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Handbook of the Philosophical Foundationsof Business Ethics

Christoph LuetgeEditor

Handbook of thePhilosophical Foundationsof Business Ethics

With 29 Figures and 10 Tables

EditorChristoph LuetgePeter L€oscher-Stiftungslehrstuhl f€ur WirtschaftsethikTechnische Universit€at M€unchenM€unchen, Germany

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Preface

This handbook aims to give a broad overview of the philosophical traditions,

concepts, and ideas which business ethics is rooted in.

As a research field, business ethics is not always regarded as being part of

philosophy, but can be located within different institutional and disciplinary con-

texts, like economics, management, theology, psychology, social sciences, and –

philosophy. This is not an accidental phenomenon, but rather reflects the complex

history many ideas in business ethics have undergone – before the separation of

disciplines from philosophy. Originally, most of the relevant philosophical ideas

and concepts (like justice or virtues) were inseparably intertwined with consider-

ations of – what would later be called – economic, psychological, or business

nature. Many of the great thinkers in philosophy have contributed to the philosoph-

ical foundations of business ethics in this manner, such as Aristotle, Confucius,

David Hume, Adam Smith, or Amartya Sen, to name but a few. All of them are

covered extensively in the Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of BusinessEthics, which, therefore, can also be seen as an attempt to revive the old connec-

tions between philosophy and its neighbors.

The historical dimension is complemented here with a systematic one, which

focuses on issues like human rights, property rights, gender, or free markets. In

many cases, the contributions aim at not only presenting a concept but also

reinterpreting it. This makes it inevitable for the authors to take sides. For

a handbook which covers a strongly normative discipline, this is not a bad thing;

in fact, this is what pluralistic discourse is all about: Controversy ensures the

discipline stays alive.

And controversy is to be found here in many respects. In fact, it will be almost

impossible for anyone to subscribe to all views presented here at the same time – or

only at the high risk of contradicting oneself internally. This handbook is not just

a collection of “objective” facts, but first and foremost – as I hope – thought-provoking.

Provoking thoughts is, however, not something seen as a l’art pout l’art enter-prise: Rather, the challenge lies in bringing together ethical intuitions and func-

tional requirements of modern market economies. This requires the cooperation of

all the disciplines mentioned above.

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Throughout the course of this handbook, it should become clear that controversy

in business ethics exhibits qualities quite similar to controversy in other disciplines.

And what is shown in particular: Normative questions can be taken on in a system-

atic, methodological, and, indeed, scientific way.

June 2012 Christoph Luetge

viii Preface

Editor-in-Chief

Christoph LuetgePeter L€oscher-Stiftungslehrstuhl f€ur Wirtschaftsethik

Technische Universit€at M€unchenArcisstr. 21

80333 M€unchenGermany

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Section Editors

David Bilchitz South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public,

Human Rights and International Law, University of Johannesburg, Braamfontein,

Johannesburg, South Africa

George Bragues University of Guelph-Humber, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

J. Angelo Corlett Department of Philosophy, San Diego State University,

San Diego, CA, USA

Adela Cortina Departamento de Filosofıa Moral y Polıtica, Universidad de

Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Geert Demuijnck EDHEC Business School, Roubaix, France

Campbell Jones Department of Sociology, University of Auckland, Auckland,

New Zealand

Po-Keung Ip Graduate Institute of Philosophy, National Central University,

Zhongli City, Taiwan

Aaron Levine* Yeshiva University, New York, NY, USA

Christoph Luetge Peter L€oscher Chair of Business Ethics, Technische Universit€atM€unchen, M€unchen, Germany

Tibor R. Machan R. C. Hoiles Chair in Business Ethics and Free Enterprise,

Argyros School of Business & Economics, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA

Robert W. McGee School of Business and Economics, Fayetteville State

University, Fayetteville, NC, USA

Domenec Mele IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain

Jawed Akhtar Mohammed Faculty of Business & Enterprise, Swinburne

University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Jacob Dahl Rendtorff Department of Communication, Business and Information

