RT Article
T1 Profits, Layoffs, and Priorities
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 101
IS 1
SP 49
OP 60
A1 Arce M., Daniel G.
A1 Li, Sherry Xin
A2 Li, Sherry Xin
LA English
YR 2011
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785642014
AB This study examines the deliberations of professional MBA students when presented with a dilemma that weighs the difference between commitments to profit- maximization against concerns for fired workers who would need to seek a new job during a recession. Using content analysis, accounting, economic, and ethically based rationales that differ from the profit-maximizing recommendation are categorized. Results also show that those who make non-profit-maximizing recommendations consider, but ultimately reject the profit-maximizing approach to layoffs.
K1 Unemployment
K1 Self-interest
K1 Recession
K1 Profits
K1 layoffs
K1 Experimental Economics
K1 Downsizing
K1 Content Analysis
K1 Business Ethics
K1 Behavioral economics
DO 10.1007/s10551-010-0707-7