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74A review of Donaldson and Dunfee's ties that bind: A social contracts approach to business ethics (review)Journal of Business Ethics 28 (4). 2000.This article reviews Thomas Donaldson and Thomas Dunfee's new book Ties That Bind. The article argues that the book is a helpful elaboration of Donaldson and Dunfee's Integrative Social Contracts Approach, particularly with regard to their specification of hypernorms. The article also presents Donaldson and Dunfee's argument with regard to how the hypernorm of necessary social efficiency applies to bribery and raises questions about the extent to which human moral behavior might be hardwired.
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64Nigerian business practices and their interface with virtue ethicsJournal of Business Ethics 26 (2). 2000.Peer Reviewed.
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53Business and Peace: Sketching the TerrainJournal of Business Ethics 89 (S4): 351-373. 2009.Our goals in this article are to summarize the existing literature on the role business can play in creating sustainable peace and to discuss important avenues for extending this research. As part of our discussion, we review the ethical arguments and related research made to date, including the rationale and motivation for businesses to engage in conflict resolution and peace building, and discuss how scholars are extending research in this area. We also focus on specific ways companies can act…Read more
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47A Deal, a Dolphin, and a RockThe Ruffin Series of the Society for Business Ethics 4 81-91. 2004.In this response to Paul Lawrence’s Ruffin Lecture, I assess the benefits of integrating biology into business ethics including the way in which biology counteracts conventional economic descriptions of human nature. Section II looks at the dangers of the project and offers the notion of Multilevel Selection Theory as a way to address the notion of how one balances various biological drives. Section III concludes by suggesting that in order to optimally integrate biology, one should attend to co…Read more
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43How relationality shapes business and its ethicsJournal of Business Ethics 16 (12-13): 1381-1391. 1997.Just as Michael Porter's five forces provided a practical analytical tool for describing the forces that shape competitive strategy, so business ethicists ought to provide business leaders with a workable framework for understanding the sources of ethical obligations. The forces that shape competitive strategy vary according to time and industry, but are anchored in an ultimate criteria of profitability. Similarily, ethics can use a set of analytical categories that identify the relevant forces …Read more
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39William C. Frederick’s Natural Corporate Management: From the Big Bang to Wall StreetJournal of Business Ethics Education 10 389-396. 2013.
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35Business as Mediating InstitutionBusiness Ethics Quarterly 6 (2): 149-163. 1996.This paper argues that business can be helpfully conceived of as a mediating institution. Drawing upon neo-conservative theology, the author argues that mediating institutions serve a vital function in a free society to provide social justice out of an expanded civil society and provide a framework for a flourishing free market. Such institutions also nourish the attitudinal orientation of solidarity in applying the principle of subsidiarity by which self-interest becomes fulfilled through conce…Read more
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35Religion and business ethics: The lessons from political morality (review)Journal of Business Ethics 16 (3): 263-273. 1997.The issue of whether religious belief should be an appropriate grounding for business ethics raises issues very similar to those raised in asking whether religious belief should be an appropriate grounding for political morality. In light of that fact that writings in political morality have been a common resource for contemporary business ethics, this paper presents contemporary arguments about the role of religion in political morality while noting the relevance of these debates for business e…Read more
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34Naturalism and Business Ethics: Inevitable Foes or Possible Allies? (review)Business Ethics Quarterly 7 (3): 145-155. 1997.
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33On Golden Rules, Balancing Acts, & Finding the Right SizeThe New Golden RuleBusiness Ethics Quarterly 8 (2): 347. 1998.
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33World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, by Amy Chua. New York: Doubleday, 2002. Hardcover, 256 pages. ISBN: 978-0385503020. - War, Commerce, and International Law, by James Thuo Gathii. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Hardcover, xxii + 277 pages. ISBN: 978-0195341027 (review)Business Ethics Quarterly 21 (2): 345-353. 2011.
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24Human Rights and the Ethics of Globalization, by Daniel E. Lee and Elizabeth J. Lee. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Paperback, xvi + 264 pages. ISBN: 978-0521519335 (review)Business Ethics Quarterly 23 (2): 337-344. 2013.
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24The Spirituality of Solidarity and Total Quality ManagementBusiness and Professional Ethics Journal 14 (2): 3-21. 1995.
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24Ethics and governance: business as mediating institutionOxford University Press. 2001.This book argues that ethical business behavior can be enhanced by taking fuller account of human nature, particularly with respect to the need for creating relatively small communities within the corporation. Timothy Fort discusses this premise in relation to the three predominant theories of business ethics--stakeholder, virtue, and contract. Drawing heavily from philosophy, he analyzes traditional business ethics and legal theory. Overall, his work provides a good example of how to integrate …Read more
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22On Social Psychology, Business Ethics, and Corporate GovernanceBusiness Ethics Quarterly 10 (3): 725-733. 2000.This paper is a response to a recent colloquy among Professors David Messick, Donna Wold, and Edwin Harman. I defend Messick’s naturalist methodology, which suggests that people inherently categorize others and act altruistically toward certain people in a given person’s in-group. This paper suggests that an anthropological reason for this grouping tendency is a limited human neural ability to process large numbers of relationships. But because human beings also have the ability to modify, to so…Read more
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20Business and NaturalismBusiness and Society 38 (2): 226-236. 1999.Bill Frederick’s work calls on business ethicists to consider religion as well as nature. Because there are naturally wired religious impulses in human beings and because of the fairness of including normative approaches meaningful for business people, Frederick suggests that the “R” in CSR4 should represent religion. This article takes up the theme in terms of the emerging field of naturalist theology, particularly (although embryonically) as stated by theologian Paul Tillich. Doing so creates …Read more
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14The vision of the firm: its governance, obligations, and aspirations: a textbook on the ethics of organizationsWest Academic Publishing. 2014.Description Coming Soon!
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12Natural Sciences, Management Theory, and System Transformation for SustainabilityBusiness and Society 60 (1): 7-25. 2021.It is becoming clear that many of today’s management theories are inadequate theoretically and practically to move understanding, scholarship, and practice to where it needs to be for scholars, business leaders, and policy makers to cope with an increasing fraught world. This Special Issue’s focus is on sustainability. Sustainability challenges need to incorporate multidisciplinary interventions and the trans- and interdisciplinary nature of solutions. To actively seek transformation toward sust…Read more
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9A Deal, a Dolphin, and a RockThe Ruffin Series of the Society for Business Ethics 4 81-91. 2004.In this response to Paul Lawrence’s Ruffin Lecture, I assess the benefits of integrating biology into business ethics including the way in which biology counteracts conventional economic descriptions of human nature. Section II looks at the dangers of the project and offers the notion of Multilevel Selection Theory as a way to address the notion of how one balances various biological drives. Section III concludes by suggesting that in order to optimally integrate biology, one should attend to co…Read more
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6Hayek, Friedrich, The Work ofIn Deborah C. Poff & Alex C. Michalos (eds.), Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics, Springer Verlag. pp. 1043-1044. 2021.
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4The sincerity edge: how ethical leaders build dynamic businessesStanford Business Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press. 2017.What's going on? -- Integrity and trust -- Corporate dilemmas in the absence of integrity and trust -- Inspirational stories of integrity and trust -- Making good decisions about strategy, ethics, and leadership -- Building on good decisions with authenticity and sincerity -- Twelve ways to lead with the sincerity edge.
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4William C. Frederick’s Natural Corporate Management: From the Big Bang to Wall Street (review)Journal of Business Ethics Education 10 389-396. 2013.