Pub Date : 2007-04-01DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-8608.2007.00481.X
Ulrich Hagenmeyer
More and more management consultants are digging deep to unearth profound answers to ethical issues in the consulting business. Searching questions are being asked about how they perceive themselves. A number of failed consulting projects with dramatic consequences such as Swissair Group or Enron have recently hit the headlines and often brought questionable ‘principles of consulting’ to light (e.g. Byrne 2000, 2002). A tarnished image and eroding confidence have affected this industry especially hard: the whole business stands or falls by the consultant’s reputation, because consulting performance can only be ‘measured’ by approximation and estimation (cf. O’Shea & Madigan 1997, Ernst 2002). Increasingly, therefore, consultants are looking to a new, ethically more robust understanding of what they do.
越来越多的管理顾问正在深入挖掘咨询业务中道德问题的深刻答案。关于他们如何看待自己的问题被问到。最近,瑞士航空集团(Swissair Group)或安然公司(Enron)等一些失败的咨询项目引发了戏剧性的后果,它们登上了新闻头条,并经常将可疑的“咨询原则”暴露出来(例如Byrne 2000, 2002)。形象受损和信心受损对这个行业的影响尤为严重:整个行业的成败取决于咨询师的声誉,因为咨询业绩只能通过近似和估计来“衡量”(参见O’shea & Madigan 1997, Ernst 2002)。因此,越来越多的咨询师正在寻求一种新的、道德上更健全的理解他们所做的事情。
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Pub Date : 2007-04-01DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-8608.2007.00485.X
A. V. Smith‐Hillman
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Pub Date : 2007-04-01DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-8608.2007.00487.X
C. Valor, M. Cuesta
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Pub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8608.2006.00470.x
J. Sandberg
This paper discusses the idea that investors have moral reasons to avoid investing in certain business areas based on their own moral views towards these areas. Some have referred to this as 'conscience investing', and it is a central part of the conception of ethical investing within the socially responsible investment (SRI) movement. The paper presents what is taken to be the main arguments for this kind of investing as they are given by those who have defended it, and discusses the plausibility of these arguments from the point of view of moral philosophy. The paper argues that focusing on the moral views of individual investors is not very fruitful - there are strong reasons to think that investors do not have moral reasons to invest 'with their consciences', or, to the extent that such reasons are allowed, that they are very weak compared with other sorts of moral reasons pertaining to ethical investing.
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Pub Date : 2006-07-01DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-8608.2006.00445.X
Ian Ashman, D. Winstanley
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Pub Date : 2006-06-16DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-8608.2006.00444.X
.. Cowton
No abstract available.
没有摘要。
{"title":"Editorial: Online Production Tracking Through Author Services","authors":".. Cowton","doi":"10.1111/J.1467-8608.2006.00444.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1467-8608.2006.00444.X","url":null,"abstract":"No abstract available.","PeriodicalId":47954,"journal":{"name":"Business Ethics-A European Review","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2006-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86986545","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}
Pub Date : 2006-06-16DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8608.2006.00447.x
G. de Graaf
No abstract available.
没有摘要。
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Pub Date : 2006-06-16DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-8608.2006.00453.X
P. Fobel, D. Fobelová, Zuzana `imoniová
No abstract available.
没有摘要。
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Pub Date : 2005-11-21DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-8608.2005.00396.X
David Gray, P. Clarke
Goodpaster identifies a paradox in corporate decision-making where it appears unethical to raise the status of non-owner-stakeholders to that of shareholders, whereas it is also unethical not to. In addressing his own paradox, he suggests that allowing managers to make ethical decisions within the ambit of the consciences of the shareholders, the shareholders' position is maintained but the interests of non-owner- stakeholders are considered inequitably in the generation of a strategic direction. It is suggested that there is a weakness in his case. We argue that Adam Smith's impartial spectator provides a potentially more complete solution to Goodpaster's problem in that, being sympathetic to the feelings of others, all stakeholders share the burden of seeking to achieve an ethically desirable outcome
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