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Can management have multi-fiduciary stakeholder obligations?In Daniel E. Palmer (ed.), Handbook of research on business ethics and corporate responsibilities, Business Science Reference, an Imprint of Igi Global. 2015.
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4Collective Impact Problems and the Promise for Business EthicsJournal of Business Ethics Education 17 115-132. 2020.“Collective impact problems” refer to situations where there is a collective harm or benefit, but where no single action seems to make a difference one way or the other. Collective impact problems arise when considering several pressing ethical issues in business, such as shareholder and consumer activism, business and climate change, factory farming and animal welfare, fair-trade and sweatshop labor, and corporate philanthropy. Unfortunately, business ethics textbooks do not explicitly deal wit…Read more
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232Sweatshops and Free Action: The Stakes of the Actualism/Possibilism Debate for Business EthicsJournal of Business Ethics 171 (4): 683-694. 2021.Whether an action is morally right depends upon the alternative acts available to the agent. Actualists hold that what an agent would actually do determines her moral obligations. Possibilists hold that what an agent could possibly do determines her moral obligations. Both views face compelling criticisms. Despite the fact that actualist and possibilist assumptions are at the heart of seminal arguments in business ethics, there has been no explicit discussion of actualism and possibilism in the …Read more
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13Sporting Integrity, Coherence, and Being True to the Spirit of a GameSport, Ethics and Philosophy 13 (2): 227-236. 2018.The term ‘sporting integrity’ is widely used in the normative assessment of sports. The term, however, suffers from a lack of conceptual precision. Alfred Archer’s ‘coherence-view’ of sporting integrity goes a long way to help clarify what ‘sporting integrity’ actually means and the specific institutional and individual obligations that it generates. Archer argues that ‘sporting integrity’ essentially means that the constraints athletes face ‘cohere’, in the sense of applying consistent ineffici…Read more
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6Kierkegaard and Leadership Theory, a Radical ReappraisalBusiness Ethics Journal Review 5 (1): 1-6. 2017.Storsletten and Jakobsen (2015) try to integrate the instrumental, responsible, and spiritual positions in leadership studies with Kierkegaard’s aesthetic, ethical, and religious modes of existence. Their combination of leadership theory and Kierkegaardian thought, however, seems deeply problematic. In particular, the instrumental-aesthetic and responsible-ethical connections appear weak or at least significantly underdeveloped, and the spiritual-religious connection seems logically inconsistent…Read more
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From Autonomy to Authenticity: A Radical Account of Moral PraiseDissertation, Purdue University. 2002.Philosophical discourse concerning questions of moral responsibility and praise fall in two general categories. On the one hand, an agent choosing to act in accordance with principles, reasons, or desires that are free from heteronomous influence is both morally responsible and is worthy of moral praise. Theories concerned with moral responsibility in this sense, such as Immanuel Kant and Harry Frankfurt, are theories of autonomy. On the other hand, there are increasing attempts to derive a sens…Read more
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13Bridging the gap between theory and practice: Using the 1991 federal sentencing guidelines as a paradigm for ethics training (review)Journal of Business Ethics 29 (1-2). 2001.Although Business Ethics has become a topic of wide discussion in both academia and the corporate world, questions remain as how to present ethical issues in a manner that will effectively influence the decisions and behavior of business employees. In this paper we argue that the Federal Sentencing Guidelines (FSG) offer a unique opportunity for bridging the gap between the theory and practice of business ethics. We first explain what the FSG are and how they apply to organizations. We then show…Read more
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10Stakeholder Management Capability: A Discourse–Theoretical ApproachJournal of Business Ethics 79 (4): 395-405. 2008.Since its inception, Stakeholder Management Capability (SMC) has constituted a powerful hermeneutic through which business organizations have understood and leveraged stakeholder relationships. On this model, achieving a high level of capability largely depends on managerial ability to effectively bargain with stakeholders and establish solidarity vis-à-vis the successful negotiation, implementation, and execution of "win–win" transactional exchanges. Against this account, it is rightly pointed …Read more
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12The Virtues of a Good Fight: Assessing the Ethics of Fighting in the National Hockey LeagueSport, Ethics and Philosophy 9 (1): 32-46. 2015.Violence in sports is under intense public scrutiny. One hotly disputed issue concerns the acceptability of violent retaliation in sports, particular in the form of fighting in the National Hockey League. The question posed here is: Can fighting in the NHL be virtuous? Some think not, maintaining that fighting is undisciplined and ostensibly at odds with the virtues of good temper and justice. Contrary to this conclusion, this paper presents arguments that support the view that fighting in the N…Read more
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