The Commons and the Moral Organization1

Edwin M. Hartman

Business Ethics Quarterly, 1994, vol. 4, issue 3, 253-269

Abstract: A complex organization is in effect a commons, which supervisory techniques cannot preserve from free riding. A corporate culture strong enough to create the requisite community-minded second-order desires and beliefs may be morally illegitimate. What morality requires is not local enforcement of foundational moral principles—a futile undertaking—but that the organization be a good community in that it permits the disaffected to exit, encourages reflective consideration of morality and the good life, and creates appropriate loyalty.

Date: 1994
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