Technologies, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

*Deceased

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Tatjana Sch€onw€alder-Kuntze Department of Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-

Universit€at M€unchen, Munich, Germany

Michael Schramm Chair of Catholic Theology and Business Ethics, University of

Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

Katja Thierjung German Academy of Science and Engineering acatech,

M€unchen, Germany

Lindsay J. Thompson Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins

University, Baltimore, MD, USA

Jesus Zamora-Bonilla Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science,

Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain

xii Section Editors

Contents

Volume 1

Part 1 Aristotelian Foundations of Business Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

George Bragues

1 Aristotelian Business Ethics: Core Concepts and TheoreticalFoundations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

George Bragues

2 Aristotle and Business: An Inescapable Tension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Colin D. Pearce

3 Aristotle and the Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Alejo Jose G. Sison

4 Aristotle on Character Formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Edwin Hartman

5 The Empirics of Virtue Theory: What Can PsychologyTell Us About Moral Character? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Miguel Alzola

6 Virtue as a Model of Business Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Eugene Heath

Part 2 Scholastic Thought and Business Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Domenec Mele

7 Scholastic Thought and Business Ethics: An Overview . . . . . . . . . 133

Domenec Mele

8 Scholastic Business Ethics: Thomas Aquinas VersusWilliam of Ockham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Claus Dierksmeier

9 Economic and Business Ethics in Select Italian Scholastics(ca. 1200–1450) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Martin Schlag

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10 Business Ethics in the School of Salamanca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Andre Azevedo Alves and Jose Manuel Moreira

11 The Influence of Thomistic Thought in ContemporaryBusiness Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Helen Alford

Part 3 Morality and Self-Interest: From Hume and Smith toContemporary Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Christoph Luetge

12 David Hume and the Scottish Enlightenment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Gerhard Engel

13 Adam Smith on Morality and Self-Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Thomas Wells

14 Utilitarianism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Nikil Mukerji

15 Biological and Experimental Perspectives on Self-Interest:Reciprocal Altruism and Genetic Egoism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Hannes Rusch and Ulrich Frey

Part 4 Kantian and Hegelian Thoughts onModern Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Tatjana Sch€onw€alder-Kuntze

16 Kant’s Categorical Imperative and the Moral Worth ofIncreasing Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Karsten M. Thiel

17 The Figure of “Rivalry” and Its Function in Kant’s Ethics . . . . . 355

Tatjana Sch€onw€alder-Kuntze

18 Kant and Hegel on Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Andreas Eckl

19 Hegel on Modern Economics and Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Albena Neschen

20 Hegel and the French: Economical Philosophy Insteadof Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Wolf Dieter Enkelmann

Part 5 A Marxist Ethic of Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

J. Angelo Corlett

21 A Marxist Ethic of Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

J. Angelo Corlett

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Part 6 Contemporary Continental Philosophy andBusiness Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Campbell Jones

22 Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Mollie Painter-Morland

23 The Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

David Bevan

24 Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

Rene ten Bos

25 Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

Bent Meier Sørensen and Sverre Spoelstra

Volume 2

Part 7 Discourse Ethics and Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

Katja Thierjung

26 Fundamentals of Discourse Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

Katja Thierjung

27 Discourse and Normative Business Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

Peter Edward and Hugh Willmott

28 Discourse and Tractable Morality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581

Gjalt de Graaf

Part 8 Contractarianism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603

Christoph Luetge

29 The Classic Social Contract Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605

Wolfgang Kersting

30 The Modern Social Contract Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631

Lisa Herzog

31 The Idea of a Contractarian Business Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647

Christoph Luetge

Part 9 Sen’s Capabilities, Poverty and Economic Welfare . . . . . . 659

Adela Cortina

32 The Philosophical Foundations of the Capabilities Approach . . . . 661

Jesus Conill

33 The Capability Approach as Guidance for Corporate Ethics . . . . 675

Georges Enderle

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34 Capabilities, Human Rights and Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693

