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Teaching and learning ethics by the case methodIn Norman E. Bowie (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Business Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. 2002.
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50Comments on BEQ’s Twentieth Anniversary Forum on New Directions for Business Ethics ResearchBusiness Ethics Quarterly 21 (1): 157-187. 2011.ABSTRACT:In 2010,Business Ethics Quarterlypublished ten articles that considered the potential contributions to business ethics research arising from recent scholarship in a variety of philosophical and social scientific fields (strategic management, political philosophy, restorative justice, international business, legal studies, ethical theory, ethical leadership studies, organization theory, marketing, and corporate governance and finance). Here we offer short responses to those articles by m…Read more
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67Goods That are Truly Good and Services that Truly Serve: Reflections on “Caritas in Veritate” (review)Journal of Business Ethics 100 (S1): 9-16. 2011.If we read the central message of Caritas in Veritate (CV) through the lens of contemporary business ethics—and the encyclical does seem to invite such a reading (CV 40–41, and 45–47)—there is first of all a diagnosis of a crisis. Then, we are offered a response to the diagnosis: charity in truth , “the principle around which the Church’s social doctrine turns, a principle that takes on practical form in the criteria that govern moral action .” (CV 6) In business ethics, the norms of personal an…Read more
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21Corporations and Morality (review)Business and Professional Ethics Journal 1 (3): 101-105. 1982.
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44The principle of moral projection: A reply to professor Ranken (review)Journal of Business Ethics 6 (4). 1987.This article responds to two criticisms by Professor Nani Ranken of the Principle of Moral Projection in business ethics. In the process it enlarges upon our understanding of the moral agenda of management and the corporation as a participant in ethical transactions.
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782Business Ethics and Stakeholder AnalysisBusiness Ethics Quarterly 1 (1): 53-73. 1991.Much has been written about stakeholder analysis as a process by which to introduce ethical values into management decision-making. This paper takes a critical look at the assumptions behind this idea, in an effort to understand better the meaning of ethical management decisions.A distinction is made between stakeholder analysis and stakeholder synthesis. The two most natural kinds of stakeholder synthesis are then defined and discussed: strategic and multi-fiduciary. Paradoxically, the former a…Read more
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18Some Challenges of Social ScreeningJournal of Business Ethics 43 (3). 2003.The ultimate challenge with which we are presented in connection with social investing is no more and no less than this: enhancing the function of conscience in the modern global business corporation. As with individual conscience, however, corporate conscience can be influenced in two ways: from the inside and from the outside. Investment decisions provide external influences, while management values provide influence from the inside.
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170The concept of corporate responsibilityJournal of Business Ethics 2 (1). 1983.Opening with Ford Motor Company as a case in point, this essay develops a broad and systematic approach to the field of business ethics. After an analysis of the form and content of the concept of responsibility, the author introduces the principle of moral projection as a device for relating ethics to corporate policy. Pitfalls and objections to this strategy are examined and some practical implications are then explored.The essay not only defends a proposition but exhibits a research style and…Read more
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26On stopping at everything: A reply to W. M. huntEnvironmental Ethics 2 (3): 281-284. 1980.Contrary to W. Murray Hunt’s suggestion, living things deserve moral consideration and inanimate objects do not precisely because living things can intelligibly be said to have interests (and inanimate objects cannot intelligibly said to have interests). Interests are crucial because the concept of morality is noncontingently related to beneficence or nonmaleficence, notions which misfire completely in theabsence of entities capable of being benefited or harmed
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4Corporate CultureIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 84-89. 2013.
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19Tenacity: The American Pursuit of Corporate ResponsibilityBusiness and Society Review 118 (4): 577-605. 2013.This article attempts to answer the question, “What are the most important ideas from serving as Executive Editor of the five‐year history project that culminated in the book, Corporate Responsibility: The American Experience?” The ideas focus on clarifying the phenomenon of tenacity; looking at three foundations of our tenacity; and asking “How fragile is our tenacity?” This article also presents three foundational principles that underlie the American experience of corporate responsibility. Fi…Read more
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108Business ethics, ideology, and the naturalistic fallacyJournal of Business Ethics 4 (4). 1985.This paper addresses the relationship between theoretical and applied ethics. It directs philosophical attention toward the concept of ideology, conceived as a bridge between high-level principles and decision-making practice. How are we to understand this bridge and how can we avoid the naturalistic fallacy while taking ideology seriously?It is then suggested that the challenge posed by ideology in the arena of organizational ethics is in many ways similar to the challenge posed by developmenta…Read more
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24Satisfaction of Interest and the Concept of Morality (review)New Scholasticism 51 (2): 262-266. 1977.
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189Conscience and Corporate CultureWiley-Blackwell. 2006._Conscience and Corporate Culture_ advances the constructive dialogue on a moral conscience for corporations. Written for educators in the field of business ethics and practicing corporate executives, the book serves as a platform on a subject profoundly difficult and timely. Written from the unique vantage point of an author who is a philosopher, professor of business administration, and a corporate consultant A vital resource for both educators in the field of business ethics and practicing co…Read more
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17The Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics, by Gabriel Abend. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. 399 pp. ISBN: 978-0-691-15944-7 (review)Business Ethics Quarterly 25 (3): 401-404. 2015.
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36A baldrige process for ethics?Science and Engineering Ethics 10 (2): 243-258. 2004.In this paper we describe and explore a management tool called the Caux Round Table Self-Assessment and Improvement Process (SAIP). Based upon the Caux Round Table Principles for Business — a stakeholder-based, transcultural statement of business values — the SAIP assists executives with the task of shaping their firm’s conscience through an organizational self-appraisal process. This process is modeled after the self-assessment methodology pioneered by the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awar…Read more
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42On Stopping at Everything: A Reply to W. M. HuntEnvironmental Ethics 2 (3): 281-284. 1980.Contrary to W. Murray Hunt’s suggestion, living things deserve moral consideration and inanimate objects do not precisely because living things can intelligibly be said to have interests (and inanimate objects cannot intelligibly said to have interests). Interests are crucial because the concept of morality is noncontingently related to beneficence or nonmaleficence, notions which misfire completely in theabsence of entities capable of being benefited or harmed
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