RT Article
T1 Positioning Business Ethics in Relation to Management and Political Philosophy
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 24
IS 3
SP 257
OP 272
A1 Kaler, John
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2000
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1785613812
AB This paper attempts to mediate between the extremes of a managerial conception of business ethics which subordinates it to management and a political conception which subordinates it to political philosophy. The mediated position arrived at sees the central focus of business ethics in the intersection of micro-managerial concerns with macro-political ones provided by the task of determining morally optimum forms of business. Involvement with the macro rules out subordination to management while, conversely, involvement with the micro rules out subordination to political philosophy. Moreover, such is the (increasing) social importance of business, that business ethics can have at least co-equal explanatory status with political philosophy as a discipline.
K1 Political Philosophy
K1 Political
K1 micro
K1 Meso
K1 managerial
K1 Management
K1 macro
K1 Business Ethics
K1 Academic Discipline
DO 10.1023/A:1006298119758