Recent developments in European business ethics.Henk J. L. van Luijk -1990 -Journal of Business Ethics 9 (7):537-544.detailsIn the first part of the paper, factual information is given about developments in European business ethics since it started on a more or less institutionalized basis, five or six years ago. In the second part some comments are presented on the meaning of the developments and the possible causes. Attention is given to resemblances and differences between American and European business ethics. In the short last part some suggestions are proposed about tasks business ethics will face in the next (...) decade. (shrink)
Rights and Interests in a Participatory Market Society.Henk van Luijk -1994 -Business Ethics Quarterly 4 (1):79-96.detailsIn this paper I try to enlarge the scope of the questions commonly treated in business ethics. I first argue that not motives but action structures should form the basis of our analytical endeavours. I then distinguish three basic structures in human action: self-directed, other-including and other-directed actions. These structures, when linked with the concepts of interests and legitimate claims or rights, lead to a taxonomy of moral behaviour in business that I describe as, respectively, transactional, recognitional and participatory ethics, (...) three distinct realms of moral behaviour, each characterized by a specific set of moral principles and a special relation between moral agents. My contention is that, up to now, analysis in business ethics has largely been focused on issues in the field of recognitional ethics. The discipline itself as well as ethical practices in business may greatly profit by paying explicit attention to market morality and transactional ethics as well as to the non-enforceable we-alliances of a participatory ethics, increasingly possible and needed in present-day civil society. (shrink)
In Search of Instruments. Business and Ethics Halfway.Henk J. L. van Luijk -2000 -Journal of Business Ethics 27 (1/2):3 - 8.detailsBusiness ethics has gradually acquired a stable status, both as an academic discipline and as a practice. Stakeholdership is recognised as a guiding concept, business has widely accepted that it has a license to operate to win from society at large, and operational instruments such as codes of ethics and forms of ethical auditing and accounting take shape more and more. Yet lacunae remain. Three are mentioned explicitly. Business ethics has to improve its relations with business law, the concept of (...) competition deserves much more ethical attention than it has received up to now, and the shifting relations between the market, governmental agencies and civil society require the elaboration of an institutional business ethics. (shrink)
Ethical corporate consultancy.Henk J. L. van Luijk -1993 -Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 2 (3):149–151.detailsAs ethical consultancy to business develops what are its principles, its methods and its possible pitfalls? The author is Professor of Business Ethics at the Netherlands School of Business, Nijenrode, and Chairman of the European Business Ethics Network.
Business Ethics in Europe: A Tale of Two Efforts.Henk van Luijk -1999 - In Robert Frederick,A companion to business ethics. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. pp. 353–365.detailsThis chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The outside story Open questions Which Europe? What business ethics? Conclusion.
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Urban living and business responsibility.Henk J. L. van Luijk -1993 -Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 2 (2):50–52.detailsWhat are the responsibilities of a business towards the city in which it operates? The Professor of Business Ethics at Nijenrode University, the Netherlands Business School suggests three practical ways of identifying them. This article is the substance of a paper which he delivered as Chairman of the European Business Ethics Network at its 1992 Conference in Paris.
Book review: Bridging the gap between values and reality. [REVIEW]Henk J. L. van Luijk -1993 -Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 2 (2):106–107.detailsJohn Donaldson, Business Ethics. A European Casebook, Academic Press, 1992, pp. xxvi + 293, pb, £14.94, ISBN: 0 12 220543X.