Beyond moral education: Enabling managers to take order responsibility

Ingo Pies and Thomas Lange

No 2025-12, Discussion Papers from Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Chair of Economic Ethics

Abstract: Managers do not need moral (re-)education but the competencies to assume order responsibility: Companies serve a societal purpose in market economies through efficiency, innovation, and welfare diffusion. Their "license to operate" depends not only on legality but also on legitimacy. As the traditional division between politics as rule-setter and business as rule-follower erodes, managers must move beyond operational decision-making to actively engage in governance and public discourse. This requires new competencies: steering competence for institutional design and enlightenment competence for clarifying debates and building trust in the legitimacy of the market economy.

Keywords: Optimization; Governance; Discourse; Order Responsibility; Steering Responsibility; Enlightenment Responsibility; Leadership; New Management; CSR; Optimierung; Diskurs; Ordnungsverantwortung; Steuerungsverantwortung; Aufklärungsverantwortung (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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