Philosophy and Business Ethics Organizations, CSR and Moral Practice

This book explores the relationship between philosophy and business ethics. Academics and practitioners often muse about the ethical and moral aspect of management and business actions, but these studies can lack a deeper philosophical grounding. Contributors to this volume challenge this gap by applying different philosophical paradigms and theories to business management issues. The territory covered by the contributions collected in this book spans from the foundations of business management literature itself, to the role of philosophy in new business models and technology; from the way philosophical theory can explain – and encourage – ethical firm behaviour, to the political stance that an organization takes. Contributors take a holistic approach to business and management, bringing together real-world examples and rich academic theory, creating an interdisciplinary volume, with international authors.

Covering important topics such as corporate socialresponsibility, sustainability, leadership, and stakeholder relations, this book will be of interest to academics working in the field of business ethics, philosophy and management studies.

Section 1: Philosophical foundations and normative approaches for business management.- Chapter 1: What should business ethics be? Aims, methodology, substance – by Brian Berkey.- Chapter 2: Philosophical challenges in development of ethical perspective in business – by Dušan Kucera.- Chapter 3: Redefining stakeholder censuses and typologies: A new approach – by Miguel Ángel Serrano de Pablo and José Luis Fernández-Fernández.- Chapter 4: Empirical research in virtue Ethics: In search of a paradigm – by Patricia Grant and Peter McGhee.- Chapter 5: Aristotelian flourishing for a virtuous business vision. The philosophical wisdom as a strategic tool for an effective change in the management – by Francesca Zimatore and Luca Greco.- Chapter 6: Catholic social teaching as a foundation for business ethics – by Domènec Melé.- Chapter 7: Ideas of organizations and ideas of justice – by Massimo Neri.- Chapter 8: How to ground corporate governance practice on African ethics – by Diana-Abasi Ibanga.- Section 2: Philosophical explanations for systemic, organizational, and social mechanisms.- Chapter 9: Care ethics in the era of Artificial Intelligence – by Carolina Villegas Galaviz and Jose Luis Fernández Fernández.- Chapter 10: Three Rival Versions of Work and Technology: Smith, Marx, and MacIntyre in Discussion – by Javier Pinto, Germán Scalzo, and Ignacio Ferrero.- Chapter 11: Relational ontology for an ethics of work relationships – by Anna Marrucci, Cristiano Ciappei, Lamberto Zollo and Riccardo Rialti.- Chapter 12: Toward a scale of Islamic work ethics: Validation from Middle Eastern countries – by Mohammed Aboramadan, Khalid Dahleez, Mosab I. Tabash, Wasim Alhabil, Mohamad Ayesh Almhairat, Kawtar Ouchane and Caterina Farao.- Chapter 13: Extending Amartya Sen’s Paretian liberal paradox to a firm’s hierarchy – by Massimiliano Vatiero.- Chapter 14: Reinforcing or slackening the spiral of deviance:the role of the personal norm of reciprocity – by Deborah Gervasi and Guglielmo Faldetta.- Chapter 15: The cancer of corruption: A philosophical and ethical perspective – by Flor Gerardou, Anthony Brown, Blanca Guizar and Roy Meriton.- Section 3: Philosophical explanations for political action of the organization.- Chapter 16: The pathology of corporate power – by Jeff Bone.- Chapter 17: Organizing resistance: DiY as ethical and political praxis – by Luigi Maria Sicca, Domenico Napolitano and Maria Auriemma.- Chapter 18: The Aristotelian commutative justice and the management of the firm’s stakeholder relations – by Roberta Troisi, Luigi Enrico Golzio and Marco Biagi.- Chapter 19: Restorative justice and sustainable development: A preview of holistic and systemic contextual change – by Nikos Valance.- Chapter 20: Uncovering the dialogical dimension of corporate responsibility: Towards a transcendental approach to economics with an application to the circular economy – by Giancarlo Ianulardo, Aldo Stella and Roberta De Angelis.- Chapter 21: Power, authority and leadership: A proposal for organizational theory in the Post-bureaucratic era – by Lucia Ciardi and German Scalzo.

Guglielmo Faldetta is Full Professor of Business Organization and Human Resource Management at the Department of Economics and Law, Kore University of Enna, Italy. His research focuses on reciprocity and gift-giving in the workplace. His works have been published in the Journal of Business Ethics, the Journal of Managerial Psychology, Management Decision and Culture and Organization.

Edoardo Mollona is Full Professor of Business Economics and Business Ethics at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna, Italy. He investigates the relation between corporates and politics and the formal modelling of policy sustainability.

Massimiliano M. Pellegrini is Associate Professor of Organizational Studies and Entrepreneurship at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. He is editor of the book series Entrepreneurial Behaviour, as well as Chair of the Entrepreneurship SIG at EURAM. His researchfocuses on cognitive and behavioural perspective inside organizations and has been published in the Journal of Business Research, Small Business Economics, the Journal of Business Ethics, and the Journal of Small Business.