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19Catholic Social Teaching and the Firm: Crowding in Virtue: A MacIntyrean Approach to Business EthicsAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 88 (4): 779-805. 2014.Catholic Social Teaching aspires to an economy that serves needs, upholds justice, and inculcates subsidiarity. But it suffers from a significant omission—it fails to look “inside” the business organisations that comprise the fundamental building blocks of the economic system. It is therefore ill-equipped to suggest how businesses could be reformed to meet these aspirations. MacIntyre’s Thomistic Aristotelian account of the relationships between goods, virtues, practices and institutions provide…Read more
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32Catholic Social Teaching and the Firm: Crowding in Virtue: A MacIntyrean Approach to Business EthicsAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 88 (4): 779-805. 2014.Catholic Social Teaching aspires to an economy that serves needs, upholds justice, and inculcates subsidiarity. But it suffers from a significant omission—it fails to look “inside” the business organisations that comprise the fundamental building blocks of the economic system. It is therefore ill-equipped to suggest how businesses could be reformed to meet these aspirations. MacIntyre’s Thomistic Aristotelian account of the relationships between goods, virtues, practices and institutions provide…Read more
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36Catholic Social Teaching and the Firm. Crowding in Virtue: a MacIntyrean Approach to Business EthicsAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 88 (4): 779-805. 2014.Catholic Social Teaching aspires to an economy that serves needs, upholds justice, and inculcates subsidiarity. But it suffers from a significant omission—it fails to look “inside” the business organisations that comprise the fundamental building blocks of the economic system. It is therefore ill-equipped to suggest how businesses could be reformed to meet these aspirations. MacIntyre’s Thomistic Aristotelian account of the relationships between goods, virtues, practices and institutions provide…Read more
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72Corporate character, corporate virtuesBusiness Ethics: A European Review 24 (S2): 99-114. 2015.This paper extends previous discussions of corporate character and corporate virtues. By drawing particularly on the work of Alasdair MacIntyre, it offers a perspective on context-dependent categories of the virtues. It then provides a philosophically grounded framework which enables a discussion of which virtues are required for business organizations to qualify as virtuous. It offers a preliminary taxonomy of such corporate virtues and provides a revised definition of corporate character
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16Virtue at Work: Ethics for Individuals, Managers, and OrganizationsOxford University Press. 2017.This book provides an integrated and philosophically-grounded framework which enables a coherent approach to organizations and organizational ethics from the perspective of practitioners in the workplace, from the perspective of managers in organizations, as well as from the perspective of organizations themselves.
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16Virtue in Business: Conversations with Aristotle, by Edwin M. Hartman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 272 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-03075-6 (review)Business Ethics Quarterly 25 (4): 587-589. 2015.
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