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    Personal Values as A Catalyst for Corporate Social Entrepreneurship
    Journal of Business Ethics 60 (3): 233-249. 2005.
    The literature acknowledges a distinction between immoral, amoral and moral management. This paper makes a case for the employee (at any level) as a moral agent, even though the paper begins by highlighting a body of evidence which suggests that individual moral agency is sacrificed at work and is compromised in deference to other pressures. This leads to a discussion about the notion of discretion and an examination of a separate, contrary body of literature which indicates that some individual…Read more
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    Managers' personal values as drivers of corporate social responsibility
    with Patrick W. Maclagan
    Journal of Business Ethics 50 (1): 33-44. 2004.
    In this theoretical paper, motives for CSR are considered. An underlying assumption is that the commercial imperative is not the sole driver of CSR decision-making in private sector companies, but that the formal adoption and implementation of CSR by corporations could be associated with the changing personal values of individual managers. These values may find expression through the opportunity to exercise discretion, which may arise in various ways. It is suggested that in so far as CSR initia…Read more