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Konstantin Kolenda, ed., Organizations and Ethical Individualism (review)Philosophy in Review 9 186-188. 1989.
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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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The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management, Volume IIIn Fritz Allhoff & Anand Vaidya (eds.), Business Ethics, Sage Publications. 2005.
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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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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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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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5The Centrality of “Seeing As” and a Question about “Truth”Journal of Business Ethics Education 7 197-200. 2010.
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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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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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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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Employment at will and employee rightsIn George G. Brenkert & Tom L. Beauchamp (eds.), The Oxford handbook of business ethics, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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5The Business of Consumption: Environmental Ethics and the Global Economy (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield. 1998.At the forefront of international concerns about global legislation and regulation, a host of noted environmentalists and business ethicists examine ethical issues in consumption from the points of view of environmental sustainability, economic development, and free enterprise. Visit our website for sample chapters!
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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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15Responsibility, Rights and Welfare: The Theory of the Welfare StatePhilosophical Books 30 (4): 250-251. 1989.
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115Employment-at-Will, Employee Rights, and Future Directions for EmploymentBusiness Ethics Quarterly 13 (2): 113-130. 2003.Abstract:During recent years, the principle and practice of employment-at-will have been under attack. While progress has been made in eroding the practice, the principle still governs the philosophical assumptions underlying employment practices in the United States, and, indeed, EAW has been promulgated as one of the ways to address economic ills in other countries. This paper will briefly review the major critiques of EAW. Given the failure of these arguments to erode the underpinnings of EAW…Read more
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163Mental Models, Moral Imagination and System Thinking in the Age of GlobalizationJournal of Business Ethics 78 (3): 463-474. 2008.After experiments with various economic systems, we appear to have conceded, to misquote Winston Churchill that "free enterprise is the worst economic system, except all the others that have been tried." Affirming that conclusion, I shall argue that in today's expanding global economy, we need to revisit our mind-sets about corporate governance and leadership to fit what will be new kinds of free enterprise. The aim is to develop a values-based model for corporate governance in this age of globa…Read more
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50Moral Imagination, Trading Zones, and the Role of the Ethicist in NanotechnologyNanoEthics 3 (3): 185-195. 2009.The societal and ethical impacts of emerging technological and business systems cannot entirely be foreseen; therefore, management of these innovations will require at least some ethicists to work closely with researchers. This is particularly critical in the development of new systems because the maximum degrees of freedom for changing technological direction occurs at or just after the point of breakthrough; that is also the point where the long-term implications are hardest to visualize. Rece…Read more
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Normative Ethics |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |