Dieser Beitrag interpretiert Edmund Phelps - insbesondere in seinem Spätwerk - als einen wichtigen Impulsgeber der Wirtschaftsethik. Die These lautet, dass sich für Phelps die moralische Qualität der Marktwirtschaft nicht in erster Linie daran bemisst, dass sie den Mitgliedern der...

Dieser Artikel entwickelt einen ordonomischen Beitrag zur Corporate Governance in und durch Unternehmen. Den Ausgangspunkt markiert die unternehmensethische Über-legung, dass sich die gesellschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen für unternehmerische Wertschöpfung auf Märkten in einem grundlegenden...

This article discusses how the theoretical perspective of ordonomics provides a framework for better understanding and advancing the practice of social entrepreneurship. From an ordonomic perspective, the concept of social entrepreneurship offers a semantic innovation (at the ideas level) whose...

The purpose of this article is to develop an ordonomic conceptualization of corporate citizenship and new governance that (a) provides a framework for positively explaining the political participation of companies in new governance processes and (b) does not weaken but instead strengthens the...

The Corporate Ethical Virtues Model, which is a model for measuring the ethical culture of organizations, has not been tested on its predictive validity. This study tests the relationship between this model and observed unethical behavior in work groups. The sample consists of 301 triads...

This paper aims at discussing the role of behavioral business ethics as a methodological approach that is valuable for the construction of a robust normative foundation for business ethics. In particular, we will focus on experiments – and, to a lesser extent, surveys, field research, and even...

The aim of this article is to present two models for teaching business ethics: ethics of business and ethics for business. In the article, I defend the thesis that business ethics taught in corporations (ethics for business) is not a simple continuation of academic instruction (ethics of...

This article presents a new method of teaching ethics in economics based on recent developments in game theory. Economics traditionally divides normative questions from positive questions, and relies only on the Pareto principle to distinguish good actions and policies from bad ones in answering...

Mensch and Barge in their interpretation of Alasdair MacIntyre's critique of genealogical ethics as a basis of ethical weakness in the emerging field of “leadership-as-practice,” suggest that L-A-P is lacking in ethical grounding especially because of its relativist philosophy. I address...