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Crane & Matten: Business Ethics 2e

Chapter 04

Badaracco, Jr., J. 2001. 'We Don't Need Another Hero'. Harvard Business Review, 79(8): 120-126.
This article talks about 'quiet leaders', how individuals who make the most change within organizations from an ethical perspective do so quietly and incrementally.

Creaton, S. and O'Cleary, R. 2002. Panic at the Bank: How John Rusnak Lo$t AIB $700,000,000. London: Gill & MacMillan.
A comprehensive account of the John Rusnak scandal at AIB.

Fritzsche, D.J. and Becker, H. 1984. 'Linking Management Behavior to Ethical Philosophy--An Empirical Investigation'. Academy of Management Journal, 27(1): 166-175.
This article links the managers responses to five different types of ethical situations according to the ethical theory they represent.

Husted, B.; Dozier, J., McMahon, J.T. and Kattan, M. 1996. 'The Impact of Cross-National Carriers of Business Ethics on Attitudes about Questionable Practices and Form of Moral Reasoning'. Journal of International Business Studies, 27(2): 391-411.
This study uses social cognitive theory to look at attitudes towards questionable practices and the form of moral reasoning across different countries.

Kidder, R. 1995. How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living, New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
This book is intended to help individuals learn how to make choices when faced with ethical dilemmas that do not have a clear or obvious answer based on what is considered right or wrong.

Lane, M. Schaupp, D. and Parsons, B. 1988. 'Pygmalion Effect: An Issue for Business Education and Ethics'. Journal of Business Ethics, 7(3): 223-229.
The investigation indicates that the behaviour which students learn or perceive is required to succeed in business schools may run counter to the ethical sanctions of society and the business community.

Libby, B. and Agnello, V. 2000. 'Ethical Decision Making and The Law'. Journal of Business Ethics, 26: 223-232.
This study examines the effects of gender, age, work experience, academic status and legality on certain ethical decisions.

MacDonald, C. 2002. 'Moral Decision Making: An Analysis', Ethicsweb.ca, www.ethicsweb.ca/guide/moral-decision.html.
On this site MacDonald discusses basic issues such as what is morality, what are shared values, how do we justify our morality and how is it used in decision making.

Soloman, R.C. 1992. 'Corporate Roles, Personal Virtues: An Aristotelian Approach to Business Ethics'. Business Ethics Quarterly, 2(3): 317-339.
This paper develops a theory of business ethics that focuses on the individual within the organization, looking at micro-level ethics such as how individual roles and responsibilities within the business are defined.

Trevino, L. 1992. 'Moral Reasoning and Business Ethics: Implications for Research, Education, and Management'. Journal of Business Ethics, 11(5/6): 445-459.
This study describes how cognitive moral development theory might be applied to business ethics and suggests its importance for business ethics researchers and future research projects.

Zimbardo, P. 2005. 'The Psychology of Power and Evil: All Power to the Person? To the Situation? To the System? In Miller, A. (ed).' The Social Psychology of Good and Evil. New York: Guilford. Chapter available at: www.prisonexp.org/pdf/powerevil.pdf.
This book chapter uses data from the Stanford Prison Experiment to illustrate the importance of situational factors in human behaviour.