Leadership and Business Ethics
This book seeks to contribute to a more adequate coalescence of ethics and business with innovative models for such coalescence, for the mutual benefit of business ethicists, professors teaching in the undergraduate and MBA classroom, corporate executives
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Issues in Business Ethics VOLUME 25
Series Editors Mollie Painter-Morland, De Paul University, U.S.A Wim Dubbink, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Editorial Board Brenda Almond, University of Hull, Hull, U.K. Antonio Argando˜na, IESE, Barcelona, Spain William C. Frederick, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A. Georges Enderle, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, U.S.A. Norman E. Bowie, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A. Brian Harvey, Manchester Business School, Manchester, U.K. Horst Steinmann, University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, ¨ Nurnberg, ¨ Germany
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Leadership and Business Ethics edited by
GABRIEL FLYNN Dublin City University, Mater Dei Institute, Dublin, Ireland
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Editor Gabriel Flynn Mater Dei Institute Dublin City University Clonliffe Road Dublin 3 Ireland [email protected]
ISBN: 978-1-4020-8428-7
e-ISBN: 978-1-4020-8429-4
Library of Congress Control Number: 2008926863 c 2008 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work.
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For John Bishop “Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.” (Matthew 5:5)
Acknowledgements
I wish to thank all the contributors to this book for their patience, especially Professor Patricia H. Werhane for her advice and unfailing co-operation in this venture. I thank Professor Johan Wempe for his invaluable contribution. I am grateful to Professor Robert Audi for his expert advice. I also wish to thank the members of the Research Committee of Mater Dei Institute, Dublin City University, for financial support. I acknowledge the unfailing courtesy and professionalism of Natalie Rieborn and her colleagues at Springer Science+Business Media.
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Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gabriel Flynn and Patricia H. Werhane
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Business Ethics: Europe Versus America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Dom`enec Mel´e Part I Individual Level Business Leadership Using Discernment to Make Better Business Decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Margaret Benefiel The Virtuous Manager: A Vision for Leadership in Business . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Gabriel Flynn Business Ethics Beyond the Moral Imagination: A Response to Richard Rorty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Paul T. Harper Socratic Questions and Aristotelian Answers: A Virtue-Based Approach to Business Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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