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18Strategic Global Strategy: The Intersection of General Principles, Corporate Responsibility and Economic Value-AddedBusiness and Society Review 122 (1): 71-91. 2017.An ongoing argument often made by business ethicists is that a singular preoccupation on profitability, will lead, in the long run, to disvalue for all the stakeholders and the communities it affects, and often, economic challenges for the company. On the other hand, we argue, a preoccupation with ethics and CSR as the primary aims of a for-profit company, it is, on its own, like a preoccupation with profitability, unsustainable. Indeed, without economic viability, a company will fail. Both of t…Read more
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17Spheres of Influence: A Walzerian Approach to Business EthicsJournal of Business Ethics 174 (1): 1-14. 2020.Michael Walzer is one of the most distinguished political philosophers and social critics of this century. His ideas have had great import and influence in political philosophy and political discussion, yet very few of his ideas have been incorporated explicitly into the business ethics literature. We argue that Walzer’s work provides an important conceptual canvas for business ethics scholars that has not been adequately explored. Scholars in business ethics often borrow from political theory a…Read more
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17Mergers, Acquisitions and the Market for Corporate ControlPublic Affairs Quarterly 4 (1): 81-96. 1990.
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16Competing with Integrity: Richard De George and the Ethics of Global BusinessJournal of Business Ethics 127 (4): 737-742. 2015.
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16IntroductionThe Ruffin Series of the Society for Business Ethics 1 4-4. 1998.This special issue marks the first in a series of special issues of Business Ethics Quarterly that are sponsored by the Ruffin Foundation and the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at the University of Virginia. The editors of Business Ethics Quarterly want to thank the Ruffin Foundation and the Olsson Foundation for their generosity in funding these issues for our subscribers at no extra cost.
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16Fraud and deception: a response to Gedeon RossouwBusiness Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 9 (4): 273-275. 2000.This response addresses the question: how can ethical values play a role in combating fraud? Three points are made. Firstly, ethical values are both self‐ and other‐related. Secondly, changing the prevalence of fraudulent behaviours requires not only a reduction in opportunity for fraud but also a change in mindset of the perpetrators. Thirdly, that change in mindset involves the recognition that there are personal and organizational advantages to be gained by not contributing to or abetting fra…Read more
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15A Fine Effort to Square a CircleOrganization Ethics in Health CareBusiness Ethics Quarterly 12 (4): 539. 2002.
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15Responsibility, Rights and Welfare: The Theory of the Welfare StatePhilosophical Books 30 (4): 250-251. 1989.
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12Adam Smith, the Enlightenment, and His Relevance for the 21st CenturyDialogue and Universalism 32 (1): 19-32. 2022.In this article we reconsider strands of Adam Smith’s contribution to the project of the Enlightenment. Many of these, as we shall identify, remain poignant, and valuable observations for the twenty-first century. This sampled reconsideration touches both on how Smith is identified, as well as occasionally misread, as an Enlightenment philosopher/economist; and the extent to which t/his enlightenment survives.
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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
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12The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics provides clear, concise and highly informative definitions and explanations of the key concepts in one of the most important fields in contemporary business.
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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
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11Ruffin Series No. 4: Business, Science, and EthicsThe Ruffin Series of the Society for Business Ethics 4 3-3. 2004.
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11Obstacles to ethical decision-making: mental models, Milgram and the problem of obedienceCambridge University Press. 2013.In commerce, many moral failures are due to narrow mindsets that preclude taking into account the moral dimensions of a decision or action. In turn, sometimes these mindsets are caused by failing to question managerial decisions from a moral point of view, because of a perceived authority of management. In the 1960s, Stanley Milgram conducted controversial experiments to investigate just how far obedience to an authority figure could subvert his subjects' moral beliefs. In this thought-provoking…Read more
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10Corporate ResponsibilityIn R. G. Frey & Christopher Heath Wellman (eds.), A Companion to Applied Ethics, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains sections titled: A Brief History of Corporate Responsibility The Nature of Corporate Obligations and the Scope of Corporate Responsibility Some Promising Approaches to the Study of Corporate Responsibility Corporate Responsibility and the Limits of Minimalism.
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10Overlooked Thinkers: Stretching the Boundaries of Business Ethics Scholarship (Guest Editors’ Introduction) – CorrigendumBusiness Ethics Quarterly 32 (1): 208-208. 2022.
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10Leadership, Gender, and Organization (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2023.In this collection, the editors again bring together papers that either exemplify the crossing of disciplinary boundaries, or that allow us to do so in and through the conversations they create. The chapters were chosen based on their relevance to similar themes as were discussed in the first volume. By reviewing historical developments in the literature around gender and organization, and by drawing on recent scholarship that disrupts the traditional masculine imaginaries that plague leadership…Read more
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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.
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10Global Economic Ethic—Consequences for Global BusinessBusiness and Professional Ethics Journal 34 (1): 131-135. 2015.Global Economic Ethic is a stunning set of principles. However, in this response I shall raise some questions concerning its implementation. First, from the perspective of a global Western-based transnational corporation, there are ambiguities in the principles and implementation in practice. Second, from a non-Western cultural perspective, one has to to think about whether and how these principles could be interpreted in different non-European/non–North American cultural settings. Finally, the …Read more
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9Clinical Ethics and the Managerial Revolution in American HealthcareJournal of Clinical Ethics 17 (2): 181-190. 2006.
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9Moral Imagination and the Search for Ethical Decision Making in ManagementBusiness Ethics Quarterly 8 (S1): 75-98. 1998.1993: GE’s NBC News unit issues an on-air apology to General Motors for staging a misleading simulated crash test. NBC agrees to pay GM’s estimated $1 million legal and investigation expenses.February 1994: The Justice Department brought a criminal antitrust case against General Electric, accusing it of conspiring with an arm of the South African DeBeers diamond cartel to fix prices in the $600 million world market for industrial diamonds. General Electric denied wrongdoing...
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9IntroductionThe Ruffin Series of the Society for Business Ethics 1 4-4. 1998.This special issue marks the first in a series of special issues of Business Ethics Quarterly that are sponsored by the Ruffin Foundation and the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at the University of Virginia. The editors of Business Ethics Quarterly want to thank the Ruffin Foundation and the Olsson Foundation for their generosity in funding these issues for our subscribers at no extra cost.
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Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |