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Postmodern Interviews in Business Ethics: A Reply to Ronald Green

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

David P. Schmidt
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Abstract

My objective is to extend Ronald Green’s account of postmodernism by asking how postmodern ethicists should interview business people. I note the use of the interview method in current business ethics research. I then present Jeffrey Stout’s criticism of Robert Bellah’s interview techniques used in Habits of the Heart, which prompts questions about what constitutes a postmodern interview. In conclusion I seek clarification about whether and in what sense Ron Green intends to be a “foundationalist postmodern business ethicist.”

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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , July 1993 , pp. 279 - 284
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 1993

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Notes

1 See, for example, Stewart, R. Clegg, Modern Organizations: Organization Studies in the Postmodern World, (Newbury Park CA: Sage Publications Inc., 1990)Google Scholar.

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8 Ibid., p. ix.

9 Jeffrey, Stout, Ethics After Babel, (Boston: Beacon Press, 1988)Google Scholar.

10 Ibid., p. 197.

11 Ibid., p. 196.

12 Ibid., p. 198.

13 It is worth noting that Toffler quotes Coles as a model at the outset of her Tough Choices.

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