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Virtue Ethics as a Resource in Business
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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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“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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“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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Metadata
- 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
- 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
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Business Ethics Quarterly (publishedVersion)
- Research Bank (Australian Catholic University) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource 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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