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3Self-Interests, Roles and Some Limits to Role MoralityPublic Affairs Quarterly 12 (2): 221-241. 1998.
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The third face of medicine: ethics, business and challenges to professionalismIn Denis Gordon Arnold (ed.), Ethics and the Business of Biomedicine, Cambridge University Press. pp. 198. 2009.
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41Sandra day O'Connor and the justification of abortionTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 5 (3). 1984.The recent Supreme Court decision upholding Roe v. Wade and in particular, the dissent by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, sheds new light on the issue of abortion. Let us consider any stage of a pregnancy when abortion is medically safe for the mother. If at that stage it is also medically viable to save the fetus, is an abortion performed at that stage of pregnancy morally justifiable? For example, if it is, or becomes, medically safe to perform abortions after first trimester of pregnancy and at …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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27Must we 'always get rid of the idea of the private object'?Southern Journal of Philosophy 27 (2): 299-317. 1989.
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4The Role of Self-Interest in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations in Eighty-sixth Annual Meeting American Philosophical Association, Eastern DivisionJournal of Philosophy 86 (11): 669-682. 1989.
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59Exporting Mental ModelsBusiness Ethics Quarterly 10 (1): 353-362. 2000.The most serious ethical challenge facing multinational corporations in the next century is their exportation of the mental model of Western-style capitalism. This model promises that industrialized free enterprise in a free trade global economy, where businesses and entrepreneurs can pursue their interests competitively without undue regulations or labor restrictions, will produce growth and well-being, i.e., economic good, in every country or community where this phenomenon is allowed to opera…Read more
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42Report on business ethics in north AmericaJournal of Business Ethics 16 (14): 1589-1595. 1997.Although many challenges remain, business ethics is flourishing in North America. Prominent organizations give annual business ethics awards, investments in socially screened mutual funds are increasing, ethics officers and corporate ombudspersons are more common and more influential, and new ideas are being tested in practice. On the academic side, two major journals specializing in business ethics are well-established and other major journals often include articles on business ethics and new o…Read more
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33The Ethics of Health Care as a BusinessBusiness and Professional Ethics Journal 9 (3-4): 7-20. 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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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
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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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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
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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.
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26Werhane's Letter to Harvard Business ReviewThe Society for Business Ethics Newsletter 4 (3): 11-11. 1993.
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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
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21Moral Imagination and the Search for Ethical Decision-Making in ManagementThe Ruffin Series of the Society for Business Ethics 1 75-98. 1998.
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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
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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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Konstantin Kolenda, ed., Organizations and Ethical Individualism (review)Philosophy in Review 9 186-188. 1989.
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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
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