The book tracks the rise of Business Ethics as a discipline in the United States through a review of the basic understandings of the role of business practices in the operations of society, beginning with Aristotle and proceeding to a review of the formative concepts and cases in the history of American business.

Prefatory Note.- Introduction: The Nature of this text.- Chapter 1. Can Business Be a Moral Enterprise?.- Chapter 2. Employee Rights and Responsibilities The Internal Constituencies of Business.- Chapter 3: Customers, Community, and World: The External Constituencies of Business.