A Role for Virtue Ethics in the Analysis of Business Practice

Business Ethics Quarterly 5 (3):533-539 (1995)
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Abstract

This article explores differences in the ways in which utilitarian, deontological and virtue/aretic ethics treat of act, outcome, and agent. I argue that virtue ethics offers important and distinctive insights into business practice, insights overlooked by utilitarian and deontological ethics.

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