Ethics: Behavioral Ethics - Q3

Participation Prerequisites

none.

Course Content

Intended Learning Outcomes and Competencies

Distinguish the central principles of consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics.

Apply these normative frameworks to a concrete business dilemma to derive a reasoned ethical judgment.

Analyse, using empirical evidence, how intuition, reasoning, moral development, and cultural context shape real-world moral judgment.

Diagnose the psychological and organizational forces that lead well-intentioned individuals and firms to act unethically.

Evaluate how firms embed ethics into corporate systems and act on values through stakeholder responsibility, compliance, and whistleblowing.

Instruction Type

Lecture.

Form of Examination

Literature

Thinking Ethically

Snoeyenbos, M., & Humber, J. (1999). Utilitarianism and business ethics. In R. E. Frederick (Ed.), A Companion to Business Ethics (pp. 17–29). Blackwell Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470998397.ch2

Gustafson, A. (2013). In defense of a utilitarian business ethic. Business and Society Review, 118(3), 325–360. https://doi.org/10.1111/basr.12013

Bowie, N. E. (1999). A Kantian approach to business ethics. In R. E. Frederick (Ed.), A Companion to Business Ethics (pp. 3–16). Blackwell Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470998397.ch1

Bruni, L., & Sugden, R. (2013). Reclaiming virtue ethics for economics. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(4), 141–164. https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.27.4.141

Solomon, R. C. (1992). Corporate roles, personal virtues: An Aristotelean approach to business ethics. Business Ethics Quarterly, 2(3), 317–339. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3857536

Judging Ethically

Awad, E., Dsouza, S., Kim, R., Schulz, J., Henrich, J., Shariff, A., Bonnefon, J.-F., & Rahwan, I. (2018). The Moral Machine experiment. Nature, 563(7729), 59–64. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0637-6

Haidt, J. (2001). The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment. Psychological Review, 108(4), 814–834. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.108.4.814

Cohn, A., Fehr, E., & Maréchal, M. A. (2014). Business culture and dishonesty in the banking industry. Nature, 516(7529), 86–89. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13977

Moore, C., & Gino, F. (2015). Approach, ability, aftermath: A psychological process framework of unethical behavior at work. Academy of Management Annals, 9(1), 235–289. https://doi.org/10.1080/19416520.2015.1011522

Organizing Ethically

Bénabou, R., & Tirole, J. (2010). Individual and corporate social responsibility. Economica, 77(305), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0335.2009.00843.x

Friedman, M. (1970, September 13). The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits. The New York Times Magazine.

Porter, M. E., & Kramer, M. R. (2011). Creating shared value. Harvard Business Review, 89(1/2), 62–77.