Business and Professional Ethics Journal

Abraham P. Schwab

Defining Conflicts of Interest in Terms of Judgment

以判断为视角界定利益冲突

In this study, we investigate the impact of frequent service learning on the emotional, personal development, and leadership characteristics of business students at a Catholic university in the United States. We examine the aforementioned impact of frequent service learning through a novel panel data set provided by the University’s Institute for Leadership and Service, ranging from the years 2008 through 2015. Specifically, we conduct an empirical analysis across the emotional, personal development, and leadership dimensions, and examine the too-much-of-a-good-thing (TMGT) effect of Pierce and Aguinis (2013) in relation to service learning. Our results suggest that business students experience statistically significant increases in several emotional, personal development, and leadership dimensions as the number of service learning experiences increases. We provide mixed evidence of the TMGT effect when aggregating the emotion and personal development dimensions against the number of service-learning experiences via examination of cross-dimensional averages. Our study yields implications for the optimal number of service learning projects for business schools.

Omid Sabbaghi

Gerald F. Cavanagh

J. Timothy Hipskind

Is Frequent Service-Learning a Too-Much-of-a-Good-Thing Effect?

频繁的服务学习是否是一种过犹不及的效果？

This article considers the problem of how employees and observers of business ethics behaviors often do not know how to safely and effectively engage with business ethics issues and cases. The ameliorative method of social situational business ethics framing was analyzed. Key parts of the related literature from philosophy, sociology, organizational studies, and business ethics are reviewed. A literature gap between general framing theory and business ethics was identified with respect to the need for social situational framing in business ethics at the micro individual, meso organizational, and macro institutional levels. Theoretical propositions for bridging the literature gap and a wide variety of business ethics engagement case examples are developed as illustrations of and support for the propositions. Practical social situational business ethics framing implications for safe and effective business ethics engagement are considered.

Simona Giorgi

Richard P. Nielsen

Social Situational Business Ethics Framing for Engaging with Ethics Issues

社会情境下的商业伦理框架：与伦理问题的互动

David Bevan

Kenneth E. Goodpaster

The Business Ethics Pioneers Project

商业伦理先锋项目

Is it socially responsible to price at a premium, company branded generic pharmaceuticals in emerging economies? Building toward an answer to this question, the study first describes the role of the branded generic sector in the economic success of the global pharmaceutical industry. Second, the concept of “shared value,” i.e., the link between competitive advantage (and its theoretical antecedents found in corporate reputation and signaling theory) and corporate social responsibility (CSR), is introduced and applied to the global pharmaceutical industry’s position on marketing generic pharmaceuticals. Third, an empirical evaluation ascertains whether there is sufficient shared value for this company branded generics pricing strategy to be considered “socially responsible.” Fourth, after concluding there is sufficient shared value, a discussion section offers a public/private (corporate and industry self-regulation) framework that will help ensure that safe and effective pharmaceuticals are sold to consumers in developing economies. Lastly, a summary and conclusion section completes the article.

Thomas A. Hemphill

Scott D. Johnson

Premium-Priced, Branded Generic Pharmaceuticals in Emerging Economies

新兴经济体中的高价品牌仿制药

Wendelin Küpers

Kamel Mnisri

Integrating Embodied Ethos, Pathos and Logos for Ethical Practices in Organizations in advance

整合具身伦理、情感与逻辑，推进组织中的伦理实践

Huseyin S. Kuyumcuoglu

Sweatshops, Disrespect, and Interference in advance

血汗工厂、不尊重与提前干预

Although researchers have paid much attention to the widespread cheating by students during their college careers and the possible sources behind such unethical behaviors, there has been less attention given to the unethical behaviors of faculty. Research on the types of unethical behaviors of faculty has pointed out the unique nature of higher education and the particular pressures placed on faculty as potential drivers of such behavior. In this paper, we examine the factors and underlying cognitive processes that may drive faculty to engage in such behaviors. Specifically, we identify potential drivers of faculty unethical behavior, the cognitive processes activated by these drivers, and the types of behaviors that are considered most ethically questionable among faculty as they carry out their professional roles. We conclude with research considerations and implications of faculty misconduct on the profession.

David E. Desplaces

Laura Beauvais

Avi Kay

Susan Bosco

Understanding Unprofessional Conduct of Faculty

理解教职员工的失范行为

This article presents an alternative understanding of corporations from the two problematic visions that see corporations as either the shareholders’ property or as nexuses of contracts. The alternative proposed here is based on the theories of pre-eighteenth-century philosophers, particularly Aristotle’s political philosophy, which Thomas Aquinas later refined. The article aims to advance a theory of corporate legal and moral responsibility for human rights based on the conception of corporations as imperfect communities whose purpose is to produce a good or service through participatory work that allows individuals to self-develop while contributing to the community by satisfying consumers’ needs through collaborative work. The critical account of corporations presented here provides a sound foundation upon which to build a justification of corporate responsibility for human rights violations, providing a more accurate description of the reality of a corporation than most mainstream contemporary accounts do.

Andrés Felipe López Latorre

Ulf Thoene

Corporations as Imperfect Communities

公司作为不完美的社群

Few doubt that automation and artificial intelligence will change business and society in the future. Questions arise, however, regarding the motivations associated with such expensive corporation expenditures and the related ethics of the disruption and unemployment that may result from corporation development and installation of sophisticated technology. This study analyzes financial statement data of 100 large public corporations to understand those motivations and their consequences for corporation profitability and employees. The study results indicate that a more automated future may be profitable for corporations and their shareholders, but one of the costs of that future is significant disruption to employees. While some new positions may be created as a result of this technology, many employees will suffer disruption and will need extensive training to maintain employment in an evolving workplace. Many other employees will lose their jobs because the tasks that they once performed will be automated. The related ethics to business and society are profound.

S. Douglas Beets

Nathan J. Beets

Automate, Disrupt, and Profit in advance

自动化、颠覆与提前盈利

Abbreviation	Bus. Prof. Ethics. J.
Journal Impact	0.27
Quartiles(Global)	ETHICS(Q4)

Publication Information	Publisher: Philosophy Documentation Center，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 2018，Proportion of original research papers: 100.00%，Self Citation Rate:25.00%， Gold OA Rate: 0.00%

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