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Virtue ethics as a resource in business

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Audi, Robert·2012·Business Ethics Quarterly
DOI 10.5840/beq201222220
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This article provides an account of virtues as praiseworthy traits of character with a far-reaching capacity to influence conduct. Virtues supply their possessors both with good reasons that indicate, for diverse contexts, what sort of thing should be done and with motivation to do them. This motivational power of virtue is crucial for the question of what kind of person, or businessperson, one wants to be. The article shows how the contrast between virtue ethics and rule ethics is often drawn too sharply and indicates how virtue theories can incorporate both theoretical and practical uses of rules. More generally, it shows how a virtue orientation affects attitudes in management practices and how an understanding of certain virtues can help in making better decisions, both ethically and in relation to success in business.

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  • Virtue ethics is an appropriate theoretical foundation for developing a responsible AI initiative framework in health care.

    “Thus, virtue ethics is an appropriate theoretical foundation for developing a responsible AI initiative framework in health care because prior research suggests that the presence of virtuous character traits (e.g., fairness and honesty) in an agent (person or organization) can positively impact the actions of that agent (Audi, 2012;Chun, 2005).”

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  • Virtue ethics theory has been used to examine what constitutes a moral action in the context of business management by focusing on the ethical aspects of everyday business operations.

    “As noted above, virtue ethics theory has been used to examine what constitutes a moral action in the context of business management by focusing on the ethical aspects of everyday business operations.(Audi, 2012).”

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Authors
Audi, R.
Affiliations
University of Notre Dame (US)
Corresponding author
Audi, Robert
ORCID
Audi, Robert
Venue
Business Ethics Quarterly
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2012-04
Volume
22
Issue
2
Pages
273-291
ISSN
  • 1052-150X (ISSN-L)
  • 2153-3326
DOI
10.5840/beq201222220
OpenAlex
W1970244549
Cited by
146
References
33
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 20 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 8 · 2012: 6
FWCI
26.09
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 1027 d)
Locations
  • Business Ethics Quarterly (publishedVersion)
  • Research Bank (Australian Catholic University) (submittedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Ethics in Business and Education
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophical Ethics and Theory
  • Social Sciences › Education › Values and Moral Education
Keywords
virtue ethics, business ethics, character virtues, motivation, practical reason, management decision-making, management practices, business success

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