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Comments on BEQ’s Twentieth Anniversary Forum on New Directions for Business Ethics Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Andrew Crane ,
Dirk Ulrich Gilbert ,
Kenneth E. Goodpaster ,
Marcia P. Miceli ,
Geoff Moore ,
Scott J. Reynolds ,
Marshall Schminke ,
Sandra Waddock ,
Gary R. Weaver  and
Andrew C. Wicks
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Abstract:

In 2010, Business Ethics Quarterly published ten articles that considered the potential contributions to business ethics research arising from recent scholarship in a variety of philosophical and social scientific fields (strategic management, political philosophy, restorative justice, international business, legal studies, ethical theory, ethical leadership studies, organization theory, marketing, and corporate governance and finance). Here we offer short responses to those articles by members of Business Ethics Quarterly’s editorial board and editorial team.

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Comments on BEQ’s Twentieth Anniversary Forum on New Directions for Business Ethics Research
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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , January 2011 , pp. 157 - 187
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Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 2011

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