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What are Ethicists Doing in Corporations?

In: 1st International Conference Global Ethics - Key of Sustainability (GEKoS)

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  • Geert Demuijnck

    (EDHEC Business School, Lille, France)

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This paper focuses on the following questions: What exactly is the function of an ethicist in a company or in its ethics committee? What should he or she do in this environment What are the limits of their actions? It is argued that the legitimate role of the ethicist is not primarily that of an expert in moral philosophy, but rather that of an advisor whose contribution consists in helping the company to meet certain key conditions that allow the company to genuinely address ethical issues. Other roles will be distinguished as well. They can be characterized as vacillating from the one extreme, where an ethicist acts as a moralizing guide to another extreme where they play the role of a facilitator.

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  • Geert Demuijnck, 2020. "What are Ethicists Doing in Corporations?," Book chapters-LUMEN Proceedings, in: Adriana Grigorescu & Valentin Radu (ed.), 1st International Conference Global Ethics - Key of Sustainability (GEKoS), edition 1, volume 11, chapter 2, pages 04-13, Editura Lumen.
    • Handle: RePEc:lum:prchap:11-02
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18662/lumproc/gekos2020/02
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    1. Geert Demuijnck, 2009. "From an Implicit Christian Corporate Culture to a Structured Conception of Corporate Ethical Responsibility in a Retail Company: A Case-Study in Hermeneutic Ethics," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 84(3), pages 387-404, February.
    2. W. Hoffman & John Neill & O. Stovall, 2008. "An Investigation of Ethics Officer Independence," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 78(1), pages 87-95, March.
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    2. Camelia Elena Nichita (Vasile) & Miruna Angela Mutu & Iliana Maria Zanfir, 2021. "Trafficking in Human Beings in the Context of Global Ethics," Book chapters-LUMEN Proceedings, in: Adriana Grigorescu & Valentin Radu (ed.), 2nd International Conference Global Ethics - Key of Sustainability (GEKoS), edition 1, volume 15, chapter 21, pages 239-249, Editura Lumen.

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    Keywords

    Ethicists; applied ethics; business ethics;
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    JEL classification:

    • F2 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business
    • M1 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration
    • M2 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Economics
    • O2 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy
    • O3 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights

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