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Business Ethics: Knowing Ourselves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Barry Castro
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Abstract:

The author argues that a continuing effort to avoid self-deception is the pre-requisite to any ethical analysis; that this effort cannot be altogether successful; that it is likely to even be dysfunctional in a variety of organizational contexts, perhaps particularly in the context of corporate middle management, but that it ought not therefore be ignored. It is contended that business ethicists should be committed to making the difficulties associated with self-scrutiny explicit. Finally, it is argued that in order to do that legitimately for the corporation, university based business ethicists must be willing to face up to parallel difficulties in the university generally and in the school of business in particular.

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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , April 1994 , pp. 181 - 190
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Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 1994

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