Moral Bottom Lines

Marian Eabrasu
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Marian Eabrasu: South Champagne Business School

Chapter Chapter 2 in Moral Disagreements in Business, 2019, pp 7-24 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract As outlined in the introduction, business opportunities and moral choices are often intertwined. Managerial decisions have financial and legal constraints; they also have to take moral issues into account. While it is difficult to say precisely what these constraints are and the order of priority in which they should be dealt with, or which (if any) should be considered subordinate to the others, we can simply admit that the sphere of management is not ‘moral-proof’ and that the office is not a haven from moral issues. To substantiate this idea, the aim of this chapter is to show that moral choices are an inescapable feature of business activity. Following up the ideas sketched in the introduction, the first section shows that moral choices are inevitably embedded in business practice. The second assesses the limits of this plurality of moral choices by addressing the widespread relativistic challenge to the distinction between right and wrong: ‘anything goes in business.’ The third section identifies the key moral bottom lines in business: personhood, ownership, harm and consent.

Keywords: Moral Bottom Line; Moral Choice; Integrative Social Contracts Theory (ISCT); Socially Responsible Investment (SRI); Shareholder Proposals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-97010-3_2

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