1997).  Simple, essential concept.

Chris Laszlo, The Sustainable Company  (Island Press, 2003).

Edward E. Lawler III & Christopher G. Worley, Built to Change: How to Achieve Organizational Effectiveness ((SF: Jossey-Bass, 2006).  Complement more than counter to Built to Last.

John C. Maxwell There’s No Such Thing as “Business” Ethics  (Warner Books, 2003). Utter nonsense from a shallow thinker.  Doesn’t understand anything about business ethics.

Dennis C. McCarthy, The Loyalty Link: How Loyal Employees Create Loyal Customers.  (New York: John Wiley, 1997).  A core characteristic of healthy corporate cultures and practices. So often ignored.

Laura Nash, Good Intentions Aside (McGraw-Hill, 1990). Good advice on ethics management.

Charles A. O'Reilly III and Jeffrey Pfeffer.  Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People  (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2000).  Excellent study of companies that value their people---and their people perform accordingly.

James O’Toole, Leading Change: The Argument for Values-based Leadership.  (Ballantine Books, 1995). A great, insightful, deep book.  Top-ten list reading for any serious leader.

Thomas J. Peters & Robert H. Waterman, Jr., In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies (Harper & Row, 1982).  Even twenty years later, the basic observations of this best- seller make sense.  Some of the companies have faltered but not because of the ideas in this book.

Joseph A. Petrick & John F. Quinn, Management Ethics: Integrity at Work  (Sage, 1997).  Scholarly study of how managers can promote good ethics.

Steven B. Sample, The Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership (SF: Jossey-Bass, 2002).  USC President gives good advice on leadership.  Mostly common sense rather than all that “contrarian.”

Douglas S. Sherwin.  “The Ethical Roots of the Business System” Harvard Business Review  61.6 (Nov- Dec 1983): 183-192.   A classic essay arguing that ethics must be rooted in purpose and mission.

Richard Sennett, The Corrosion of Character  (Norton, 1998)

Peter Schwartz & Blair Gibb, When Good Companies Do Bad Things (John Wiley, 1999)

Robert C. Solomon, A Better Way to Think About Business. (Oxford,1999).  An abbreviated version of the basic argument in Solomon’s Ethics and Excellence. Focus on character and culture, not rules and cases.

Robert C. Solomon. Above the Bottom Line: An Introduction to Business Ethics.  (Harcourt Brace, 2nd ed. 1994). Solomon’s textbook covers the field, includes good explanations, cases  for discussion.

Robert C. Solomon.  Ethics and Excellence:  Cooperation and Integrity in Business.  New York: Oxford, 1993.  A character/virtue ethics (rather than a rule orientation) for business. Right on target.

Robert C. Solomon. It's Good Business:  Ethics and Free Enterprise for the New Millenium.  New York:

Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.    Solomon provides freely and widely ranging arguments here.

Noel M.Tichy & Andrew R. McGill, eds.,  The Ethical Challenge: How to Lead with Unyielding Integrity (Jossey-Bass, 2003).  Good collection of essays by business leaders as well as profs.

David Vogel, The Market for Virtue: The Potential & Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility (Wash. DC: Brookings Institution, 2005).  UC Berkeley Haas prof is doubtful that virtue (CSR) pays much but this is a valuable, much needed dose of realism.

Jack Welch, Suzy Welch, Winning, (New York: HarperCollins, 2005).  Famous former GE CEO and new wife give us their management insights.

Economics, Markets, and Ethics

Joel Bakan, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (New York: Free Press, 2004). A stinging indictment; basis for movie of same name.

Diane Coyle, The Paradoxes of Prosperity: Why the New Capitalism Benefits All  (Texere, 2001).  She likes it in general but is an honest, independent, critical thinker on the subject.

Robert H. Frank & Philip J. Cook, The Winner-take-all Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us  (Penguin, 1996).  A fascinating and disturbing study.

Thomas Frank. One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy   (New York: Doubleday, 2000).  Strong critique of unrestrained corporate power.

Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom.  (Univ. of Chicago, 1962). Classic statement of “only owners/shareholders and profits matter” perspective.

Milton Friedman, “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits” The New York Times Magazine  (Sept 13, 1970).  Famous article rejecting any social responsibility for businesses.

William Greider, The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy (Simon & Schuster, 2003)  An argument to reform capitalism to make it more people- and environment-friendly.

