返璞归真:商业道德是矛盾论吗?

IF 3.1 Q2 BUSINESS
Mohammad A. Ali, Faiza Abbas, Rhoda Joseph
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本文旨在通过重申关于社会创造、社会机构以及社会与社会机构之间关系的理论的原始哲学基础,反驳非社会商业领域的观点。本文认为,商业与伦理虽然最初是一致的,但却遭到了系统性的诽谤和歪曲。作者提出了一个理论上合理的论点,即商业和伦理可以而且应该完美地存在于同一领域。设计/方法/方法这是一项理论研究,它致力于回到商业和社会的原始理论,以挑战商业伦理是矛盾论的观点。研究结果鉴于美国和世界经济在过去二十年中面临的经济危机,本研究认为,造成这些金融灾难的一个重要因素可能是,随着时间的推移,关于自我利益、社会利益、自由市场体系以及社会与其构成部分(即个人、团体和机构)之间关系的原始思想被扭曲了。基于对围绕商业和社会的原始思想的解读,作者发现原始理论确实发生了一些扭曲。作者认为,关于商业及其在社会中的地位的 "矛盾论 "往往是对有关商业与社会关系的原始观点的曲解。这部著作的独创性在于通过重温哲学史来挑战这一危险的观点,从而穿过意识形态的伤疤组织,找到围绕社会和社会机构的原始论点。
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Back to the basics: is business ethics an oxymoron?
Purpose This paper intends to argue against the idea of an asocial business arena by reiterating the original philosophical underpinnings of theories on the creation of society, societal institutions and the relationship between society and societal institutions. This paper posits that business and ethics, though initially aligned, have been systematically maligned and distorted. The authors present a theoretically justified argument that business and ethics can and should seamlessly exist in the same realm. Design/methodology/approach This is a theoretical study that endeavors to go back to the original theories on business and society to challenge the view that business ethics is an oxymoron. For this purpose, the authors survey and interpret the scholarly works of Adam Smith, Aristotle and John Locke. Findings Given the economic debacles faced by the USA and the world economy in the past two decades, this study argues that one significant factor for these financial disasters could be that the original ideas about self-interest, societal interest, the free market system and the relationship between society and its constituting components, i.e. individuals, groups and institutions, have been distorted over time. Based on the interpretation of the original ideas around business and society, the authors find that some distortion of the original theories have indeed occurred. Originality/value This study is going against a well-established prevalent idea that business ethics is an oxymoron. It is claimed that the endoxa about business and its place in society often represents misinterpretations of the original ideas on the relationship between business and society. The originality of this work lies in challenging this dangerous idea by revisiting by journeying back in philosophical history to cut through the ideological scar tissue and reach the original arguments surrounding society and societal institutions.
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