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- A Code of Ethics for Corporate Codes of Ethics
Are corporate codes of ethics necessarily ethical? To challenge this notion, an initial set of universal moral standards is proposed by which all corporate codes of ethics can be ethically evaluated....
Citation: Schwartz, Mark. 2002. A Code of Ethics for Corporate Codes of Ethics. Journal of Business Ethics 41 (1):27-44.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Auditing, Codes of Conduct, Theory
- A New Mindset for Business Education
In this book chapter I refine stakeholder theory by identifying its connection to the traditional attention given by business managers to shareholders via the notion of the intangible assets of a firm as they are affected by moral conduct....
Citation: "A New Mindset for Business Education," in Rethinking Business Management, S. Gregg & J. Stoner, eds., Princeton: The Witherspoon Institute, 2008.
Areas of Interest: Education, Leadership, Theory
- A Validation and Extension of a Multidimensional Ethics Scale
Reidenbach and Robin (1988, 1990) proposed and refined a multidimensional ethics scale. This study replicates and extends their work by examining the generalizability of the scale beyond marketing to...
Citation: Cohen, Jeffrey; Pant, Laurie; Sharp, David. 1993. A Validation and Extension of a Multidimensional Ethics Scale. Journal of Business Ethics 12 (1):13-26.
Areas of Interest: Leadership, Theory
- Adam Smith's Invisible Hand Argument
Adam Smith is usually thought to argue that the result of everyone pursuing their own interests will be the maximization of the interests of society. The invisible hand of the free market will transfo...
Citation: Bishop, John D. 1995. Adam Smith's Invisible Hand Argument. Journal of Business Ethics 14 (3):165-180.
Areas of Interest: Economic, SRI/Responsible Investment, Theory
- Affirmative Action As A Form Of Restitution
Though the common sense defense of affirmative action (or employment equity) appeals to principles of restitution, philosophers have tried to defend it in other ways....
Citation: Groarke, Leo. . 1990. Affirmative Action As A Form Of Restitution. Journal of Business Ethics 9 (3):207-213.
Areas of Interest: Labour - Employee, Theory
- An International Comparison of the Factors Affecting Environmental Strategy and Performance
An environmental management system (EMS) consists of internal policies, assessments, and implementation actions that affect the entire enterprise and its relationship with the natural environment. Suc...
Citation: Henriques, Irene; Sadorsky, Perry; Darnall, Nicole. 2005. An International Comparison of the Factors Affecting Environmental Strategy and Performance. Paper read at Best Paper Proceedings: Sixty-Third Meeting of the Academy of Management, August 2005.
Areas of Interest: Environment & Business, Theory
- Anti-corporate Activist Anger: Inappropriate Irrationality or Social Change Essential?
Dominant western perspectives in which anger is constructed as a socially inappropriate irrationality in need of containment are contrasted with alternate viewpoints in which anger is seen as a politically essential mechanism for addressing social injusti...
Citation: Simola, S. K. Anti-corporate Activist Anger: Inappropriate Irrationality or Social Change Essential?. Society and Business Review.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Theory
- Are Women Different and Why are Women Thought to Be Different? Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives
The existing literature on gender differences and stereotyping is reviewed in this article. Three theoretical perspectives are discussed: person-centred, organization-centred, and gender context, foll...
Citation: Gregory, Ann. 1990. Are Women Different and Why are Women Thought to Be Different? Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives. Journal of Business Ethics 9 (4/5):257-266.
Areas of Interest: Gender, Labour - Employee, Theory
- Are You Ethical? Please Tick Yes or No on Researching Ethics in Business Organizations
This paper seeks to explore the empirical agenda of business ethics research from a methodological perspective. It is argued that the quality of empirical research in the field remains relatively poor...
Citation: Crane, Andrew. 1999. Are You Ethical? Please Tick Yes or No on Researching Ethics in Business Organizations. Journal of Business Ethics 20 (3):237-248.
Areas of Interest: Theory
- Balancing Sweatshop Ethics and Economics
The referenced paper is one of the first to attempt to use ethics in order to provide guidelines for the labor activities of international commercial organizations. The paper seeks to find a balance b...
Citation: L. Hartman, B. Shaw and R. Stevenson. 1999. Balancing Sweatshop Ethics and Economics. University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Business.
Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues - Ethical Consumption, Development, Economic, Human Rights, Labour, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety, Public Policy, Theory
- Beyond Moral Reasoning: A Review of Moral Identity Research and Its Implications For Business Ethics
Moral identity has been touted as a foundation for understanding moral agency in organizations. The purpose of this article is to review the current state of knowledge regarding moral identity and hig...
Citation: Aquino, Karl, Dan Freeman, Ruodan Shao. 2008. Beyond Moral Reasoning: A Review of Moral Identity Research and Its Implications For Business Ethics. Business Ethics Quarterly 18.
Areas of Interest: Theory
- Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics
The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics provides clear, concise and highly informative definitions and explanations of the key concepts in one of the most important fields in contempo...
Citation: Werhane, Patricia H. and R. Edward Freeman, eds. 1998. Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers.
Areas of Interest: Education, Theory
- Business Ethics
This book provides comprehensive, integrated coverage of the entire field of business ethics. It begins with an overview of today's business scene, then explores the basic tools and techniques of ethi...
Citation: DeGeorge, Richard T. 1999. Business Ethics. 5 ed: Prentice Hall.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety, Poverty, Theory
- Business Ethics in Canada: Distinctiveness and Directions
The article presents an analysis on the distinctiveness and directions of business ethics in Canada. The author introduces several articles published within the issue, including one by Len Brooks pres...
Citation: Di Norcia, Vincent. 1997. Business Ethics in Canada: Distinctiveness and Directions. Journal of Business Ethics 16 (6):583-590.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Economic - Social, Education, Public Policy, Theory
- Business Ethics: A European Perspective – Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization
Business Ethics is an exciting, new student focused text which provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of European business ethics. It is the first business ethics textbooks to feature ex...
Citation: A. Crane and D. Matten. 2004. Business Ethics: A European Perspective - Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Globalization, Sustainability, Theory, Theory - Stakeholder
- Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases
This book provides readers with a clear, straightforward writing style, an abundance of examples, detailed real-life cases, and current data and statistics. It aims to 1) introduce ethical concepts th...
Citation: Velasquez, Manuel G. 2001. Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases. Boston: Pearson Education Inc.
Areas of Interest: Education, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Theory
- Business in Ethical Focus: An Anthology
Business in Ethical Focus is a compilation of classical and contemporary essays on business ethics. Approximately 50 essays are organized into five units: Corporate Social Responsibility; Rights and O...
Citation: Allhoff, Fritz and Anand J.Vaidya, eds. 2008. Business in Ethical Focus: An Anthology. Peterborough: Broadview Press.
Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues, Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Theory
- Can corporations be citizens? Corporate Citizenship as a metaphor for business participation in society
This paper investigates whether, in theoretical terms, corporations can be citizens. The argument is based on the observation that the debate on "corporate citizenship" (CC) has only paid limited atte...
Citation: J. Moon, A. Crane and D. Matten. 2005. Can corporations be citizens? Corporate Citizenship as a metaphor for business participation in society. Business Ethics Quarterly 15 (3):429-453.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Citizenship, Theory
- Character Is Destiny: The Value of Personal Ethics in Everyday Life
As Russell Gough implies, the fact that people are lapping up books on personal ethics, virtue, and character is best understood as a long-overdue reaction to the two dominant schools of pop psycholog...
Citation: Gough, Russell W. 1997. Character Is Destiny: The Value of Personal Ethics in Everyday Life: Crown Forum.
Areas of Interest: Education, Theory
- Concepts of Care in Organizational Crisis Prevention
The role of ethics in organizational crisis management has received limited but growing attention. However, the majority of research has focused on applications of ethical theories to managing crisis...
Citation: Simola, Sheldene. 2005. Concepts of Care in Organizational Crisis Prevention. Journal of Business Ethics 62 (4):341-353.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Theory
- Contemporary Moral Issues
Trusted and respected throughout five editions, Contemporary Moral Issues provides students with a probing view of today's ethical landscape. Compiled from a Canadian perspective, and incorporating co...
Citation: Cragg, Wesley and Christine Koggel eds. 2004. Contemporary Moral Issues. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson
Areas of Interest: Education, Theory
- Corporate Citizens, Colonialists, Tourists or Activists? Ethical Challenges Facing South African Corporations in Africa
With a particular focus on South African companies, this article assesses concepts and ideas of ethical behaviour of international businesses. Given the dominance of South African companies in other African countries, there are interesting similarities between global multinational corporations and their impact on the rest of the world, and South African corporations and their smaller-scale impact on the rest of Africa....
Citation: Malan, D. 2005. Corporate Citizens, Colonialists, Tourists or Activists? Ethical Challenges Facing South African Corporations in Africa. South Africa: Greenleaf Publishing. JCC 18 (Summer): 49-60.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic, Theory
- Corporate Engagement with Indigenous Women in the Minerals Industry: Making Space for Theory
This chapter focuses on corporate engagement with indigenous women through a variety of theoretical lenses that have not been adequately explored in past literature in large-scale mining. This topic i...
Citation: G. Gibson and D. Kemp. 2008. Corporate Engagement with Indigenous Women in the Minerals Industry: Making Space for Theory. In "Earth Matters: Indigenous peoples, the extractives industries and corporate social responsibility", edited by C. O. F. S. Ali: G
Areas of Interest: Gender, Indigenous People, Resource Extraction, Theory
- Corporate Governance and Accountability: What Do We Know and What Do We Teach Future Business Leaders?
This paper was presented by Mary Gentile at the 3rd Colloquium of the European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS). The conference, entitled "The Challenges of Sustainable Growth: Integrating Socie...
Citation: Gentile, Mary C. Corporate Governance and Accountability: The Aspen Institute: Center For Business Education.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Leadership, Theory, Theory - Shareholder
- Corporate Law and the Sovereignty of States
This article explores the origins of a phenomenon of lasting and profound impact on American society: the private business corporation....
Citation: Kaufman , Jason. 2008. Corporate Law and the Sovereignty of States (2006). American Sociological Review, Vol. 73, pp. 402-425, June. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=949313
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Public Policy, Theory
- Corporate Social Performance Disoriented: Saving the Lost Paradigm?
Corporate social performance (CSP) has been a prominent concept in the management literature dealing with the social role and impacts of the corporation; it has been promulgated as a unifying paradigm for the field....
Citation: J.P. Gond and A. Crane. 2010. Corporate Social Performance Disoriented: Saving the Lost Paradigm? Business & Society, 49 (4):677-703.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Theory
- Corporate Social Responsibility – Three Volume Set
This three volume collection provides students and researchers with the historically most important of the classic articles in CSR, as well as the best of the contemporary and trendsetting work in thi...
Citation: (eds.), A. Crane and D. Matten. 2007. Corporate Social Responsibility - Three Volume Set. London: SAGE Library in Business and Management, London (Sage)
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Globalization, Theory
- Corporate Social Responsibility: A Three Domain Approach
Extrapolating from Carroll's four domains of corporate social responsibility (1979) and Pyramid of CSR (1991), an alternative approach to conceptualizing corporate social responsibility (CSR) is propo...
Citation: Schwartz, Mark; Carroll, Archie. 2003. Corporate Social Responsibility: A Three Domain Approach. Business Ethics Quarterly 13 (4):503-530.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Theory
- Corporate Social Responsibility: Readings and Cases in Global Context
Modern business is obliged to meet increasingly demanding ethical, environmental, legal, commercial, and public standards as defined by wider society. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has therefore become an important consideration for managers at all levels, as well as one of the most vibrant areas of study and research in the field of business and management. This important new book provides a comprehensive and student-centred introduction to the key themes and issues currently being addressed in CSR around the world....
Citation: Crane, Andrew, Dirk Matten, and Laura J. Spence, eds. 2008. Corporate Social Responsibility: Readings and Cases in Global Context. London: Routledge.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Auditing, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic - Environmental, Education, Theory, Theory - Stakeholder
- Critical Elements of an Organizational Ethical Culture
In the 2005 National Business Ethics Survey ® (NBES), the Ethics Resource Center (ERC) finds that a formal ethics and compliance program alone does not substantially impact outcomes. Additional analys...
Citation: Amber Levanon Seligson; Laurie Choi. 2006. Critical Elements of an Organizational Ethical Culture: Ethics Resource Center.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Education, Labour - Employee, Leadership, Theory
- Decision-making for Sustainability: A Systematic Review of the Body of Knowledge
The most comprehensive and credible evidence to date on decision-making for sustainability. Systematic review of more than 207 applied and academic studies. Outlines the models of how individuals make decisions and illustrates why individuals may hit roadblocks when it comes to making sustainable decisions. Provides a list of useful decision support techniques to help individuals overcome biases and reach a sustainable outcome....
Citation: Network for Business Sustainability. 2012. Decision-making for Sustainability: A Systematic Review of the Body of Knowledge. Network for Business Sustainability. Retrieved from: nbs.net/knowledge
Areas of Interest: Leadership, Sustainability, Theory, Theory - Stakeholder
- Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society
As a field of study, business ethics aims to specify the principles under which businesses must operate to behave ethically. Thus business ethics focuses on such issues as those that have recently att...
Citation: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, edited by R. W. Kolbe. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 2008.
Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, Gender, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Theory
- Ethical Theory and Business
This book presents a comprehensive anthology of readings, legal perspectives, and cases in ethics in business. Contrasting business ethics approaches, Regulation of business, Performance Monitoring. G...
Citation: Tom L. Beauchamp and Norman E. Bowie. 1996. Ethical Theory and Business. 5 ed: Prentice Hall.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Globalization, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, Theory, Theory - Shareholder, Theory - Stakeholder
- Ethical Theory and Business Practices: The Case of Discourse Ethics
By focusing on the reasoned debate in the discourse-ethical approach to business ethics, this paper discusses the possibilities and limitations of moral reasoning as well as applied economic and busin...
Citation: Beschorner, Thomas. 2006. Ethical Theory and Business Practices: The Case of Discourse Ethics. Journal of Business Ethics 66 (1):127-139.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Theory
- Ethical Work Climate Dimensions in a Not-For-Profit Organization: An Empirical Study
This paper is an attempt to address the limited amount of research in the realm of organizational ethical climate in the not-for-profit sector. The paper draws from Victor and Cullen's (1988) theoreti...
Citation: Agarwal, James; Malloy, David Cruise. 1999. Ethical Work Climate Dimensions in a Not-For-Profit Organization: An Empirical Study. Journal of Business Ethics 20 (1):1-14.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Labour, Theory
- Ethics and Capitalism
Despite the great advantage of capitalism -- that it produces a prosperous system of exchanging goods and services -- capitalist societies struggle with the unresolved issues of poverty, exclusion, co...
Citation: John Douglas Bishop. ed. 2000. Ethics and Capitalism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Corruption, Economic, Globalization, Theory
- Evolutionary Ethics: Value, Psychology, Strategy and Conventions
The purpose of this paper is to present an example of what moral theory would look like if it took evolutionary theory seriously. First, I examine briefly the implications that accepting evolutionary...
Citation: MacDonald, Chris. 2001. Evolutionary Ethics: Value, Psychology, Strategy and Conventions. Evolution and Cognition 7 (1):98-105.
Areas of Interest: Theory
- Finance Ethics
Book: In a series of articles specifically commossioned for this volume, some of today's most distinguished business ethicists survey the main areas of interest and concern in the field of business et...
Citation: Boatright, John R. 1999. Finance Ethics. In A Companion to Business Ethics, edited by R. E. Frederick. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Areas of Interest: SRI/Responsible Investment, Theory
- Globalization and the Ethics of Business
In addressing the theme of this special issue of Business Ethics Quarterly on business ethics in the new millennium, I want to focus not on business ethics as an academic field of study but rather on...
Citation: Boatright, John R. 2000. Globalization and the Ethics of Business. Business Ethics Quarterly 10 (1):1-6.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Globalization, Theory
- How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living
Breaking down complex philosophical issues into a step-by-step self-help guide, the founder of the Institute for Global Ethics shows us how to grapple with everyday issues and problems: Should I take...
