This chapter explores the strategic role of moral capital as a driver of trust and value creation in modern organizations. As stakeholder expectations evolve amid ethical awareness and digital disruption, organizations must embed moral reasoning into core practices. Moral capital—defined as...

Moral capital represents the accumulated ethical goodwill and legitimacy that organizations cultivate through consistent value-aligned behavior, forming a critical foundation for sustainable value creation. This chapter examines the intricate relationships between moral capital, trust reserves,...

Moral hazard was originally a term used only in the field of insurance, but it has since entered capital markets, changing incentives and increasing systemic risk. This literature review confronts how information asymmetries, governance risk, and implicit guarantees create opportunism for...

What role could or should moral imagination play in managerial and corporate decision-making? This book focuses on three simple questions: why do ordinary, decent managers engage in questionable behavior? Why do successful companies ignore the ethical dimensions of their processes, decisions,...

This study examines the intricate implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on copyright law, focusing on moral rights and the future of authorship and attribution. As AI-driven technologies improve in producing high-quality art akin to human creations, conventional notions of ownership,...

This research investigates how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies shape stakeholder perceptions and funding outcomes for startups, with attention to their ethical implications. Grounded in debates within business ethics, particularly the tension between instrumental and...

Certain behaviors in markets are unambiguously unethical. In other cases, however, voluntary exchanges that can create gains from trade remain contested on moral grounds, because of what is traded or of the price at which the exchange occurs. This chapter offers a framework to analyze these...