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The Serious Business of Jokes: An Interview with Onno Bouwmeester (2024)
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Moore, G. (2024). The Serious Business of Jokes: An Interview with Onno Bouwmeester. Philosophy of Management, 23, 191-196. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40926-024-00311-5

This article is a transcript of an interview with Onno Bouwmeester, Professor in the Department of Management and Marketing, Durham University Business School, UK, and the Department of Management and Organization, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The i... Read More about The Serious Business of Jokes: An Interview with Onno Bouwmeester.

Virtuous organizations: Desire, consumption and human flourishing in an era of climate change (2022)
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Moore, G. (2022). Virtuous organizations: Desire, consumption and human flourishing in an era of climate change. Frontiers in Sociology, 7, Article 960054. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.960054

The notion of virtuous organizations has an established place in the business ethics/organization studies literature. But this conceptualization drew principally on Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue. His more recent work Ethics in the Conflicts of Mo... Read More about Virtuous organizations: Desire, consumption and human flourishing in an era of climate change.

From Harmony to Conflict: MacIntyrean Virtue Ethics in a Confucian Tradition (2019)
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Chu, I., & Moore, G. (2020). From Harmony to Conflict: MacIntyrean Virtue Ethics in a Confucian Tradition. Journal of Business Ethics, 165(2), 221-239. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04305-6

This paper explores whether MacIntyrean virtue ethics concepts are applicable in non-Western business contexts, specifically in SMEs in Taiwan a country strongly influenced by the Confucian tradition. It also explores what differences exist between d... Read More about From Harmony to Conflict: MacIntyrean Virtue Ethics in a Confucian Tradition.

Bringing morality back in: institutional theory and MacIntyre (2016)
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Moore, G., & Grandy, G. (2017). Bringing morality back in: institutional theory and MacIntyre. Journal of Management Inquiry, 26(2), 146-164. https://doi.org/10.1177/1056492616670754

This article sets out to explore the extent to which the moral dimension is an essential component in organizational life. From a theoretical viewpoint, it argues that institutional theory lacks a positive account of the role of morality at the organ... Read More about Bringing morality back in: institutional theory and MacIntyre.

Corporate character, corporate virtues (2015)
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Moore, G. (2015). Corporate character, corporate virtues. Business ethics (Oxford. Print), 24(S2), S99-S114. https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12100

This paper extends previous discussions of corporate character and corporate virtues. By drawing particularly on the work of Alasdair MacIntyre, it offers a perspective on context-dependent categories of the virtues. It then provides a philosophicall... Read More about Corporate character, corporate virtues.

Catholic Social Teaching and the Firm. Crowding in Virtue: a MacIntyrean Approach to Business Ethics (2014)
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Moore, G., Beadle, R., & Rowlands, A. (2014). Catholic Social Teaching and the Firm. Crowding in Virtue: a MacIntyrean Approach to Business Ethics. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 88(4), 779-805. https://doi.org/10.5840/acpq201491830

Catholic Social Teaching (CST) aspires to an economy that serves needs, upholds justice, and inculcates subsidiarity. But it suffers from a significant omission—it fails to look “inside” the business organisations that comprise the fundamental buildi... Read More about Catholic Social Teaching and the Firm. Crowding in Virtue: a MacIntyrean Approach to Business Ethics.

MacIntyrean virtue ethics in business : a cross-cultural comparison (2014)
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Fernando, M., & Moore, G. (2015). MacIntyrean virtue ethics in business : a cross-cultural comparison. Journal of Business Ethics, 132(1), 185-202. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2313-6

This paper seeks to establish whether the categories of MacIntyrean virtue ethics as applied to business organizations are meaningful in a non-western business context. It does so by building on research reported in Moore (Organ Stud, 33(3): 363–387,... Read More about MacIntyrean virtue ethics in business : a cross-cultural comparison.

Virtue of governance: the governance of virtue (2012)
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Moore, G. (2012). Virtue of governance: the governance of virtue. Business Ethics Quarterly, 22(2), 293-318. https://doi.org/10.5840/beq201222221

The current economic and preceding financial crises seem to provide evidence in favour of the self-destruction thesis of capitalism. Responses to the crisis have been polarised. Some suggest that regulatory changes are all that is needed. Others sugg... Read More about Virtue of governance: the governance of virtue.

Virtue in business: Alliance Boots and an Empirical Exploration of MacIntyre’s conceptual framework, (2012)
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Moore, G. (2012). Virtue in business: Alliance Boots and an Empirical Exploration of MacIntyre’s conceptual framework,. Organization Studies, 33(3), 363-387. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840611435599

This paper contextualises before summarising a conceptual framework for virtue ethics in organizations that has been developed by drawing upon the work of the moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. Conducting empirical work with this framework is at a... Read More about Virtue in business: Alliance Boots and an Empirical Exploration of MacIntyre’s conceptual framework,.

MacIntyre: neo-Aristotelianism and organization theory. (2011)
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Beadle, R., & Moore, G. (2011). MacIntyre: neo-Aristotelianism and organization theory. Research in the sociology of organizations, 32, 85-121. https://doi.org/10.1108/s0733-558x%282011%290000032006

In this chapter, we set out to demonstrate how organizational theory and analysis can benefit from the work of the distinguished philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. In the first part of the chapter we show how MacIntyre's conception of how rival traditio... Read More about MacIntyre: neo-Aristotelianism and organization theory..

Churches as organisations: towards a virtue ecclesiology for today (2011)
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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)
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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.

The mainstreaming of Fair Trade: a macromarketing perspective (2006)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.