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Humanizing business: a modern virtue ethics approach

Moore, G.

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The paper begins by exploring whether a "tendency to avarice" exists in most capitalist business organisations. It concludes that it does and that this is problematic. The problem centres on the potential threat to the integrity of human character and the disablement of community. What, then, can be done about it? Building on previous work (Moore, 2002) in which Macintyre's notions of practice and institution were explored (Maclntyre, 1985), the paper offers a philosophically based argument in favour of the rediscovery of craftsmanship by those who work in business organisations, and the exercise of craftsmanship in community. The practical implications for individuals of this way of conceptualising business, and the virtues which must then come to the fore, are discussed.

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Moore, G. (2005). Humanizing business: a modern virtue ethics approach. Business Ethics Quarterly, 15(2), 237-255

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Apr 1, 2005
Deposit Date Aug 26, 2008
Publicly Available Date Apr 27, 2010
Journal Business Ethics Quarterly
Print ISSN 1052-150X
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 15
Issue 2
Pages 237-255
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1562850
Publisher URL http://secure.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/toc?openform&journal=pdc_beq&yearrange=2000%20-%202010&category=0015_0002_2005#

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