-
16Competing with Integrity: Richard De George and the Ethics of Global BusinessJournal of Business Ethics 127 (4): 737-742. 2015.
-
102A Place for Philosophers in Applied Ethics and the Role of Moral Reasoning in Moral Imagination: A Response to Richard RortyBusiness Ethics Quarterly 16 (3): 401-408. 2006.This article presents a response to Richard Rorty's paper "Is Philosophy Relevant to Business Ethics?" The author questions Rorty's views on the depreciation of the role of philosophy in applied ethics, and outlines four reasons why philosophy retains its relevance. The author addresses the role of moral reasoning in the development of the moral imagination. The author also concludes that humans have the means necessary to make moral progress and are capable of moral reasoning, and need only to …Read more
-
11Clearing the Way for a Life-Centered Ethic for BusinessThe Ruffin Series of the Society for Business Ethics 2 159-165. 2000.I agree with much of Freeman and Reichart’s paper; so, by way of comment, I will simply supplement his argument in two ways. First, agreeing with their conclusion that we can, and should, re-direct business toward environmental protection without embracing a nonanthropocentric ethic, I will show that the pre-occupation of recent and contemporary environmental ethics with the anthropocentrism/non-anthropocentrism debate is avoidable. It rests on a misinterpretation of possible moral responses to …Read more
-
20Globalization and Its Challenges for Business and Business Ethics in the Twenty‐first CenturyBusiness and Society Review 117 (3): 383-405. 2012.The global expansion of free enterprise has been underway for some time, and the challenges for global companies are well‐known. Companies often operate in economically blighted communities and in corrupt environments without a rule of law. At the same time Western‐based global corporations are under increasing public pressure to take on responsibilities to these communities that are often beyond their expertise or economic purview. For example, at the 2008 Davos meetings Bill Gates proposed the…Read more
-
21Principles and Practices for Corporate ResponsibilityBusiness Ethics Quarterly 20 (4): 695-701. 2010.The first issue of Business Ethics Quarterly was launched in 1991. At that time there were few general principles that could serve as guidelines for global business. However, since 1991 a plethora of such principles have been developed to serve as guidelines and evaluative mechanisms for global corporate responsibilities. But operationalizing these principles in practice has been a challenge for most transnational corporations and even for smaller, more local enterprises. This is because, in som…Read more
-
1Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics: The Callista Wicklander Lectures, DePaul University, 1991-2005University Press of Amer. 2006.This collected volume of essays, the work of scholars from DePaul University who have served as the Wicklander Chair in Business Ethics, focuses on a wide range of issues including the role of self-interest in commerce, moral character, evil and complacency, privacy, spirituality in the work place, and globalization challenges.
-
26Werhane's Letter to Harvard Business ReviewThe Society for Business Ethics Newsletter 4 (3): 11-11. 1993.
-
21Moral Imagination and the Search for Ethical Decision-Making in ManagementThe Ruffin Series of the Society for Business Ethics 1 75-98. 1998.
-
56The Normative/Descriptive Distinction in Methodologies of Business EthicsBusiness Ethics Quarterly 4 (2): 175-180. 1994.Abstract:Most papers in this issue carefully analyze normative and empirical methodologies. I shall argue that (a) there is no purely empirical nor purely normative methodology; (b) some terms escape the division of the normative and descriptive. (c) Most importantly, dialogues such as this one point to a form of integration that allows us to reflect on what it is that each approach presupposes in its study of business ethics. Thus we have made progress in recognizing the importance of each meth…Read more
-
12Existence, Eternality, and the Ontological ArgumentIdealistic Studies 15 (1): 54-59. 1985.One way of phrasing St. Anselm’s Ontological Argument is as follows. One’s understanding of the idea of God can be formulated in a definition
-
Konstantin Kolenda, ed., Organizations and Ethical Individualism (review)Philosophy in Review 9 186-188. 1989.
-
120Two ethical issues in mergers and acquisitionsJournal of Business Ethics 7 (1-2). 1988.With the recent rash of mergers and friendly and unfriendly takeovers, two important issues have not received sufficient attention as questionable ethical practices. One has to do with the rights of employees affected in mergers and acquisitions and the second concerns the responsibilities of shareholders during these activities. Although employees are drastically affected by a merger or an acquisition because in almost every case a number of jobs are shifted or even eliminated, employees at all…Read more
-
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management, Volume IIIn Fritz Allhoff & Anand Vaidya (eds.), Business Ethics, Sage Publications. 2005.
-
35Beyond Selfishness: Adam Smith and the Limits of the MarketAdam Smith and His Legacy for Modern CapitalismBusiness Ethics Quarterly 3 (4): 453-460. 1993.
-
10Some Ethical Issues in Financial MarketsIn W. Michael Hoffman (ed.), The Ethics of Accounting and Finance: Trust, Responsibility, and Control, Quorum Books. pp. 42. 1996.
-
79Business Ethics, Stakeholder Theory, and the Ethics of Healthcare OrganizationsCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 9 (2): 169-181. 2000.Until recently, business issues in healthcare organizations were relatively insulated from clinical issues, for several reasons. The hospital at earlier stages of its development operated on a combination of charitable and equitable premises, allowing for providing care to be separated from financial support. Physicians, who were primarily responsible for clinical care, constituted an independent power nexus within the hospital and were governed by their own professional codes of ethics. In exch…Read more
-
28Evaluating the classificatory processJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 37 (3): 352-354. 1979.
-
7Must We ‘Always Get Rid of the Idea of the Private Object‘?Southern Journal of Philosophy 27 (2): 299-317. 1989.
-
28Connecting the World Through GamesJournal of Business Ethics Education 8 (1): 199-230. 2011.When using cases to teach corporate strategy and ethical decision-making, the aim is to demonstrate to students that leadership decision-making is at its most effective when all affected stakeholders are considered, from shareholders and employees, to the local, national, and global societies in which the company operates. This paper challenges the obstructive perception of many Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) advocates that the interests of private organizations in the alleviation of soci…Read more
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |