scholarly journals Past Trends and Future Directions in Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility Scholarship

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (04) ◽  
pp. v-xv ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis G. Arnold ◽  
Kenneth E. Goodpaster ◽  
Gary R. Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Future Directions

Business Ethics and the Greek Healthcare System

2018 ◽  
pp. 100-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vaitsa Giannouli
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Job Affect

This chapter provides a review not only of classic literature on healthcare business and ethics, but also an introduction to the legal changes in the Greek healthcare system with ethical values on focus. A study examining in both a quantitative and qualitative way what the Greek healthcare experts think and feel about ethics and healthcare services presents the factors that shape attitudes towards ethical values from the viewpoint of the healthcare professionals. For this reason, 34 semi-structured interviews, accompanied by the administration of perceived cohesion scale, generalized immediacy scale, job affect scale, state anxiety inventory, Maslach burnout inventory, and the attitude towards business ethics questionnaire revealed that healthcare professionals do have knowledge of ethical values and moral responsibility, but no clear connections with specific emotional aspects were found. The chapter concludes with future directions on how business ethics can be further examined and applied.

Principles and Practices for Corporate Responsibility

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 695-701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia H. Werhane
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Multinational Enterprises ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Global Business

ABSTRACT:The first issue of Business Ethics Quarterly was launched in 1991. At that time there were few general principles that could serve as guidelines for global business. However, since 1991 a plethora of such principles have been developed to serve as guidelines and evaluative mechanisms for global corporate responsibilities. But operationalizing these principles in practice has been a challenge for most transnational corporations and even for smaller, more local enterprises. This is because, in some cases, the principles ask too much of companies. In other cases, the principles are ambiguous. And in still other cases, the principles, written by and large from a Western, rights-based perspective, cannot be operationalized in some cultural or religious settings. In this paper I will outline a series of dilemmas multinational enterprises face in the global market place, even when they sincerely sign on to one or another set of principles. These problems are not insurmountable, but in the imperfect world of commerce, require that our expectations of corporate responsibilities be satisficing rather than absolutist.

Business Ethics in Healthcare

2020 ◽  
pp. 138-167
Author(s):  
Vaitsa Giannouli
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Job Affect

Over the last few decades, healthcare business and ethical values have been the focus of legal changes, especially in the Greek Healthcare System. The purpose of this chapter was to examine in both a quantitative and qualitative way what the Greek healthcare experts think and feel about ethics and healthcare services and to present the factors that shape attitudes towards ethical values from the viewpoint of the healthcare professionals. For this reason, 34 semi-structured interviews, accompanied by the administration of perceived cohesion scale, generalized immediacy scale, job affect scale, state anxiety inventory, Maslach burnout inventory, and the attitude towards business ethics questionnaire revealed that healthcare professionals in Greece do have knowledge of ethical values and moral responsibility, but no connections with specific emotional aspects were found. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the implications, and future directions on how business ethics can be further examined and applied.

Paradigms Linked: A Normative-Empirical Dialogue about Business Ethics

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 481-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. S. Singer
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract:The present paper focuses on the linkage between two academic paradigms in the enquiry into business ethics: normative philosophy and empirical social sciences. The paper first reviews existing research pertaining to a normative-empirical dialogue. Further empirical data on the relationship between various standards of morality are discussed in relation to the normative frameworks of ethics. Lastly, future directions for such a dialogue in business ethics are suggested.

scholarly journals Navigating Our Way Between Market and State

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffery Smith
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Distributive Justice ◽  
John Rawls ◽  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Recent Theoretical Work ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Normative Foundations ◽  
The Ideal

ABSTRACT:In this address I argue that different perspectives on the normative foundations of corporate responsibility reflect underlying disagreements about the ideal arrangement of tasks between market and state. I initially recommend that scholars look back to the “division of moral labor” inspired by John Rawls’ seminal work on distributive justice in order to rethink why, and to what extent, corporations take on responsibilities normally within the purview of government. I then examine how this notion is related to recent theoretical work in the field of business ethics. I thereafter turn to provide a brief outline of an alternative view that sees corporations as having responsibilities in so far as markets are sites of delegated oversight over the production of social goods that might otherwise be administered by the state.

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