RT Article
T1 Business managers and moral sanctuaries
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 1
IS 3
SP 195
OP 200
A1 Konrad, Armin Richard
LA English
YR 1982
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785594435
AB ‘Moral Sanctuary’ is used in this paper as a metaphor for any theory which makes actions immune from moral criticism. Three arguments favoring moral sanctuaries for business activities are countered. Two of the arguments rest on faulty analogies. One compares business activities to games, another to the behavior of machines. The third rests on the claim that business is a unique activity. This position is rejected by a reductio ad absurdum argument; it entails the immunity of all professional activities from moral judgment. I argue that business managers are accountable to the combined requirements of professionalism and democratic citizenship, notions which are briefly described at the conclusion of the paper.
K1 Business Manager
K1 Business Activity
K1 Metaphor
K1 Moral Judgment
K1 Economic Growth
DO 10.1007/BF00382771