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    Intimate Partner Violence and Business: Exploring the Boundaries of Ethical Enquiry
    with Charlotte M. Karam, Michelle Greenwood, Laura Kauzlarich, and Anne O’Leary Kelly
    Journal of Business Ethics 187 (4): 645-655. 2023.
    In this article, we conceptualize the under investigated and under theorized relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and business responsibility. As an urgent social issue, IPV—understood as abuse of power within the context of an intimate partner relationship, mainly perpetrated by men and involving a pattern of behavior—has been studied for decades in many disciplines. A less common yet vital research perspective is to examine IPV as it relates to the business and to ask how organ…Read more
  •  23
    Virtue and Risk Culture in Finance
    with Anthony Asher
    Journal of Business Ethics 179 (1): 223-236. 2022.
    This article considers financial risk management practice using a virtue ethics lens, in response to ongoing critiques of risk management from within business ethics. Risk management should be seen as embedded within a complex system of cultures, organizations and regulations that are underpinned by a quantitatively reductive or ‘mechanistic’ economic paradigm, where dominant logics of self-interest, profit maximization and short-termism prevail. Building on recent work applying virtue ethics in…Read more
  •  23
    Ethics, Sustainability and Strategy
    Business and Professional Ethics Journal 21 (2): 61-78. 2002.
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    Human Resource Management in a Compartmentalized World: Whither Moral Agency? (review)
    Journal of Business Ethics 111 (1): 85-96. 2012.
    This article examines the potential for moral agency in human resource management practice. It draws on an ethnographic study of human resource managers in a global organization to provide a theorized account of situated moral agency. This account suggests that within contemporary organizations, institutional structures—particularly the structures of Anglo-American market capitalism— threaten and constrain the capacity of HR managers to exercise moral agency and hence engage in ethical behaviou…Read more
  •  51
    The James Hardie Group and Asbestos Compensation (Abridged)
    with Janis Wardrop and Peter Sheldon
    Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society 18 513-515. 2007.
    Asbestos-related illnesses contribute to the deaths of more than 100,000 people worldwide (ILO 2006) and the plight of sufferers of these illnesses has become a global ethical issue. A leading, Australian building products corporation, James Hardie, created a complex corporate structure that included the establishment of a “Victims Compensation Fund”, and moved its corporate headquarters to the Netherlands to reduce its liabilities. Hardie claimed that this move was tax minimization (Haigh 2006)…Read more
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    Beyond Resourcefulness: Casual Workers and the Human-Centred Organisation
    with Diannah Lowry
    Business and Professional Ethics Journal 19 (3): 29-53. 2000.
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    Ethics as Strategic Thinking
    Business and Professional Ethics Journal 18 (3-4): 73-92. 1999.