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17Toward a Theory of Marginalized Stakeholder-Centric EntrepreneurshipBusiness Ethics Quarterly 34 (1): 1-34. 2024.The neglect of marginalized stakeholders is a colossal problem in both stakeholder and entrepreneurship streams of literature. To address this problem, we offer a theory of marginalized stakeholder-centric entrepreneurship. We conceptualize how firms can utilize marginalized stakeholder input actualization through which firms should process a variety of ideas, resources, and interactions with marginalized stakeholders and then filter, internalize, and, finally, realize important elements that im…Read more
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15Women's studies and business ethics: toward a new conversation (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1997.This latest book in the Ruffin Series in Business Ethics is the first work to analyze the significance of gender in the ethical management of business organizations. Scholars from the fields of business ethics and women's studies come together in this book to offer fresh new perspectives on business ethics. The contributors examine the value of feminist theory and scholarship for business ethics, and from this examination four overarching themes emerge. The first theme is that corporations are s…Read more
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15Special issue on: Gender, business ethics, and corporate social responsibilityBusiness Ethics Quarterly 24 (3): 497-500. 2014.
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14Research Handbook of Responsible Management (edited book)Edward Elgar Publishing. 2020.Outlining both historical foundations and the latest research trends, this Research Handbook offers a unique and cutting-edge overview of the numerous avenues to responsible management.Opening with a conceptual mapping of the field, thought leaders such as Henry Mintzberg and Archie Carroll present foundational and controversial views. Frameworks such as sustainability management, responsible leadership, humanistic and biomimetic management are introduced. Glocal approaches include responsible m…Read more
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14Special Issue on Gender, Business Ethics, and Corporate Social ResponsibilityBusiness Ethics Quarterly 23 (4): 640-643. 2013.
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14Erratum to: Scandinavian Stakeholder Thinking: Seminal Offerings from the Late Juha NäsiJournal of Business Ethics 127 (1): 107-107. 2015.In this article, we first provide evidence that Scandinavian contributions to stakeholder theory over the past 50 years play a much larger role in its development than is presently acknowledged. These contributions include the first publication and description of the term “stakeholder”, the first stakeholder map, and the development of three fundamental tenets of stakeholder theory: jointness of interests, cooperative strategic posture, and rejection of a narrowly economic view of the firm. We t…Read more
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13Clearing 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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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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13Business in a Post-COVID World: The Move to Stakeholder CapitalismJournal of Human Values 29 (2): 105-114. 2023.The last 15 years have seen a remarkable set of changes in the global business environment. Established companies and start-ups alike have been subjected to some fundamental shifts in the very way that we conceptualize business. Together with some generational challenges we have seen myriad calls for a new narrative about business. And, even more recently, the COVID pandemic has reinforced a number of these shifts and led to even more fundamental change. The purpose of this essay is to outline t…Read more
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12The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics provides clear, concise and highly informative definitions and explanations of the key concepts in one of the most important fields in contemporary business.
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12The Business of Consumption: Environmental Ethics and the Global EconomyRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 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
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11Letters to stakeholders: An emerging phenomenon of multi‐stakeholder engagementBusiness Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility. forthcoming.We explore a new phenomenon of multi-stakeholder orientation and engagement in corporate communication: letters to stakeholders. By applying content, semantic, and quantitative analyses to standardized corporate communication among the 100 largest multinational companies worldwide, our study reveals that approximately one-third of the examined companies have begun to utilize what could be considered letters to stakeholders. We demonstrate that letters to stakeholders adopt a multi-stakeholder or…Read more
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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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11Ruffin Series No. 4: Business, Science, and EthicsThe Ruffin Series of the Society for Business Ethics 4 3-3. 2004.
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10Poverty 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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10Corporate ResponsibilityIn R. G. Frey & Christopher Heath Wellman (eds.), A Companion to Applied Ethics, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains sections titled: A Brief History of Corporate Responsibility The Nature of Corporate Obligations and the Scope of Corporate Responsibility Some Promising Approaches to the Study of Corporate Responsibility Corporate Responsibility and the Limits of Minimalism.
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9Business EthicsIn R. G. Frey & Christopher Heath Wellman (eds.), A Companion to Applied Ethics, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains sections titled: Two Traditional Topics in Business Ethics: Agency and Responsibility Traditional Business Ethics and the Separation Thesis Stakeholder Theory Emerging Lines of Research Some Contemporary Topics Conclusion.
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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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6Poverty and the Politics of CapitalismBusiness Ethics Quarterly 8 (S1): 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 no…Read more
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6How to Assess Multiple-Value Accounting Narratives from a Value Pluralist Perspective? Some Metaethical CriteriaJournal of Business Ethics 1-17. forthcoming.Nowadays businesses are often expected to create not just financial, but multiple kinds of value—and they report on this using numbers and narratives. Multiple-value accounting narratives, such as those required by the Integrated Reporting framework, are often met with suspicion: accounting scholars have argued that inconsistencies between narratives and performances show that narratives are used for impression management rather than to accurately report the (ir)responsible behavior of companies…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 |