Business Ethics

Privacy, Online Advertising and Marketing Techniques: The Paradoxical Disappearance of the User

by Vian Bakir

Co-written with Andy McStay. Published in Ethical Space: the International Journal of Communication Ethics, 3(1), (2006)

The critiques literatures on new media and cybercultures, online privacy regulation, and online marketing techniques... more The critiques literatures on new media and cybercultures, online privacy regulation, and online marketing techniques to explore their effacement of users.

אתיקה ניהולית מהיבט מיגדרי: דמיון ושוני בין מנהלות למנהלים בשיפוט המוסרי

by Ronit Kark

Miller, Y., Kark, R & Zohar, N. (2012). Managerial ethics from a gendered perception: The ethics of women and men managers in feminine and masculine organizational contexts. Megamot, 2, 273-308. (In Hebrew).

מחקר זה בוחן את מאפייני השיפוט המוסרי של מנהלות ומנהלים בזירה הארגונית ואת מקומה של האתיקה של הדאגה, המיוחסת בספרות... more מחקר זה בוחן את מאפייני השיפוט המוסרי של מנהלות ומנהלים בזירה הארגונית ואת מקומה של האתיקה של הדאגה, המיוחסת בספרות לנשים, בחשיבה הניהולית. במסגרת המחקר נחקרו השאלות הבאות: האם קיימים הבדלים מיגדריים בשיפוט המוסרי בקרב בעלי תפקידים ניהוליים? אם כן, באילו מצבים הם מתקיימים? מה משקל מאפייני הארגון בעיצוב השיפוט המוסרי? המחקר בחן הבדלים באוריינטציות המוסריות של המנהלות והמנהלים, מתוך הכרה בלגיטימציה של תפיסות אתיות שונות אך שקולות בערכן. זאת בשונה מרוב המחקרים בתחום, שבחנו הבדלים ב"רמה המוסרית"—בהניחם שיש כביכול פרספקטיבה מוסרית יחידה, מוסכמת ומחייבת. הגישה המחקרית הייתה איכותנית-פרשנית. 50 מנהלות ומנהלים משירותי בריאות ורווחה ומבנקים, רואיינו בקשר לאופן בו הם תופסים ומתמודדים עם דילמות אתיות במסגרת תפקידיהם. התוצאות הראו כי הן המיגדר והן ההקשר הארגוני מעצבים את האופן בו מנהלים
מנהלות מבינים ומתמודדים עם דילמות אתיות בעבודתם, כאשר לנשוא הדילמה (כגון לקוח או דמות סמכות) ולמשתנים מצביים (כגון: עמימות) השפעה על השיפוט האתי. בנוסף, מדגיש המחקר את האופן בו האתיקה של הדאגה, שלטענת חוקרות פמיניסטיות הודרה מהשיח על האתיקה הארגונית, למרות חשיבותה, משמשת מודל ראוי להבנת השיפוט המוסרי הניהולי.

“My Country’s Future”: A Culture-Centered Interrogation of Corporate Social Responsibility in India

by Rahul Mitra

Journal of Business Ethics (2012), Volume 106, issue 2, 131-147.

Companies operating and located in emerging economy nations routinely couch their corporate social responsibility... more Companies operating and located in emerging economy nations routinely couch their corporate social responsibility (CSR) work in nation-building terms. In this article, I focus on the Indian context and critically examine mainstream CSR discourse from the perspective of the culture-centered approach (CCA). Accordingly, five main themes of CSR stand out: nation-building facade, underlying neoliberal logics, CSR as voluntary, CSR as synergetic, and a clear urban bias. Next, I outline a CCA-inspired CSR framework that allows corporate responsibility to be re-claimed and re-framed by subaltern communities of interest. I identify such resistive openings via interrogations of culture (I focus on oft-cited Gandhian ethics here), structure (State policy, organizational strategy, and global/local flows), and agency (subaltern reframing of institutional responsibility, engagement with alternative modes of agency, and deconstructive vigilance).

The modern business corporation and an ethics of trust

by Stewart Herman

Ethical Management Education in Brazil

by Gazi Islam

Greed and the Crisis

by Antti Kauppinen

Public lecture given at the Policy Institute, Trinity College Dublin, May 10, 2012.

Is the global economic crisis the result of a moral crisis? Yes, in part. If we distinguish between prudence or... more Is the global economic crisis the result of a moral crisis? Yes, in part. If we distinguish between prudence or healthy pursuit of self-interest and greed or excessive pursuit of material self-interest, untempered by what is due to others, and look at how the crisis came about, we can see that institutional and individual greed has indeed contributed to the problems we're facing. Had institutions and individuals constrained their maximization of profit in accordance with their proper social function and the requirements of fair competition, many ill-advised risks would have remained untaken. In the final section, I make a few proposals as to how to tame the daughters of avarice.

Comparison of Engagement with Ethics between an Engineering and a Business Program

by Ishwar Puri

Amazon Closed Captioning Formal Report

by Lee Wilson

In the paper we were given a task to come up with an ethical concern with an international company. This paper treats... more In the paper we were given a task to come up with an ethical concern with an international company. This paper treats our company as an ethical solution company coming into the scenario that Amazon does not have closed captioning on their instant stream and is considered an ethical concern.

Summary of current research and future research plans

by Katharine Schweitzer

Learning the Hard Way

by STAMATIA KREMMYDA

published in 'Insight, Edinburgh University Economics Magazine', page 30

Competence Management in High-Technology Organizations

by Matthew Jelavic

Jelavic, M. (2011). Competence management in high-technology organizations. Canadian Manager, 36(1), 21 – 22.

The Neurobiology of Experience: Memory-Prediction and Its Role in the Management Decision-Making Process

by Matthew Jelavic

Jelavic, M., & Vincenti, M. (2012). The Neurobiology of Experience: Memory-Prediction and Its Role in the Management Decision-Making Process. Canadian Manager, 36(4), 26 – 27.

Conflicts of Interest: Whose, What, Why and How

by Diana Constantinescu

Opinion piece resulted from the UCL Centre for Law&Ethics Think Tank, 25 April 2012

Nowadays we treat conflicts of interests as insurmountable obstacles, as wars where someone always gets hurt, as... more Nowadays we treat conflicts of interests as insurmountable obstacles, as wars where someone always gets hurt, as disrupting tragedies. We often forget how all-pervading, inescapable, an inherently human they are. As long as we are not Robinson Crusoes and we live in societies, our interests will always clash. Conflicts of interest are a part of our society. And even in Robinson Crusoe’s heart, you’ll find conflicting desires and choices to be made, as this is what distinguishes us as human beings, from instinct-driven animals. What I wish to argue here is that we can treat conflicts of interests less tragically and we can focus instead on finding practical solutions to them, if we clearly define from the beginning about what kind of things they are, and what they are not.

Kant Concept Art

by Mark Singer

Tandem works include: "Seminal Ethics," "More Seminal Ethics Implications," "Addendum - More Seminal Ethics Implications" - also on this site.

The artist is P. Patten (USA).

Seminal Ethics

by Mark Singer

Tandem works include: "Kant Concept Art," "More Seminal Ethics Implications," "Addendum - More Seminal Ethics Implications" - also on this site.

Additional implications include: moral, epistemology, love, happiness, time and space, psychological, art, education, medical, economic, war, capital punishment, abortion, and possibility.

Portraits in the Mind

by Mark Singer

"Portraits in the Mind" - composed mostly of art - is based on research at Kendall College of Art & Design (USA) in which this new link was discovered:

> 1:10 art students reported synaesthesia

> 1:3 of the above demographic reported co-consciousness.

Discovering Your Ethical Core

by Mark Singer

Related works include: "Seminal Ethics," "Kant Concept Art," "More Seminal Ethics Implications," "Addendum - More Seminal Ethics Implications" - also on this site.

It's All About Love (Synopsis)

by Mark Singer

Can we organize courage? Implications from Foucault's Parrhesia.

by Wim Vandekerckhove

co-authored with Suzan Langenberg
accepted for publication in Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies (EJBO)

Ethics in organizations, raising concerns, and whistleblowing have been previously theorized through Foucault’s work... more Ethics in organizations, raising concerns, and whistleblowing have been previously theorized through Foucault’s work on the power/knowledge bond. However, approaching these issues through the work from Foucault’s third period on parrhesia, or fearless speech remains an underdeveloped route.
This paper contributes to this emerging research stream. Based on Foucault’s work on parrhesia, and the importance of courage for fearless speech to occur, we theorize the possibility of critique within organizations as a moment of disorganizing, which requires a chain of parrhesia where not only the speaker but also the hearer requires courage.
The paper examines the possibility and risks of organizing courage through three illustrations of ethical guidelines, whistleblowing, and open dialogue.

Keywords: parrhesia, whistleblowing, business ethics, courage

Max Weber's Protestant Ethic: Do Protestants Work More?

by Uzair Mughal

"This paper uses a 1975-76 Time Use Study to explore Max Weber’s claim that Protestants work more than... more "This paper uses a 1975-76 Time Use Study to explore Max Weber’s claim that Protestants work more than non-Protestants holds true in the given dataset. We used the data available from four days of time diaries kept by 1519 households which had details like total work time, sleep time and whether Protestant or not. Our tests show that Weber’s famed “Protestant Ethic” holds true in this case. There is a positive correlation between Protestantism and total work time, which is economically and statistically significant."