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| Author: | Gowri, A. |
| Title: | On corporate virtue |
| Journal: | Journal of Business Ethics
2007 : FEB II, VOL. 70:4, p. 391-400 |
| Index terms: | efficiency |
| Freeterms: | corporate appetites corporate virtues |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article discusses the question of virtues appropriate to a corporate actor's moral character. A model of corporate appetites is created by analogy with animal appetites; and the pursuit of initially virtuous corporate tendencies to an extreme degree is shown to be morally perilous. Thus the author refutes a previous argument which suggested that (1) corporate virtues, unline human virtues, need not be located on an Aristotelian mean between opposite undesirable extremes because (2) corporations do not have appetites; and (3) corporate virtues must serve the end of sustainable profit. |
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