Value (ethics)

About: Value (ethics) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 21347 publications have been published within this topic receiving 461372 citations.

An Insider's Experiences with Environmental Entrepreneurship

Abstract: The author argues that most of the normal entrepreneurial laws are valid also for environmental ventures. However, the value-based leadership often rightly associated with environmental entrepreneurs gives a special flavour to these businesses. With hands-on practical experience and an insightful theoretical orientation, the author analyses typical environmental business features and its main segments and presents a typology of ecopreneurs. ● Entrepreneurship

The Moral Sense.

Abstract: The central problem for social science is to explain social order. How do people manage to live together? One can discern two ways of answering that question. The first view is normative and communal: people learn from their culture customs that provide an internal compass guiding them to act in ways that minimize conflict and ensure comity. The second view is rationalistic and individualistic: order is created by explicit and implicit agreements entered into by self-seeking individuals to avert the worst consequences of their predatory instincts. In the first view, order is natural and prior to any social contract or government institution; in the second, it is contrived and dependent on agreements and sanctions. Rules are obeyed in the first case because they have moral force, in the second because they convey personal advantage. In the first view, compliance is automatic and general; in the second, it is strategic and uncertain.The normative view has been under heavy attack for several decades for at least three reasons: it seems to imply a complacent functionalism; it appears to minimize or deny the value of conflict; and it lacks the theoretical power found in the assumption that people always seek their own interests. I believe that one can grant, up to a point, all of these objections and still be left dissatisfied with the alternative, namely, that social order is contrived, based on calculation, and dependent on individual assent.

Perspectives in Business Ethics

Abstract: Part 1: Ethical Theories and Approaches. Chapter 1: Traditional Theories. Chapter 2: Application of Traditional Theories to Modern Business Decision Making. Chapter 3: Individual Decision Making: Lessons learned from the Foundations. Chapter 4: Critical Ethical Analysis: A Decision-Making Model. Chapter 5: Ethics, Business, and Religion: Is There a Crossroads? Chapter 6: Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility: One and the Same? Chapter 7A: Corporate Strategy and Decision Making: Actions and Repurcussions. Chapter 7B: Corporate Strategy and Decision Making: Select Topics Analyses. Chapter 7C: Corporate Strategy and Decision Making: Reputation Management. Part 2: Ethics in the Business Disciplines. Chapter 8: Ethics and Human Resources Management: The Employment Relationship. Chapter 9: Ethics and Sales/Marketing: The Value of Truth? Chapter 10: Ethics and Finance. Chapter 11: Ethics, Accounting, and the Technology of Business. Part 3: Selected Emerging Issues in Ethics. Chapter 12: Ethics in the Professional and Technical Arenas: Selected Issues. Chapter 13: Ethics and Environment. Chapter 14: Ethics in Global Business.

Explaining Value: and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy

Abstract: Explaining Value is a selection of the best of Gilbert Harman's shorter writings in moral philosophy. The thirteen essays, originally published between 1967 and 1999, are divided into four sections, which focus in turn on moral relativism, values and valuing, character traits and virtue ethics, and ways of explaining aspects of morality. An indication of the breadth of interest of the book can be given by mentioning a few of the compelling questions which Harman discusses: What accounts for the existence of basic moral disagreements? Why do most people think it is worse to injure someone than to fail to save them from injury? Why do many people think it is morally permissible to treat animals in ways we would not treat people? What is it to value something and what is it to value something intrinsically? How much of morality can or should be explained in terms of human flourishing, or the possession of virtuous character traits? How do people come to be moral? Harman's distinctive approach to moral philosophy has provoked much interest; this volume offers a fascinating conspectus of his most important work in the area.

The Role of the Sales Force in Value Creation and Appropriation: New Directions for Research

Abstract: Recent research in marketing strategy emphasizes the dual processes of creating and appropriating value in exchange relationships. In business to-business markets, salespeople have unique opportunities to translate customers’ desired value back into their firms as well as understand and influence how the value that has been cocreated can be fairly appropriated in the form of revenue and other strategic benefits. Yet surprisingly little research examines the role of the sales force, compared to overall firm strategies, for shaping these key processes. Against this background, this paper offers an integrative framework that delineates how the sales force creates, sustains, and appropriates value in buyer -seller relationships. The framework integrates relevant theories and paradigms from a variety of disciplines and elaborates on a set of boundary conditions (e.g., relationship life cycle and globalization) that influence the role of the sales force in value creation and appropriation. The paper concludes w...