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Vinten, Gerald - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 6, pp. 377-383

All managers and directors are faced with real, or imagined, conflicts of interest or competing demands for time and resources, between shareholders and stakeholders. This has always been the case, but the contemporary emphasis on stakeholders has brought this to a head. Although the more astute...

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The oath of management

Emiliani, M.L. - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 4, pp. 261-262

Compares the management profession with the medical profession, in particular examining the Hippocratic oath. Suggests that as managers are the physicians of business, they should also abide by an oath, which is then proposed by the author.

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Convergence of ethics?

Richter, Ewa Maria; Buttery, Ernest Alan - In: Management Decision 40 (2002) 2, pp. 142-151

Two pillars of Western culture are the free market doctrine and democracy. The ability of these pillars to generate behavior that converges to a global ethical system is investigated. The market mechanism is no longer as described by Adam Smith, it is oligopolistic. Strategic architecture is...

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Global ethics and the Alien Tort Claims Act: a summary of three cases within the oil and gas industry

Olsen, Janeen E. - In: Management Decision 40 (2002) 7, pp. 720-724

Burma are presented as case studies of the use of the Alien Tort Claims Act. Implications for global ethics are discussed …

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Management decision making and ethics: practices, skills and preferences

Holian, Rosalie - In: Management Decision 40 (2002) 9, pp. 862-870

This article summarises the findings from a study of practising managers which explored experiences of and views on decision making about actual ethical issues in organisations. Data gathering was based on a combination of an intensive case study of an organisation and in‐depth interviews with...

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The dynamics of business ethics: a function of time and culture – cases and models

Svensson, Göran; Wood, Greg - In: Management Decision 41 (2003) 4, pp. 350-361

Examines the construct of ethics in general and of business ethics in particular. Provides a conceptual discussion of … the dynamics of ethics in society and the dynamics of business ethics in the marketplace. Ethics and business ethics … constructs are dependent upon two principal parameters – time and culture. Eventually, ethics and business ethics are about what …

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Ethical behaviour: the means for creating and maintaining better reputations in arts organisations

Wood, Greg; Rentschler, Ruth - In: Management Decision 41 (2003) 6, pp. 528-537

of cultural organisational ethics that attempts to provide a framework by which arts organisations can put in place …

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Explaining executive integrity: governance, charisma, personality and agency

Tourigny, Louise; Dougan, William L.; Washbush, John; … - In: Management Decision 41 (2003) 10, pp. 1035-1049

The recent significant occurrences of dysfunctional, and perhaps unethical, decision making and actions by a number of highly successful corporate executives suggest that there are systematic explanations for the questionable managerial behaviors that go beyond simple attributions of individual...

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CEO and ethical reputation: visionary or mercenary?

Stanwick, Peter A.; Stanwick, Sarah D. - In: Management Decision 41 (2003) 10, pp. 1050-1057

corporate citizens as rated by Business Ethics magazine. The results show that there was not a direct relationship between CEO …

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Is management education beneficial to society?

Emiliani, M.L. - In: Management Decision 42 (2004) 3/4, pp. 481-498

This paper examines whether or not US‐style management education is beneficial to society and presents a review of recent events, which suggest that management education must be improved. Two principal approaches to management education and resulting practice are presented and framed...

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