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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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10Testing Morality in OrganizationsInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 2 (1): 35-38. 1984.
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26A. The Corporation as an Individual Can a Corporation Have a Consoienoe?Business Ethics. forthcoming.
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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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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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43Book Review:Ethical Theory and Business. Tom L. Beauchamp, Norman E. Bowie (review)Ethics 91 (3): 525-. 1981.
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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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47Comments 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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66Goods 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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775Business 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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42The 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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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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168The 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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24On 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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