Do businesses have moral obligations beyond what the law requires?

Fieser, James

doi:10.1007/bf00380365

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“…According to Fieser [17] businesses have moral obligations beyond what the law sometimes requires. This is to say "business is supposed to be unscrupulous and driven by the sole need for personal success.…”

Section: Common Advertising Moral Wrongs In Medicine: Promoting Good mentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethical quandaries in spiritual healing and herbal medicine: A critical analysis of the morality of traditional medicine advertising in southern African urban societies

Mawere¹

2011

Pan Afr Med Jrnl

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This paper critically examines the morality of advertising by practitioners in spiritual healing and herbal medicine heretofore referred to as traditional medicine, in southern African urban societies. While the subject of traditional medicine has been heavily contested in medical studies in the last few decades, the monumental studies on the subject have emphasised the place of traditional medicine in basic health services. Insignificant attention has been devoted to examine the ethical problems associated with traditional medicine advertising. Critical look at the worthiness of some advertising strategies used by practitioners in traditional medicine in launching their products and services on market thus has been largely ignored. Yet, though advertising is key to helping traditional medicine practitioners' products and services known by prospective customers, this research registers a number of morally negative effects that seem to outweigh the merits that the activity brings to prospective customers. The paper adopts southern African urban societies, and in particular Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe as particular references. The choice of the trio is not accidental, but based on the fact that these countries have in the last few decades been flooded with traditional medicine practitioners/traditional healers from within the continent and from abroad. Most of these practitioners use immoral advertising strategies in communicating to the public the products and services they offer. It is against this background that this paper examines the morality of advertising strategies deployed by practitioners in launching their products and services. To examine the moral worthiness of the advertising strategies used by traditional medical practitioners, I used qualitative analysis of street adverts as well as electronic and print media. From the results obtained through thematic content analysis, the paper concludes that most of the practitioners in traditional medicine lack both business and medical ethics. That said, the paper urges practitioners to seriously consider the morality of their adverts as in most cases they (adverts) do more harm than good. Further to that, the piece recommends the governments of the affected countries to put in place stringent measures to address this mounting problem.

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Section: Common Advertising Moral Wrongs In Medicine: Promoting Good mentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethical quandaries in spiritual healing and herbal medicine: A critical analysis of the morality of traditional medicine advertising in southern African urban societies

Mawere¹

2011

Pan Afr Med Jrnl

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“…''If this statement is not pure rhetoric, it must mean that he is to act in some way that is not in the interest of his employers'' (p. 33). Fieser (1996) disagrees with Friedman regarding this latter claim; Fieser is more sanguine with respect to the corporate officer's voluntary actions to guide the business to act in a socially responsible manner. However, Fieser summarizes his careful examination of the issue of the sufficiency of the law as a moral guideline for business with the ''cautious conclusion'' that ''the typical business in our society has no moral obligation beyond what the law requires'' (p. 465).…”

Section: The Role Of Lawmentioning

confidence: 78%

“…Says Fieser (1996) While few business philosophers question the role of the law as a necessary standard of business morality, there is a raging debate over whether the law is a sufficient standard of ethicality in business. In other words, is it enough for the ethical business person to obey the law, or are there higher standards of morality which also must be met?…”

Section: The Role Of Lawmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Ethics in Business: Answering the Call

Sauser

2005

J Bus Ethics

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“…Scholars have also questioned the ethics of slotting allowances by suggesting their use is unethical on the grounds that this practice violates Fieser's (1996) fairness principle (i.e., businesses are denied the chance to compete in the marketplace without a proper review of the product by retailers) and because ''market access is controlled by something other than quality or demand'' (Aalberts & Jennings, 1999, p. 214). Further, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) banned the use of slotting allowances in the sale and distribution of alcohol.…”

Section: Public Policymentioning

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Salesperson Slotting Allowance Authority in Manufacturer-Retailer Negotiations

Rowe

Seevers

Zemanek

2014

Journal of Marketing Channels

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Over the past 30 years, slotting allowances have played an important, albeit contentious, role in manufacturer-retailer relationships. As the debate over this practice continues, little attention is being paid to the role of salespeople in slotting allowance negotiations. The current study addresses this shortcoming in the literature by investigating the delegation of slotting allowance authority to salespeople in the context of manufacturerretailer negotiations. A structural model is tested using data collected from retail managers. The analysis indicates that delegating slotting allowance authority to salespeople positively impacts the salesperson's influence over customer decisions and enhances selling performance. The results also suggest that a salesperson's trustworthiness increases his or her influence and performance with the customer. Overall, the findings suggest that manufacturers are likely to benefit from delegating slotting allowance authority to the sales force and training salespeople to convey this authority during retail negotiations. The study concludes with a discussion of implications for theory and practice.

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Do businesses have moral obligations beyond what the law requires?

Cited by 29 publications

References 7 publications

Ethical quandaries in spiritual healing and herbal medicine: A critical analysis of the morality of traditional medicine advertising in southern African urban societies

Ethical quandaries in spiritual healing and herbal medicine: A critical analysis of the morality of traditional medicine advertising in southern African urban societies

Ethics in Business: Answering the Call

Salesperson Slotting Allowance Authority in Manufacturer-Retailer Negotiations

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