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Why be Moral?: A Reply to Shaw and Corvino

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

LaRue Tone Hosmer
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Abstract:

Professors Bill Shaw and John Corvino, in a response article published in the July, 1996 issue of Business Ethics Quarterly, provide a clearly courteous and obviously well-intended criticism of my original (1994) position on the question of why a manager, and in consequence an organization, should be moral. I disagree with their reasoning and, because I believe that this form of the “Why Be Moral?” question lies at the heart of any potential juncture between our field of business ethics and the economic and behavioral disciplines of business management, I should like to reply in what I hope will be equally courteous and well-intended terms.

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Response Articles
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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , October 1997 , pp. 137 - 143
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Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 1997

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