Citation: Kidder, Rushworth M. 1996. How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living. 1 ed: Fireside.
Areas of Interest: Education, Theory
- Human Rights and Moral Responsibilities of Corporate and Public Sector Organisations
All students and advocates of human rights will be interested in this concerted exploration of the human rights moral obligations that fall, not directly on states, but on private and public organisations. Such an approach to human rights opens up the possibility of holding corporations and bureaucracies to account for human rights violations even when they have acted in accordance with the law. This interdisciplinary and international project brings together eminent philosophers, lawyers, social scientists and practitioners to articulate theoretically and develop in practical contexts the moral implications of human rights for non-state actors. What emerges from the book as a whole is a distinctive contemporary vision of the emerging moral impact of human rights and its significance for organisational behaviour and performance....
Citation: Campbell, Tom and Seumas Miller. 2004. Human Rights and Moral Responsibilities of Corporate and Public Sector Organisations. Issues in Business Ethics. Vol. 20. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights, Theory
- Individual Responsibility in the American Corporate System: Does Sarbanes-Oxley Strike the Right Balance?
Provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act that attempt to increase the personal responsibility of executives raise a question about the extent to which such responsibility out to be imposed? This article s...
Citation: Boatright, John R. 2005. Individual Responsibility in the American Corporate System: Does Sarbanes-Oxley Strike the Right Balance? Business and Professional Ethics Journal 23:9-41.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic, Theory, Theory - Shareholder
- Is Production and Operations Management a Discipline? A Citation/Co-citation Study
For the past 20 years, the field of production and operations management (POM) has tried to establish itself as a discipline distinct from operations research (OR), management science (MS) and industr...
Citation: Pilkington, Alan and Catherine Liston-Heyes. 1999. Is Production and Operations Management a Discipline? A Citation/Co-citation Study. International Journal of Operations and Production Management 19 (1):7-20.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Theory
- Is There an Internal Morality of Contracting?
This article examines the criticism of integrative social contracts theory that it fails to generate a significant number of specific moral norms. Supporters of the theory argue that contracting has a...
Citation: Boatright, John R. 2007. Is There an Internal Morality of Contracting? Academy of Management Review 32 (1):293-295.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, SRI/Responsible Investment, Theory, Theory - ISCT
- Lawyers in a Postmodern World: Translation and Transgression
Through engaging case studies, the book examines how lawyers work within and for powerful institutions and provides suggestions--both general and practical--for ways in which the practice of law can be made to work with and for the powerless. Individuals chapters address such subjects as the contradictions of radical law practice; legal work in South Africa; the economics and politics of negotiating justice; feminist legal scholarship and women's gendered lives; the overlapping worlds of law, business, and politics; theories of legal practice; and how lawyers are constitutive of gender relations....
Citation: Cain, Maureen and Christine Harrington, eds. 1994. Lawyers in a Postmodern World: Translation and Transgression. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Gender, Labour, Public Policy, Theory
- Making a Moral Corporation Artificial Morality Applied
In my book, Articial Morality, I defend a thesis and a method relevant to business ethics. The thesis is that moral constraint is rational; in some sense it does pay to be good. I sketch the argument...
Citation: Danielson, Peter A. 1995. Making a Moral Corporation Artificial Morality Applied.
Areas of Interest: Theory
- Marketing and the Natural Environment: What Role for Morality?
This article explores the literature relating marketing to the natural environment from the point of view of morality. It argues that the issue of morality has not been developed in any comprehensive...
Citation: Crane, Andrew. 2000. Marketing and the Natural Environment: What Role for Morality? Journal of Macromarketing, 20 (2):144-154.
Areas of Interest: Environment & Business, Leadership, Theory
- Marketing and the Natural Environment: What Role for Morality?
This article explores the literature relating marketing to the natural environment from the point of view of morality. It argues that the issue of morality has not been developed in any comprehensive...
Citation: Crane, Andrew. 2000. Marketing and the Natural Environment: What Role for Morality? Journal of Macromarketing 20 (2):144-154.
Areas of Interest: Theory
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