Philosophy and Business Ethics: Organizations, CSR and Moral Practice

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This book explores the relationship between philosophy and business ethics. Academics and practitioners often muse about the ethical and moral aspect of management and business actions, but these studies can lack a deeper philosophical grounding. Contributors to this volume challenge this gap by applying different philosophical paradigms and theories to business management issues. The territory covered by the contributions collected in this book spans from the foundations of business management literature itself, to the role of philosophy in new business models and technology; from the way philosophical theory can explain – and encourage – ethical firm behaviour, to the political stance that an organization takes. Contributors take a holistic approach to business and management, bringing together real-world examples and rich academic theory, creating an interdisciplinary volume, with international authors. Covering important topics such as corporate social responsibility, sustainability, leadership, and stakeholder relations, this book will be of interest to academics working in the field of business ethics, philosophy and management studies. Contents 1 Investigating the Philosophical Foundations of Management and Business • Guglielmo Faldetta, Edoardo Mollona, and Massimiliano Matteo Pellegrini Part I: Philosophical Foundations and Normative Approaches for Business Management 2 What Should Business Ethics Be? Aims,Methodology, Substance • Brian Berkey 3 Philosophical Challenges in Development of Ethical Perspective in Business • Dušan Kučera 4 Redefining Stakeholder Censuses and Typologies: A New Approach • Miguel Ángel Serrano de Pablo and José Luis Fernández-Fernández 5 Empirical Research in Virtue Ethics: In Search of a Paradigm • Patricia Grant and Peter McGhee 6 Aristotelian Flourishing for a Virtuous Business Vision: The Philosophical Wisdom as a Strategic Tool for an Effective Change in the Management • Francesca Zimatore and Luca Greco 7 Catholic Social Teaching as a Foundation for Business Ethics • Domènec Melé 8 Ideas of Organization and Ideas of Justice • Massimo Neri 9 How to Ground Corporate Governance Practice on African Ethics • Diana-Abasi Ibanga Part II: Philosophical Explanations for Systemic, Organizational, and Social Mechanisms 10 Care Ethics in the Era of Artificial Intelligence • Carolina Villegas-Galaviz and José-Luis Fernández-Fernández 11 Three Rival Versions ofWork and Technology: Smith, Marx, and MacIntyre in Discussion • Javier Pinto-Garay, Germán Scalzo, and Ignacio Ferrero 12 Relational Ontology for an Ethics of Work Relationships • Anna Marrucci, Cristiano Ciappei, Lamberto Zollo, and Riccardo Rialti 13 Towards a Scale of Islamic Work Ethic: Validation from Middle Eastern Countries • Mohammed Aboramadan, Khalid Dahleez, Mosab I. Tabash, Wasim Alhabil, Mohamad Ayesh Almhairat, Kawtar Ouchane, and Caterina Farao 14 Extending Amartya Sen’s Paretian Liberal Paradox to a Firm’s Hierarchy • Massimiliano Vatiero 15 Reinforcing or Slackening the Spiral of Deviance: The Role of the Personal Norm of Reciprocity • Deborah Gervasi and Guglielmo Faldetta 16 The Cancer of Corruption: A Philosophical and Ethical Perspective • Flor Silvestre Gerardou, Blanca Viridiana Guizar Moran, Royston Meriton, and Anthony Brown Part III: Philosophical Explanations for Political Action of the Organization 17 The Pathology of Corporate Power • Jeffrey Bone 18 Organizing Resistance: DiY as Ethical and Political Praxis • Luigi Maria Sicca, Maria Auriemma, and Domenico Napolitano 19 The Aristotelian Commutative Justice and The Management of the Firm’s Stakeholder Relations • Roberta Troisi and Luigi Enrico Golzio 20 Restorative Justice and Sustainable Development: A Preview of Holistic and Systemic ContextualChange • Nikos Valance 21 Uncovering the Dialogical Dimension of Corporate Responsibility: Towards a Transcendental Approach to Economics, with an Application to the Circular Economy • Giancarlo Ianulardo, Aldo Stella, and Roberta De Angelis 22 Power, Authority, and Leadership: A Proposal for Organizational Theory in the Post-Bureaucratic Era • Lucía Ciardi and Germán Scalzo