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Shirley J. Roels - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Business Ethics of Evangelicals
Spiritual Goods Faith Traditions and the Practice of Business, 2001Co-Authors: Shirley J. RoelsAbstract:Understanding the evangelical framework for Business Ethics is important, since Business evangelicals are well positioned to exercise considerable future influence. This article develops the context for understanding evangelical Business Ethics by examining their history, theology, and culture. It then relates the findings to evangelical foundations for Business Ethics. The thesis is that Business Ethics, as practiced by those in the evangelical community, has developed inductively from a base of applied experience. As a result, emphases on piety, witnessing, tithing, and neighborliness, important foundations in the evangelical model for Business Ethics, have resulted in a multitude of applied ethical strategies. This operative Ethics model is then evaluated, particularly in regarding to its limited focus on the fundamental purposes and structures of Business. The article concludes with severalrecommended sources that can enrich the evangelical tradition of Business Ethics, suggesting many resources from the Reformed Christian tradition as well as other ideas from contemporary Protestant and Catholic thinkers.
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THE Business Ethics OF EVANGELICALS
Business Ethics Quarterly, 1997Co-Authors: Shirley J. RoelsAbstract:A6stract: Understanding the evangelical framework for Business Ethics is important, since Business evangelicals are well positioned to exercise considerable future influence. This article develops the context for understanding evangelical Business Ethics by examining their history, theology and culture. It then relates the findings to evangelical founS dations for Business Ethics. The thesis is that Business Ethics, as practiced by those in the evangelical community, has developed inducS tively from a base of applied experience. As a result, emphases on piety, witnessing, tithing, and neighborliness, important foundations in the evangelical model for Business Ethics, have resulted in a multitude of applied ethical strategies. This operative Ethics model is then evalJ uated, particularly in regarding to its limited focus on the fundamental purposes and structures of Business. The article concludes with severS al recommended sources which can enrich the evangelical tradition of Business Ethics, suggesting many resources from the Reformed Christian tradition as well as other ideas from contemporary Protestant and Catholic thinkers. nver the past fifteen years my position as a professor of management at a Christian VJcollege has allowed me access to and experience in the Business world of evangelicals. Based on my experience, this article will describe inductive findings about the evangelical perspective on Business Ethics. Indeed, given the modes in which evangelicals operate, perhaps an inductive analysis is the only way to understand their modus operandi. Such an analysis honors the experiential basis for their thinking about Business, an approach which does not readily conform to the deductive approaches more familiar to some who teach Business Ethics. To date the most prominent evangelical frameworks for Business Ethics have been formed primarily by forces outside academia. Yet understanding the framework of evangelical Christians in Business is important. Their economic power, both in the United States and around the globe, is increasing as their Businesses maturel; and a more economically powerful position and deeper thinking about faith could also alter the relationship between their model of Business and expression of Christianity. Thus, understanding the push and pull of the evangelical Business world provides important insights into their contemporary Business struggles and their future influence.
Georges Enderle - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Exploring and Conceptualizing International Business Ethics
Journal of Business Ethics, 2015Co-Authors: Georges EnderleAbstract:Given a huge variety of international relations in the age of globalization, Business Ethics needs to take them seriously in a differentiated way with great sensitivity and sophisticated understanding. This essay proposes to structure the field of Business Ethics by distinguishing three levels of analysis and four types of international relations. It builds on Richard T. De George’s pioneering work as an early leader in the field of Business Ethics. It is hoped that such differentiation may help to better identify the ethical responsibilities of all actors in Business and the economy. The first part explains the extended three-level conception of Business Ethics with four types of international relations. The second part shows De George’s contribution to substantiate this conceptual framework. And the third part discusses the significance of this framework for better ways of securing human rights in international relations.
