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20Guest Editors’ Introduction: Human Dignity and BusinessBusiness Ethics Quarterly 26 (4): 465-478. 2016.ABSTRACT:After a brief historical introduction, three interpretations of dignity in relation to management theory and business ethics are elaborated: Dignity as a general category, Human Dignity as Inherent and Universal, and Human Dignity as Earned and Contingent. Next, two literature reviews are presented under the headings of “Dignity and Business Research” and “Dignity and Business Ethics Research.” The latter discussion identifies three subcategories of business ethics research involving hu…Read more
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20Bridging the East and the West in Management Ethics: Kyosei and the Moral Point of ViewJournal of Human Values 2 (2): 115-121. 1996.In this article two broad ideals or 'umbrella' concepts in management ethics—one Eastern and one Western—are examined, with an eye toward explaining their fundamental similarities. Beyond ques tions of meaning and conceptual analysis, however, are questions of implementation. Institutional izing an ethical orientation—Eastern or Western—is the theme of the last part of the article. Different approaches to institutionalization are discussed and a strategy is suggested for making the 'umbrella' co…Read more
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17Some 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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16Using UNPRME to Teach, Research, and Enact Business Ethics: Insights from the Catholic Identity Matrix for Business SchoolsJournal of Business Ethics 147 (4): 761-777. 2018.We address how the leaders of a Catholic business school can articulate and assess how well their schools implement the following six principles drawn from Catholic social teaching : produce goods and services that are authentically good; foster solidarity with the poor by serving deprived and marginalized populations; advance the dignity of human work as a calling; exercise subsidiarity; promote responsible stewardship over resources; and acquire and allocate resources justly. We first discuss …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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15The 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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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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10Testing Morality in OrganizationsInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 2 (1): 35-38. 1984.
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7The Business Ethics Pioneers ProjectBusiness and Professional Ethics Journal 39 (3): 271-285. 2020.
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5Ethics in the Professions: Business: Should Sponsors Screen for Moral Values?Hastings Center Report 13 (6): 17. 1983.
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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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2Corporate responsibility and its constituentsIn George G. Brenkert & Tom L. Beauchamp (eds.), The Oxford handbook of business ethics, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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The Institutional Insight : The Common Good beneath the Shareholder/Stakeholder ModelIn Daniel K. Finn (ed.), Business ethics and Catholic social thought, Georgetown University Press. 2021.
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Teaching and learning ethics by the case methodIn Norman E. Bowie (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Business Ethics, Blackwell. 2002.
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