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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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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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107Business ethics, ideology, and the naturalistic fallacyJournal of Business Ethics 4 (4). 1985.This paper addresses the relationship between theoretical and applied ethics. It directs philosophical attention toward the concept of ideology, conceived as a bridge between high-level principles and decision-making practice. How are we to understand this bridge and how can we avoid the naturalistic fallacy while taking ideology seriously?It is then suggested that the challenge posed by ideology in the arena of organizational ethics is in many ways similar to the challenge posed by developmenta…Read more
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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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24Satisfaction of Interest and the Concept of Morality (review)New Scholasticism 51 (2): 262-266. 1977.
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338Conscience and Corporate CultureWiley-Blackwell. 2006._Conscience and Corporate Culture_ advances the constructive dialogue on a moral conscience for corporations. Written for educators in the field of business ethics and practicing corporate executives, the book serves as a platform on a subject profoundly difficult and timely. Written from the unique vantage point of an author who is a philosopher, professor of business administration, and a corporate consultant A vital resource for both educators in the field of business ethics and practicing co…Read more
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35A baldrige process for ethics?Science and Engineering Ethics 10 (2): 243-258. 2004.In this paper we describe and explore a management tool called the Caux Round Table Self-Assessment and Improvement Process (SAIP). Based upon the Caux Round Table Principles for Business — a stakeholder-based, transcultural statement of business values — the SAIP assists executives with the task of shaping their firm’s conscience through an organizational self-appraisal process. This process is modeled after the self-assessment methodology pioneered by the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awar…Read more
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15The Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics, by Gabriel Abend. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. 399 pp. ISBN: 978-0-691-15944-7 (review)Business Ethics Quarterly 25 (3): 401-404. 2015.
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40On 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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20Can Ethics Be Taught?Business Ethics: The Magazine of Corporate Responsibility 5 (2): 26-28. 1991.
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