Adela Cortina

35 Poverty as a Lack of Freedom: A Short History of theCapability Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709

Gustavo Pereira

36 Business Contribution to Human Development from theCapabilities Approach Standpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719

Domingo Garcıa-Marza

37 Agency, Welfare, Equality, and Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731

David A. Crocker

Part 10 Justice and Business Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741

Geert Demuijnck

38 Duties of Justice in Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743

Geert Demuijnck

39 Executive Compensation and Distributive Justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761

Luc Van Liedekerke

Part 11 Jewish Foundations of Business Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775

Aaron Levine*

40 Imitatio Dei and Jewish Business Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777

Aaron Levine

Part 12 Christian Foundations of Business Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803

Michael Schramm

41 Christian Social and Business Ethics: Biblical Foundations . . . . . 805

Traugott J€ahnichen

42 Christian Metaphysics and Business Ethics: A SystematicApproach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825

Michael Schramm

43 The Traditional Christian Social Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847

Ursula Nothelle-Wildfeuer

Part 13 Islamic Foundations of Business Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871

Jawed Akhtar Mohammed

44 The Ethical System in Islam – Implications forBusiness Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873


*Deceased

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45 Business Precepts of Islam: The Lawful and UnlawfulBusiness Transactions According to Shariah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883


46 A Conceptual Framework of Business Ethics in Islam . . . . . . . . . 899


Part 14 Eastern Cultural, Philosophical and ReligiousFoundations of Business Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933

Po-Keung Ip

47 Daoism and Business Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935

Po-Keung Ip

48 Chinese Guanxi and Business Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 955

Eike A. Langenberg

49 Confucian Virtues and Business Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 983

Edward J. Romar

50 Confucian and Legalist Basis of Leadership andBusiness Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005

Kwang-Kuo Hwang

51 On Yijing as Basis of Chinese Business Ethics andManagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1027

Chung-Ying Cheng

Volume 3

Part 15 Human Rights, Globalization and Business Ethics . . . . . . 1051

David Bilchitz

52 Corporations and Fundamental Rights: What is theNature of Their Obligations, if any? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1053

David Bilchitz

53 Corporate Human Rights Violations: A Case forExtraterritorial Regulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1077

Surya Deva

54 What Are the Obligations of Those Who Investin Corporations? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1091

Bonita Meyersfeld

Part 16 Gender Issues and Business Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111

Lindsay J. Thompson

55 Framing Global Gender Issues: Cross-Cultural Theoryand Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1113

Lindsay J. Thompson

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56 Feminist Care Ethics and Business Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1129

Maurice Hamington

57 Women’s Work: Global Trends and Demographics ofWealth and Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1145

Kristen Abatsis McHenry

58 Gender Issues in Entrepreneurship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1155

Denise Kleinrichert

59 Gender Issues in Corporate Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1177

Devora Shapiro and Marilea Bramer

60 Work/Life Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1191

Erin C. Tarver

Part 17 Free Markets, Morality and Business Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . 1203

Tibor R. Machan

61 Business and Liberty: An Ethical Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1205

Tibor R. Machan

62 Pro-Market Versus Anti-Market Approaches toBusiness Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223

Nicholas Capaldi

63 Entrepreneurship and Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1239

Stephen Hicks

64 Making Room for Business Ethics: Rights as Metanorms forMarket and Moral Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1247

Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl

Part 18 Property Rights: Material and Intellectual . . . . . . . . . . . . 1261

Robert W. McGee

65 Property Rights Versus Utilitarian Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1263

Robert W. McGee

66 The Body as Property Doctrine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1275

Robert W. McGee

67 Property Rights Versus Governments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1305

Robert W. McGee

68 The Case Against Intellectual Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1325

Stephan Kinsella

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Part 19 Philosophical Issues of Management andCorporations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1359

Jacob Dahl Rendtorff

69 Basic Concepts of Philosophy of Management andof Corporations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1361


70 The History of the Philosophy of Managementand Corporations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1387


71 Philosophical Theories of Management and Corporations . . . . . . 1409


72 Recent Debates in Philosophy of Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1433


Part 20 Methodology and Business Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1457

