Corporate Ethics
Juli Briskman—irked that the president was golfing when he ought to be focusing on more important matters—raised her middle finger at Donald Trump’s motorcade as it zipped past her on her bicycle close to Trump National Golf Club last month. McCall, J.J. & P.H. Werhane, 2010, Employment at Will and Employee Rights”, in G.G. Brenkert & T. L. Beauchamp (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 602-627. Drawing upon Harrison (2001), there are two main colleges of ideas, firstly those that recommend that firms are profit producing establishments and therefore business ethics is yet another method to appeal to prospects, secondly those that support corporate conscience and intrinsic motivation for the adoption of business ethics.
Neither shareholder primacy nor stakeholder concept is plausibly interpreted because the view that corporate managers should do no matter is possible to maximize shareholder wealth and steadiness all stakeholders’ pursuits, …