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Developing Business Ethics in China - Developing Business Ethics in China
2006Co-Authors: Georges EnderleAbstract:An Overview of the Essays as a Platform for Further Dialogue G.Enderle Business Ethics Needs International Exchange of Ideas and Experiences: A Review of the International Conference on Developing Business Ethics in China X.Lu PART ONE: FOUNDATIONAL QUESTIONS On China's Traditional Business Ethics and Its Modern Transformation Y.Zhu The Ethics of an Ecological Economy Z.Wang Confucian and Christian Market Morality K-C.J.Lam Economic Motivation and Its Relevance for Business Ethics X.Zhao On Moral Principles of Contract Ethics H.Gao Fundamental Issues Concerning Business Ethics in Contemporary China Z.Hu & K.Huang Towards an Integrative Theory of Business Ethics: With Special Reference to the East Asian Region Y.Nagayasu Business Ethics, Globalization, and the Information R.De George PART TWO: MACRO-ISSUES China's Ethical Challenges After Joining the WTO X.Wang Comparing Ethical Concepts of Consumption in China and the West in the Context of Globalization Z.Zhou Ethical Evaluation of the Income Distribution in China and Its Five Income Sources J.Yang Business Corruption in China's Economic Reform and Its Institutional Roots D.Xu Rules, Roles, and Moral Disparity: The Problem of Corruption G.Brenkert Confidence in the Financial Reporting System: Easier to Lose than to Restore G.Enderle Speculation and Insider Trading as a Problem of Business Ethics P.Koslowski The Problems of Declining Birth Rate and Ageing in the Japanese Welfare State and Its Implications for Business and Economic Ethics K.Matsuoka PART THREE: PERSPECTIVES OF CORPORATE Ethics Moral Reticence: Corporate Management's Tendency to Avoid Addressing Ethical Issues L.Li The Necessity and Prospects of Promoting Ethics in Chinese Enterprises: Experiences of Dazhong Transportation Group X.Zhou The Moral Values of "Joint-Forces Culture: The Example of Xuchang Relay Group F.Qiao Corporate Citizenship Behavior in a Transitional Economy: An Exploratory Study in the People's Republic of China Han Long Lu & Chi Kwan Warren Chiu The Corporation's Evolving Personality L.S.Paine Corporate Ethics in Germany: A Republican View and Its Practical Consequences H.Steinmann Corporate Governance and Ethics in Developing Economies Light from the Tip of a Dark Continent? D.Rossouw Global Corporate Citizenship' for a Globalization with a Human Face U.Baerlocher
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towards Business Ethics as an academic discipline
Business Ethics Quarterly, 1996Co-Authors: Georges EnderleAbstract:Recalling several profound disagreements about Business Ethics as it is currently discussed in Western societies, I emphasize the need for Business Ethics as an academic discipline that constitutes the “backbone†for both teaching Business Ethics and improving Business practice (section 1). Then I outline a conceptual framework of Business Ethics that promotes a “bottom-up†approach (section 2). This “problem-and action-oriented†conception appears to be fruitful in terms of both practical relevance and theoretical understanding. Finally, I argue for (section 3) the relevance of discussing goals at all levels of human action (i.e., individuals, organizations, systems) as well as the indispensability of human rights, and propose Amartya Sen's “goal-rights-system†approach as a normative-ethical framework for Business Ethics that integrates these two fundamental aspects.
