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Author:   Kleio Akrivou ,  Alejo José G Sison
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
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9781784717902

ISBN 10:   1784717908
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   26 August 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction Kleio Akrivou PART I THE COMMON GOOD IN HISTORY: VIRTUE EPISTEMOLOGY AS KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION FOR THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN INSTITUTIONS, SOCIETY AND PERSON(S) 1. The merchant and the common good: social paradigms and the state’s influence in Western history Agustín González Enciso 2. The ‘medieval’, the common good and accounting Alisdair Dobie 3. The civilization of commerce in the Middle Ages Mark Hanssen 4. Virtuous banking: the role of the community in monitoring English joint-stock banks and their managements in the nineteenth century Victoria Barnes and Lucy Newton 5. Disposed toward self-restraint: the London clearing banks, 1946–71 Linda Arch PART II ARISTOTELIAN VIRTUE, THE COMMON GOOD AND CURRENT RELEVANCE FOR CAPITALISM, INSTITUTIONS AND PERSONS’ AGENCY 6. Revisiting the common good of the firm Alejo José G. Sison 7. Integrated habitus for the common good of the firm – a radically humanistic conception of organizational habitus with systemic human integrity orientation Kleio Akrivou, Oluyemisi Bolade-Ogunfodun and Adeyinka Adewale 8. Corporate agency, character, purpose and the common good Geoff Moore 9. Individual and organizational virtues Ron Beadle 10. Corporations, politics and the common good Brian M. McCall 11. Two kinds of human integrity: towards the ethics of the inter-processual self Kleio Akrivou and José Víctor Orón 12. Prudence as part of a worldview: historical and conceptual dimensions Germán R. Scalzo and Helen Alford 13. Non-Western virtue ethics, commerce and the common good Daryl Koehn 14. Reflections on the concept of the common good from an economic perspective Mark Casson Index

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'The excellent authors in this wide-ranging but coherent body of essays largely decimate certain important ethical presuppositions of post-industrial capitalism and offer better ones. Relying on the virtue-based approach of Aristotle and like-minded moral philosophers, the authors enlighten business ethics by bringing to bear the insight that human nature and well-being essentially involve values of community.' -- Edwin Hartman, retired Professor, New York University, US 'Despite skepticism about character and virtue, virtue ethics and the common good are still among the most influential frameworks in applied ethics in general and in business ethics in particular. This is an ambitious, carefully argued and stimulating collection, which explains why character is not and cannot be dead in business and philosophical research. The Challenges of Capitalism for Virtue Ethics and the Common Good examines new and rich directions for the character approach in today's economic and political context. It is remarkably useful to all with an interest in normative business ethics and an indispensable guide for virtue ethicists in business schools.' -- Miguel Alzola, Professor, Fordham University, US 'A serious attempt to recover an understanding of the economy within the realm of human action, with the common good at the centre and under the guidance of the virtues.' -- Domenec Mele, Chair of Business Ethics, University of Navarre, Spain

'The excellent authors in this wide-ranging but coherent body of essays largely decimate certain important ethical presuppositions of post-industrial capitalism and offer better ones. Relying on the virtue-based approach of Aristotle and like-minded moral philosophers, the authors enlighten business ethics by bringing to bear the insight that human nature and well-being essentially involve values of community.' -- Edwin Hartman, retired Professor, New York University, US 'Despite skepticism about character and virtue, virtue ethics and the common good are still among the most influential frameworks in applied ethics in general and in business ethics in particular. This is an ambitious, carefully argued and stimulating collection, which explains why character is not and cannot be dead in business and philosophical research. The Challenges of Capitalism for Virtue Ethics and the Common Good examines new and rich directions for the character approach in today's economic and political context. It is remarkably useful to all with an interest in normative business ethics and an indispensable guide for virtue ethicists in business schools.' -- Miguel Alzola, Professor, Fordham University, US 'A serious attempt to recover an understanding of the economy within the realm of human action, with the common good at the centre and under the guidance of the virtues.' -- Domenec Mele, Chair of Business Ethics, University of Navarre, Spain

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Edited by Kleio Akrivou, Professor of Business Ethics and Moral Development, Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK and Alejo José G. Sison, Professor, University of Navarre, Spain

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