Paul Hawkin, Amory Lovins, & L. Hunter Lovins.  Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Little Brown & Co., 1999).  Brilliant, hopeful perspectives on how to build good business in harmony with natural environment.

Steve Hilton & Giles Gibbons, Good Business: Your World Needs You.  (NY:Texere, 2002).  Well-written, well-illustrated case for socially-responsible, economically-successful global businesses.

Marjorie Kelly, The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy  SF: Berrett-Koehler, 2001. Business Ethics magazine founder and editor.  Tough critic of today’s capitalists.

Robert Kuttner, Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets (Alfred Knopf, 1997). Balanced analysis of where markets work well, and where they don’t.

Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism  (New York: Touchstone, 1982).  He cares about the people and believes capitalism is the best hope.  Thorough, historically-rich study by a Catholic intellectual.

Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty (Penguin Press, 2005). Argues that it is possible.

Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (many editions, 1776).  The classic “Bible” of free market capitalism

Globalization and International Business Ethics

Benjamin R. Barber.  Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism are Reshaping the World.  (New York: Ballantine, 1996).  The dark side of globalization.  Important argument.

Richard J. Barnet & John Cabanagh, Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations and the New World Order (Touchstone, 1994).  Strong criticism of replacement of political by economic powers.

Jose Bove et Francois Dufour. Le Monde n’est pas une marchandise:  Des paysans contre la malbouffe (Paris: La Decouverte, 2000). Famous French farmer/demonstrator against globalization.

Thomas Friedman, The Lexus & the Olive Tree (Anchor Books, 2000).  Very hopeful study of globalization.  Thinks global trade can lift up ethical as well as economic condition of world.

Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2005).  Follow up to Lexus & Olive Tree shows how Al Qaeda as well as USA, World Bank, etc., all use same global IT infrastructure.

William Greider, One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism (Touchstone, 1997). A massive case against uncritical corporate globalization.

David Korten, When Corporations Rule the World  (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2nd ed., 2001).  A powerful, stinging critique of  global capitalism.

Serge Latouche.  Les Dangers du marché planetairé  (Paris: Presses de sciences po, 1998).   French economist warns of the dangers of globalization.

Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Healing A Broken World: Globalization & God (Fortress, 2002).

John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Berrett-Koehler, 2004).

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002).   Nobel Prize laureate, World Bank and Council of Econ. Advisors chair offers experienced, balanced view.

Daniel Yergin & Joseph Stanislaw, The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy (Touchstone, rev. ed. 2002).  History and geography of 20th century economic development.

Leaders, Companies, and Industries

Marcia Angell, The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It. (2005).  Former editor of New England Journal of Medicine indicts drug industry.

George Anders, Perfect Enough: Carly Fiorina and the Reinvention of Hewlett-Packard  (Penguin, 2003) Positive view of Fiorina (pre-firing).

Anthony Bianco, The Bully of Bentonville: How the High Cost of Wal-Mart’s Everyday Low Prices is Hurting America (New York: Currency/Doubleday, 2006).  The down side of Wal-Mart.

David Bunnell with Adam Brate.  Making the Cisco Connection: The Story Behind the Real Internet Superpower  (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000).  Interesting account of Cisco.

Bo Burlingham, Small Giants: Companies that choose to be Great instead of Big (New York: Penguin/Portfolio, 2005).  Great positive examples.

Peter Burrows,  Backfire: Carly Fiorina's High-Stakes Battle for the Soul of Hewlett-Packard (John Wiley & Sons, 2003); problems with the HP/Compac merger.

Kevin & Jackie Freiberg, Nuts: Southwest Airlines’ Crazy Recipe for Business & Personal Success (NY: Broadway Books, 1997).  A great book on a great company.  Terrific read.

Jody Hoffer Gittell, The Southwest Airlines Way: Using the Power of Relationships to Achieve High Performance (McGraw-Hill, 2003).& Excellent, insightful study of amazing company. James Hirsen, Hollywood Nation: Left Coast Lies, Old Media Spin, and the New Media Revolution (2005).

Michael Lewis.  Moneyball:& The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (Norton, 2003).  The business practices
&  of Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics baseball team.

Jeffrey K. Liker, The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World’s Greatest Manufacturer (NY: McGraw-Hill, 2004).&& How does Toyota do it?  An amazing company.

Om Malik, Broadbandits, Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist  (Hoboken NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2003). Robert D. Manning, Credit Card Nation: The Consequences of America’s Addiction to Credit.  (New York: Basic Books, 2000).

David Packard, The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company  (NY: HarperBusiness, 1995).  Great stuff from a great company.  Many say HP has now lost its way.

William Pollard, The Soul of the Firm (HarperBusiness, 1996). ServiceMaster President describes basic management and ethical principles and practices.

Dale Pollock, Skywalking: The Life and Films of George Lucas (DaCapo, 1999).

Howard Schultz & Dori Jones Young.  Pour Your Heart Into It.  (New York: Hyperion, 1997)  Starbucks.

Mimi Swartz with Sherron Watkins, Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron  (Doubleday, 2003).  Watkins was the Enron whistleblower.

Eric Schlosser.  Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal  (New York: HarperColllins, 2001).  Only In-N-Out Burgers comes out with a “buy” recommendation.  Outstanding expose.

Susan E. Squires,. et al.  Inside Arthur Andersen:  Shifting Values, Unexpected Consequences (Prentice Hall, 2003).

James B.Stewart, Den of Thieves (Touchstone, 1991).  Amazing account of Wall Street insider trading scandals of 1980s.

Martha Stewart, The Martha Rules, 10 Essentials for Achieving Success as You Start, Build, or Manage a Business  (Martha Stewart Living, 2005)

Matthew Symonds & Larry Ellison, Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle (Simon & Schuster, 2003).

Barbara Ley Toffler with Jennifer Reingold, Final Accounting: Ambition, Greed, and the Fall of Arthur Andersen  (New York: Broadway, 2003).  A sad, careful account of how a great company lost it.

Sam Walton, Made in America: My Story  (Bantam, 1993). Brilliant, persistent but is his legacy good for America?

Mike Wilson, The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison (William Morrow, 1997).

Technology and Business

Ian Barbour, Ethics in An Age of Technology  (HarperCollins, 1993). General introduction.

Daniel Burrus, Technotrends: How to Use Technology to Go Beyond Your Competition. (HarperBusiness, 1993).  Gung ho cheerleading.

John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid.  The Social Life of Information.  (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2000). Brilliant analysis of interplay between information and human relationships.

Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society  (Vintage, 1964). Classic critique of technologism.

Bill Gates, Business at the Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System  (Warner, 1999). Enthusiasm for information technology in business.

David W. Gill. “The Technological Blind Spot in Business Ethics” Bulletin of Science, Technology, & Society 19.3 (June 1999): 190-198.  Brief  study to show how technology’s impact on business was not getting the attention it deserved from business ethicists.

John Hart, Ethics & Technology (William C. Norris Institute, 1994). Technology, business, & ethics.

Ernest Kallman & John Grillo, Ethical Decision-Making & Information Technology (McGraw-Hill, 1993)

James Martin, Cybercorp: The New Business Revolution.  New York: AMACOM, 1996.  How information technology is radically transforming organizations.

Carl Mitcham, Thinking Through Technology: The Pathway between Engineering and Philosophy (Chicago, 1994). A superb introduction to technology and its analysis.

Stephen V. Monsma, ed., Responsible Technology  (Eerdmans, 1986). An impressive theology of technology.

Nicholas Negroponte, Being Digital  (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995).  MIT believer in technology.

Peg Neuhauser, Ray Bender, and Kirk Stromberg.  Culture.com: Building Corporate Culture in the Connected Workplace   (Toronto: John Wiley & Sons, 2000). Good advice on how culture issues have changed.

Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology  (New York: Vintage, 1993).  Great read on technology’s dominance of our culture.

James Quinn, Intelligent Enterprise  (Free Press, 1992). Technology & management.

Theodore Roszak, The Cult of Information (California, 2nd ed. 1994). Brilliant nay-sayer.

Andrew Shapiro, The Control Revolution  (Century Foundation, 1999).  How the internet is putting individuals in charge.  A bit one-sided and dreamy.

Carl Shapiro & Hal Varian, Information Rules (Harvard Business School, 1999).  Deep and well-informed analysis of how information technology dominates organizations.

Kristin Shrader-Frechette & Laura Westra, eds., Technology & Values (NY: Rowan & Littlefield, 1997). Excellent collection of articles on technology, values, and ethics.

Don Tapscott.  The Digital Economy:  Promise & Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence  (McGraw- Hill, 1996). Tapscott’s many books offer insights and predictions about the technology-business Interface.

Don Tapscott & Art Caston. Paradigm Shift: The New Promise of Information Technology.  (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993).  One of the first and best discussions of how technology transforms business.

Don Tapscott & David Ticoll. The Naked Corporation: How the Age of Transparency Will Revolutionize Business.  (New York: Free Press, 2003).  Embrace transparency and good ethics---or lose!

Frederick W. Taylor. Principles of Scientific Management.(many editions, 1911).  The classic argument for subordinating human workers to technology, machines, and experts.

Edward Tenner. Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996).  Great study of how technology has unintended consequences.  “Be vigilant” is the counsel.

Clifford Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil:  Second Thoughts on the Information Highway  (New York: Anchor, 1995).  Techie cautions us not to believe all the hype about technology.

Business Ethics Textbooks

Tom L. Beauchamp & Norman E. Bowie.. Ethical Theory and Business. 6th ed Upper  Saddle River NJ: Prentice-Hall. 2001.

Norman E. Bowie, ed., The Blackwell Guide to Business Ethics (Blackwell, 2002). Great set of essays on main topics in business ethics.

Norman E. Bowie, Business Ethics: A Kantian Perspective.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.  The main Kantian/deontologist among business ethicists today.

Rogene A. Buchholz & Sandra B. Rosenthal.  Business Ethics:  The Pragmatic Path Beyond Principles to Process. Belmont CA: Wadsworth, 1998.   More attentive to impact of technology than most business ethics textbooks.

Gerald F. Cavanagh,  American Business Values with International Perspectives.  Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall, 4th ed., 1998.

Thomas Donaldson, & Patricia H. Werhane.  Ethical Issues in Business: A Philosophical Approach. Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall, 5th ed., 1996.

O. C. Ferrell, John Fraedrich, & Linda Ferrell Business Ethics: Ethical Decision-Making and Cases. 4th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

R. Edward Freeman,  Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach.  Boston: Pitman, 1984.  Freeman is the main pioneer in the stakeholder approach to business ethics.  An important step forward.

R. Edward Freeman,   editor. Business Ethics: The State of the Art.  New York: Oxford, 1991.  Excellent set of essays by leaders in the field.

Kenneth E. Goodpaster & Laura L. Nash.  Policies and Persons:  A  Casebook in Business Ethics. New York: McGraw Hill, 3rd ed., 1998. 

James E. Post, Anne T. Lawrence, & James Weber.  Business and Society:  Corporate Strategy, Public Policy, Ethics.  Boston: McGraw Hill, 9th ed., 1999. 

Scott B. Rae & Kenman L. Wong.  Beyond Integrity: A Judeo-Christian Approach to Business Ethics. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2nd ed, 2004.  SPU & Biola profs do a good job of working from a Christian basis but it’s not about ethical imperialism;  it’s a search for what help the Christian tradition might have to offer to the diverse, global workplace.

Robert C. Solomon, Above the Bottom Line: An Introduction to Business Ethics.  Fort Worth TX: Harcourt Brace, 2nd ed., 1994.  A leading character/virtue business ethicist.

Linda Klebe Trevino & Katherine Nelson. Managing Business Ethics: Straight Talk About How to Do It Right. 3rd ed New York: John Wiley, 2004.  Probably the best textbook out there, comprehensive, deep, practical, holistic in approach.

Manuel G. Velasquez,  Business Ethics:  Concepts and Cases.   Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall, 4th ed., 1998.

Joseph W. Weiss, Business Ethics: A Stakeholder and Issues Management Approach. 2nd ed.New York: Dryden, 1998. 

Theology, Philosophy, Religion and Business

David J. Atkinson et al. eds. New Dictionary of Christian Ethics & Pastoral Theology (InterVarsity, 1995).  Maybe the best dictionary of Christian ethics.

Stephen G. Austin with Mary Steelman, The Rise of the New Ethics Class: Life After Enron: Not Business As Usual  (Lake Mary FL: Charisma House, 2004).  Advertised as “faith based principles of integrity and ethics.”  Breezy, loosely structured thoughts from an accounting executive.

Robert Banks & R. Paul Stevens, eds., The Complete Book of Everyday Christianity (InterVarsity, 1997). Great dictionary on work and marketplace topics.

Tony Campolo, Everything You've Heard is Wrong  (Word, 1992). Management, values.

Richard C. Chewning, John E. Eby, & Shirley J. Roels, Business Through the Eyes of Faith (Harper & Row, 1990). Business, work, & leadership in a Christian perspective.  Excellent foundational stuff.

Jacques Ellul, Money & Power (InterVarsity, 1984). A fascinating, challenging essay on wealth and money, drawn from Old and New Testaments.

Jacques Ellul, The Presence of the Kingdom (Helmers & Howard, 1989).  Bordeaux intellectual issues call for deeper understanding of technology-dominated world and radical, biblical response.

Peter French, Corporate Ethics  (Harcourt Brace, 1995).  Excellent philosophical-historical approach to corporate ethics today.  Beyond individualism.

David W. Gill, Becoming Good: Building Moral Character (InterVarsity, 2000).  Beatitudes-based Christian ethic of virtue and character.

David W. Gill, Doing Right: Practicing Ethical Principles (InterVarsity, 2004). Decalog-based Christian ethic of principle-based practices.  Discussions of work, rest, property.

Emilie Griffin, The Reflective Executive: A Spirituality of Business and Enterprise (Crossroad, 1993). Spirituality and business as understood by a thoughtful advertising executive.

Os Guinness, The Call  (Word, 1998).  Putting work into the larger, deeper framework of calling/vocation.

Pete Hammond, R. Paul Stevens, & Todd Svanoe, The Marketplace Annotated Bibliography: A Christian Guide to Books  on Work, Business, & Vocation (InterVarsity, 2002).   It’s all listed here.

Lee Hardy, The Fabric of this World  (Eerdmans, 1990).  Excellent history and theology of work.

Albert R. Jonsen & Stephen Toulmin. The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning.  Berkeley: California, 1988.  Excellent study of ethical case orientation past and present.

Clinton W. McLemore, Street-Smart Ethics(Westminster John Knox, 2003). Proverbs-based.

Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. 2nd ed. Notre Dame, 1984.  Magnificent, deep, history of ethics showing the povery of modern and post-modern approaches.

Alasdair MacIntyre, Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry.  Notre Dame, 1990.  Tradition (classical/Christian), Encyclopedia (Enlightenment Modernity), and Genealogy (Post-modernism).

Jose Miranda, Communism in the Bible (Orbis, 1982).  Brief biblical study of economic sharing and simplicity by Latin American “Liberation theologian.”.

Jose Miranda,  Marx and the Bible: A Critique of the Philosophy of Oppression (Orbis, 1974).  Miranda  is a sort of counterpart to Novak (below).  He likes the ideas of socialism if not always the practices.

Laura Nash, Believers in Business (Thomas Nelson, 1994). Lessons from 85 Christian CEOs.

Laura Nash & Scotty MacLennan, Church on Sunday, Work on Monday (Jossey-Bass, 2001). Exploration of the separation of two parts of people’s lives.

Michael Novak, Business as a Calling: Work and the Examined Life (Free Press, 1996).  Fine little book showing the positive place of work and business.

Michael Novak, Toward a Theology of the Corporation (AEI, rev. ed., 1990). Catholic philosopher loves the ideas of capitalism, if not all its practices.

John M. Perkins, Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development (Baker, 1993).  A wonderful, challenging, insightful, approach to poverty, opportunity, and development from an urban black community leader.

E. F. Schumacher, Good Work  (Harper & Row, 1979).  Interesting follow-up to Small is Beautiful.

E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Harper & Row, 1973).  Includes essay on “Buddhist Economics.”  A modern classic everyone should read.

Ronald J. Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger (Word, 2nd ed., 1997).  A modern classic challenging Christians to generosity.

Max L. Stackhouse, et al, eds. On Moral Business: Classical & Contemporary Resources for Ethics in Economic Life  (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1995).   An anthology of selected readings, including biblical passages, on work, vocation, business, ethics, and economic life, from women and men around the globe over the past three millennia.

Word in Life Bible  (Thomas Nelson, 1993)  A Bible with marketplace annotations instead of the usual focus on theology and doctrine.

Edward D. Zinbarg, Faith, Morals, and Money: What the World’s Religions Tell Us About Ethics in the Marketplace (Continuum, 2001).  Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism---on various topics in business ethics.  Important stuff in a global era.