Although virtue ethics has gained a firm presence in the theory and practice of corporate management, humility is not ranked as one the chief virtues in the business world. This is probably due to an incomplete or incorrectly focused view of what it means to be a humble person, why a good...

En las sociedades modernas, pocas instituciones tienen una influencia mayor que las empresas. Este trabajo es una amplia introducción al papel de las empresas como transformadoras de la sociedad, que empieza por su dimensión económica, pero que se refleja también en otras, de carácter...

A Christian is a person who, beyond any way of life or moral or spiritual practices, follows Christ. Catholic theology shows how this influences the life of the Christian. Even in today's secularized society, the Christian is seen as a person with a distinctive view of life and goals. Yet when...

It has often been said that the financial crisis which has been hitting the world economy since mid-2007 is an ethical crisis. By studying the behaviors of the agents who made the decisions that led to the crisis, we do find evidences of many unethical mistakes. But bad conducts were also...

Frugality is a little studied virtue, but one that is important to the lives of individuals and families, communities and broader societies. In this article we consider what we mean by frugality and discuss its role in the decision-making process, within action theory. This leads us to a...

The traditional theories of the firm leave no room for love in business organizations, perhaps because it is thought that love is only an emotion or feeling, not a virtue, or because economic efficiency and profit making are considered to be incompatible with the practice of charity or love. In...

Las causas de la reciente crisis financiera y de la recesión económica internacional que le siguió se han ido aclarando, con el paso del tiempo. Una de esas causas, frecuentemente apuntada, es de naturaleza ética: la crisis, se ha afirmado, es un fallo moral de los directivos de muchas...

Facilitating payments are a very widespread form of corruption. They consist of small payments or gifts made to a person -a public official or an employee of a private company- to obtain a favor, such as expediting an administrative process, obtaining a permit, license or service, or avoiding an...

La nueva economía es el nombre que damos a la reciente revolución tecnológica que se centra en las tecnologías de la información y de las comunicaciones (TIC). En principio, su principal efecto debería ser una aceleración del crecimiento de la productividad. En este artículo se estudia...

Conflicts of interest are a very widespread ethical problem which, precisely for that reason, deserves special attention, both from a legal viewpoint and from the point of view of ethics applied to organizations and professions. In this paper we use the conceptual framework of agency theory to...