Ethical Blindness
Many models of (un)ethical decision making assume that people decide rationally and are in principle able to evaluate their decisions from a moral point of view. However, people might behave unethically without being aware of it. They are ethically blind. Adopting a sensemaking approach, we argue th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2012
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| In: |
Journal of business ethics
Year: 2012, Volume: 109, Issue: 3, Pages: 323-338 |
| Further subjects: | B
Rigid framing
B Bounded awareness / ethicality B Ethical fading B unethical behavior / Ethical B ethical decision-making B Moral Disengagement |
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| Summary: | Many models of (un)ethical decision making assume that people decide rationally and are in principle able to evaluate their decisions from a moral point of view. However, people might behave unethically without being aware of it. They are ethically blind. Adopting a sensemaking approach, we argue that ethical blindness results from a complex interplay between individual sensemaking activities and context factors. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-1130-4 |