In this research, we demonstrate that business sustainability can be a model to foster in order to reach real development, as it is shown that business sustainability has both an ethical and economic logic. Even though, from an ethical point of view, sustainability can be well-founded on human...

Gestützt auf den ordonomischen Ansatz geht dieser Aufsatz fünf Fragen nach: 1. Was ist Kriegspropaganda? 2. Warum ist sie erfolgreich? 3. Wie schlägt sie sich im aktuellen Diskurs zum Ukraine-Konflikt als Mainstream-Narrativ nieder? 4. Wie ist dieses Mainstream-Narrativ strukturiert? 5. Wie...

Dieser Artikel geht aus einer ordonomischen Perspektive vier Fragen nach. Sie lauten: 1. Was genau ist unter einer Diskursblockade oder einem Diskursversagen zu verstehen? 2. Was sind geeignete Maßnahmen gegen Diskursversagen? 3. Wo genau versagt der Ukraine-Diskurs? 4. Wie lauten – für...

Dieser Artikel erläutert die Grundzüge einer ordonomischen Wirtschaftsethik sowie einer in diesen Theorierahmen eingepassten ordonomischen Unternehmensethik. Gestützt auf diesen integrativen Ansatz werden sodann drei Management-Kompetenzen identifiziert, die eine akademische Ausbildung für...

In more and more situations, artificially intelligent algorithms have to model humans' (social) preferences on whose behalf they increasingly make decisions. They can learn these preferences through the repeated observation of human behavior in social encounters. In such a context, do...

With Big Data, decisions made by machine learning algorithms depend on training data generated by many individuals. In an experiment, we identify the effect of varying individual responsibility for the moral choices of an artificially intelligent algorithm. Across treatments, we manipulated the...

Using an incentivized online classroom experiment, we assess the effectiveness of deontological vs. consequentialist moral reminders. Participants were told that they are the responsible public servant for acquiring a Covid-19 vaccine, providing them with the opportunity to generate some extra...

What is ethics and how is it related to the legal system and to economics? Are there ethical values in Jewish Law, and could it be that we find in the writing of Hazal [the sages] an interest in job turnover? The purpose of this paper is to answer to those questions by focusing on a specific...

Using an incentivized online classroom experiment, we assess the effectiveness of deontological vs. consequentialist moral reminders. Participants were told that they are the responsible public servant for acquiring a Covid-19 vaccine, providing them with the opportunity to generate some extra...

We consider a private sector job that offers high-powered incentives and two public sector jobs that produce an identical public good, but only one of them offers opportunities for corruption. Our theoretical predictions relate occupation and effort choices, in these three jobs, to preferences...

This paper presents novel stylized facts about the global variation in universalism, leveraging nationally representative surveys across 60 countries (N=64,000). We find large variation in universalism within and across countries, which almost entirely reflects heterogeneity in people's moral...

Kirchliche Arbeitgeber diskriminieren ihre Beschäftigten und Bewerber nach Merkmalen, nach denen andere Arbeitsgeber es nicht dürfen und meist auch nicht mehr wollen. Denn die Kirchen schaden sich damit vor allem selbst, während die Diskriminierten inzwischen anderswo willkommen sind und gute...

This paper argues that Quaker business ethics can be understood as a MacIntyrean tradition. To do so, it draws on three key MacIntyrean concepts: community, compartmentalisation, and the critique of management. The emphasis in Quaker business ethics on finding unity, as well as the emphasis that...

Moral preferences, very broadly speaking, permeate a growing variety of economic decision contexts. This paper develops a general theory of the utility maximizing agent who simultaneously assesses the moral and wealth outcomes of a given choice. The core of the preference criteria is a duality...

This paper compares Adam Smith and Confucius’s view on morality through a comparative analysis of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Analects of Confucius. Smith and Confucius both base their theory of morality upon their theory of sympathy. Whereas Smith introduces the role of an...

Carl Menger advanced a narrow definition of exact or theoretical economics. Theoretical economics is the study of the self-interested aspect of human efforts made to meet needs. One implication of this definition, Menger argues, is a strict demarcation between ethics and economics. Menger...

Insider trading is regarded as an unethical practice that promotes insiders’ self-interests at the expense of uninformed traders. We investigate the association between a chief executive officer (CEO)’s marital status and her tendency to profit from insider trading. We argue that marriage...

This paper summarizes the results of 28 studies that were published between 2010 and 2020 on the ethics of bribery. The following 34 political jurisdictions are included: Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Egypt, England, Ethiopia, France,...

This paper provides the first detailed legal and policy analysis of the EU ethics system existing within and across EU institutions.It focuses on both substantive ethics standards - applicable before, while in office and after - and their oversight institutional systems, via an...

This paper examines the moral economy of American California during the 1850s with respect to large property claims, particularly Mexican grants. I argue that efforts to void these grants using the law of fraud can be understood as a legal method of redistributing property within white settler...

Purpose: Grounded in the theoretical concepts of utilitarianism and deontology, this paper aims to evaluate the issue of child labour from an ethics perspective. By linking utilitarianism with normative stakeholder theory, relevant stakeholder groups are being identified in order to examine...

This study examines suppliers’ decision-making regarding supply chain ethics and transparency using an agent-based model with Q-learning agents. A supplier may not accurately identify the demand for its product because the impact of supply chain ethics on the market is opaque. Thus, we define...

A critical review of the potential for Practice Direction 57AC in the UK to reform the process for the preparation of witness statements in the Business and Property Courts of England and Wales to avoid the corruption of witness memory

Virtue accounts of innovation ethics have recognized the virtue of creativity as an admirable trait in innovators. However, such accounts have not paid sufficient attention to the way creativity functions as a collective phenomenon. We propose a collective virtue account to supplement existing...

Much has been written about the general moral duty to love one’s neighbors. In this article, I explore the specific application of this moral duty in the work setting. I argue from a secular perspective that individuals have the moral duty to love their stakeholders. Loving one’s...

To commemorate 40 years since the founding of the Journal of Business Ethics, the editors in chief of the journal have invited the editors to provide commentaries on the future of business ethics. This essay comprises a selection of commentaries aimed at creating dialogue around the theme...