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  1. The moral basis of stakeholder theory.Kevin Gibson - 2000 - Journal of Business Ethics 26 (3):245 - 257.
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    Contrasting Role Morality and Professional Morality: Implications for Practice.Kevin Gibson - 2003 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 20 (1):17-29.
    The notion of role morality suggests individuals may adopt a different morality depending on the roles they undertake. Investigating role morality is important, since the mentality of role morality may allow agents to believe they can abdicate moral responsibility when acting in a role. This is particularly significant in the literature dealing with professional morality where professionals, because of their special status, may find themselves at odds with their best moral judgments. Here I tell four stories and draw out some (...)
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    Ethics and Business: An Introduction.Kevin Gibson - 2007 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    In this lively undergraduate textbook, Kevin Gibson explores the relationship between ethics and the world of business, and how we can serve the interests of both. He builds a philosophical groundwork that can be applied to a wide range of issues in ethics and business, and shows readers how to assess dilemmas critically and work to resolve them on a principled basis. Using case studies drawn from around the world, he examines topics including stakeholder responsibilities, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and (...)
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    Toward an Intermediate Position on Corporate Moral Personhood.Kevin Gibson - 2011 - Journal of Business Ethics 101 (S1):71-81.
    Models of moral responsibility rely on foundational views about moral agency. Many scholars believe that only humans can be moral agents, and therefore business needs to create models that foster greater receptivity to others through ethical dialog. This view leads to a difficulty if no specific person is the sole causal agent for an act, or if something comes about through aggregated action in a corporate setting. An alternate approach suggests that corporations are moral agents sufficiently like humans to be (...)
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    Fictitious persons and real responsibilities.Kevin Gibson - 1995 - Journal of Business Ethics 14 (9):761 - 767.
    I believe that corporations should be held responsible for their actions. Traditional discussions about the moral responsibility of an organization have relied on a model of criminal intent. Demonstrating intent demands that we find a moral agent capable of intending, and this has led to problems. Here I replace the analysis based on criminal law by one based on tort law. Under this framework I suggest that corporations can be held responsible for the harms caused by their activities even if (...)
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    Mediation in the Medical Field: Is Neutral Intervention Possible?Kevin Gibson - 1999 - Hastings Center Report 29 (5):6-13.
    Neutrality is held to be the touchstone of good mediation. True neutrality is elusive, however, and probably not even desirable, at least when applied to patient‐provider disputes over medical care. In this context, mediators should not posture as “neutrals”; they should strive instead to protect their clients’ autonomy.
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    Is the Numbering System in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus a Joke?Kevin Gibson - 1996 - Journal of Philosophical Research 21:139-148.
    Many commentators have dismissed Wittgenstein’s numbering system in the Tractatus as either incoherent or a joke. In this paper I offer a way to rehabilitate the system along the lines of Wittgenstein’s own instructions. Reading the Tractatus in this way not only offers a way to make sense of the numbering, but also offers a significant improvement in examining the meaning of the text.
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    An introduction to ethics.Kevin Gibson - 2014 - New Jersey: Pearson.
    "This book introduces you to the central concerns of classical and contemporary ethics, using examples and cases to highlight particular issues, show how theory can inform our discussions, and reflect on how we ought to treat one another and the world around us...The text paves the way for three outcomes. First, readers will become acquainted with the main figures and movements in classical and contemporary ethics, including feminist, post-modern, and non-Western perspectives. Second, it models a critical analysis of the material (...)
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    Business Ethics and Engineering Ethics.Kevin Gibson - 1994 - International Journal of Applied Philosophy 8 (2):19-21.
    In this paper I will point to some of the common themes that have emerged when we ask whether engineering ethics is just business ethics I will then reflect on some of the implications of the approaches suggested by Michael Davis, Vivian Weil, and Rachelle Hollander.
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  10. David Fritzsche: Business Ethics: A Global and Managerial Perspective.Kevin Gibson - 1999 - Teaching Business Ethics 3 (2):197-199.
     
