Organizational harm, legal condemnation and stakeholder retaliation: A typology, research agenda and application
The essence of the ethical issues pertinent to business activities is the harm or benefit that occurs as part of a company's resource transformation process. A typology is developed that sorts ethical issues according to three variables: (1) the nature of the harm, (2) the nature of those harme...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1989
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 1989, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-13 |
| Further subjects: | B
Ethical Issue
B Research Agenda B Transformation Process B Moral Reasoning B Economic Growth |
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| Summary: | The essence of the ethical issues pertinent to business activities is the harm or benefit that occurs as part of a company's resource transformation process. A typology is developed that sorts ethical issues according to three variables: (1) the nature of the harm, (2) the nature of those harmed and (3) the transformation stage where the harm occurs. Propositions are formulated that would enable analysts and practitioners to predict the degree of legal condemnation of, and stakeholder retaliation to, harms generated by questionable moral reasoning. An organizational harm analysis is then constructed as a decision making tool that could supplement cost/benefit analysis. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/BF00382011 |