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23Return of the citizen: A survey of recent work on citizenship theory; survey articleIn Peter Singer (ed.), Ethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 104--352. 1994.
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„Review Article: Return of the Citizen.“In Peter Singer (ed.), Ethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 104--2. 1994.
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1National AutonomyIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The Oxford handbook of practical ethics, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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4Conflicts of interestIn George G. Brenkert & Tom L. Beauchamp (eds.), The Oxford handbook of business ethics, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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12Canadian political philosophy: contemporary reflections (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2001.Canadian theorists and philosophers are recognized internationally for their contributions to normative debates about citizenship, multiculturalism, and nationalism. The superb essays collected here reflect a broad range of contemporary political and philosophical issues: liberalism and citizenship; equality, justice, and gender; minority rights and identity; nationalism and self-determination; and the history of political philosophy.
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38Citizenship, Inc.: Do We Really Want Businesses to Be Good Corporate Citizens?Business Ethics Quarterly 18 (1): 1-26. 2008.Are there any advantages to thinking and speaking about ethical business in the language of citizenship? We will address this question in part by looking at the possible relevance of a vast literature on individual citizenship that has been produced by political philosophers over the last fifteen years. Some of the central elements of citizenship do not seem to apply straightforwardly to corporations. E.g., “citizenship” typically implies membership in a state and an identity akinto national ide…Read more
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159Negotiating Nationalism: Nation-Building, Federalism, and Secession in the Multinational StateOxford University Press. 2006.In a world with at least three times as many nations as states, what are the limits of legitimate nation-building? How can national self-determination be coordinated within a federal system? This book provides one of the most extensive discussions to date on the ethics of nation-building and the nature and justification of federal systems
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39Democratic Theory for a Market Democracy: The Problem of Merriment and Diversion When Regulators and the Regulated MeetJournal of Social Philosophy 49 (4): 536-563. 2018.Democratic theorists, especially since the advent of the deliberative democracy paradigm in the 1980s, have focused primarily on relationships involving citizens and their political representatives, and have thus paid scant attention to the bureaucratic agencies within the modern state that are presumed merely to “flesh out,” implement, and enforce the decisions made by elected officials. This undertheorized space between markets and democratic decision making, in brief, is where corporations an…Read more
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84Corporations as Citizens: Political not MetaphoricalBusiness Ethics Quarterly 18 (1): 61-66. 2008.Are there any advantages to thinking and speaking about ethical business in the language of citizenship? We will address this question in part by looking at the possible relevance of a vast literature on individual citizenship that has been produced by political philosophers over the last fifteen years. Some of the central elements of citizenship do not seem to apply straightforwardly to corporations. E.g., “citizenship” typically implies membership in a state and an identity akinto national ide…Read more
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106Citizenship, inc.: Do we really want businesses to be good corporate citizens?Business Ethics Quarterly 18 (1): 1-26. 2008.Are there any advantages to thinking and speaking about ethical business in the language of citizenship? We will address this question in part by looking at the possible relevance of a vast literature on individual citizenship that has been produced by political philosophers over the last fifteen years. Some of the central elements of citizenship do not seem to apply straightforwardly to corporations. E.g., “citizenship” typically implies membership in a state and an identity akinto national ide…Read more
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44Rawls on Markets and Corporate GovernanceBusiness Ethics Quarterly 25 (1): 29-64. 2015.ABSTRACT:Like most egalitarian political philosophers, John Rawls believes that a just society will rely on markets and business firms for much of its economic activity—despite acknowledging that market systems will tend to create very unequal distributions of goods, opportunities, power, and status. Rawls himself remains one of the few contemporary political philosophers to explore at any length the way an egalitarian theory of justice might deal with fundamental options in political economy. T…Read more
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33Recognizing Business Ethics: Practical and Ethical Challenges in Awarding Prizes for Good Corporate BehaviourJournal of Business Ethics 86 (3): 257-271. 2009.There seems to be a proliferation of prizes and rankings for ethical business over the past decade. Our principal aims in this article are twofold: to initiate an academic discussion of the epistemic and normative stakes in business-ethics competitions; and to help organizers of such competitions to think through some of these issues and the design options for dealing with them. We have been able to find no substantive literature — academic or otherwise — that addresses either of these two broad…Read more
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31Put an Ethicist on the Team!Journal of Business Ethics Education 1 (2): 257-273. 2004.How can business schools best prepare their students to deal with the ethical challenges they will face in the ‘real world’? For three or four decades members of business (and other professional) schools have debated the relative merits of teaching ethics in a stand-alone “foundational” course or teaching a little bit of ethics “across the curriculum” in every course. This paper explores a third option—having an ethicist as a member of a team that teaches an integrated approach to management—whi…Read more
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61Citizenship, IncBusiness Ethics Quarterly 18 (1): 1-26. 2008.Are there any advantages to thinking and speaking about ethical business in the language of citizenship? We will address this question in part by looking at the possible relevance of a vast literature on individual citizenship that has been produced by political philosophers over the last fifteen years. Some of the central elements of citizenship do not seem to apply straightforwardly to corporations. E.g., “citizenship” typically implies membership in a state and an identity akinto national ide…Read more
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39Corporations as Citizens: Political not MetaphoricalBusiness Ethics Quarterly 18 (1): 61-66. 2008.
