Business Ethics Quarterly

1991 - 2025

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Volume 17, issue 4, 2007

Can Utilitarianism Be Distributive? Maximization and Distribution as Criteria in Managerial Decisions pp. 593-611

Robert Audi

Reluctant Guardians: The Moral Responsibility of Gatekeepers pp. 613-632

John R. Boatright

Why Managers Fail to do the Right Thing: An Empirical Study of Unethical and Illegal Conduct pp. 633-667

N. Craig Smith, Sally S. Simpson and Chun-Yao Huang

Courting Shareholders: The Ethical Implications of Altering Corporate Ownership Structures pp. 669-688

Cynthia Clark Williams and Lori Verstegen Ryan

Sweatshops, Choice, and Exploitation pp. 689-727

Matt Zwolinski

The Impact of Dirty Money on Global Capitalism pp. 729-742

Thomas W. Dunfee and Colleen Baker

New Strategies for a Sustainable Society: The Growing Contribution of Social Entrepreneurship pp. 743-749

Helen Haugh

Volume 17, issue 3, 2007

Corporate and Stakeholder Responsibility: Making Business Ethics A Two-Way Conversation pp. 375-398

Jerry D. Goodstein and Andrew C. Wicks

Up From Flatland: Business Ethics in the Age of Divergence pp. 399-426

John Hasnas

The World is Flat in the Twenty-First Century: A Response to Hasnas pp. 427-431

Thomas W. Dunfee

Flatland, Ethicsland, and Legalland pp. 433-440

Robert A. Prentice

Law, Ethics, and Divergent Rhetoric pp. 441-447

William S. Laufer

Introduction to the Special Section on Accountability pp. 449-452

Robert Phillips and Shawn L. Berman

Social Reporting and New Governance Regulation: The Prospects of Achieving Corporate Accountability Through Transparency pp. 453-476

David Hess

Corporate Scandals and Spoiled Identities: How Organizations Shift Stigma to Employees pp. 477-496

Danielle E. Warren

Maximization, Incomparability, and Managerial Choice pp. 497-513

Nien-hê Hsieh

Defining Accountability in A Network Society pp. 515-534

Mollie Painter-Morland

Lies and Capitalism pp. 563-572

Denis Collins

Unfettered or Tempered Capitalism? How Best to Promote Virtuous Characters pp. 573-584

Earl W. Spurgin

Erratum pp. 591-591

Anonymous

Volume 17, issue 2, 2007

Discourse Ethics and Social Accountability: The Ethics of SA 8000 pp. 187-216

Dirk Ulrich Gilbert and Andreas Rasche

Dialectical Interactions: Decoupling and Integrating Ethics in Ethics Initiatives pp. 217-238

Spoma Jovanovic and Roy V. Wood

Ethics Programs and the Paradox of Control pp. 239-261

Jason Stansbury and Bruce Barry

The Cringing and the Craven: Freedom of Expression in, Around, and Beyond the Workplace pp. 263-296

Bruce Barry

Untangling Employee Loyalty: A Psychological Contract Perspective pp. 297-323

David W. Hart and Jeffery A. Thompson

Aristotle and the Good Business Life pp. 325-340

Terry L. Price

Global Strategy and Ethics: Managing Human Systems and Advancing Humane Ideals pp. 341-363

Alan E. Singer

Book Notes pp. 365-367

Thomas L. Carson, Nien-hê Hsieh and Robert Phillips

Volume 17, issue 1, 2007

Introduction to the Special Section on Commercial Speech pp. 3-4

Timothy L. Fort and Steven R. Salbu

The Kasky-Nike Threat to Corporate Social Reporting: Implementing a Standard of Optimal Truthful Disclosure as a Solution pp. 5-32

David Hess and Thomas W. Dunfee

The Law and Ethics of K Street: Lobbying, the First Amendment, and the Duty to Create Just Laws pp. 33-63

Daniel T. Ostas

Kasky V. Nike and the Quarrelsome Question of Corporate Free Speech pp. 65-96

Don Mayer

Corporate Speech as Commercial Speech: A Response to Mayer's Nike V. Kasky Analysis pp. 97-103

Jeffrey Nesteruk

A Response to “Getting to the Bottom of ‘Triple Bottom Line’” pp. 105-110

Moses L. Pava

Rescuing the Baby from the Triple-Bottom-Line Bathwater: A Reply to Pava pp. 111-114

Chris MacDonald and Wayne Norman

Sweatshops: Kant and Consequences pp. 115-133

Gordon G. Sollars and Fred Englander

Respect for Workers in Global Supply Chains: Advancing the Debate Over Sweatshops pp. 135-145

Denis G. Arnold and Norman E. Bowie

Debt and Deception pp. 147-161

David Schweickart

Bringing it All Back Home pp. 163-172

Peter Whalley

Book Notes pp. 173-175

Martin E. Sandbu

Volume 16, issue 4, 2006

Bad Apples in Bad Barrels Revisited: Cognitive Moral Development, Just World Beliefs, Rewards, and Ethical Decision-Making pp. 449-473

Neal M. Ashkanasy, Carolyn A. Windsor and Linda K. Treviño

Business Ethics: The Law of Rules pp. 475-504

Michael L. Michael

Global Rules and Private Actors: Toward a New Role of the Transnational Corporation in Global Governance pp. 505-532

Andreas Georg Scherer, Guido Palazzo and Dorothée Baumann

Business Ethics without Stakeholders pp. 533-557

Joseph Heath

Self-Selection Bias in Business Ethics Research pp. 559-577

Harvey James

From the Wright Brothers to Microsoft: Issues in the Moral Grounding of Intellectual Property Rights pp. 579-598

David Lea

What Is to Be Done? Theory, Research, and Reforming American Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century - After Capitalism: From Managerialism to Workplace DemocracySeymour Melman New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. ISBN 0679418598 - Redefining the Corporation: Stakeholder Management and Organizational WealthJames E. Post, Lee E. Preston, and Sybille Sachs Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2002. ISBN 0804743045 pp. 599-615

Richard Marens

Stone Cohen Alone - The Nature of Moral Reasoning: The Framework and Activities of Ethical Deliberation, Argument and Decision-MakingStephen Cohen South Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2004 - The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. BushPeter Singer Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2004 pp. 617-622

Michael Schwartz

Guarded Optimism about Positive Examples - Rising Above Sweatshops: Innovative Approaches to Global Labor ChallengesLaura P. Hartman, Denis G. Arnold, and Richard E. Wokutch, eds. Praeger Publishers, 2003. 440 pages pp. 623-628

Chris MacDonald and Melissa Whellams

Volume 16, issue 3, 2006

Marketing, Consumers and Technology: Perspectives for Enhancing Ethical Transactions pp. 313-321

Gene R. Laczniak and Patrick E. Murphy

Privacy Rights on the Internet: Self-Regulation or Government Regulation? pp. 323-342

Norman E. Bowie and Karim Jamal

Online Brands and Trademark Conflicts: A Hegelian Perspective pp. 343-367

Richard A. Spinello

Is Philosophy Relevant to Applied Ethics? pp. 369-380

Richard Rorty

The Relevance of Philosophy to Business Ethics: A Response to Rorty’s “Is Philosophy Relevant to Applied Ethics? pp. 381-389

Richard T. De George

A Response to Rorty pp. 391-399

Daryl Koehn

A Place for Philosophers in Applied Ethics and the Role of Moral Reasoning in Moral Imagination: A Response to Richard Rorty pp. 401-408

Patricia H. Werhane

Replies to Koehn, de George, and Werhane pp. 409-413

Richard Rorty

The Rights of Employees - Employment and Employee RightsPatricia H. Werhane and Tara J. Radin with Norman E. Bowie Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2004 pp. 415-418

Denis G. Arnold

The Morality of Markets - Is the Market Moral? A Dialogue on Religion, Economics, and JusticeRebecca M. Blank and William McGurn Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2004; ISBN 0815710216 pp. 419-425