Jesus Zamora-Bonilla

73 Moral Implications of Rational Choice Theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1459

John N. Hooker

74 Scientific Study of Morals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1477

Maria Gr€afenhain and Alex Wiegmann

75 Value Ladenness and the Value-Free Ideal in ScientificResearch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1503

Wenceslao J. Gonzalez

76 The Social Contract of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1523

J. Francisco Alvarez and Jesus Zamora-Bonilla

77 The Ethics of Statistical Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1535

Jan Sprenger and David Teira

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1551

Contents xix

List of Contributors

Helen Alford Faculty of Social Sciences, Pontifical University of St Thomas

(Angelicum), Rome, Italy

J. Francisco Alvarez Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science,


Miguel Alzola Department of Legal and Ethical Studies, Fordham University,

New York, NY, USA

Andre Azevedo Alves Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences,

GOVCOPP – University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

David Bevan Centre for Responsibility and Leadership, China Europe Interna-

tional Business School (CEIBS), Shanghai, Peoples’ Republic of China

David Bilchitz South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public,

Human Rights and International Law, University of Johannesburg, Braamfontein,

Johannesburg, South Africa

George Bragues University of Guelph-Humber, Toronto, ON, Canada

Marilea Bramer Department of Philosophy,Minnesota State UniversityMoorhead,

Moorhead, MN, USA

Nicholas Capaldi College of Business Administration, Loyola University, New

Orleans, LA, USA

Chung-Ying Cheng Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaii at Manoa,

Honolulu, HI, USA

Jesus Conill Departamento de Filosofıa Moral y Polıtica, Universidad de Valen-

cia, Valencia, Spain

J. Angelo Corlett Department of Philosophy, San Diego State University, San

Diego, CA, USA

Adela Cortina Departamento de Filosofıa Moral y Polıtica, Universidad de

Valencia, Valencia, Spain

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David A. Crocker School of Public Policy, Institute for Philosophy & Public

Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

Geert Demuijnck EDHEC Business School, Roubaix, France

Surya Deva School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong,

Hong Kong, China

Claus Dierksmeier Global Ethic Institute Academic Director of The Humanistic

Management Center, T€ubingen, Germany

Andreas Eckl Institut f€ur Philosophie, Goethe-Universit€at, Frankfurt Main,

Germany

Peter Edward Newcastle University Business School, Newcastle, UK

Georges Enderle Department of Marketing, Mendoza College of Business,

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA

Gerhard Engel Seminar f€ur Philosophie, Braunschweig, Germany

Wolf Dieter Enkelmann Institut f€ur Wirtschaftsgestaltung, Munich, Germany

Ulrich Frey Center for Philosophy and the Foundations of Science, Justus-Liebig-

University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Domingo Garcıa-Marza Filosofıa y Sociologıa, University Jaume I of Castellon,

Castellon, Spain

Wenceslao J. Gonzalez Faculty of Humanities, University of A Coruna, Ferrol,

Spain

Gjalt de Graaf Faculty of Social Sciences, VUUniversity Amsterdam, Amsterdam,

The Netherlands

Maria Gr€afenhain Department of Developmental Psychology, Georg-Elias-

M€uller Institute of Psychology, University of G€ottingen, G€ottingen, Germany

Maurice Hamington Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO, USA

Edwin Hartman Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University,

New York, NY, USA

Eugene Heath Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at New

Paltz, New Paltz, NY, USA

Lisa Herzog Fachbereich Philosophie, School of Humanities and Social Sciences,

Universit€at St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Stephen Hicks Department of Philosophy, The Center for Ethics and Entrepre-

neurship, Rockford College, Rockford, IL, USA

John N. Hooker Tepper School of Business, CarnegieMellon University, Pittsburgh,

PA, USA

xxii List of Contributors

Kwang-Kuo Hwang Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University,

Taipei, Taiwan

Po-Keung Ip Graduate Institute of Philosophy, National Central University,

Zhongli City, Taiwan

Traugott J€ahnichen Ruhr-Universit€at Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Campbell Jones Department of Sociololgy, University of Auckland, Auckland,

