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30Related 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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1543A stakeholder theory of the modern corporationPerspectives in Business Ethics Sie 3 144. 2001.
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16Who'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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36Management 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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87Stakeholder 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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17Special issue on: Gender, business ethics, and corporate social responsibilityBusiness Ethics Quarterly 24 (3): 497-500. 2014.
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67Enhancing 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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441The 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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24Poor People and the Politics of CapitalismBusiness and Professional Ethics Journal 30 (3-4): 179-194. 2011.The purpose of this paper is to suggest that the current conversation about the relationship between capitalism and the poor assumes a story about business that is shopworn and outmoded. There are assumptions about business, human behavior, and language that are no longer useful in the twenty first century. Business needs to be understood as how we cooperate together to create value and trade. It is fundamentally about creating value for stakeholders. Human beings are not solely self-interested,…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 |