Making Sense of Postmodern Business Ethics

Gustafson, Andrew

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“…In this context, the main challenge would be to develop appropriate theoretical underpinnings for business engagement with other institutional actors, and business involvement in the processes of rule setting. Whilst traditional ethical theories could still have a part to play here, the curriculum might focus less on such absolutist theories (see Furman, 1990) and accommodate approaches that concentrate on the process of norm generating, such as discourse ethics (Habermas, 1983;Preuss, 1999), or on those that acknowledge the necessity for incremental learning and bespoke solutions, such as postmodern ethics (Gustafson, 2000). Particularly in the context of the institutional shifts mentioned in this paper, there seems to be a growing need to provide managers with a robust theoretical understanding of collective, processual ethical decision-making, as it typically occurs in the context of multipartite regulatory efforts.…”

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Questioning the Domain of the Business Ethics Curriculum

Crane

Matten

2004

J Bus Ethics

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This paper reassesses the domain of the business ethics curriculum and, drawing on recent shifts in the business environment, maps out some suggestions for extending the core ground of the discipline. It starts by assessing the key elements of the dominant Englishlanguage business ethics textbooks and identifying the domain as reflected by those publications as 'where the law ends' and 'beyond the legal minimum'. Based on this, the paper identifies potential gaps and new areas for the discipline by drawing on four main aspects. First, it argues that the domain of business ethics requires extensions dependent on the particular geographic region where the subject is taught. A second factor for broadening the scope is the impact of recent scandals, which arguably direct the focus of ethical inquiry towards the nature of the business systems in which individuals and corporations operate. Third, the impact of globalization and its result on growing corporate involvement in regulatory processes is discussed. Fourth and finally, business ethics reaches beyond the traditional constituencies of 'economic stakeholders' as new actors from civil society enter the stage of ethical decision making in business. We conclude by suggesting that a reconsideration of the domain of business ethics, especially in Europe, is timely, but that to do so represents a major challenge to business ethics educators.

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Questioning the Domain of the Business Ethics Curriculum

Crane

Matten

2004

J Bus Ethics

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“…These insights have informed normative prescriptions. For example, some business ethicists have drawn upon postmodern ethics (e.g., Baumann, 1993) to argue that managers should respond to their ''moral impulse,'' despite the negating effect that the rules and bureaucracy of the organization may have on this impulse (Gustafson, 2000;ten Bos, 1997). More recently, a number of researchers have argued for a more pragmatic approach, suggesting that managers should assess the morality of a claim or situation from the multitude of potential perspectives, both for ethical and strategic reasons (e.g., Crane and Matten, 2007;Rosenthal and Buchholz, 2000;ten Bos and Willmott, 2001).…”

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Stakeholder Salience Revisited: Refining, Redefining, and Refueling an Underdeveloped Conceptual Tool

2011

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“…However, Gustafson (2000) has characterized the epistemological space defined by Quadrant III as the postmodern realm where ''tough questions,'' about competing ''language games'' are posed. These tough questions explore the paradoxical linkages and tensions between subjects and objects of research, between facts and values, and between power and knowledge (See Calton and Payne, 2003, pp.…”

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Social Contracting in a Pluralist Process of Moral Sense Making: A Dialogic Twist on the ISCT

Calton

2006

J Bus Ethics

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This paper applies Wempe’s ( 2005 , Business Ethics Quarterly 15(1), 113–135) boundary conditions that define the external and internal logics for contractarian business ethics theory, as a system of argumentation for evaluating current or prospective institutional arrangements for arriving at the â€œgood life,â€\x9D based on the principles and practices of social justice. It does so by showing that a more dynamic, process-oriented, and pluralist ‘dialogic twist’ to Donaldson and Dunfee’s ( 2003 , ‘Social Contracts: sic et non’, in P. Heugens, H. van Oosterhout and J. Vromen (eds.), The Social Institutions of Capitalism: Evolution and Design of Social Contracts (Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd.) pp. 109–126; 1999 , Ties that Bind: A Social Contracts Approach to Business Ethics (Boston, MA, Harvard Business School Press); 1995 , Economics and Philosophy 11(1), 85–112; 1994 , Academy of Management Review 19(2), 252–284.) integrated social contracting theory (ISCT) of economic ethics will further develop this promising and influential approach to moral reasoning, ethical decision-making, and stakeholder governance. This evolutionary, interactive learning-based model of ethical norm generation via dialogic stakeholder engagement is particularly appropriate within economic communities that are experiencing value conflict and pressures for institutional change. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2006ISCT, discourse ethics, stakeholder dialogue, pluralist sense making processes,

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Making Sense of Postmodern Business Ethics

Cited by 4 publications

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Questioning the Domain of the Business Ethics Curriculum

Questioning the Domain of the Business Ethics Curriculum

Stakeholder Salience Revisited: Refining, Redefining, and Refueling an Underdeveloped Conceptual Tool

Social Contracting in a Pluralist Process of Moral Sense Making: A Dialogic Twist on the ISCT

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