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Virtue in business: Alliance Boots and an Empirical Exploration of MacIntyre’s conceptual framework,

Moore, G.

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This paper contextualises before summarising a conceptual framework for virtue ethics in organizations that has been developed by drawing upon the work of the moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. Conducting empirical work with this framework is at an embryonic stage and so, having discussed methodological issues, the paper reports on findings from a longitudinal case study-based research project into the private equity owned organization Alliance Boots. It demonstrates the applicability of the conceptual approach and hence the presence of practices and virtues even within capitalist business organisations. It makes theoretical advances particularly in the relationship between internal and external goods. It proposes a mapping for virtue in organizations and uses this to conduct an organizational analysis of Alliance Boots and its predecessor organizations. The paper thus makes both theoretical and empirical contributions to our knowledge in the area of applied virtue ethics.

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Moore, G. (2012). Virtue in business: Alliance Boots and an Empirical Exploration of MacIntyre’s conceptual framework,. Organization Studies, 33(3), 363-387. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840611435599

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Mar 1, 2012
Deposit Date Jan 23, 2012
Publicly Available Date Mar 21, 2012
Journal Organization Studies
Print ISSN 0170-8406
Electronic ISSN 1741-3044
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 33
Issue 3
Pages 363-387
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840611435599
Keywords Virtue ethics, MacIntyre, Alliance Boots, Organizational purpose, Success-excellence.
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1498335

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