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31Focusing on Ethics and Broadening our Intellectual BaseJournal of Business Ethics 140 (1): 1-3. 2017.
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28Profit and Other Values: Thick Evaluation in Decision MakingBusiness Ethics Quarterly 27 (3): 353-379. 2017.ABSTRACT:Profit maximizers have reasons to agree with stakeholder theorists that managers may need to consider different values simultaneously in decision making. However, it remains unclear how maximizing a single value can be reconciled with simultaneously considering different values. A solution can neither be found in substantive normative philosophical theories, nor in postulating the maximization of profit. Managers make sense of the values in a situation by means of the many thick value c…Read more
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8Cambridge Handbook of Research Approaches to Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2017.While there is a large and ever-expanding body of work on the fields of business ethics and corporate social responsibility, there is a noted absence of a single source on the methodology and research approaches to these fields. In this book, the first of its kind, leading scholars in the fields gather to analyse a range of philosophical and empirical approaches to research in business ethics and CSR. It covers such sections as historical approaches, normative and behavioural methodologies, quan…Read more
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60The New Story of Business: Towards a More Responsible CapitalismBusiness and Society Review 122 (3): 449-465. 2017.Business is undergoing a conceptual revolution. Since the Global Financial Crisis there are many new ideas and proposals to make capitalism more responsible. The purpose of this paper is to identify key flaws in the “old story” of capitalism. Six principles are explained that taken together form the basis for a new story of business, one of responsible capitalism.
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11Who's Who in Business Ethics: A Profile of Richard T. De GeorgeBusiness Ethics: A European Review 5 (1): 47-51. 1996.For more than thirty years the writings and influence of one man in particular have dominated and directed the field of modern business ethics. We are indebted to two of his fellow‐Americans for this portrait of Richard T. De George. R. Edward Freeman is the Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration and Director of the Olsson Center for Ethics at The Darden School, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22906‐6550; and Martin Calkins, SJ, is a Research Assistant in the Olss…Read more
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Anatol Rapoport, Melvin J. Guyer, and David G. Gordon's "The 2 x 2 Game" (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 39 (2): 292. 1978.
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503The Impossibility of the Separation Thesis: A Response to Joakim SandbergBusiness Ethics Quarterly 18 (4): 541-548. 2008.Distinguishing “business” concerns from “ethical” values is not only an unfruitful and meaningless task, it is also an impossible endeavor. Nevertheless, fruitless attempts to separate facts from values produce detrimental second-order effects, both for theory and practice, and should therefore be abandoned. We highlight examples of exemplary research that integrate economic and moral considerations, and point the way to a business ethics discipline that breaks new ground by putting ideas and na…Read more
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84The ethics of greenmailJournal of Business Ethics 6 (3). 1987.In the contemporary flurry of hostile corporate takeover activity, the ethics of the practice of greenmail have been called into question. The authors provide an account of greenmail in parallel with Daniel Ellsberg's conception of blackmail, as consisting of two conditions: a threat condition and a compliance condition.The analysis then proceeds to consider two questions: Is all greenmail morally wrong? Are all hostile takeovers morally wrong? The authors conclude that there is no basis for ans…Read more
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164Managing for Stakeholders: Trade-offs or Value Creation (review)Journal of Business Ethics 96 (S1): 7-9. 2010.
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83Poverty and the Politics of CapitalismThe Ruffin Series of the Society for Business Ethics 1 31-35. 1998.1. Here’s a way to think about poverty. People who live in poverty do so because they have few opportunities to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. In fact the gap between rich and poor has increased in recent times due to the more wholesale adoption of capitalist practices around the world. The institutions of business and government conspire to give the poor a Hobson’s choice of minimal wage McJobs or unemployment. Neglect of both urban ghettoes and the rural poor has been systematic, if n…Read more
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48Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability in Scandinavia: An OverviewJournal of Business Ethics 127 (1): 1-15. 2015.Scandinavia is routinely cited as a global leader in corporate social responsibility and sustainability. In this article, we explore the foundation for this claim while also exploring potential contributing factors. We consider the deep-seated traditions of stakeholder engagement across Scandinavia including the claim that the recent concept of “creating shared value” has Scandinavian origins, institutional and cultural factors that encourage strong CSR and sustainability performances, and the r…Read more
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51Related Debates in Ethics and Entrepreneurship: Values, Opportunities, and ContingencyJournal of Business Ethics 84 (3): 341-365. 2009.In this paper, we review two seemingly unrelated debates. In business ethics, the argument is about values: are they universal or emergent? In entrepreneurship, it is about opportunities – are they discovered or constructed? In reality, these debates are similar as they both overlook contingency. We draw insight from pragmatism to define contingency as possibility without necessity. We analyze real-life narratives and show how entrepreneurship and ethics emerge from our discussion as parallel st…Read more
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1520A stakeholder theory of the modern corporationPerspectives in Business Ethics Sie 3 144. 2001.
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13Who's who in business ethics: A profile of Richard T. de GeorgeBusiness Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 5 (1). 1996.For more than thirty years the writings and influence of one man in particular have dominated and directed the field of modern business ethics. We are indebted to two of his fellow‐Americans for this portrait of Richard T. De George. R. Edward Freeman is the Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration and Director of the Olsson Center for Ethics at The Darden School, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22906‐6550; and Martin Calkins, SJ, is a Research Assistant in the Olss…Read more
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44Management Ethics: Placing Ethics at the Core of Good Management, by Domènec Melé. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. ISBN: 978-0230246300 (review)Business Ethics Quarterly 24 (1): 142-143. 2014.
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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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85Stakeholder Theory, Fact/Value Dichotomy, and the Normative Core: How Wall Street Stops the Ethics Conversation (review)Journal of Business Ethics 109 (1): 109-116. 2012.A review of the stakeholder literature reveals that the concept of "normative core" can be applied in three main ways: philosophical justification of stakeholder theory, theoretical governing principles of a firm, and managerial beliefs/values influencing the underlying narrative of business. When considering the case of Wall Street, we argue that the managerial application of normative core reveals the imbedded nature of the fact/value dichotomy. Problems arise when the work of the fact/value d…Read more
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16Special issue on: Gender, business ethics, and corporate social responsibilityBusiness Ethics Quarterly 24 (3): 497-500. 2014.
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79Enhancing Stakeholder PracticeBusiness Ethics Quarterly 16 (1): 23-42. 2006.Lack of specificity around stakeholder identity remains a serious obstacle to the further development of stakeholder theory andits adoption in actual practice by business managers. Nowhere is this shortcoming more evident than in stakeholder theory’s treatment of the constituency known as “community.”In this paper we attempt to set forth what we call “the Problem of Community” as indicative of the definitional problems of stakeholdertheory. We then begin the process of gaining greater specificit…Read more
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575The Politics of Stakeholder TheoryBusiness Ethics Quarterly 4 (4): 409-421. 1994.The purpose of this paper is to enter the conversation about stakeholder theory with the goal of clarifying certain foundational issues. I want to show, along with Boatright, that there is no stakeholder paradox, and that the principle on which such a paradox is built, the Separation Thesis, is nicely self-serving to business and ethics academics. If we give up such a thesis we find there is no stakeholder theory but that stakeholder theory becomes a genre that is quite rich. It becomes one of m…Read more
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University of VirginiaRegular Faculty
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Metaphilosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |