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The moral imagination : how literature and films can stimulate ethical reflection in the business world / edited by Oliver F. Williams - Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c1997. - viii, 210 pages : 24 cm. - The John W. Houck Notre Dame series in business ethics .

Includes bibliographical references.

The challenge: envisioning the good life
• Oliver F. Williams
PART I The moral imagination: some models for effective teaching about the good life
1. “Doesn’t anybody read the Bible anmo?” illiterates at the gates
• Michael Goldberg
2. Five easy pieces for ethical reflections in business
• John W. Houck
3. The brothers Karamazov: responsibility and business ethics
• Timothy L. Fort
4. Malice in wonderland: American working girl scenarios
• Eileen T. Bender
5. Other people’s money: A study in self deception
• Oliver F. Williams
PART II The moral imagination toward a better understanding of ourselves and our times
6. “If power changes purpose” images of authority in literature and films
• Teresa Godwin Phelps
7. Stories of legal order in American business
• Thomas L. Shaffer
8. Mediums, messages, and the economic order: the legacy of Marshall McLuhan reconsidered
• Benard Murchland
9. “If life hands you a lemon......” Business Ethics from the Apartment to Glengarry Glen Ross
• Dennis P. McCann
PART III The business world: shaping our vision of the good life
10. Does Hollywood bash big business?
• Michael Medved
11. General Johnson said..........
• David E. Collins
12. The moral challenge to business today
• Charles Van Doren
13. Compelling stories: narrative and the production of the organizational self
• Ellen S. O’Connor


ISBN: 0268014329 (cloth : alk. paper) 0268014345 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0268014345

LCCN: 97046844

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Business ethics.
Business ethics in literature.
Business ethics in motion pictures.

LC Class. No.: HF5387 / .M648 1998

Dewey Class. No.: 174.4 / MOR