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  1. Business ethics: Conflicts, practices and beliefs of industrial executives. [REVIEW]Scott J. Vitell & Troy A. Festervand - 1987 - Journal of Business Ethics 6 (2):111 - 122.
    This paper presents the responses of 118 executives to a mail survey which examined their views of business ethics and various business practices. In addition to identifying various sources of ethical conflict, current business practices are also examined with respect to how ethical or unethical each is believed to be. Results are also presented which outline executive responses to four ethical business situations. Overall conclusions to the study are outlined, as well as future research needs.
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  • Corporations as persons: Objections to Goodpaster's 'principle of moral projection'. [REVIEW]Nani L. Ranken - 1987 - Journal of Business Ethics 6 (8):633 - 637.
    Goodpaster's principle of moral projection is intended to support a program of corporate moral improvement based on an analogy between persons and corporations. In this paper I try to show that the analogy breaks down at a crucial point — namely at the search for amotive for moral improvement. Further, the analogy may foster a tendency to suppose that corporations, like persons, have intrinsic value. I conclude that the analogy does more harm than good for the following reasons: (a) it (...)
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  • Limitations of ethical reasoning as an action (praxis) strategy.Richard P. Nielsen - 1988 - Journal of Business Ethics 7 (10):725 - 733.
    For both philosophers and managers, reasoning with ourselves and others can be used both as (1) a way of knowing what is ethical and (2) a way of acting to help ourselves, others and organizations behave ethically. However, for many of us, knowing is frequently not the same as acting. Four areas are addressed: (1) thirteen limitations of ethical reasoning as an action strategy; (2) how a better understanding of these limitations can strengthen ethical reasoning as an action strategy; (3) (...)
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  • Policies and Persons: A Casebook in Business Ethics.John Bowers Matthews, Kenneth E. Goodpaster & Laura L. Nash - 1985 - McGraw-Hill Companies.
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