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    Going beyond intuitions: Reclaiming the philosophy in business ethics.Kevin Gibson - 2002 - Teaching Business Ethics 6 (2):151-166.
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    Harmony, Hobbes and Rational Negotiation.Kevin Gibson - 1994 - Business Ethics Quarterly 4 (3):373-381.
    Dees and Cramton have argued that we should take a deontological stand to make negotiations more ethical (“Promoting Honesty in Negotiation: An Exercise in Practical Ethics” BEQ, Vol. 3, #3). I suggest that their analysis is overdetermined, and that one can, in fact, reach the same conclusions through a Hobbesian approach to negotiation. I suggest that an equally valid way to develop ethical negotiation is through the consequentialist “Harmony Thesis” which posits that moral behavior is coextensive with beneficial results.
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  13. Joanne B. Cuilla, Ethics: The Heart of Leadership.Kevin Gibson - 1999 - Teaching Business Ethics 3 (2):201-203.
     
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    Letters and Responses.Kevin Gibson & John R. Boatright - 2011 - Business Ethics Quarterly 21 (3):527-531.
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  15. (1 other version)Larry May, The Socially Responsive Self Reviewed by.Kevin Gibson - 1997 - Philosophy in Review 17 (3):188-190.
     
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    Profit from the Priceless: Heritage Sites, Property Rights and the Duty to Preserve.Kevin Gibson - 2009 - Business and Society Review 114 (3):327-348.
    ABSTRACTThis article suggests that corporate responsibility should be interpreted to include concern about resources that cannot easily be treated as commodities. Heritage Sites are places of historical and cultural importance. Given the primacy of contingent valuation methods in creating policy, these sites are often at risk from development or tourism since there is pressure to treat them as revenue centers. The article moves to looking at the status of sites in terms of property rights, drawing on Locke's original formulation. The (...)
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    Rethinking the Discourse.Kevin Gibson - 2012 - Philosophy Now 88:16-18.
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    Transitivity, Torts, and Kingdom Loss.Kevin Gibson - 1993 - Journal of Philosophical Research 18:83-96.
    Here I look at the views of Mackie about the transitivity of causal statements. Mackie suggests that we replace total transitivity with a calculation which assigns a proportional value to partial causes; this allows us to work out an overall proportion of a single event in a causal chain. I marry the philosophical discussion with a sketch of tort law by means of an unusual hypothetical. I suggest that Mackie’s proportional analysis could be have a useful practical application since current (...)
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    Ranken on Disharmony and Business Ethics.Kevin Gibson - 1989 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 6 (2):209-214.
    ABSTRACT This article is a response to Nani Ranken's paper ‘Morality in business: disharmony and its consequences’ . There she attacked the analogy sometimes made between businesses and persons, and concluded that businesses cannot be regarded as moral agents. Her thesis relies centrally on a very strict notion of a person's ‘true good’. By exploring and expanding the concepts of ‘true good’ and ‘moral agency’ we are able to recover a sense in which businesses are indeed members of the moral (...)
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  20. Games students play: Incorporating the prisoner's dilemma in teaching business ethics. [REVIEW]Kevin Gibson - 2003 - Journal of Business Ethics 48 (1):53-64.
    The so-called "Prisoner''s Dilemma" is often referred to in business ethics, but probably not well understood. This article has three parts: (1) I claim that models derived from game theory are significant in the field for discussions of prudential ethics and the practical decisions managers make; (2) I discuss using them as a practical pedagogical exercise and some of the lessons generated; (3) more speculatively, I suggest that they are useful in discussions of corporate personhood.
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    Stakeholders and Sustainability: An Evolving Theory. [REVIEW]Kevin Gibson - 2012 - Journal of Business Ethics 109 (1):15-25.
    This conceptual article has three parts: In the first, I discuss the shortcomings of treating the environment as a stakeholder and conclude that doing so is theoretically vague and lacks prescriptive force. In the second part, I recommend moving from broad notions of preserving nature and appeals to beauty to a more concrete analytic framework provided by the idea of human sustainability. Using sustainability as the focus of concern is significant as it provides us with a more tenable and quantifiable (...)
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