The Routledge Companion to Business Ethics

Heath, Eugene; Kaldis, Byron; Marcoux, Alexei M.

doi:10.4324/9781315764818

2018

DOI: 10.4324/9781315764818

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The Routledge Companion to Business Ethics

Eugene Heath¹,

Byron Kaldis²,

Alexei M. Marcoux³

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“…Globally, similar legislative prescriptions to appoint senior managers responsible for ensuring overall compliant and ethical business conduct followed USSCGM and SOX (Marnet, 2007). Some of these include the United Kingdom Anti-Bribery Act of 2010 and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development statement about corporate bribery that was adopted in 1997 (Hanson, 2018;Stöber et al, 2019), and the King IV report on corporate governance in South Africa (Institute of Directors South Africa, 2016).…”

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Combining ethics and compliance: A systems psychodynamic inquiry into praxis and outcomes

Klerk

2021

Business Ethics Env & Resp

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The role of a senior manager responsible for managing ethics and compliance became a standard appointment globally in many larger organisations in an attempt to curb compliance failures (Christina & Fort, 2020). This role emerged in the 1980s after compliance failures resulted in legislative prescriptions to create and fill it. Today, in some organisations, ethics and compliance programmes are run separately, while most organisations tend to coalesce them conceptually and structurally (Compliance & Ethics Leadership Council [CELC], 2013;Majluf & Navarrete, 2017). However, the desirability to combine ethics and compliance has been debated for decades (Majluf & Navarrete, 2017), and remains a contested issue (Constantinescu, 2018;Sharpe, 2019).Ethics and compliance are not incompatible adversaries (Constantinescu, 2018;Paine, 1994). Nonetheless, research consistently indicates that combining ethics and compliance tends to have adverse consequences for ethics (Pérezts & Picard, 2015;Treviño et al., 2014). This raises the question: Why does the combination of ethics and compliance oversight have an unanticipated adverse effect on ethics and yet remain popular? Psychoanalysis-based approaches are increasingly called for as a theoretical framework for studying complex phenomena in behavioural ethics research (Islam, 2020). Systems psychodynamic theory is especially useful to uncover perplexing dynamics in organisational systems (Handy & Rowlands, 2017). By drawing on systems psychodynamic theory, this study enquired into unconscious complexities and drivers that may contribute to the phenomenon of adverse consequences when combining ethics and compliance while the praxis remains attractive.

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Ethical Theories in Business Ethics: A Critical Review

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2023

Journal of Human Values

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Numerous ethical theories have been proposed as a foundation of business ethics, and this often brings about appreciable perplexity. This article seeks to identify specific problems for a sound foundation of this discipline. A first problem is this multiplicity of ethical theories, each with its own metaethics, often accepted without a serious discussion of their philosophical grounds. A second problem is the fragmentation of theories; some centred on duties or obligations, others on consequences, virtues, or moral sentiments. In addition, some theories focus on universal principles, while others take the singularity of each situation as their focal point. A third problem is that not every ethical theory covers the personal, organizational and societal dimensions of business ethics, and this introduces reductionism. These problems cannot be satisfactorily addressed through ‘ethical pluralism’, in which all theories are accepted, without falling into ethical relativism. ‘Ethical pragmatism’, which welcomes any ethical theory only on the basis of their practically, is also questioned. Furthermore, there is the problem of integrating ethics into business theory, which is often extrinsic to the economic function. After analysing these problems, the article concludes by exploring some proposals that might serve to build a sound and complete ethical theory which includes human goods (objective values), principles (or norms) and virtues. The necessity of reconsidering the human action for a closer integration of ethics into business theory is also suggested.

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Ekonomia i etyka. Inspiracje konfucjańskie

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2018

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Ekonomia i etyka. Inspiracje konfucjańskie [Economics and ethics. Confucian inspirations] edited by W. Banach, M.A. Michalski, J. Sójka, „Człowiek i Społeczeństwo” vol. XLVI: Między Chinami a Zachodem. Pytanie o źródła chińskiego sukcesu gospodarczego [Between China and the West. An inquiry into the sources of the Chinese economic miracle], Poznań 2018, pp. 43–66, Adam Mickiewicz University. Faculty of Social Sciences Press. ISSN 0239-3271.The aim of this article is to assess what kind of possible inspirations for economic thinking one can expect from Confucianism. A direct challenge was issued by the work of Kazimierz Poznański who claims that Confucianism is a source of a new paradigm for economics, the one based on ethics. So the question posed in this paper is, to what extent Confucian economics, as presented by Poznański, can become an alternative view counterposed to the western liberal economics, allegedly devoid of ethical contents. To answer that question one should first analyse the relation between economics and ethics within traditional, western, liberal approach. The author of this article posits that ethical component is present within this approach and, at the same time, Confucian values are not that different as far as the goals of economic life are concerned. What is more, one can find some conceptual affinities between Confucius and Adam Smith.

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The Routledge Companion to Business Ethics

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Combining ethics and compliance: A systems psychodynamic inquiry into praxis and outcomes

Combining ethics and compliance: A systems psychodynamic inquiry into praxis and outcomes

Ethical Theories in Business Ethics: A Critical Review

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