Richard T. De George - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Companion to Business Ethics - International Business Ethics
Business Ethics Quarterly, 1994Co-Authors: Richard T. De GeorgeAbstract:International Business Ethics, as the term implies, cannot be national in character, anymore than international law can be national in character. Yet the analogy to law is as misleading as it is enlightening. For although we can speak of American, German or Japanese law, it is odd to speak of American, German or Japanese Ethics. The reason is that Ethics is usually thought to be universal. Hence there is simply Ethics, not national Ethics. Despite this, there is a sense that can be given to American Business Ethics or German Business Ethics. American Business Ethics does not refer to American as opposed to German Ethics, but rather to the approach taken by those who do Business Ethics in the United States. What characterizes the American approach is not that it uses a special Ethics or a national Ethics, but that it is concerned with certain problems that are embedded in the American socio-economic-political system and faced by American Business. German or Japanese Business Ethics differs from American Business Ethics in the cases and topics it deals with, in the different set of background institutions it takes for granted or investigates, and in the different culture, history, and social setting in which Business operates.The same is true of what is often called international Business Ethics insofar as we can distinguish American, German, Japanese approaches to it. International Business Ethics might refer simply to the comparison of Business practices and their ethical evaluation in different countries; it might investigate whether there are in fact ethical norms commonly recognized in all countries that should govern international Business and economic transactions, and if there are variations in ethical norms, whether multinational firms are bound by the ethical norms of their mother country, by the ethical norms of their host countries, by either, by both, or by neither. International Business Ethics might involve broad issues about the economic inequality of nations, the justice of the present international economic order, the ethical status and justifiability of such organizations as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and of their structures and practices, as well as the ethical dimensions of international debt, and the claimed economic dependence of some countries on others, or such global issues as the role of industry in the depletion of the ozone level.
Jeffrey Moriarty - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Business Ethics
Philosophy, 2019Co-Authors: Jeffrey MoriartyAbstract:“Business” has two meanings. A “Business” is an entity that offers a good or service for sale, typically with the goal of making a profit. Wal-Mart and Toyota are Businesses. “Business” can also mean the activity of exchange. An individual does Business with Toyota when she exchanges some of her money for one of its cars. So “Business Ethics” includes the study of the Ethics of the entities that offer (and often produce) goods and services for sale, as well as the Ethics of exchange and activities connected with exchange (e.g., advertising). Philosophers have long been interested in these subjects. Aristotle worried about the effects of commerce on character, while Aquinas wrote on profit and prices. Smith and Marx thought deeply about the organization of the process of production. Business Ethics in its current incarnation traces its roots to the 1970s and 1980s, when a group of moral philosophers applied ethical theories to Business activity. A number of Business Ethics journals were created around this time, and Business Ethics became a familiar course in philosophy departments. Common topics of inquiry were and continue to be the purpose of the firm, corporate governance, corporate moral agency, rights and duties at work, fairness in pay and pricing, the limits of markets, marketing Ethics, supply chain Ethics, and corporate political activity. Not long after philosophers reinvigorated the field, social scientists entered it (and in fact had been working on related issues the whole time). They have increasingly pulled the field, and its academic courses, into Business schools. This article concentrates on the philosophical or normative side of Business Ethics, but it also says something about the descriptive or social scientific side when they overlap.
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Business Ethics: An Overview
Philosophy Compass, 2008Co-Authors: Jeffrey MoriartyAbstract:This essay provides an overview of Business Ethics. I describe important issues, identify some of the normative considerations animating them, and offer a roadmap of references for those wishing to learn more. I focus on issues in normative Business Ethics, but discuss briefly the growing body of work in descriptive Business Ethics. I conclude with a comment on the changing nature of the field.
Carolyn T. Dang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Are the “Customers” of Business Ethics Courses Satisfied? An Examination of One Source of Business Ethics Education Legitimacy:
Business & Society, 2015Co-Authors: Scott J. Reynolds, Carolyn T. DangAbstract:Though there are many factors that contribute to the perceived legitimacy of Business Ethics education, this research focuses on one factor that is given great attention both formally and informally in many Business schools: student satisfaction with the course. To understand the nature of student satisfaction, the authors draw from multiple theories with central claims relating (met) expectations with satisfaction. The authors then compare student expectations of Business Ethics courses with instructor objectives and discover that Business Ethics courses are not necessarily designed to meet student expectations. The authors speculate that this general mismatch between student expectations and instructor objectives has material consequences. As one example, the authors analyze student evaluations from three Business schools and identify a “Business Ethics course effect”: a negative association between Business Ethics courses and student evaluations. The authors discuss the implications for Business Ethics...
