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The management of risk is important and it is clearly related to moral
concerns in life. In this paper, however, I argue that considering risk in business ethics is necessary but not sufficient for addressing these moral concerns since ethics in general is not merely about avoiding harm, but also about "a good life", and because business ethics in particular is not…

The significance of multinationals in shaping globalization is largely undisputed. This paper argues that any agent of substantial change should, at the same time, be an agent of justice. However, while multinational companies have played instrumental roles in shaping the world in the past, they have done so with seemingly little genuine concern for the systematic advancement of…

Social enterprise has been criticized for discursively transforming third sector organizations and practitioners into economic agents. Such a critique too readily construes the discourse of social enterprise as a deterministic force that encroaches on all aspects of organizational and individual identity. We reintroduce
a sense of agency to discursive conceptualizations through…

The main question of this final section of the book is: What theoretical lessons can we learn from sector-specific corporate responsibility in Europe? We will develop our argument in five steps:First, a perspective on cultural business ethics will be sketched that can be located between pure business perspectives, on the one hand, and pure normative perspectives on CR, on the…

From a business ethics perspective, this dissertation studies the role of companies in the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector as regulators with respect to access to knowledge, civic engagement online, and civil liberties on online platforms. To this end, it takes into account three cases: (1.) digital divides and the capabilities of corporate citizens to…

Sector-specific corporate responsibility (SCR) is an emerging subject both in practice and in the general CR discussion. In order to look into existing knowledge and perceptions of the concept, we surveyed CR experts in the eight European countries covered in the study via an online survey (see Section 2.1). These national perspectives were complemented by interviews with CR experts…

Revised edition of the chapter under the same title in "Ethics in the Economy: Handbook of Business Ethics", ed. by L. Zsolnai, 2002.

Business ethics is more than just ‘applied ethics.' There is no domain which is ‘free' from normative presuppositions, and mainstream economics is nothing more than a strongly normative ‘ideal theory' of rational action…

Chapter FI1 in the textbook (required readings) for the course "Business Administration A", University of St. Gallen, September 2013

Human rights have not played an overwhelmingly prominent role in CSR in the past. Similarly, CSR has had relatively little influence on what is now called the "business and human rights debate." This contribution uncovers some of the reasons for the rather peculiar disconnect between these two debates and, based on it, presents some apparent synergies and complementarities…