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Objectivist Virtue Ethics in Business by Edward W. Younkins

Virtuous actions can lead to the achievement of values. When one’s context is reduced to business, virtue theory contends that pursuing virtuous principles, strategies, and actions can result in firms realizing their values including their mission, purpose, profit potential, and other goals. Virtuous employees tend to ... (Read more...)
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - 7:43am

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I have written and edited numerous books and papers in business ethics, all from a neo-Objectivist, virtue ethics perspective, yet no mention of any of them is made here. Baffling!

Here are some examples:

Tibor R. Machan, Commerce and Morality (Rowman & Allenhead, 1988)

_______, Business Ethics in the Global Market (Hoover Institution Press, 1999)

_______, The Business of Commerce, Examining an Honorable Profession (w/James E. Chesher) (Hoover Institution Press, 1999)

_______, A Primer on Business Ethics (w/James E. Chesher) (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003)

Etc., etc. etc.

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Saturday, June 29, 2013 - 9:00am

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Closing my undergraduate degree, I had a lower-division elective to complete in Social Problems. I previously had the professor for other classes and he let me write my own papers. One of them was on "Morality in Business: The Objectivist Ethics." Among my sources were these articles:

Becker, Thomas E., “Integrity in Organizations: Beyond Honesty and Conscientiousness,” The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 23, No. 1. (Jan., 1998), pp. 154-161.
Locke, Edwin A., and Thomas E. Becker, “Rebuttal to a Subjectivist Critique of an Objectivist Approach to Integrity in Organizations,” The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 23, No. 1. (Jan., 1998), pp. 170-175.
Locke, Edwin A., and Thomas E. Becker, “Objectivism's Answer to the Sad, Old World of Subjectivism,” The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 23, No. 4. (Oct., 1998), pp. 658-659.
Locke, Edwin A., and Thomas E. Becker, “Locke and Becker's Reply to Weiss,” The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 23, No. 3. (Jul., 1998), pp. 391-392.