28 Result(s)

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How to Assess Multiple-Value Accounting Narratives from a Value Pluralist Perspective? Some Metaethical Criteria

Nowadays businesses are often expected to create not just financial, but multiple kinds of value—and they report on this using numbers and narratives. Multiple-value accounting narratives, such as those requir...

Bastiaan van der Linden, Andrew C. Wicks, R. Edward Freeman in Journal of Business Ethics (2024)

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Existentialist Perspectives on the Problem and Prevention of Moral Disengagement

We bring the distinct and complementary existentialist perspectives of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir to bear on the phenomenon of moral disengagement in managerial decision-making. Existentialist thi...

Helet Botha, R. Edward Freeman in Journal of Business Ethics (2023)

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The “Business Sucks” Story

The purpose of this essay is to suggest that one of the dominant modes of thought in our society is a profound mistrust and misunderstanding of the role of business. A dominant myth in society is that business...

R. Edward Freeman in Humanistic Management Journal (2018)

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Practicing Human Dignity: Ethical Lessons from Commedia dell’Arte and Theater

The paper considers two main cases of how the creative arts can inform a greater appreciation of human dignity. The first case explores a form of theater, Commedia dell’Arte that has deep roots in Italian cult...

Simone de Colle, R. Edward Freeman, Bidhan Parmar… in Journal of Business Ethics (2017)

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Leveraging the Creative Arts in Business Ethics Teaching

The purpose of this paper is to describe a way of teaching business ethics using the creative arts, especially literature and theater. By drawing on these disciplines for both method and texts, we can more eas...

R. Edward Freeman, Laura Dunham, Gregory Fairchild… in Journal of Business Ethics (2015)

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Scandinavian Cooperative Advantage: The Theory and Practice of Stakeholder Engagement in Scandinavia

In this article, we first provide evidence that Scandinavian contributions to stakeholder theory over the past 50 years play a much larger role in its development than is presently acknowledged. These contribu...

Robert Strand, R. Edward Freeman in Journal of Business Ethics (2015)

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Values and Poetic Organizations: Beyond Value Fit Toward Values Through Conversation

In the midst of greed, corruption, the economic crash and the general disillusionment of business, current conceptions of leadership, organizational values, and authenticity are being questioned. In this artic...

Ellen R. Auster, R. Edward Freeman in Journal of Business Ethics (2013)

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Stakeholder Theory, Fact/Value Dichotomy, and the Normative Core: How Wall Street Stops the Ethics Conversation

A review of the stakeholder literature reveals that the concept of “normative core” can be applied in three main ways: philosophical justification of stakeholder theory, theoretical governing principles of a f...

Lauren S. Purnell, R. Edward Freeman in Journal of Business Ethics (2012)

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Values, Authenticity, and Responsible Leadership

The recent financial crisis has prompted questioning of our basic ideas about capitalism and the role of business in society. As scholars are calling for “responsible leadership” to become more of the norm, or...

R. Edward Freeman, Ellen R. Auster in Journal of Business Ethics (2011)

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Managing for Stakeholders: Trade-offs or Value Creation

R. Edward Freeman in Journal of Business Ethics (2010)

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Creating Ties That Bind

The work of Donaldson and Dunfee (Ties That Bind: A Social Contracts Approach to Business Ethics, 1999) offers an example of how normative and descriptive approaches to business ethics ca...

R. Edward Freeman, Jared D. Harris in Journal of Business Ethics (2009)