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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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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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7The Business Ethics Pioneers ProjectBusiness and Professional Ethics Journal 39 (3): 271-285. 2020.
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21Book Review - Archons and Acolytes: The New Power EliteClarence C. Walton New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1998, 267 pp (review)Business Ethics Quarterly 11 (2): 391-400. 2001.
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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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5Ethics in the Professions: Business: Should Sponsors Screen for Moral Values?Hastings Center Report 13 (6): 17. 1983.
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22Human Dignity and the Common Good: The Institutional InsightBusiness and Society Review 122 (1): 27-50. 2017.In this article, I develop the idea of the “institutional insight” as a pathway to two foundational values for applied ethics: human dignity and the common good. I explore—but do not offer a definitive analysis of—these two values that I believe are critical to the progress of business ethics. In several previous articles, I have alluded to this theme, but here I hope to show that human dignity and the common good underlie both management's fiduciary duty to shareholders, and management's obliga…Read more
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60In Defense of a ParadoxBusiness Ethics Quarterly 4 (4): 423-429. 1994.Our approach in this response is as folIows. In § I, we try to identify accurately Boatright’s central claims-both about Goodpaster’s original paper and about matters of substance independent of that paper. In § 2 and 3, we discuss the plausibility of those claims, first from a legal point of view and then from a moral point of view. Finally, in § 4, we defend the concept of paradox (and, in particular, the Stakeholder Paradox) as a limitation on practical reason which is not necessarily to be l…Read more
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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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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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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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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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4Corporate CultureIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 84-89. 2013.
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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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