Corporate governance and ethics : an Aristotelian perspective / Alejo José G. Sison.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword /​ Jeffrey Pfeffer
1. Changing conventional wisdom: the firm is not a money-making machine
2. Corporate governance by box ticking
3. Governance and government from an Aristotelian perspective
4. Shareholders, stakeholders and citizens
5. Corporate despots and constitutional rulers
6. A few good men?
7. Corporate polities and corporate democracies
8. Governance as praxis.

"Corporate Governance and Ethics is a practical reading of Aristotle's Politics for today's corporate directors. With a deft synthesis of ethics, economics and politics, Alejo Sison elevates the discussion of corporate governance out of the realm of abstract rules and structures into a more effective form of Aristotelian politics. Corporate governance issues are discusses in a holistic fashion, using international case studies to embed the discussion in environments defined by their economic, legal and cultural systems. One of the author's key messages is that reform starts with the ethical and political education of directors." "This book will appeal to corporate directors, executives and managers; academics and students with an interest in corporate governance, leadership and ethics, corporate citizenship and corporate social responsibility; and modern readers of Aristotle's virtue theory and politics in relation to business ethics."--BOOK JACKET.