This article is a thought piece designed to generate questions about the reciprocal relationship between a gift giver and receiver. Examples about charitable giving to Notre Dame Cathedral, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Missionaries of Charity illustrate how the ethics of giving are...

This paper examines whether ethics can drive good firm behavior even if no business case exists (i.e., good firm behavior will not improve financial performance). Using a version of the well-known Apple-Foxconn scenario as a test case, we first argue that the answer is no. Ethics cannot drive...