New Zealand

Wolfgang Kersting Philosophisches Seminar, Christian-Albrechts-Universit€at zuKiel, Kiel, Germany

Stephan Kinsella Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom, Houston, TX, USA

Denise Kleinrichert Management/Ethics, San Francisco State University, College

of Business, San Francisco, CA, USA

Eike A. Langenberg School of Economics & Management, Tongji University,

Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Aaron Levine* Yeshiva University, New York, NY, USA

Luc Van Liedekerke University of Antwerp and Center for Economics and

Ethics, KU Leuven, Antwerp, Belgium

Christoph Luetge Peter L€oscher Chair of Business Ethics, Technische Universit€atM€unchen, Munich, Germany

Tibor R. Machan R. C. Hoiles Chair in Business Ethics and Free Enterprise,

Argyros School of Business & Economics, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA

RobertW.McGee School of Business and Economics, Fayetteville State University,

Fayetteville, NC, USA

Kristen Abatsis McHenry Department of Political Science, University of

Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA

Bent Meier Sørensen Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy,

Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark

Domenec Mele IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain

Bonita Meyersfeld School of Law, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University

of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Jawed Akhtar Mohammed Faculty of Business & Enterprise, Swinburne Uni-

versity of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

*Deceased

List of Contributors xxiii

Jose Manuel Moreira Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences,

GOVCOPP – University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

Nikil Mukerji Technische Universit€at M€unchen, Munich, Germany

Albena Neschen University of Applied Sciences in Bergisch Gladbach, FHDW,

Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

Seminar of Corporate Development and Business Ethics, University of Cologne,

Cologne, Germany

Ursula Nothelle-Wildfeuer Theologische Fakult€at, AB Christliche

Gesellschaftslehre, Albert-Ludwigs-Universit€at Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Mollie Painter-Morland Department of Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago,

IL, USA

Colin D. Pearce Department of Political Science, Clemson Institute for the Study

of Capitalism, Clemson, SC, USA

Gustavo Pereira Department of Practical Philosophy, Universidad de la

Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay

Douglas B. Rasmussen St. John’s University, New York, NY, USA

Jacob Dahl Rendtorff Department of Communication, Business and Information

Technologies, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

Edward J. Romar College of Management, University of Massachusetts Boston,

Boston, MA, USA

Hannes Rusch Center for Philosophy and the Foundations of Science, Justus-

Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Peter L€oscher Chair of Business Ethics, Technische Universit€at M€unchen, Munich,

Germany

Martin Schlag Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy

Tatjana Sch€onw€alder-Kuntze Department of Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-

Universit€at M€unchen, Munich, Germany

Michael Schramm Chair of Catholic Theology and Business Ethics, University of

Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

Devora Shapiro Department of Philosophy, Southern Oregon University,

Ashland, OR, USA

Alejo Jose G. Sison Philosophy Department, University of Navarre, Pamplona,

Spain

Sverre Spoelstra Department of Business Administration, Lund University,

Lund, Sweden

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Jan Sprenger Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Tilburg

University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Erin C. Tarver Department of Philosophy, Georgetown College, Georgetown,

KY, USA

David Teira Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science, UNED,

Madrid, Spain

Rene ten Bos Department of Management Sciences, Radboud University,

Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Karsten M. Thiel Department of Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit€atM€unchen, Munich, Germany

Katja Thierjung German Academy of Science and Engineering acatech,

M€unchen, Germany

Lindsay J. Thompson Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins

University, Baltimore, MD, USA

Douglas J. Den Uyl Liberty Fund Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA

Thomas Wells Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus

University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Alex Wiegmann Department of Cognitive Science and Decision Making,

Georg-Elias-M€uller Institute of Psychology, University of G€ottingen, G€ottingen,Germany

Hugh Willmott Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

Jesus Zamora-Bonilla Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science,


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