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Joseph Heath

Researcher at University of Toronto

Publications -  81
Citations -  3173

Joseph Heath is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Business ethics & Stakeholder. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 77 publications receiving 2872 citations. Previous affiliations of Joseph Heath include Université de Montréal & Union College.

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Stakeholder Theory, Corporate Governance and Public Management: What can the History of State-Run Enterprises Teach us in the Post-Enron era?

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors revisit the history of public management and in particular, the experience of social-democratic governments during the 1960s and 1970s, and their attempts to impose social responsibility upon the managers of nationalized industries.
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Communicative Action and Rational Choice

Joseph Heath
TL;DR: In this article, Heath brings Jurgen Habermas's theory of communicative action into dialogue with the most sophisticated articulation of the instrumental conception of practical rationality-modern rational choice theory.
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Business ethics without stakeholders

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the stakeholder paradigm represents the most fruitful way of articulating the moral problems that arise in business, and they outline two other possible approaches to business ethics: a more minimal conception, anchored in the notion of a fiduciary obligation toward shareholders; and a broader conception, focused on the concept of market failure.
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Business Ethics and Moral Motivation: A Criminological Perspective.

TL;DR: In this article, a criminological perspective can help to illuminate some traditional questions in business ethics by explaining why criminologists reject three of the most popular folk theories of criminal motivation and discuss a more satisfactory theory involving the so-called "techniques of neutralization".