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Virtue of governance: the governance of virtue

Moore, G.

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The current economic and preceding financial crises seem to provide evidence in favour of the self-destruction thesis of capitalism. Responses to the crisis have been polarised. Some suggest that regulatory changes are all that is needed. Others suggest the need to change the economic system by developing a new global economic ethic. The first is too limited, the second too utopian. This article suggests that a MacIntyrean virtue ethics approach provides both a more convincing diagnosis of the problem and leads to a more workable prescription. First, we need to understand the internal contradictions of the tradition that has developed of how to ’do‘ business. Then we need the virtues to be exercised inside practices and institutions. But virtue itself needs to be institutionalised; we need an appropriate governance of virtue in organizations. Even though governance is usually taken to ‘crowd out’ virtue, this article proposes an approach to governance that ‘crowds in’ virtue.

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Moore, G. (2012). Virtue of governance: the governance of virtue. Business Ethics Quarterly, 22(2), 293-318. https://doi.org/10.5840/beq201222221

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Apr 1, 2012
Deposit Date Jan 23, 2012
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Business Ethics Quarterly
Print ISSN 1052-150X
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 22
Issue 2
Pages 293-318
DOI https://doi.org/10.5840/beq201222221
Keywords Virtue, Governance, Organizational ethics, Business ethics, Financial crisis.
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1497403

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