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4Corporate CultureIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 84-89. 2013.
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107Business 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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16Tenacity: 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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24Satisfaction of Interest and the Concept of Morality (review)New Scholasticism 51 (2): 262-266. 1977.
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339Conscience 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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35A 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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16The 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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40On 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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20Can Ethics Be Taught?Business Ethics: The Magazine of Corporate Responsibility 5 (2): 26-28. 1991.
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51Past Trends and Future Directions in Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility ScholarshipBusiness Ethics Quarterly 25 (4). 2015.
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43Toward an Integrated Approach to Business EthicsThought: Fordham University Quarterly 60 (2): 161-180. 1985.
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12Comments on BEQ’s Twentieth Anniversary Forum on New Directions for Business Ethics ResearchBusiness Ethics Quarterly 21 (1): 164-167. 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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42Conscience and its Counterfeits in Organizational LifeBusiness Ethics Quarterly 10 (1): 189-201. 2000.This paper explains and defends three basic propositions: (1) that our attitudes (particularly American attitudes) towardorganizational ethics are conflicted at a fairly deep level; (2) that in response to this conflict in our attitudes, we often default to variouscounterfeits of conscience (non-moral systems that serve as surrogates for the role of conscience in organizational settings); and(3) that a better response (than relying on counterfeits) would be for leaders to foster a culture of eth…Read more
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26A. The Corporation as an Individual Can a Corporation Have a Consoienoe?Business Ethics. forthcoming.
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10Testing Morality in OrganizationsInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 2 (1): 35-38. 1984.
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