Bei Guo

This academic work delves into the intricate dynamics of implementing business ethics within contemporary enterprises. The textbook offers a comprehensive exploration and application of ethical principles across several corporate cultures and environments, fostering the development of well-rounded ethical decision making skills among our emerging professionals. One of the book's strengths lies in its practical application to real-life scenarios. It offers a deep analysis of various business decisions that impact ethical considerations, enabling readers to understand how ethics can be practically integrated in their own professional lives.

Regulating Social Media in China: Foucauldian Governmentality and the Public Sphere is the first in-depth study to apply the Foucauldian notion of governmentality to China’s field of social media. This book provokes readers to contemplate the democratizing potential of social media in China. By deploying Foucault’s theory of governmentality as an explanatory framework, author Bei Guo explores the seemingly paradoxical relationship of the Chinese party-state to the expansion of social media platforms. Guo argues that the Chinese government has several interests in promoting community participation and engagement through the internet platform Weibo, including extending the presence of its own agencies on Weibo while simultaneously controlling the discourse in many important ways. This book provides an important corrective to overly sanguine accounts that social media promotes a Habermasian public sphere along liberal democratic lines. It demonstrates how China, as an authoritarian country, responds to its citizens’ voracious hunger for information and regulates this by carefully adopting both liberal and authoritarian techniques.