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179Business Ethics as Self-Regulation: Why Principles that Ground Regulations Should Be Used to Ground Beyond-Compliance Norms as Well (review)Journal of Business Ethics 102 (S1): 43-57. 2011.Theories of business ethics or corporate responsibility tend to focus on justifying obligations that go above and beyond what is required by law. This article examines the curious fact that most business ethics scholars use concepts, principles, and normative methods for identifying and justifying these beyond-compliance obligations that are very different from the ones that are used to set the levels of regulations themselves. Its modest proposal—a plea for a research agenda, really—is that we …Read more
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184Stakeholder theory, corporate governance and public management: What can the history of state-run enterprises teach us in the post-enron era?Journal of Business Ethics 53 (3): 247-265. 2004.This paper raises a challenge for those who assume that corporate social responsibility and good corporate governance naturally go hand-in-hand. The recent spate of corporate scandals in the United States and elsewhere has dramatized, once again, the severity of the agency problems that may arise between managers and shareholders. These scandals remind us that even if we adopt an extremely narrow concept of managerial responsibility – such that we recognize no social responsibility beyond the ob…Read more
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48A Response to “Getting to the Bottom of ‘Triple Bottom Line’”Business Ethics Quarterly 17 (1): 105-110. 2007.Wayne Norman and Chris MacDonald launch a strong attack against Triple Bottom Line or 3BL accounting in their article “Gettingto the Bottom of ‘Triple Bottom Line’” (2004). This response suggests that, while limitations to 3BL accounting do exist, the critique of Norman and MacDonald is deeply flawed.
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110Charitable conflicts of interestJournal of Business Ethics 39 (1-2). 2002.This paper looks at conflicts of interest in the not-for-profit sector. It examines the nature of conflicts of interest and why they are of ethical concern, and then focuses on the way not-for-profit organisations are especially prone to and vulnerable to conflict-of-interest scandals. Conflicts of interest corrode trust; and stakeholder trust (particularly from donors) is the lifeblood of most charities. We focus on some specific challenges faced by charitable organisations providing funding fo…Read more
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140Business Ethics and (or as) Political PhilosophyBusiness Ethics Quarterly 20 (3): 427-452. 2010.ABSTRACT:There is considerable overlap between the interests of business ethicists and those of political philosophers. Questions about the moral justifiability of the capitalist system, the basis of property rights, and the problem of inequality in the distribution of income have been of central importance in both fields. However, political philosophers have developed, especially over the past four decades, a set of tools and concepts for addressing these questions that are in many ways quite d…Read more
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19Business Ethics Quarterly: Business Ethics and the Theory of the FirmBusiness Ethics Quarterly 18 (1): 144-145. 2008.
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81Rescuing the Baby From the Triple-Bottom-LineBusiness Ethics Quarterly 17 (1): 111-114. 2007.We respond to Moses Pava’s defense of the “Triple Bottom Line” (3BL) concept against our earlier criticisms. We argue that, pacePava, the multiplicity of measures (and units of measure) that go into evaluating ethical performance cannot reasonably be compared to the handful of standard methods for evaluating financial performance. We also question Pava’s claim that usage of the term “3BL” is somehow intended to be ironical or subversive.