Moral Imagination in Organizational Problem-Solving: An Institutional Perspective

This essay responds to Patricia Werhane’s 1994 Ruffin Lecture address, “Moral Imagination and the Search for Ethical Decision-making in Management,” using institutional theory as an analytical framework to explore conditions that either inhibit or promote moral imagination in organizational problem-...

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Main Author: Vidaver-Cohen, Deborah (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1998
In: Business ethics quarterly
Year: 1998, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 123-148
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Summary:This essay responds to Patricia Werhane’s 1994 Ruffin Lecture address, “Moral Imagination and the Search for Ethical Decision-making in Management,” using institutional theory as an analytical framework to explore conditions that either inhibit or promote moral imagination in organizational problem-solving. Implications of the analysis for managing organizational change and for business ethics theory development are proposed.
ISSN:2153-3326
Contains:Enthalten in: Business ethics quarterly
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S1052150X00400114