809 research outputs found
Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, Cosmopolitan Business Ethics. Towards a Global Ethos of Management (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018)
No full textA review of the book: Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, Cosmopolitan Business Ethics. Towards a Global Ethos of Management (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018
Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, French Philosophy and Social Theory. A Perspective for Ethics and Philosophy of Management (Dordrecht: Springer, 2014)
No full textBook review of: Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, French Philosophy and Social Theory. A Perspective for Ethics and Philosophy of Management (Dordrecht: Springer, 2014
Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, Moral Blindness in Business. A Social Theory of Evil in Organizations (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
No full textA review of the book: Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, Moral Blindness in Business. A Social Theory of Evil in Organizations (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020
Capitalism, Religion, Business Legitimacy, and the Ethical Economy
No full textThis chapter addresses the difficult problem of the legitimacy of the corporations in modern society from the perspective of the relation between economics and religion. In the perspective of the religious foundations of economics, the chapterdiscusses different approaches to economics, based on different economic theories and concepts of the economy. The debate about legitimacy of the economics of the firm represents in modern economics the place of intersection between economic values and other values. With this approach, the chapter discusses modernist economics of neoliberalism and welfare economics from the point of view of social legitimacy of economics. Moreover, the chapter presents institutionalist alternatives to neoliberalism and welfare economics in the context of postmodernism and search for a more sustainable transformation of economics in society
Principles of Business Ethics and Business Legitimacy
No full textIn a report to the European Commission from an EU-BIO-MED-II Research Project with 22 Partners from different European countries, researchers proposed four ethical principles as guiding ideas for a European ethical and legal culture. Researchers had chosen to investigate the concepts of autonomy, dignity, integrity, and vulnerability. This research on bioethics and biolaw was mainly about how to give these ethical principles meaning in bioethics and law. However, during the research for this book emerged awareness that the ethical principles being classical ethical ideas with a fundamental significance for European culture do not only apply in bioethics but might have significance in other ethical fields, in particular business ethics, corporate social responsibility and business legitimacy. This chapter shows how the values of autonomy, dignity, integrity, and vulnerability can be applied in business ethics as the basis for business legitimacy. In this perspective, the ethical principles constitute a core of protection of human persons including their rights to economic development and the duty of civil society and its corporations not to let human beings be eliminated in subhuman conditions of poverty and misery. The argument is that the concepts of basic ethical principles have fundamental significance both at the individual and at the organizational level – and in addition that they provide an important foundation for ethical standards of sustainability in a future global culture of human rights. The chapter provides a brief outline of the meaning of the concepts in business ethics illustrated by some examples of the uses of the concepts in different fields of business ethics as the foundation of business legitimacy
Sustainability, Basic Ethical Principles, and Innovation
No full textIn order to demonstrate the relation between sustainability, innovation, and business legitimacy, this chapter shows how a phenomenological body and principle ethics can be integrated into business ethics, philosophy of management, and organizational theory by discussing some philosophical, theological, and social science dimensions of environment and bioethics. The problem is how a body ethics and the concepts of autonomy, dignity, integrity, and vulnerability can make sense to the notion of “sustainable development” as the foundation of sustainable innovation that today forms the basis of international environmental policy. This is inspired by the concept of “ecoethical innovation.” The chapter shows how, in an organizational theoretical perspective, environmental ethics can be regarded as a critique of previous anthropocentric ethics, which is necessaryfor sustainable innovation and business legitimacy. This is done in order to present a position in relation to the debate on the moral status of nature. This discussion makes it possible to propose a precise statement of environmental ethics by incorporating the concepts of interest and stakeholder as a specification of the ethical principles from an organizational theoretical perspective. Thus, the chapter defines the application of the principles in relation to animals, nature, and the environment. Finally, the chapter proposes to explore the importance of organizational theory for corporate ethics of sustainability
Philosophical Theory of Business Legitimacy:The Political Corporation
No full textThis chapter addresses the concept of business corporation as a good citizen as a fundamental political-philosophical legitimacy strategy. This strategy is based on a democratic-republican formulation of theory of legitimacy in business ethics. From this, the chapter defines the concept of good citizenship in the light of a democratic corporate ethics as the basis of legitimacy. Thus, good citizenship and the political becomes the basis for the definition of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The argument is that it is necessary to assume the notion of good citizenship to make sense of CSR, which can be considered as an argument for political CSR. The chapter covers the following main parts: (1) legitimacy strategies that build on the good citizenship go beyond the neo-liberal view of economics and politics; (2) legitimacy as defined as based on a democraticrepublican perception of the role of the corporation in society; (3) definition of good citizenship of the company and of the cosmopolitan legitimacy of global corporate ethics; (4) discussion of legitimacy through the company’s good citizenship and political role in society; and (5) conclusion and perspectives
The Concept of Business Legitimacy:Learnings from Suchman: Integrating Sociological, Ethical and Critical Perspectives
No full textThis chapter discusses the development of the concept of business legitimacy from the work of Mark C. Suchman and beyond. This is based on research on corporate social responsibility, corporate citizenship, and corporate governance as essential elements of ethical business legitimacy. In this context, the concept of business legitimacy is presented in the perspective of critical theory. Even though the chapter begins with institutional theory, it also integrates institutional theory into the general normative discussions of critical hermeneutics of business ethics and corporate social responsibility. With this, the concept of business legitimacy aims at combining the sociological and constructivist approach from institutional theory with the normative and ethical approach from business ethics and political CSR
EU's bæredygtighedskrav risikerer at parkere etik og ansvar på regnskabskontoret
No full textEU's kommende krav til virksomheders bæredygtighedsrapportering kan komme til at skygge for den moralske og frivillige motivation for at gøre noget godt for samfundet, skriver professor i virksomhedsetik Jacob Dahl Rendtorff
EU’s due diligence-regler er kulminationen på 30 års arbejde med etik og ansvar
No full textEU’s arbejde med virksomheders etik og ansvar er en vigtig anerkendelse af virksomhedernes rolle som politisk ansvarlige aktører i samfundet. De nye due diligence-regler er absolut ikke en økonomisk spændetrøje, skriver Jacob Dahl Rendtorff
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