This article revisits the "harmony doctrine" school of economics (1835-1860) and its distinctive understanding of how ethics and economics intersect. Harmony doctrine thinkers staked out a "natural" understanding of economic phenomena that in many ways fused the classical political economy of...

We explore offshore outsourcing through the lenses of Catholic Social Teaching (CST). First, we review the outcomes of the 30-year debate in business ethics on issues related to offshore outsourcing. We then cluster authors into two groups—the justice-centered approach and the welfare-centered...

Few scholars have investigated the considerations of over-empowered teams (i.e., teams creating negative organizational outcomes from too much empowerment) from a non-consequential ethics approach. Leveraging a virtue-based ethics lens of team empowerment, we provide a framework of team ethical...