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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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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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The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management, Volume IIIn Fritz Allhoff & Anand Vaidya (eds.), Business Ethics, Sage Publications. 2005.
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35Beyond Selfishness: Adam Smith and the Limits of the MarketAdam Smith and His Legacy for Modern CapitalismBusiness Ethics Quarterly 3 (4): 453-460. 1993.
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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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78Business 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
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28Evaluating the classificatory processJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 37 (3): 352-354. 1979.
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7Must We ‘Always Get Rid of the Idea of the Private Object‘?Southern Journal of Philosophy 27 (2): 299-317. 1989.
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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
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118The indefensibility of insider tradingJournal of Business Ethics 10 (9). 1991.The article, Inside Trading Revisited, has taken the stance that insider trading is neither unethical nor economically inefficient. Attacking my arguments to the contrary developed in an earlier article, The Ethics of Inside Trading (Journal of Business Ethics, 1989) this article constructs careful arguments and even appeals to Adam Smith to justify its conclusions. In my response to this article I shall clarify my position as well as that of Smith to support my counter-contention that insider t…Read more
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25Does "obeying a rule is a practice" imply a community view of language?Metaphilosophy 20 (2). 1989.
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26Justice and trustJournal of Business Ethics 21 (2-3). 1999.With the demise of Marxism and socialism, the United States is becoming a model not merely for free enterprise, but also for employment practices worldwide. I believe that free enterprise is the least worst economic system, given the alternatives, a position I shall assume, but not defend, here. However, I shall argue, a successful free enterprise political economy does not entail mimicking US employment practices. I find even today in 1998, as I shall outline in more detail, these practices, wh…Read more
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5The Centrality of “Seeing As” and a Question about “Truth”Journal of Business Ethics Education 7 197-200. 2010.
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129Some paradoxes in Kripke's interpretation of WittgensteinSynthese 73 (2). 1987.Kripke's skeptical interpretation of Wittgenstein's project in the Philosophical Investigations attributes to Wittgenstein a radical skepticism about the objectivity of rules and thus the meanings of words and the existence of language as well as a skepticism about the truth conditions underlying our alleged facts about the world. Kripke then contends that Wittgenstein solves this skeptical paradox by committing himself to what I shall call a Communitarian View of language. There are a number of…Read more
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Just Ecological Integrity: The Ethics of Maintaining Planetary LifeRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2002.Just Ecological Integrity presents a collection of revised and expanded essays originating from the international conference "Connecting Environmental Ethics, Ecological Integrity, and Health in the New Millennium" held in San Jose, Costa Rica in June 2000. It is a cooperative venture of the Global Ecological Integrity Project and the Earth Charter Initiative
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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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Normative Ethics |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |