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2Stakeholder theoryIn Mollie Painter-Morland & René ten Bos (eds.), Business ethics and continental philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 37--60. 2011.
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2Guest Editors’ Introduction: Overlooked Thinkers: Stretching the Boundaries of Business Ethics ScholarshipBusiness Ethics Quarterly 31 (4): 489-499. 2021.This special issue is devoted to highlighting thinkers who have been overlooked within business ethics and who have important contributions to make to our field. We make the case that, as scholars of a hybrid discipline that also aims to address important issues of business practice, we need to look continually for new sources of insight and wisdom that can both enrich our discourse and improve our ability to generate ideas that have a positive impact on business practice. In this introductory e…Read more
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2Women Leaders in a Globalized WorldIn Mollie Painter & Patricia H. Werhane (eds.), Leadership, Gender, and Organization, Springer Verlag. pp. 255-273. 2023.This article will defend a very simple thesis. In a diverse globalized world with expanding economic opportunities, pandemic risks such as the global COVID-19 virus, and the Black Lives Matter movement, we will need to revisit and revise our mindsets about free enterprise, corporate governance, and most importantly, leadership. That we can change our mindsets and world view is illustrated by studies of primate behavior, in particular, the Forest Troop savanna baboons, and the kind of leadership …Read more
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2IntroductionIn Mollie Painter & Patricia H. Werhane (eds.), Leadership, Gender, and Organization, Springer Verlag. pp. 1-17. 2023.Developing themes from the first volume of this collection, in this second edition we again bring together papers that either exemplify the crossing of disciplinary boundaries, or that allow us to do so in and through the conversations they create. The pieces were chosen based on their relevance to similar themes as discussed in the first volume. The first, most central theme of this volume remains ‘leadership’, which in and of itself continues to develop into an academic field ever more audacio…Read more
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7Leadership, Gender, and Organization (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2023.In this collection, the editors again bring together papers that either exemplify the crossing of disciplinary boundaries, or that allow us to do so in and through the conversations they create. The chapters were chosen based on their relevance to similar themes as were discussed in the first volume. By reviewing historical developments in the literature around gender and organization, and by drawing on recent scholarship that disrupts the traditional masculine imaginaries that plague leadership…Read more
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8Corporate ResponsibilityIn R. G. Frey & Christopher Heath Wellman (eds.), A Companion to Applied Ethics, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains sections titled: A Brief History of Corporate Responsibility The Nature of Corporate Obligations and the Scope of Corporate Responsibility Some Promising Approaches to the Study of Corporate Responsibility Corporate Responsibility and the Limits of Minimalism.
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7Business EthicsIn R. G. Frey & Christopher Heath Wellman (eds.), A Companion to Applied Ethics, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains sections titled: Two Traditional Topics in Business Ethics: Agency and Responsibility Traditional Business Ethics and the Separation Thesis Stakeholder Theory Emerging Lines of Research Some Contemporary Topics Conclusion.
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1Business Ethics and the Origins of Contemporary Capitalism: Economics and Ethics in the Work of Adam Smith and Herbert SpencerIn Robert E. Frederick (ed.), A Companion to Business Ethics, Blackwell. 1999.
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21The Moral Imagination of Patricia Werhane: A FestschriftSpringer Verlag. 2018.This book celebrates the work of Patricia Werhane, an iconic figure in business ethics. This festschrift is a collection of articles that build on Werhane’s contributions to business ethics in such areas as Employee Rights, the Legacy of Adam Smith, Moral Imagination, Women in Business, the development of the field of business ethics, and her contributions to such fields as Health Care, Education, Teaching, and Philosophy. All papers are new contributions to the management literature written by …Read more
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32Building Partnerships to Create Social and Economic Value at the Base of the Global Development PyramidJournal of Business Ethics 117 (4): 721-733. 2013.This paper builds on London and Hart’s critique that Prahalad’s best-selling book prompted a unilateral effort to find a fortune at the bottom of the pyramid. Prahalad’s instrumental, firm-centered construction suggests, perhaps unintentionally, a buccaneering style of business enterprise devoted to capturing markets rather than enabling new socially entrepreneurial ventures for those otherwise trapped in conditions of extreme poverty. London and Hart reframe Prahalad’s insight into direct globa…Read more
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52The Inexorable Sociality of Commerce: The Individual and Others in Adam SmithJournal of Business Ethics 127 (2): 327-335. 2015.In this paper we reconsider Adam Smith’s ethics, what he means by self-interest and the role this plays in the famous “invisible hand.” Our efforts focus in part on the misreading of “the invisible hand” by certain economists with a view to legitimizing their neoclassical economic paradigm. Through exegesis and by reference to notions that are developed in Smith’s two major works, we deconstruct Smith’s ideas of conscience, justice, self-interest, and the invisible hand. We amplify Smith’s insis…Read more
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34Trust after the Global Financial MeltdownBusiness and Society Review 116 (4): 403-433. 2011.Over the last decade, and culminating in the 2008 global financial meltdown, there has been an erosion of trust and a concomitant rise of distrust in domestic companies, multinational enterprises, and political economies.In response to this attrition, this article presents three arguments. First, we suggest that trust is the “glue” of any viable political economy, and we propose that the stakes of violating public trust are particularly high in light of the asymmetry between trust and distrust. …Read more
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27Systems Thinking and Moral Imagination: Rethinking Business Ethics with Patricia Werhane (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2018.This volume brings together a selection of papers written by Patricia Werhane during the most recent quarter century. The book critically explicates the direction and development of Werhane’s thinking based on her erudite and eclectic sampling of orthodox philosophical theories. It starts out with an introductory chapter setting Werhane’s work in the context of the development of Business Ethics theory and practice, along with an illustrative time line. Next, it discusses possible interpretation…Read more
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9Obstacles to ethical decision-making: mental models, Milgram and the problem of obedienceCambridge University Press. 2013.In commerce, many moral failures are due to narrow mindsets that preclude taking into account the moral dimensions of a decision or action. In turn, sometimes these mindsets are caused by failing to question managerial decisions from a moral point of view, because of a perceived authority of management. In the 1960s, Stanley Milgram conducted controversial experiments to investigate just how far obedience to an authority figure could subvert his subjects' moral beliefs. In this thought-provoking…Read more
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5Management, Political Philosophy, and Colonial InterferencePhilosophy of Management 21 (3): 301-313. 2022.In this paper we set out to explore the claims that corporate social responsibility (CSR) itself is little more than a complementary extension of the project of coloniality initiated by the Enlightenment (e.g. Banerjee 2019). We will not dispute that claim. Rather we will develop three points. First, we will apply a non-linear, systems approach to demonstrate how we all, of any color, ethnic origin or historical location are all part of an interconnected interrelated sets of systems—what some th…Read more
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9Adam Smith, the Enlightenment, and His Relevance for the 21st CenturyDialogue and Universalism 32 (1): 19-32. 2022.In this article we reconsider strands of Adam Smith’s contribution to the project of the Enlightenment. Many of these, as we shall identify, remain poignant, and valuable observations for the twenty-first century. This sampled reconsideration touches both on how Smith is identified, as well as occasionally misread, as an Enlightenment philosopher/economist; and the extent to which t/his enlightenment survives.
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8Overlooked Thinkers: Stretching the Boundaries of Business Ethics Scholarship (Guest Editors’ Introduction) – CorrigendumBusiness Ethics Quarterly 32 (1): 208-208. 2022.
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8Business Ethics Pioneers: Pat WerhaneBusiness and Professional Ethics Journal 40 (3): 359-366. 2021.
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97Ethical Issues in Business: A Philosophical Approach (edited book)Pearson/Prentice Hall. 2002."Keeping pace with recent developments, almost a third of the Eighth Edition is new. Ethical Issues in Business offers a mix of case studies - nine of which are new to this edition - and theoretical articles - ten of which are new to this edition. The articles range from classics in moral theory and economics, to modern commentaries by business executives."--BOOK JACKET.
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47Leadership, Engineering and Ethical Clashes at BoeingScience and Engineering Ethics 27 (1): 1-17. 2021.When there are disasters in our society, whether on an individual, organizational or systemic level, individuals or groups of individuals are often singled out for blame, and commonly it is assumed that the alleged culprits engaged in deliberate misdeeds. But sometimes, at least, these disasters occur not because of deliberate malfeasance, but rather because of complex organizational and systemic circumstances that result in these negative outcomes. Using the Boeing Corporation and its 737 MAX a…Read more
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7Moral Imagination and the Search for Ethical Decision Making in ManagementBusiness Ethics Quarterly 8 (S1): 75-98. 1998.1993: GE’s NBC News unit issues an on-air apology to General Motors for staging a misleading simulated crash test. NBC agrees to pay GM’s estimated $1 million legal and investigation expenses.February 1994: The Justice Department brought a criminal antitrust case against General Electric, accusing it of conspiring with an arm of the South African DeBeers diamond cartel to fix prices in the $600 million world market for industrial diamonds. General Electric denied wrongdoing...
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16Spheres of Influence: A Walzerian Approach to Business EthicsJournal of Business Ethics 174 (1): 1-14. 2020.Michael Walzer is one of the most distinguished political philosophers and social critics of this century. His ideas have had great import and influence in political philosophy and political discussion, yet very few of his ideas have been incorporated explicitly into the business ethics literature. We argue that Walzer’s work provides an important conceptual canvas for business ethics scholars that has not been adequately explored. Scholars in business ethics often borrow from political theory a…Read more
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10Ruffin Series No. 4: Business, Science, and EthicsThe Ruffin Series of the Society for Business Ethics 4 3-3. 2004.
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6Some Musings About the Future of Business Ethics ScholarshipJournal of Business Ethics 166 (1): 1-2. 2020.
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9Making sense of changing ethical expectations: The role of moral imaginationBusiness and Society Review 125 (2): 183-201. 2020.We propose that firms that engage in morally imaginative sensemaking will manage society's changing ethical expectations more effectively than those engaging in habituated sensemaking. Specifically, we argue that managers engaging in habituated sensemaking will tend to view changes in expectations as threats and respond to them defensively. In contrast, morally imaginative managers will tend to see these same changes as opportunities and address them by proactively or interactively engaging stak…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |