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Churches as organisations: towards a virtue ecclesiology for today (2011)
Journal Article
Moore, G. (2011). Churches as organisations: towards a virtue ecclesiology for today. International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 11(1), 45-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225x.2010.505560

This article is an attempt to offer insights from organisation studies to ecclesiology. To do so it draws particularly on the work of the moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre to offer a virtue ecclesiology for today. The application of MacIntyre's co... Read More about Churches as organisations: towards a virtue ecclesiology for today.

Criteria for Responsible Business Practice in SMEs: An exploratory case of U.K. Fair Trade Organisations (2009)
Journal Article
Moore, G., Slack, R., & Gibbon, J. (2009). Criteria for Responsible Business Practice in SMEs: An exploratory case of U.K. Fair Trade Organisations. Journal of Business Ethics, 89(2), 173-188. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-008-9992-9

This paper develops a set of 16 criteria, divided into four groupings, for responsible business practice (RBP) in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) drawn from the existing SME/RBP literature. The current lack of a general set of criteria agai... Read More about Criteria for Responsible Business Practice in SMEs: An exploratory case of U.K. Fair Trade Organisations.

Virtue ethics and business organisations (2009)
Book Chapter
Moore, G. (2009). Virtue ethics and business organisations. In J. Smith (Ed.), Normative theory and business ethics (35-59). Rowman and Littlefield

The mainstreaming of Fair Trade: a macromarketing perspective (2006)
Journal Article
Moore, G., Gibbon, J., & Slack, R. (2006). The mainstreaming of Fair Trade: a macromarketing perspective. Journal of Strategic Marketing, 14(4), 329-352. https://doi.org/10.1080/09652540600947961

Following a brief review of the development and underlying purposes of the Fair Trade movement, the paper introduces perhaps the key issue for the UK Fair Trade movement currently: the mainstreaming of Fair Trade food products. The macromarketing lit... Read More about The mainstreaming of Fair Trade: a macromarketing perspective.

Managing ethics in higher education: implementing a code or embedding virtue? (2006)
Journal Article
Moore, G. (2006). Managing ethics in higher education: implementing a code or embedding virtue?. Business ethics (Oxford. Print), 15(4), 407-418. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8608.2006.00462.x

This paper reviews a publication entitled 'Ethics Matters. Managing Ethical Issues in Higher Education', which was distributed to all UK universities and equivalent (HEIs) in October 2005. The publication proposed that HEIs should put in place an ins... Read More about Managing ethics in higher education: implementing a code or embedding virtue?.

In search of organizational virtue in business: agents, goods, practices, institutions and environments (2006)
Journal Article
Moore, G., & Beadle, R. (2006). In search of organizational virtue in business: agents, goods, practices, institutions and environments. Organization Studies, 27(3), 369-389. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840606062427

In this paper we argue that MacIntyre’s virtues-goods-practice-institution schema (MacIntyre 1985) provides a conceptual framework within which organizational virtue in general, and virtue in business in particular, can be explored. A heuristic devic... Read More about In search of organizational virtue in business: agents, goods, practices, institutions and environments.

MacIntyre on virtue and organization (2006)
Journal Article
Beadle, R., & Moore, G. (2006). MacIntyre on virtue and organization. Organization Studies, 27(3), 323-340. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840606062425

This paper introduces the work of moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre in the area of virtue and organization. It aims to provide one point of entry to MacIntyre’s work for readers who have not been introduced to it and makes some novel suggestions a... Read More about MacIntyre on virtue and organization.

Cross-sectional effects in community disclosures (2006)
Journal Article
Campbell, D., Moore, G., & Shrives, P. (2006). Cross-sectional effects in community disclosures. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 19(1), 96-114. https://doi.org/10.1108/09513570610651966

Purpose – This paper seeks to address a gap in the literature in that it explores community disclosures in annual reports examining annual reports for 5 UK FTSE 100 sectors between, 1974 and 2000. Design/methodology/approach – The sample was bifurcat... Read More about Cross-sectional effects in community disclosures.

Corporate character: modern virtue ethics and the virtuous corporation (2005)
Journal Article
Moore, G. (2005). Corporate character: modern virtue ethics and the virtuous corporation. Business Ethics Quarterly, 15(4), 659-685. https://doi.org/10.5840/beq200515446

This paper is a further development of two previous pieces of work (Moore 2002, 2005) in which modern virtue ethics, and in particular MacIntyre's (1983) related notions of "practice" and "institution," have been explored in the context of business.... Read More about Corporate character: modern virtue ethics and the virtuous corporation.

Humanizing business: a modern virtue ethics approach (2005)
Journal Article
Moore, G. (2005). Humanizing business: a modern virtue ethics approach. Business Ethics Quarterly, 15(2), 237-255

The paper begins by exploring whether a "tendency to avarice" exists in most capitalist business organisations. It concludes that it does and that this is problematic. The problem centres on the potential threat to the integrity of human character an... Read More about Humanizing business: a modern virtue ethics approach.

Regulatory perspectives on business ethics in the curriculum (2004)
Journal Article
Moore, G. (2004). Regulatory perspectives on business ethics in the curriculum. Journal of Business Ethics, 54(4), 349-356. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-004-1824-y

The paper begins by providing a classification of the regulatory environment within which Business Schools, particularly those in the U.K., operate. The classification identifies mandatory vs. voluntary and prescriptive vs. permissive requirements in... Read More about Regulatory perspectives on business ethics in the curriculum.

The Fair Trade movement: parameters, issues and future research (2004)
Journal Article
Moore, G. (2004). The Fair Trade movement: parameters, issues and future research. Journal of Business Ethics, 53(1-2), 73-86. https://doi.org/10.1023/b%3Abusi.0000039400.57827.c3

Although Fair Trade has been in existence for more than 40 years, discussion in the business and business ethics literature of this unique trading and campaigning movement between Southern producers and Northern buyers and consumers has been limited.... Read More about The Fair Trade movement: parameters, issues and future research.

Corporate philanthropy in the U.K. 1985-2000: some empirical findings (2002)
Journal Article
Campbell, D., Moore, G., & Metzger, M. (2002). Corporate philanthropy in the U.K. 1985-2000: some empirical findings. Journal of Business Ethics, 39(1-2), 29-41. https://doi.org/10.1023/a%3A1016371731732

This paper briefly reviews the theories that seek to explain the phenomenon of corporate charitable donations and then provides a review of the empirical issues that have arisen in previous studies in this area. The findings of an analysis of charita... Read More about Corporate philanthropy in the U.K. 1985-2000: some empirical findings.

Corporate social and financial performance: an investigation in the UK supermarket industry (2001)
Journal Article
Moore, G. (2001). Corporate social and financial performance: an investigation in the UK supermarket industry. Journal of Business Ethics, 34(3/4), 299-315. https://doi.org/10.1023/a%3A1012537016969

The comparison of corporate social performance with corporate financial performance has been a popular field of study over the past 25 years. The results, while broadly conclusive of a positive relationship, are not entirely consistent. In addition,... Read More about Corporate social and financial performance: an investigation in the UK supermarket industry.