On the Harmony of Feminist Ethics and Business Ethics

Business and Society Review 112 (4):477-509 (2007)
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Abstract

If business requires ethical solutions that are viable in the liminal landscape between concepts and corporate office, then business ethics and corporate social responsibility should offer tools that can survive the trek, that flourish in this well-traveled, but often unarticulated, environment. Indeed, feminist ethics produces, accesses, and engages such tools. However, work in BE and CSR consistently conflates feminist ethics and feminine ethics and care ethics. I offer clarification and invoke the analytic power of three feminist ethicists 'in action' whose investigations into the "grey zones" of harms; identity and representational conventions; and "asymmetrical reciprocity" harmonize with business ethics' requirements.

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reprint Borgerson, Janet L. (2023) "On the Harmony of Feminist Ethics and Business Ethics". In Painter, Mollie, Werhane, Patricia H., Leadership, Gender, and Organization, pp. 37-62: Springer Verlag (2023)

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Janet Borgerson
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A theory of justice.John Rawls - 2009 - In Steven M. Cahn, Exploring ethics: an introductory anthology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 133-135.

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