2008, Vol. 13
Recent Submissions
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Aetiology and Mutability of Commodification
(Business and Organization Ethics Network (BON), 2008)Concerns over the erosion of a comprehensive public conception of morality are longstanding in political philosophy, but while some contemporary political philosophers see the relevant cause as being an increase in ... -
Managers sans Owners and not Owners sans Managers
(Business and Organization Ethics Network (BON), 2008)Drucker’s search for an alternative to both capitalism and socialism was not undertaken in isolation from others also searching for such an alternative (Mosse, 1987). Regarding those others, the proponents of a ... -
Attitude and Divergence in Business Students: An Examination of Personality Differences in Business and Non-Business Students
(Business and Organization Ethics Network (BON), 2008)Many studies have reported that economics and business students have been more apt to act in selfinterested ways when compared to their counterparts in other academic fields. It is our contention that past studies ... -
Spirituality and Ethical Behaviour in the Workplace: Wishful Thinking or Authentic Reality
(Business and Organization Ethics Network (BON), 2008)The link between religion and work is not new. For centuries, people have strived to interpret their work through religious lenses. Recently, however, a significant paradigm shift has occurred. The current view is that ... -
Promoting and Assessing Integrity in the Research Degree
(Business and Organization Ethics Network (BON), 2008)Although postgraduate research is increasingly supported through the formalisation of supervision and programs providing generic support, those programs have seldom addressed the intention, often stated by universities ... -
Ethics in Emergency Medical Services – Who Cares? An exploratory analysis from Australia
(Business and Organization Ethics Network (BON), 2008)Due to the complexity, stressfulness and often the life threatening nature of tasks that ambulance professionals have to deal with every day, ethical decision making in Emergency Services is a daily challenge. ... -
Corporate Executive Salaries – The Argument from Economic Efficiency
(Business and Organization Ethics Network (BON), 2008)The very high level and constant growth in salaries for corporate executives has been a trend causing debate for over a decade now. It has given rise to a range of arguments for and against high salary levels. The ... -
Creating Managerial Ethical Profiles: An Exploratory Cluster Analysis
(Business and Organization Ethics Network (BON), 2008)This study profiles managers according to the ethical criteria they bring to their managerial decision making. Profiling was based on exploratory cluster analysis of responses of academics & students and small business ... -
Theories on Teaching & Training in Ethics
(Business and Organization Ethics Network (BON), 2008)The paper examines the education and training of adults in ethics. It applies to courses at universities and colleges as well as in the work place. The paper explores the evidence on our ability to strengthen moral ... -
Evidence-Based Policy and Mixed Economy in Australia
(Business and Organization Ethics Network (BON), 2008)This paper examines the nature of evidence-based policy and explains how the ethic can be applied to improve the position of the firm in the mixed economy. Government participates in the mixed economy in several ... -
Using a Rhetorical Framework to Predict Corruption
(Business and Organization Ethics Network (BON), 2008)The field of rhetoric provides unique frameworks and tools for understanding the role of language in moral reasoning and corruption. Drawing on a discursive understanding of the self, we focus on how the rhetoric of ... -
New Insights in Applied and Business Ethics [Editorial]
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Manuscript Submission and Information for Authors
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Scope of Action as Scene of 'Everyday Drama' – A study in a Finnish newspaper. An institutional and critical perspective to the interpretation of empiric material
(Business and Organization Ethics Network (BON), 2008)Occupational psychology deals with the work of an individual person with all its characteristics and implications, but refrains from meddling with the structures and dynamics of the employer organization. Organizational ... -
Impressions of Questionable Marketing Practices in Indonesia: The Influence of Gender and Social Desirability Response Bias
(Business and Organization Ethics Network (BON), 2008)Our research examines the ethical sensitivity of 90 Indonesian business students (61 male and 29 female) toward questionable marketing practices using self-reported data; however, unlike most ethics research, we control ... -
How to explain socially responsible corporate actions institutionally: theoretical and methodological critique
(Business and Organization Ethics Network (BON), 2008)There has been little theoretical debate of why companies behave in socially responsible ways whilst descriptive analysis of corporate social responsibility is flourishing. As result, there have been few methodological debates ... -
Consumer Ethics Research: Reframing the Debate about Consumption for Good
(Business and Organization Ethics Network (BON), 2008)Consumer ethics is an underdeveloped specialism of business and marketing ethics, within which most publications have focused on bad rather than on good ethics, and on consumer dishonesty rather than on consumer idealism ... -
Why Enforcing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is Morally Questionable
(Business and Organization Ethics Network (BON), 2008)Docketed literature on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) exhibits heated contentions on the nature of business-society relations. This paper seeks to explore this contentious issue in the light of contemporary incorporation ... -
Understanding McDonald's Among the "World’s Most Ethical Companies"
(Business and Organization Ethics Network (BON), 2008)The animal welfare policies and related public communication initiatives of McDonald’s corporation are examined in the context of the organization being named as one of the world’s most ethical organizations. The result ... -
Proceedings of Critical Research and Responsible Business [Editorial]
(Business and Organization Ethics Network (BON), 2008)