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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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19Accountability and Employee RightsInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 1 (3): 15-26. 1983.
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69Organization Ethics in HealthcareCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 9 (2): 145-146. 2000.Bioethics, clinical ethics, and professional ethics are mature, well-developed fields of applied ethics that focus on medical research, patient autonomy and patient care, patient–healthcare professional relationships, and issues that arise in clinical and other medical settings. However, despite these developments, little attention has been paid to the organizational aspects of healthcare in these fields. This is surprising, because in the last 30 years healthcare has become more and more instit…Read more
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62Wittgenstein and moral realismJournal of Value Inquiry 26 (3): 381-393. 1992.I argue, contra Sabina Lovibond, that one cannot defend a viable form of moral realism from the perspective of linguistic conventionalism. Appealing to the later Wittgenstein, I argue that Wittgenstein's alleged linguistic conventionalism rests on the objective ground of the notion of a rule. While Wittgenstein acknowledges that the subjective and social context out of which we operate precludes getting at reality independent of a perspective, neither is he an anti-realist nor does he replace tr…Read more
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5Fraud and deception: A response to Gedeon RossouwBusiness Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 9 (4). 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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26Proposition: Shared Value as an Incomplete Mental ModelBusiness Ethics Journal Review 36-43. 2013.
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149Engineers and management: The challenge of the Challenger incident (review)Journal of Business Ethics 10 (8). 1991.The Challenger incident was a result of at least four kinds of difficulties: differing perceptions and priorities of the engineers and management at Thiokol and at NASA, a preoccupation with roles and role responsibilities on the part of engineers and managers, contrasting corporate cultures at Thiokol and its parent, Morton, and a failure both by engineers and by managers to exercise individual moral responsibility. I shall argue that in the Challenger case organizational structure, corporate c…Read more
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113Moral imagination and systems thinkingJournal of Business Ethics 38 (1-2). 2002.Taking the lead from Susan Wolf's and Linda Emanuel's work on systems thinking, and developing ideas from Moberg's, Seabright's and my work on mental models and moral imagination, in this paper I shall argue that what is often missing in management decision-making is a systems approach. Systems thinking requires conceiving of management dilemmas as arising from within a system with interdependent elements, subsystems, and networks of relationships and patterns of interaction. Taking a systems ap…Read more
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30Ethical Leadership in 21st Century Corporate AmericaJournal of Business Ethics 66 (2-3): 145-146. 2006.
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28The myth of minimums: Response to “ordinary reasonable care is not the minimum for engineers”Science and Engineering Ethics 7 (2): 298-302. 2001.
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154Business ethics and the origins of contemporary capitalism: Economics and ethics in the work of Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer (review)Journal of Business Ethics 24 (3). 1991.Both Adam Smith and Herbert spencer, albeit in quite different ways, have been enormously influential in what we today take to be philosophies of modern capitalism. Surprisingly it is Spencer, not Smith, who is the individualist, perhaps an egoist, and supports a "night watchman" theory of the state. Smith's concept of political economy is a notion that needs to be revisited, and Spencer's theory of democratic workplace management offers a refreshing twist on contemporary libertarianism.
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34Justice, Impartiality, and Reciprocity A Response to Edwin HartmanBusiness Ethics Quarterly 4 (3): 287-290. 1994.
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4Skepticism, Rules, and Private LanguagesHumanities Press. 1992.Patricia Werhane synthesizes much of later Wittgensteinian thought, bringing together disparate arguments into a coherent text. Keeping in mind what Wittgenstein set out to accomplish in his later writings, the introduction of new material on the private language arguments, and the philosophical significance of these claims, Werhane develops the thesis that the notion of a rule is such a constitutive of language that a private language is impossible. Such a conclusion challenges many contemporar…Read more
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Health Care1In Norman E. Bowie (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Business Ethics, Blackwell. pp. 6--289. 2002.
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50Social Constructivism, Mental Models, and Problems of ObedienceJournal of Business Ethics 100 (1). 2011.There are important synergies for the next generation of ethical leaders based on the alignment of modified or adjusted mental models. This entails a synergistic application of moral imagination through collaborative input and critique, rather than "me too" obedience. In this article, we will analyze the Milgram results using frameworks relating to mental models (Werhane et al., Profitable partnerships for poverty alleviation, 2009), as well as work by Moberg on "ethics blind spots'' (Organizati…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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57A Modular Approach to Business Ethics Integration: At the Intersection of the Stand-Alone and the Integrated ApproachesJournal of Business Ethics 90 (S3). 2009.While no one seems to believe that business schools or their faculties bear entire responsibility for the ethical decision-making processes of their students, these same institutions do have some burden of accountability for educating students surrounding these skills. To that end, the standards promulgated by the Association to Advance Collegiate School of Business, their global accrediting body, require that students learn ethics as part of a business degree. However, since the AACSB does not …Read more
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82The Role of Self-interest in Adam Smith's Wealth of NationsJournal of Philosophy 86 (11): 669-680. 1989.
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3Corporate ResponsibilityIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The Oxford handbook of practical ethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 514--536. 2003.
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Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |