Survey of Theories Employed in Business Ethics
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چکیده
In this report, I will survey the dominant theories employed in the academic subdiscipline of business ethics, describing and critiquing each one. By “theories” I mean not only the various philosophical approaches which inform discourse and research in this field, but also the alternative paradigms to which those approaches pertain according to the following schema. I will adopt for this survey the nomenclature proposed by William Shaw (1996) in his survey of business ethics, which is one of the most recent in the literature and, additionally, illustrative of certain misconceptions regarding alternative ethical paradigms. Shaw distinguishes among three rival orientations, or three different ways of conceptualizing research and pedagogy, in business ethics: 1) the standard, or individual moral decision, model; 2) the politics model; and 3) the virtue model. I will comment on Shaw's categories as well as on some of the specific theoretical currents he identifies. SURVEY OF THEORIES EMPLOYED IN BUSINESS ETHICS
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