LaRue Tone Hosmer and Janet Elizabeth Bordelon

Developments in Marketing Ethics - Ethical MarketingP. E. Murphy, G. R. Laczniak, N. E. Bowie, and T. A. Klein Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005; 266 pp. ISBN 0-13-184814-3 - Marketing Ethics: Cases and ReadingsP. E. Murphy and G. R. Laczniak, eds. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006; 172 pp. ISBN 0-13-133088-8 - Advertising EthicsE. H. Spence and B. van Heekeren Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005; 140 pp. ISBN 0-13-094121-2 - Corporate Social Responsibility: Doing the Most Good for Your Company and Your CauseP. Kotler and N. Lee Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2005; 307 pp.; ISBN 0-471-47611-0 (cloth) pp. 427-439

Ronald Jeurissen and Bert van de Ven

Volume 16, issue 2, 2006

Voluntary Codes of Conduct for Multinational Corporations pp. 117-117

S. Prakash Sethi

Voluntary Codes of Conduct for Multinational Corporations: Coordinating Duties of Rescue and Justice pp. 119-135

Nien-hê Hsieh

Interactive Effects of External Environmental Conditions and Internal Firm Characteristics on MNEs’ Choice of Strategy in the Development of a Code of Conduct pp. 137-165

Linda M. Sama

Are Codes of Conduct in Global Supply Chains Really Voluntary? From Soft Law Regulation of Labour Relations to Consumer Law pp. 167-184

André Sobczak

Do Firms with Unique Competencies for Rescuing Victims of Human Catastrophes Have Special Obligations? Corporate Responsibility and the Aids Catastrophe in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 185-210

Thomas W. Dunfee

Cross-Sector Alliance Learning and Effectiveness of Voluntary Codes of Corporate Social Responsibility pp. 211-234

Bindu Arya and Jane E. Salk

Corruption, Underdevelopment, and Extractive Resource Industries: Addressing the Vicious Cycle pp. 235-254

O’Higgins, Eleanor R. E.

A Human Rights Approach to Developing Voluntary Codes of Conduct for Multinational Corporations pp. 255-269

Tom Campbell

A Search for Standards to Monitor Labor Conditions Worldwide - Monitoring International Labor Standards: Techniques and Sources of InformationNational Research Council Washington: National Academies Press, Paperback, 291 pages; ISBN: 0309091349, $43 pp. 271-287

S. Prakash Sethi

Globalization, Interconnectedness, and Wal-Mart the Bully - The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First CenturyL. Friedman Thomas New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005; 488 pages, $27.30 hardcover, ISBN 0-374-29288-4 pp. 289-304

Denis Collins

Volume 16, issue 1, 2006

The Many Faces of Integrity pp. 3-21

Robert Audi and Patrick E. Murphy

Enhancing Stakeholder Practice: A Particularized Exploration of Community pp. 23-42

Laura Dunham, R. Edward Freeman and Jeanne Liedtka

Innovative Stakeholder Relations: When “Ethics Pays” (and When it Doesn’t) pp. 43-68

Troy R. Harting, Susan S. Harmeling and S. Venkataraman

The Virtue of Courage in Entrepreneurship: Engaging the Catholic Social Tradition and the Life-Cycle of the Business pp. 69-93

Michael J. Naughton and Jeffrey R. Cornwall

A Different Kind of Capital: Qualities that Add Value to the Ends of Business and Leadership - The Moral Capital of Leaders: Why Virtue MattersAlejo José G. Sison Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2003. Hardback, 165 pp. New Horizons in Leadership Studies Collection pp. 95-102

Christine W. Gichure

The Moral Aspirations of the Law - The Myth of Moral Justice: Why Our Legal System Fails to Do What’s RightThane Rosenbaum New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004 ISBN 0-06-018816-2, 368 pp. - The Edge of MeaningJames Boyd White Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001 ISBN 0-226-89480-0, 296 pp pp. 103-108

Jeffrey Nesteruk

The Modern Firm: Organizational Design for Performance and GrowthJohn Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004); ISBN 0-19-829376-3, 318 pages pp. 109-109

John R. Boatright

Icarus in the Boardroom: The Fundamental Flaws in Corporate America and Where They Came FromDavid Skeel (Oxford.: Oxford University Press, 2005); ISBN 0-19-517471-2, 272 pages pp. 110-111

Andy Zelleke

Just WorkRussell Muirhead (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004); ISBN 0-674-01558-4, 207 pages pp. 110-110

Christopher Michaelson