Systems Thinking and Moral Imagination [electronic resource] : Rethinking Business Ethics with Patricia Werhane /
Bevan, David J.editor.
Wolfe, Regina W.editor.
Werhane, Patricia H.editor.
This volume brings together a selection of papers written by Patricia Werhane during the most recent quarter century. The book critically explicates the direction and development of Werhane's thinking based on her erudite and eclectic sampling of orthodox philosophical theories. It starts out with an introductory chapter setting Werhane's work in the context of the development of Business Ethics theory and practice, along with an illustrative time line. Next, it discusses possible interpretations of the papers that have been divided across a range of themes, and examines Werhane's contribution to these thematic areas. Patricia H. Werhane is a renowned author and innovator at the intersection of philosophy and Applied Business Ethics. She is professor emerita and a senior fellow at the Olsson Centre for Applied Ethics at Darden and was formerly the Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics. She is also professor emerita at DePaul University, where she was Wicklander Chair in Business Ethics and director of the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics. A prolific author whose works include Moral Imagination and Management Decision-Making and Organization Ethics for Health Care, Werhane is an acclaimed authority on employee rights in the workplace, one of the leading scholars on Adam Smith and founder and former editor-in-chief of Business Ethics Quarterly, the leading journal of Business Ethics. She was a founding member and past president of the Society for Business Ethics and, in 2001, was elected to the executive committee of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. Before joining the Darden faculty in 1993, Werhane served on the faculty of Loyola University Chicago and was a Rockefeller Fellow at Dartmouth College and Senior Fellow at Cambridge University.
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Constitutive Nature of Rules -- Chapter 2 The Normative/Descriptive Distinction in Methodologies of Business Ethics -- Chapter 3 A Theory of Moral Rights -- Chapter 4 The Compatibility of Freedom, Equality, and a Communitarian Notion of the Self -- Part II: Mental Models and Moral Imagination -- Chapter 5 Moral Imagination and the Search for Ethical Decision Making in Management -- Chapter 6 Moral Motivation Across Ethical Theories: What Can We Learn for Designing Corporate Ethics Programs? with Simone de Colle -- Chapter 7 The role of mental models in social construction with Laura Hartman, Crina Archer, Elaine Englehardt and Michael Pritchard -- Chapter 8 Globalization, mental models and decentering stakeholder approaches -- Chapter 9 Social Constructivism, Mental Models, and the Problem of Obedience with L.P. Hartman, D. Moberg, E. Englehardt, M. Pritchard, and B. Parmar -- Chapter 10 Human Rights as Social Constructions with Thomas E. Wren -- Part III: Systems Thinking -- Chapter 11 Mental Models, Moral Imagination and Systems Thinking in the Age of Globalization -- Chapter 12 Business Ethics, Organization Ethics, and Systems Ethics for Health Care -- Chapter 13 Women Leaders in a Globalized World -- Chapter 14 Building Partnerships to Create Social and Economic Value at the Base of the Global Development Pyramid with J.M. Calton, L.P. Hartman, and D. Bevan -- Part IV: Adam Smith's Contributions to Business Ethics -- Chapter 15 The role of self-interest in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations -- Chapter 16 Freedom, commodification, and the alienation of labor in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations -- Chapter 17 Business Ethics and the Origins of Contemporary Capitalism: Economics and Ethics in the Work of Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer -- Chapter 18 The Inexorable Sociality of Commerce: The Individual and Others in Adam Smith with D. Bevan -- Part V: Big Questions in Business Ethics -- Chapter 19 The Rashomon Effect -- Chapter 20 The principle of double effect and moral risk: some case studies of US transnational corporations -- Chapter 21 Obstacles to ethical decision-making in the perception of ethical context with Laura Hartman, Crina Archer, Elaine Englehardt and Michael Pritchard -- Chapter 22 The Moral Responsibility of Multinational Corporations to Be Socially Responsible -- Chapter 23 Trust after the Global Financial Meltdown with L. Hartman, C. Archer, D. Bevan and K. Clark -- Chapter 24 Employment-at-Will, Employee Rights, and Future Directions for Employment with T.J. Radin -- Chapter 25 Corporate Moral Agency and the Responsibility to Respect Human Rights in the UN Guiding Principles: Do Corporations have Moral Rights? -- References.
This volume brings together a selection of papers written by Patricia Werhane during the most recent quarter century. The book critically explicates the direction and development of Werhane's thinking based on her erudite and eclectic sampling of orthodox philosophical theories. It starts out with an introductory chapter setting Werhane's work in the context of the development of Business Ethics theory and practice, along with an illustrative time line. Next, it discusses possible interpretations of the papers that have been divided across a range of themes, and examines Werhane's contribution to these thematic areas. Patricia H. Werhane is a renowned author and innovator at the intersection of philosophy and Applied Business Ethics. She is professor emerita and a senior fellow at the Olsson Centre for Applied Ethics at Darden and was formerly the Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics. She is also professor emerita at DePaul University, where she was Wicklander Chair in Business Ethics and director of the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics. A prolific author whose works include Moral Imagination and Management Decision-Making and Organization Ethics for Health Care, Werhane is an acclaimed authority on employee rights in the workplace, one of the leading scholars on Adam Smith and founder and former editor-in-chief of Business Ethics Quarterly, the leading journal of Business Ethics. She was a founding member and past president of the Society for Business Ethics and, in 2001, was elected to the executive committee of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. Before joining the Darden faculty in 1993, Werhane served on the faculty of Loyola University Chicago and was a Rockefeller Fellow at Dartmouth College and Senior Fellow at Cambridge University.
Business ethics.
Social responsibility of busines.
Ethics.
Business Ethics.
Corporate Social Responsibility.
Moral Philosophy.