Ethical Business Leadership in Troubling Times最新文献

There is not enough business ethics in the ethics of digitization 数字化伦理中缺乏足够的商业伦理

Ethical Business Leadership in Troubling Times Pub Date : 2019-12-06 DOI: 10.4337/9781789903058.00026

C. Lütge

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Disciplining the organization through moral personhood 通过道德人格规范组织

Ethical Business Leadership in Troubling Times Pub Date : 2019-12-06 DOI: 10.4337/9781789903058.00014

W. Dubbink, L. Liedekerke

{"title":"Disciplining the organization through moral personhood","authors":"W. Dubbink, L. Liedekerke","doi":"10.4337/9781789903058.00014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789903058.00014","url":null,"abstract":"If the organization is to retain legitimacy in a democratic society, the citizens must be assured that the actions that they attribute to organizations remain within the bounds of justice (Donaldson, 1982; Stone, 1975). Society’s primary venue to secure justice has consistently been the imposition of legal prescriptions. Unfortunately, as witnessed daily in media, legal constraint has it limits. It does not always succeed in keeping organizations within the bounds of justice (Maus, 1986; Stone, 1975; Yeager, 1991). ‘They have no soul to damn and no body to kick’, as judge Thurlow famously said in 1845, in order to explain why it is harder to discipline an organization than a human being through legal means (see Coffee, 1981). In the case of human beings, morality has always been another practice restricting and disciplining conduct. It seemed therefore only natural for business ethicists to consider the possibility to discipline organizations through the authority of morality, next to legality, as another safeguard to attain justice (Donaldson, 1982; French, 1979 [1991], 1992). A fierce debate ensued on the issue; a debate that still has not ended (Arnold, 2006; Danley, 1999; De George, 1981; French, 1979 [1991], 1992, 1996; Goodpaster, 1983; Hasnas, 2012; Hess, 2013; Keeley, 1988; Ladd, 1970; Moore, 1999; Philips, 1995; Ronnegard, 2015; Sepinwall, 2016; Velasquez, 1983 [1991], 2003; Werhane, 1985; Wolf, 1985, 2015). In this chapter we focus on business ethicists who turned to morality for instrumental reasons only: to discipline the organization and keep it from causing problems like environmental pollution, fraud, human rights violations and so forth. We refer to these business ethicists as ‘functionalists’ and regard French (1979 [1991], 1992) and Donaldson (1982) as primary examples of such a functionalist approach. Functionalists look at morality as applied to the organization as a mere means that must help to attain a goal that legal arrangements are not able to attain by themselves: justice for all citizens. A good reason why it makes sense for functionalists to be attracted to morality is that its modus operandi differs from the law (i.e., legality). Ultimately, legality disciplines human beings through the threat of external punishment. Morality disciplines human beings through – what we will later explain as – ‘voluntarily induced restraint’. Because of this different modus operandi, using morality can be seen as a real addition to legality, at least as regards human beings. The functionalists claim that it can also work in relation to organizations – but that remains to be seen. We agree with the functionalists that society needs an additional mechanism to discipline the organization. We also agree that discipline through voluntary induced restraint is a good addition – if it would work. At the same time, the chapter acknowledges that the project of the functionalists has failed, at least partly. Considering what the functionalists aim","PeriodicalId":432862,"journal":{"name":"Ethical Business Leadership in Troubling Times","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130742438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Business ethics as critical thinking: moral motivations and the limits of ethics 作为批判性思维的商业伦理:道德动机和伦理的局限性

Ethical Business Leadership in Troubling Times Pub Date : 2019-12-06 DOI: 10.4337/9781789903058.00011

Zsolt Boda

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An ethical problem in troubled times: ethical decision making by local managers employing an immigrant workforce in Gaziantep, Turkey 困难时期的道德问题:土耳其加济安泰普雇用移民劳动力的当地经理的道德决策

Ethical Business Leadership in Troubling Times Pub Date : 2019-12-06 DOI: 10.4337/9781789903058.00023

Mahmut Arslan, Mustafa Kemal Yilmaz

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Crucial differences among three types of apologies and their shared ethical grounding in integrity 三种类型的道歉之间的关键区别及其在诚信方面的共同伦理基础

Ethical Business Leadership in Troubling Times Pub Date : 2019-12-06 DOI: 10.4337/9781789903058.00015

D. Koehn

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Future Earth leadership 未来地球的领导

Ethical Business Leadership in Troubling Times Pub Date : 2019-12-06 DOI: 10.4337/9781789903058.00027

Eleanor O'Higgins, L. Zsolnai

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Stepping down rather than up: the ethical option for business in our troubling times 退而不升:在我们这个麻烦时代，企业的道德选择

Ethical Business Leadership in Troubling Times Pub Date : 2019-12-06 DOI: 10.4337/9781789903058.00009

D. Ladkin

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Leadership ethics for a troubled world: responsibility for the whole 混乱世界的领导伦理:对整体负责

Ethical Business Leadership in Troubling Times Pub Date : 2019-12-06 DOI: 10.4337/9781789903058.00020

S. Waddock

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The board of directors’ role in ensuring accountability and creating value: stakeholder and shareholder complementarity 董事会在确保问责制和创造价值方面的作用:利益相关者和股东互补性

Ethical Business Leadership in Troubling Times Pub Date : 2019-12-06 DOI: 10.4337/9781789903058.00016

Cynthia E. Clark

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Becoming responsible: understanding the organizational power dynamics of CSR and corporate ethics 负责任:了解企业社会责任和企业道德的组织权力动态

Ethical Business Leadership in Troubling Times Pub Date : 2019-12-06 DOI: 10.4337/9781789903058.00012

L. Spence, Steen Vallentin

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