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more information - www.cambridge.org/9781107030756 Virtue in Business Thevirtueapproachtobusinessethicsisatopicofincreasingimportance withinthebusinessworld.FocusingonAristotle’stheorythatthevirtues ofcharacter,ratherthanactions,arecentraltoethics,EdwinM.Hartman introducesreadersofthisbooktothevalueofapplyingAristotle’svirtue approach to business. Using numerous real-world examples, he argues that business leaders have good reason to take character seriously when explaining and evaluating individuals in organizations. He demonstrates howthevirtueapproachcandeepenourunderstandingofbusinessethics andhowitcancontributetocontemporarydiscussionsofcharacter,ratio- nality, corporate culture, ethics education, and global ethics. Written by one of the foremost Aristotelian scholars working in the field today, this authoritativeintroductiontotheroleofvirtueethicsinbusinessisavalu- abletextforgraduatestudentsandacademicresearchersinbusinessethics, appliedethics,andphilosophy. edwin m. hartman was Visiting Professor of Business Ethics and co- directorofthePaduanoSeminarinBusinessEthicsattheSternSchoolof Business in New York University until his retirement in December 2009. BeforejoiningStern,hetaughtformorethantwentyyearsinthebusiness schoolandthephilosophydepartmentatRutgersUniversity,wherehewas foundingdirectorofthePrudentialBusinessEthicsCenteratRutgers.Heis theauthorofSubstance,Body,andSoul:AristotelianInvestigations,Con- ceptualFoundationsofOrganizationTheory,andOrganizationalEthics andtheGoodLife(namedBookoftheYear[2003]bytheSocialIssuesin ManagementDivisionoftheAcademyofManagement). Business, Value Creation, and Society Serieseditors R.EdwardFreeman,UniversityofVirginia JeremyMoon,NottinghamUniversity MetteMorsing,CopenhagenBusinessSchool The purpose of this innovative series is to examine, from an interna- tionalstandpoint,theinteractionofbusinessandcapitalismwithsoci- ety.Inthetwenty-firstcenturyitismoreimportantthaneverthatbusi- ness and capitalism come to be seen as social institutions that have a greatimpactonthewelfareofhumansocietyaroundtheworld.Issues such as globalization, environmentalism, information technology, the triumph of liberalism, corporate governance, and business ethics all have the potential to have major effects on our current models of the corporation and the methods by which value is created, distributed, andsustainedamongallstakeholders–customers,suppliers,employ- ees,communities,andfinanciers. Publishedtitles: Fort Business,Integrity,andPeace GomezandKorine EntrepreneursandDemocracy Crane,Matten,andMoon CorporationsandCitizenship Painter-Morland BusinessEthicsasPractice YazijiandDoh NGOsandCorporations Rivera BusinessandPublicPolicy SachsandRu¨hli StakeholdersMatter Mansell Capitalism,CorporationsandtheSocialContract Forthcomingtitles: Hemingway CorporateSocialEntrepreneurship MaakandPless ResponsibleLeadership deBruin EthicsinFinance Virtue in Business Conversations with Aristotle edwin m. hartman cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown, Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo,Delhi,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,CambridgeCB28RU,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107030756 (cid:2)C EdwinM.Hartman2013 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2013 PrintedandboundintheUnitedKingdombytheMPGBooksGroup AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationdata Hartman,Edwin,1941– Virtueinbusiness:conversationswithAristotle/EdwinM.Hartman. pages cm.–(Business,valuecreation,andsociety) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-107-03075-6(hardback) 1.Businessethics. 2.Virtue. 3.Aristotle. I.Title. HF5387.H37324 2013 174(cid:3).4–dc23 2013011345 ISBN978-1-107-03075-6Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredto inthispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. For M. S. H. and S. M. H. sine quibus non Contents ForewordbyR.EdwardFreeman pageix Acknowledgments xi IntroductiontoAristotle,virtueethics,andthisbook 1 1 Virtuesandprinciples 25 2 Virtuesanddecisions 64 3 Virtues,goodreasons,andthegoodlife 94 4 Developingcharacter 127 5 Virtuesinandamongorganizations 161 6 Teachingvirtueinbusinessschool 189 7 Ethicalconflictandtheglobalfuture 211 Bibliography 253 Index 268 vii
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